Big Finish Podcast Notes and Misc News Roundup Thread

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Perhaps if it was:

Rani Chandra (from the Sarah Jane Adventures) Takes on the World

No bad ideas :raising_hands:

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I do think there was a branding issue.

Beyond Bannerman Road
After Bannerman Road

Something like that would have been better. IMO.

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Well, obviously it couldn’t have been the Time Lady Rani. She’s the Rani. The definitive article. Rani Chandra is just Rani.

:wink:

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I’m so surprised it didn’t sell well. I thought it would have been one of their biggest sellers.

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That’s literally what it was called :joy:

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At least it wasn’t “The Rani Chronicles”.

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I know. It’s what the series should have been called, IMO. Then you can have other former cast involved, without having Rani, too.

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Podcast

Podcast Notes

  • The podcast was recorded after the news broke of putting Doctor Who out to tender, but they don’t touch on it much, and when they do it’s as fans chatting and not anything newsworthy about Big Finish. Benji think’s it’s exciting that we have no clue what Doctor Who will be like when it returns.
  • Producers and/or directors will meet with cover artists, who will be given the script for the story, and they will discuss what they want the cover to look like. Nick often makes little doodles of what he’s imagining. Prolific cover artist Sean Longmore often will read the script and approach them with what he thinks would be appropriate.
    • Big Finish prefer Photoshop covers because it’s easier to change and create iterations of. The BBC will often have comments on the covers and request things be changed or moved, which is harder to do when it’s an illustrated cover. Nick also thinks artistic covers like the first few sets of First and Second Doctor Adventures are not popular with listeners.
  • Marc Platt does not work on Big Finish anymore. He felt that he reached the end of the line on writing Doctor Who. It has been five years since his last work released (adapting Philip Hinchcliffe Presents Volume 04: The God of Phantoms)
  • Oliver Tobias has been asked to appear in a Big Finish release before, but he declined.
  • Lisa Bowerman directed Nick Briggs recently as he played a Judoon. The only announced story right now featuring the Judoon is the Eleventh Doctor Adventures, but that was recorded months ago and not directed by Lisa Bowerman. She did, however, direct the upcoming Twelfth Doctor Adventures. I wonder if this could be for another set of those?

Random Tangents: Jonathan Sausage Stewart Powell

Production Interviews: Gallifrey: War Room 3: Loyalties - Propaganda by Georgia Cook and Rutans vs Sontarans: Grave Moon by Lizzie Hopley

Fifteen Minute Drama Tease: Gallifrey: War Room 3: Loyalties - Propaganda by Georgia Cook

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. This week’s selection: The Companion Chronicles: The First Wave.

Big Finish News

New Releases

  • Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks Part 3 is released on 16 June (DTO: £8.99 | DTO + CD: £10.99)
    • Synopsis: The Meddling Monk and the Meddling Nun are stranded on Earth with a broken TARDIS and find themselves involved in a series of odd escapades, each more onerous than expected. But the greatest challenge is still to come…
      • Monky Puzzle An international jigsaw competition has come to town. Do the Monk and the Nun have time to compete before the arrival of a very special guest? There’s only one way to find out. What could possibly go wrong?
      • Monky About What’s it all about? Well, it’s a Big Finish finale so there’s bound to be explosions, and chases with perhaps a starry cameo and a threat to all life on Earth. What could possibly go wrong?

Trailers

Cover Reveals

  • None

News, Announcements, Videos, and Blog Posts

  • News
    • Due to unexplained circumstances, Big Finish have pushed back The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O’Clock from 18 June to 29 June.
    • This was brought up last week, but Big Finish are charging shipping now on UK releases. Per the Big Finish website: “UK pre-order (i.e. orders placed before the release date) now incur a minimum shipping charge of £2.50 for single item orders. Shipping is capped at £4.50 when purchasing multiple pre-order releases. Bundle shipping will be charged at the standard rate of £4.50, although exceptions may apply for particularly heavy or special items.”

Out of Print This Week

  • None!

Sales and Recommendations (As a reminder, bulleted stories are recommended by me, and those in bold are my favorites)

Big Finish Book Club: Discounts on a specially selected Big Finish audio drama every month. June’s selection: Gallifrey: Time War 1 for just £14.99 on DTO.

Free Excerpt: Every month a 15 minute excerpt is chosen from an upcoming release to download for free. June’s selection is The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Continuum: Part 1. Just click on the link and use this month’s code DAEDALUS.

