Big Finish Podcast Notes and Misc News Roundup Thread

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PODCAST NOTES:

  • Nick Briggs and Barbary Edwards took a trip to the studio Nick first worked with Paul McGann at back in 2000. This trip is part of a project he can’t talk about yet, but he has a new production set to record there in June. He’s cast some of the students at the local university, and it will be the last recording in that studio because it’s being torn down and replaced with flats
  • There are no more plans to do the Into the TARDIS podcast that released parts of Big Finish stories weekly — according to Nick they got shockingly few listeners, and it sounds like it’s been seen internally as a failure
  • Nick playing coy on an email asking if River would ever meet the Fugitive Doctor on audio (as in, all he gave it as a response was “hmmmmm…”

BIG FINISH NEWS:

DOCTOR WHO NEWS:

  • Not much, except The Reality War has a confirmed runtime of 1h6m and will air on BBC One at 6.50pm

MERCHANDISE NEWS:

BBC AUDIO/BOOKS/MEDIA NEWS:

  • None

BIG FINISH SALES AND RECOMMENDATIONS:

Fifteen Minute Drama Tease and Production Interviews: Torchwood: The Boy Who Never Laughed

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 Confessions of Dorian Gray: Series 4

Out of Print This Week:

  • Torchwood: Rictus
  • Susan’s War: Family Ties
  • The Monthly Adventures: 187. Masquerade

Big Finish Release Date Schedule:

Community Reviews
Release No. Title Review Members
S02E01 The Robot Revolution 3.32/5 727 members
S02E02 Lux 3.99/5 706 members
S02E03 The Well 4.08/5 662 members
S02E04 Lucky Day 3.49/5 614 members
S02E05 The Story and the Engine 3.94/5 578 members
S02E06 The Interstellar Song Contest 3.21/5 516 members
S02E07 Wish World 3.27/5 308 members
3.1 Dark Gallifrey: Missy Part 1 3.31/5 44 members
3.2 Dark Gallifrey: Missy Part 2 4.08/5 20 members
15 The Companion Chronicles: Families
The Temple of Light 3.62/5 17 members
Stardust and Ashes 4.13/5 16 members
The White Ship 3.32/5 11 members
The Y Factor 3.29/5 12 members
7 The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Cosmos and Mrs. Clarke
The Story Demon 4.03/5 38 members
The Key to Many Worlds 3.86/5 37 members
Inconstancy 3.25/5 30 members
3 The War Doctor Rises: Fallen Heroes
The Dead Sea 4.42/5 52 members
Unit 26 4.37/5 47 members
Yesterday is Tomorrow and Tomorrow is Today 4.67/5 45 members
8 The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Hooklight 2 4.56/5 44 members

What Big Finish I Was Listening to This Week: Dark Gallifrey: Missy Part 2, which was absolutely PHENOMENAL! I was very underwhelmed by Part 1 but man this was awesome. Also finally got around to listening to The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan, which I thought was very strong, if not a little bit boring at times. Also listened to Her Own Bootstraps, a Ninth Doctor short trip which I thought was very good, and The Beast of Kravenos, a Fourth Doctor adventure with Romana II, Jago, and Litefoot, which I thought was a good bit of fun.

Random Tangents: -

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It wasn’t hugely advertised tbh. Also, as I said elsewhere, they’re not gonna be able to do too many of them as it was only really intended as another way to get people into BF.

Ooohh I’d love this crossover!!

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Torchwood Rictus being out of print after 2 months :sob:

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That’s surprising but a really good sign that the non-TV Torchwood character releases sell well. Of course it had Zygons so there’s that, but gives me hope for more non-TV eps like this months!

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I would rather have River with Thirteen than with Fugitive, because at least Thirteen knows who she is - plus, you have the interesting dynamic of River being in the past as far as the Doctor is concerned (she/he’s spent her/his last night with her on Darillium, after all), and her whole thing she has going on with Yaz as well. There’s a lot more scope for drama with Thirteen than yet another Doctor who won’t remember her after their encounter.

I’m not against a Fugitive/River meet-up, I just wouldn’t be particularly excited for it (versus Thirteen/River, which I definitely would). Come to think of it, I’m not particularly interested in seeing Fugitive meet up with any characters who know “our” Doctor, because it will pretty much always follow the same template as her encounter with Benny in Coda.

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This episode also featured Nick and Benji quoting a review of A Genius of War by our very own @WhoPotterVian! Congratulations! You’re a star now!

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That’s sad. It’s disappointing that Colin was involved in this, and I agree that it wasn’t advertised well at all. I was part of the problem, though, along with some other people I know. When we saw that he was getting his own “podcast” (as it was advertised) we were excited, but upon learning that all he does is introduce BF audios, we checked out.

Even though we weren’t exactly the target audience, I can understand why people would like ITT. It got plenty of rave reviews on TG, so I was under the impression that it had a decent, but substantial, audience of BF fans. I guess that wasn’t the case. If they were trying to bring in non-BF listeners they may have gone about it the wrong way.

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Wow, that’s so cool. Thanks for letting me know. I just do the reviews as a hobby and had no idea that anyone who works on the media I review actually reads them, but it’s great to know that they got to see the praise. There’s clearly a ton of hard work that goes into them, and you can feel the love for the source material when you listen to their Doctor Who audios.

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Did you publish the review elsewhere too, or just on TARDIS Guide?

(Trying to work out if Big Finish people are lurking here :eyes:)

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I’ve seen a Big Finish actor post a screenshot on Blue sky (?) of one of @MrColdStream’s reviews (I think it was Puccini and the Doctor, or one of the stories from Deadly Strangers)

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Hold your horses?!?

How did I not know this?!?!

Real BF creatives read and share my reviews?!?

What an honour! I feel seen :star_struck:

No problem :smiling_face: Benji also thought your username sounded poetic (or artistic; can’t remember which).

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I post them all on Twitter first, then if it’s a book/audio drama, I transfer them to Goodreads and onto here.

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Ha ha, that’s pretty funny, because I didn’t even really give my username much thought. It’s more of a joke that I’m like a Doctor Who and Harry Potter sandwich, because they’re my two main interests. :rofl:

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