Kicking off the final Eighth Doctor
Audio season in September 2004 will be a four-part adventure,
written by Graham Duff and directed by Nicholas Briggs,
called "Faith
Stealer" October’s story will be "The
Last" by Gary Hopkins, while the third story, "Caerdroia",
out in November, is by Lloyd Rose, a name familiar to BBC
Books readers. The final story of 2004 is titled "The
Next Life" and will be a three-disc release by
Alan Barnes and will see a return match between The Doctor
and
Rassilon where the truth about the Divergents will be revealed. It has also been announced that also
scheduled before the end of 2004 will be a single-disc Seventh
Doctor adventure, initially to be given away free to
Big Finish subscribers. No writer has yet been allocated
to this
release,
but it is understood that it is intended that the author
and
story will be drawn from the entries to last year’s
open submissions contest. Also due for release in November will
be a double-disc Doctor Who: Unbound story. Big Finish Productions
are also planing to release another set of single CD releases,
running concurrently with the main Doctor Who audio dramas
for next year. This will be a modern-day UNIT mini-series,
running from December 2004 through to March 2005 that will
be produced by Ian Farrington. As yet no writers or casting
have been confirmed. Following on from Eighth Doctor Audio
season the regular Doctor Who releases for 2005 will
be by writers previously unconnected to Big Finish.
Gary Russell has stated: "I
hope that the early part of 2005’s line-up of writers,
Doctors and monsters will hook the ‘casual’ viewers
of the new TV show and draw them into the world of Doctor Who
- a world that we have all known for years to be fascinating,
exciting, dangerous and, above all, fun. We want to show them
that whilst three months of new telly Doctor Who is great, there’s
a massive and marvellous history to the show and it’s
upto Big Finish, BBC Books, the DWM comic strips and everyone
else to demonstrate that this history is accessible to everyone,
whether they’ve loved the character since 1963, 1973,
1983, 1996 or 2005. Oh and in case anyone’s wondering,
of course we hope to ask Christopher Eccleston to join us one
day, but let’s allow him to get settled into the role
first, eh?"
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