Free Day Friday: Every week, Big Finish highlights an excerpt from their Big Finish For Free! collection, and offer 25% off the full release using a unique sale code. This week’s selection: The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers 1: The Ghost and the Potato Man (excerpt). Use discount code STRAX at checkout to save 25% off the full release of The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers 1: Rogues Gallery (Ends 22 June). (NOTE: This is an amazing release and a great deal. Pick this up if you can!)

Big Finish Release Schedule

Community Reviews via TARDIS Guide:

Release No. Title Score Votes
15B The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 15: Lethal Progress
Green and Pleasant Planet 3.05/5 40 votes
The Continuum 3.18/5 40 votes
The Audience 3.61/5 38 votes
2 Planet Krynoid: Survivors
The Hunt 3.50/5 35 votes
The Harrow 3.63/5 26 votes
The Harvest 3.75/5 22 votes
5.3 Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks Part 3
Monky Puzzle 4.51/5 58 votes
Monky About 4.54/5 55 votes

What Big Finish I Was Listening To This Week: The second episode of The Audience, as well as the first story in Planet Krynoid: Survivors.

General Doctor Who / Non-Big Finish News

News

  • No real official news, but…

The Rumor Mill

  • On The Rest is Entertainment Podcast, Richard Osman states that the BBC were already set to put Doctor Who out to tender by 2028/2029 as part of the BBC’s mandate to put all new business out to competitive tender, and with that in mind thought a Christmas special would be good to bridge the gap between the Disney era and the next. But they realized that to not focus on the tender would probably delay the future of the show more, so they wanted to do it sooner. But if they had continued on with the Christmas special during this process, it would have left too many variables for any new producer to contend with, so they decided to scrap the special altogether.

Media/Merchandise

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Can people confirm Nick is being insane again? I get “can you move The Doctor a little to the left” is a lot worse on a watercolor but those things are beautiful!

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Social media responses I saw on twitter were always really shitty towards those covers as opposed to the digital ones. I liked them, but imagine it’s time consuming to change.

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Alternative opinions are available. I think they’ve been hugely variable. I don’t like the Troughton one of him with the older Jamie and Zoe at all. Don’t like the colours or the style of art.

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Huh, sounds like I’m in the minority here. Shame as I believe the guy who did them really liked doing it as well.

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I like them because they’re different. But my personal favourites are the War Doctor ones.

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I think some of them are fine (such as the one above this post) but I think some of them are terrible - like the Purity range and the aforementioned Troughton one.

But art is subjective after all.

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Podcast Notes

  • Most of the podcast this week featured a discussion with cast and crew of Turpin: Essex Pistols, which didn’t leave a lot of room for much else including Doctor Who.
  • The podcast will be off on a 4-week summer break. It will return on 31 July, where they will discuss the upcoming releases of The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill and The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Wings of Steel (somewhat confirming that the 12DAs will kick off the week of July 13th) as well as catching up on the releases they missed between now and then.
    • Fear not! I’ll still be posting as normal each week and following along with announcements on the Big Finish website and socials as well as making notes of July’s issue of Vortex, plus keeping up with new releases and out-of-print titles!

Random Tangents: Nick has gotten into trouble for not taking enough vacation.

Production Interviews: Turpin: Essex Pistols Mat Braddy and Darren Rapier and The Ninth Doctor Adventures: 4.6 Thirteen O’Clock by Robert Valentine

Fifteen Minute Drama Tease: Turpin: Essex Pistols by Mat Braddy and Darren Rapier

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. This week’s selection: The Companion Chronicles: 7.6 The Child

Big Finish News

New Releases

  • Rutans vs Sontarans: Grave Moon is released on 23 June (DTO: £9.99 | DTO + CD: £14.99)
    • Synopsis: The Doctor and Peri track a criminal imposter to a moon sanctuary of healing ponds, only to discover the lone Rutan the Doctor has previously met trapped in a self-made web of lies. Experiments to rejoin the Host have forged a bond with grieving pond farmer, Ooland. As their mutual obsession tightens, so Ooland’s ponds grow more polluted and their farm cut off from what is really happening on the moon: a full-on Rutan invasion. As the Doctor and Peri strive to free Melmoth and Ooland from each other, another Doctor is at work close by - with far-reaching plans of his own for the lone Rutan.
  • Gallifrey: War Room 3: Loyalties is released on 25 June (DTO: £19.99 | DTO + CD: £24.99), accompanied by a video trailer.
    • Synopsis: As the Time War rages, another battle takes place in the War Room - for Gallifrey’s soul… As Rassilon tries to control the narrative of the Time War at home, the Cardinals fight to prove their loyalty. Out amid the conflict, the Resistance struggles to make a difference, and Gallifrey’s most faithful warriors face the ultimate challenge.
      • 3.1 Propaganda by Georgia Cook With unrest brewing in Low Town, Rassilon demands the immediate location and destruction of a rogue broadcast mocking his name. With Rasmus, the General and Cresta trapped in the Drylands, and riots bubbling on the streets, Ollistra attempts to steer a course to cement her rule over the War Room.
      • 3.2 Resistance by Katharine Armitage Eris is trying to hold a crumbling Resistance together; Ollistra is trying to tear it apart. Both have audacious plans to ensure the victory of their side and everyone else has to choose where their loyalties truly lie.
      • 3.3 Hope by Fio Trethewey Leela has a job to do, and she cannot do it alone, and so she enlists the most unlikely of allies for the task. Time is not on her side, and she must succeed, or else all of them are doomed.
      • 3.4 Eye for an Eye by Matt Fitton Cardinal Ollistra must serve the will of Rassilon and see the Resistance destroyed. But the Resistance is already falling apart. With Leela and Rasmus missing, the General and Veklin are given a mission that neither relish. Loyalties will be tested, and vengeance will be had.

Trailers

Cover Reveals

News, Announcements, Videos, and Blog Posts

  • News
    • Torchwood heroes from across the ages - Details and covers are out for the previously announced Torchwood: Legacy sets coming out in September and October 2027 (announced on Friday, but I was on vacation last week and did not have time to update it). Torchwood: Legacy Volume 01: The Living Will Fall and Torchwood: Legacy Volume 02: The Dead Will Rise will be comprised of twelve half-hour episodes telling one epic story across all eras of the Torchwood Institute’s history:
      • Cornucopia by Tim Foley
      • Meet Lonely by James Goss
      • Yvonne Hartman’s Ultimate Weapon by Gareth David-Lloyd
      • The Corn Mother by William Carroll
      • Hitler’s Last Secret by James Goss
      • Pangea by Ash Darby
      • Roberta’s Gone to Iceland by Guy Adams
      • What It Is to Lose by Tim Foley
      • Viking Funeral by Guy Adams
      • Hullaballoo by Ash Darby
      • Torchwood’s Last Stand by Patrick O’Connor
      • Rainbow Bridge by James Goss
  • Non-Doctor Who News
    • The new Bond, Young Bond revealed! Isaac Rouse and Charlotte McBurney have been cast as James Bond and Wilder Lawless in Young Bond: SilverFin, a new full-cast audio drama due for release in October 2026.
    • Dorian Gray returns! Alexander Vlahos stars in The Confessions of Dorian Gray: A Night at the Theatre, a brand-new feature-length audio adventure, due for release in October 2026.

Out of Print This Week

  • None

Sales and Recommendations (As a reminder, bulleted stories are recommended by me, and those in bold are my favorites)

Big Finish Book Club (LAST CHANCE!): Discounts on a specially selected Big Finish audio drama every month. June’s selection: Gallifrey: Time War 1 for just £14.99 on DTO.

Free Excerpt (LAST CHANCE!): Every month a 15 minute excerpt is chosen from an upcoming release to download for free. June’s selection is The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Continuum: Part 1. Just click on the link and use this month’s code DAEDALUS.

Free Day Friday: Every week, Big Finish highlights an excerpt from their Big Finish For Free! collection, and offer 25% off the full release using a unique sale code. This week’s selection: The Monthly Adventures: 256. Tartarus Part 1. Use discount code CICERO at checkout to save 25% off the full release of The Monthly Adventures: 256. Tartarus (Ends 28 June).

Big Finish Release Schedule

Community Reviews via TARDIS Guide:

Release No. Title Score Votes
2 Planet Krynoid: Survivors
The Hunt 3.49/5 40 votes
The Harrow 3.58/5 38 votes
The Harvest 3.62/5 33 votes
5.3 Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks Part 3
Monky Puzzle 4.40/5 87 votes
Monky About 4.46/5 85 votes
1.3 Rutans vs Sontarans: Grave Moon 3.03/5 39 votes
15 Gallifrey: War Room 3: Loyalties
Propaganda 3.63/5 30 votes
Resistance 4.52/5 26 votes
Hope 4.60/5 20 votes
Eye for an Eye 3.83/5 15 votes

What Big Finish I Was Listening To This Week: Planet Krynoid: Survivors - The Harrow. Always love me some Eight and Liv.

General Doctor Who / Non-Big Finish News

News

The Rumor Mill

  • Not much as far as I saw this week

Media/Merchandise

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Is Companion Chronicles: 7.6 The Child any good?

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Not really, according to TG. And I certainly will not call it good. But we do have 4 members rated it 4 and one 4.5 and 5 each so you might love it

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Podcast

No podcast until 31 July.

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. 26 June’s selection stands until the podcast comes back: The Companion Chronicles: 7.6 The Child

Vortex #209

  • The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Run Fast Be Kind
    • Alfie Shaw confirms that these six episodes are half of a full twelve-episode run, and the final story The Second Death of the Daleks will tee up what’s to come in the second half, with the villain of the series being revealed – but it’s not a Dalek, Cybermen, or any manner of Time Lord. It’s a new creation with strong ties to “an existing Doctor Who thing.”
    • Wings of Steel by Alfie Shaw
      • Wings of Steel is the middle chapter in a trilogy of stories that pick up where the last left off. The trilogy will start with The Beautiful and the Damned and carry through Duty of Care.
      • The story is about the mundanity of evil, how “horrific crimes [are] perpetrated by people who view their actions as mundane – the equivalent of filling in a spreadsheet.”
    • Duty of Care by Christian Markham
      • Alfie Shaw explains that Ash’s relationship with the Doctor doesn’t necessarily strengthen over time. We see in Series 10 that the Doctor seems to have endless mercy and forgiveness “if they’re in the right mood” (such as with Missy), but Ash might have a limit to what he’s willing to forgive, and this story will examine how that affects their dynamic.
      • An interesting quote from Alfie: "I’m fascinated by the limitations and contradictions of the new series Doctors. Their actions in the Time War muddies the character. They’ve gained a sort of biblical edge, like a fallen angel who is doing everything they can to retain their former glory and we as the audience let them, because the narrative says they are the hero and in the classic series they were – mostly – that hero. We want this character to be the hero that they’re striving to be. In Duty of Care we start to examine that through Ash’s point of view.”
    • The Second Death of the Daleks by Alfie Shaw
      • My favorite thing I’ve read about this set: this story is inspired by an episode of the American TV show Psych – one of my other all-time favorite TV shows! Alfie Shaw explains that there’s an episode in the last season where they decided to do a tongue-in-cheek remake of an episode from Season 1 where they change the killer and let you decide which version of the episode is “canon”. Similarly, this episode is a remake of the first in this set, except now a Dalek is involved.
  • The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Reunion
    • The key to this set is that “Turlough isn’t sure he can trust himself and is afraid of the challenges that lie ahead of him”.
    • Save the Date by Matthew Sweet
      • This story is a campy story that deals with a mysterious dating agency in 60’s London, and has a computer that isn’t a computer. Someone feeds a card through a reader on what they believe is a machine, but it’s actually taken by someone behind a wall who will go through index cards by hand to find a suitable match for the person coming in.
      • Peri will be doing all the work while the Doctor and Turlough go to see shows, but they have to hide this from Peri.
    • Poison Reach by Paul Sutton
      • Poison Reach is a darker sci-fi tale, set on a space station that uses radiation from an asteroid called Poison to power itself.
      • This story is written by Paul Sutton, who has only written nine stories for Big Finish, the last of which being in 2010. He was quite surprised when Jacqueline Rayner emailed asking him to write this story, but was pleased to do so.
    • Broken Home by AK Benedict and Guy Adams
      • Side note – I’m only just now learning that AK Benedict is a woman (Alexandra), and she’s married to Guy Adams!
      • AK was specifically requested by Colin Baker to write a story in the set. When she fell ill halfway through writing this story, Guy Adams took over.
      • This story is very much an ending to the story started in the previous box set.
      • The story centers around Turlough grappling with “his identity, strengths, cowardice, and heroism – and the Doctor’s belief in our capacity for change.”
      • AK says there’s a line she wrote that “sums up my view of Sixie and the Doctor in general. See if you can hear it!”
  • The Eleventh Doctor Adventures: Hidden in Plain Sight
    • Tyranny of the Judoon and Gambit of the Judoon by Ben Tedds
      • Tyranny of the Judoon is inspired to Line of Duty, as the Doctor and Eleanor “join forces with a journalist trying to expose police corrupton on Hefestis, a low-tech world the Judoon have taken a mysterious interest in.” Gambit of the Judoon sees the stakes escalate as action makes its way to the Shadow Proclamation.
      • Ben Tedds approached Eleanor’s character by “playing to her corporate strengths and instincts but also showing the limitations to her worldview.”
      • Hefestis is described as “a world where antiquity met Wizard of Oz steampunk”.
    • Wanted Dead and Alive by Beth Axford
      • Beth Axford felt that writing The Tourist Trap has given her an insight to how to write for audio as opposed to prose, and feels that has helped her craft a strong story here.
      • Beth “wanted to explore the experience of a companion having their voice changed and their agency taken away. How does that affect a person? Especially a woman. And what would that type of hell look like for Eleanor?”
      • This story revisits Lake Silencio as an old friend is desperately trying to save the Doctor. As the Doctor is dealing with this and trying to unravel that mystery, he realizes that Eleanor may be hiding something from him.
  • The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides by Tim Foley
    • As we knew already the Powell Estate arc has ended, but it sounds like we won’t be returning anytime soon, as the Doctor is taking Rose back out into the stars to explore all of space and time.
    • Tim Foley wanted to meld a certain period with a sci-fi setting, in this case writing “medieval knights on a quest exploring the edge of the universe.”
    • After the domestics of the Powell Estate, Foley was set on taking the Doctor and Rose as far away from that as possible, putting them in “something quite gothic and grizzly [that] feels a little different for them.”
    • Foley found great joy in writing some “'orrible deaths” for audio, and says of the villain: “There’s an unusual concept behind the main menace here that I’ve been sitting on for a while…”
  • The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill by Alan Barnes
    • The Doctor will find himself exiled to an Earth he doesn’t recognize – one where he’d never landed in 1963.
    • While all three stories in this set were written by Alan Barnes, it was important to him that each adventure was very different from the others. He describes The Haunted Windmill" as something inspired by A Hitch In Time with Patrick Troughton; The Crystal Ship as being akin to the Quatermass Experiment; and The Hungry Glass as “much more fantastical, riffing on bits from a couple of installments of the amicus horror anthologies.”
    • This box set will see a major recast – Becky Wright will be playing Victoria Waterfield, with this box set serving as a “soft launch” of her take on the character.
    • There will also be two new major characters for the range going forward introduced here - Bertie and Lucius. Details aren’t given as to who these characters are.
  • Vortex Mail
    • A listener writes in asking about a few releases that we were promised vinyl editions of, including Judoon in Chains. He asks if they’ve heard about a company called Elastic Stage, who are basically Redbubble for vinyl (does that reference translate to the UK?). Nick says it’s something they’ll look into.
    • A somewhat pointed and personal email I’m a bit surprised they published regarding some feelings about lack in variety of Time Lord used in Dark Gallifrey (too much Master, basically).
    • No plans to do a Jackson Lake box set.
    • “Never say never” response to a listener asking whether future UNIT: Eras box sets might revisit the 2004 series, or time periods set just before it.

Big Finish News

New Releases

  • The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O’Clock is released on 29 June (DTO: £9.99 | DTO + CD: £11.99)
    • Synopsis: The Doctor and Rose return once more to the Powell Estate, but now the Doctor has a dreadful suspicion about the malevolent power that keeps pulling them back. The estate is shrouded in a strange fog, most of the residents have vanished, and the sinister Mrs Crook guards the ominous Flat 13. What’s more, Saffron Windrose has arrived in search of the Doctor, because once he helped her face a nightmarish entity at a railway station called Underbridge… and it’s happening again.

Trailers

Cover Reveals

News, Announcements, Videos, and Blog Posts

  • Official News
    • Tides are high for the Ninth Doctor. Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper head into deep space in The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides (DTO: £9.99 | DTO + CD: £11.99), a brand-new full-cast audio drama, due for release August 2026.
      • Synopsis: A long-lost ship, the Vesterbold, has returned to normal space. And the Knights of Atlas seek her treasure. But two strangers have joined their expedition – the Doctor and Rose, who warn of danger. For the Vesterbold has drifted free of the Dark Tides at the edge of the universe. And she may have brought something back with her. Not even the bravest knights are ready for the evil which lies inside…
    • Less than 100 tickets remain for Big Finish Day 2027. Buy now!
    • Justin Richards, prolific Doctor Who writer, has passed away at the age of 64. He wrote many novels in the VNA, EDA, and PDA ranges in the 90s and 2000s, as well as several New Series Adventures. At Big Finish, he was a writer and script editor known for his work on ranges such as the Monthly Adventures, Gallifrey, the Third and Fourth Doctor Adventures, and Jago and Litefoot. He is survived by his wife and two sons, one of whom (Julian Richards) is also a writer for Big Finish and is known for his work on the Short Trips range, as well as recent entries such as The Story Demon on The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Cosmos and Mrs Clarke, and Legacy of Blood from It’s a Wonderful War and Other Stories.
    • The Big Finish website has regenerated! Those of us who were there at the time remember the pains of the last launch of a new website, but this honestly seems like a 2026 version of the existing website rather than a complete overhaul, which I’m all for. Some key new features, in my opinion:
      • The search function has been greatly improved, and now searches across story descriptions too.
      • The news section is now searchable, which is nice for me because sometimes I like to check old articles for info but have to scroll and scroll to find them.
      • Light and dark mode available at the press of a button, or on mobile will match your system settings.
      • New payment options, including Apple Pay and Google Pay
      • Ability to view prices in the currency of your choice. This will be mega helpful for me since I’m in the US, as when I keep track of prices in my spreadsheet or report them to you guys here I’ve always either had to convert from USD on any given day, or use Incognito Mode and a VPN to make it think I was in the UK. This will be far more convenient.
  • Unofficial News
    • Per the customer support team, Big Finish moved warehouses last week (news courtesy of u/forwardishdirection ), which is likely why no post has been dispatched in the last week (in addition to the launch of the new website). The warehouse is open and systems are up as of Wednesday, so they will begin catching up on orders.

Out of Print This Week

  • None

Sales and Recommendations (As a reminder, bulleted stories are recommended by me, and those in bold are my favorites)

Big Finish Book Club: Discounts on a specially selected Big Finish audio drama every month. July’s selection: Dark Shadows: Blood and Fire (50th Anniversary Special) for just £3.99 on DTO.

Free Excerpt: Every month a 15 minute excerpt is chosen from an upcoming release to download for free. July’s selection is The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Run Fast Be Kind: The Second Death (excerpt). Just click on the link and use this month’s code BARD.

Free Day Friday: Every week, Big Finish highlights an excerpt from their Big Finish For Free! collection, and offer 25% off the full release using a unique sale code. Doesn’t look like Big Finish are doing one this week, but I will update this if they do.

Big Finish Release Schedule (No newsletter yet in July, so dates are unknown)

Community Reviews via TARDIS Guide:

Release No. Title Score Votes
5.3 Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks Part 3
Monky Puzzle 4.37/5 97 votes
Monky About 4.42/5 96 votes
1.3 Rutans vs Sontarans: Grave Moon 3.14/5 66 votes
15 Gallifrey: War Room 3: Loyalties
Propaganda 3.63/5 52 votes
Resistance 4.46/5 52 votes
Hope 4.51/5 46 votes
Eye for an Eye 3.97/5 43 votes
4.6 The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O’Clock 3.62/5 73 votes

What Big Finish I Was Listening To This Week: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O’Clock, The Meddling Monks Part 3, and Planet Krynoid: The Harvest.

General Doctor Who / Non-Big Finish News

News

The Rumor Mill

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Media/Merchandise

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I am looking forward to the 12DA. It’s nice to see them experimenting a little with the formats again and its sister series 11DA had such a great start.

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Podcast

No podcast until 31 July.

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. 26 June’s selection stands until the podcast comes back: The Companion Chronicles: 7.6 The Child

Big Finish News

New Releases

  • The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers is released on 7 July (DTO: £19.99 | DTO + CD: £24.99)
    • Synopsis: Late in his life, the Seventh Doctor has reunited with an old friend. Someone to help him fix the problems of the universe - if he can avoid repeating mistakes of the past. Ray is capable, clever and seems the perfect foil for the Doctor - but she will still be put to the test…
      • The Executor by Chris Chapman (2 parts) In a muddy field stands an old stone dovecot. Only it’s a TARDIS - with a recently deceased owner. The Doctor is named Executor of the Last Will and Testament of an old friend - Pegroninagall, ‘Peg’. He has a monumental task: clearing her TARDIS of keepsakes and mementos. But this Ship may also contain whatever killed Peg…
      • Oil and Water by James McDermott (2 parts) Visiting the Norfolk coast, the Doctor and Ray discover something very wrong with Blakeney’s seals: they’re bloated, mutated, and killing people! With grieving boater Anne, they investigate the cause… Is there something in the water? What does it want with the sea life? And what are its plans for humanity?
      • Much Ado About Racing by Fio Tretheway (2 parts) When the TARDIS arrives at the start of the Intergalactic Championship Rally, the Doctor and Ray are caught between two rival racers. And for Ray, long-buried feelings resurface. Something is at work here: something feeding on heartache and regret. And love among the race-crafts isn’t all that’s at stake…
  • Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master Part 1 is released on 9 July (DTO: £8.99 | DTO + CD: £10.99)
    • Synopsis: Christmas 1896 at the beautiful and secluded Longmoss House. Diana Blount has lived here all her life - but since her father died, Longmoss has lost its magic. Now the money’s running out, and Mother says Diana must prepare to marry. This will be her last Christmas at Longmoss, running wild with visiting cousin Charlotte and evading the watchful eye of the one remaining servant, matriarchal housemaid Niamh. Then one day, in the shut-up East Wing, Charlotte and Diana’s games and ghost stories begin to get out of hand. The veil is thin at Longmoss, and something is trying to get through - something with a Master to serve.

Trailers

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News, Announcements, Videos, and Blog Posts

  • Official News
    • New Website FAQ - Big Finish are constantly updating this page with information to help people navigate the new website as well as the updated apps. They are aware of several key issues, such as:
      • Password reset issues - High traffic on their website was causing errors, but this should be a simple matter of retrying
      • Checkout issues - Their address form requires a Line 2 even if your address doesn’t require that line to be used. They recommend repeating Line 1 into the box
      • App playback - They are aware that some releases have stories that are broken out into individual MP3s rather than M4B files, and they are working to fix that
      • iOS app crashing - They have isolated the issues and are working on a fix
  • Videos

Out of Print This Week

  • The Tenth Doctor and River Song: Precious Annihilation
  • The Monthly Adventures: 216. Maker of Demons
  • Gallifrey: War Room 3: Loyalties

Sales and Recommendations (As a reminder, bulleted stories are recommended by me, and those in bold are my favorites)

Big Finish Book Club: Discounts on a specially selected Big Finish audio drama every month. July’s selection: Dark Shadows: Blood and Fire (50th Anniversary Special) for just £3.99 on DTO.

Free Excerpt: Every month a 15 minute excerpt is chosen from an upcoming release to download for free. July’s selection is The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Run Fast Be Kind: The Second Death (excerpt). Just click on the link and use this month’s code BARD.

Free Day Friday: Every week, Big Finish highlights an excerpt from their Big Finish For Free! collection, and offer 25% off the full release using a unique sale code. This week’s selection: The Audio Novels: The Chaos Cascade Part 1. Use discount code TRISKELIA at checkout to save 25% off the full release of The Novel Adaptations: The Chaos Cascade (Ends 12 July).

Big Finish Release Schedule (No newsletter yet in July, so dates are unknown)

Community Reviews via TARDIS Guide:

Release No. Title Score Votes
1.3 Rutans vs Sontarans: Grave Moon 3.14/5 71 votes
15 Gallifrey: War Room 3: Loyalties
Propaganda 3.61/5 57 votes
Resistance 4.47/5 59 votes
Hope 4.53/5 54 votes
Eye for an Eye 4.00/5 49 votes
4.6 The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O’Clock 3.62/5 105 votes
9 The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers
The Executor 4.00/5 20 votes
Oil and Water 3.47/5 15 votes
Much Ado About Racing 4.09/5 11 votes
6.1 Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master Part 1 3.75/5 12 votes

What Big Finish I Was Listening To This Week: UNIT: Eras: Hostile Universe - The Life and Death of Private Eddie Wise (an AMAZING story) and Deadstar.

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