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May 6th, 2016 14 comments

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Big Finish Torchwood/ Doctor Who licence extended to 2025

The award-winning company released its first Doctor Who, The Sirens of Time, in 1999. 17 years and many hundreds of productions later, Big Finish continues to go from strength to strength, telling audio adventures of the first eleven incarnations of the Doctor and their
companions, and exploring the great history of Torchwood.

“We very much look forward to continuing to work with Big Finish over the coming years,” says Jan Paterson, Head of Audio Publishing at BBC Worldwide. “The high standards of their productions — quality scripts, impeccable sound design and music, and impressive casting
that utilises some of the country’s biggest stars — are a reflection of the care and thought that goes into every audio.”

“It is very rare that a production company is given the luxury of being able to plan so far ahead,” says Big Finish executive producer Jason Haigh-Ellery. “Thanks to the faith placed in Big Finish by the BBC we can look forward to many years of story progression and real character development for the Doctors and their companions. We are excited about what the future holds and look forward to the next decade of adventures travelling in time and space.”

“Doctor Who is my favourite thing,” says executive producer — and voice of the Daleks — Nicholas Briggs. “It’s been with me all my life in one form or another. So it’s truly delightful for me that the good old BBC has given us permission to carry on space-time travelling.”

“It’s such an honour for us to tell new stories in the worlds of Doctor Who and Torchwood,”
says line producer David Richardson. “The possibilities truly are endless, the potential for ideas is infinite. It’s a wonderful feeling when we have been doing this for seventeen years, yet feel like we’ve only just begun and that the best is yet to come.”

Forthcoming highlights from Big Finish include:

• The return of David Tennant and Catherine Tate as the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble in The
Tenth Doctor Adventures, three full cast adventures.
• More from John Hurt as the War Doctor — two box sets, Only the Monstrous and Infernal
Devices are currently available, with two further releases to come.
• Alex Kingston returns as archaeologist River Song — and the Doctor’s wife — in The Diary of
River Song, alongside the Legacy Doctors.
• Jemma Redgrave and Ingrid Oliver play Kate Stewart and Osgood in the action-packed
UNIT: The New Series.
• Legacy Doctors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann also
regularly record new adventures, alongside their television companions.
• The audio adventures of Torchwood were launched to great acclaim in September 2015, and to
date series stars John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Gareth David Lloyd, Kai Owen, Naoki Mori have all
returned to their roles. 2016 and 2017 will see many exciting developments in the range.


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14 comments

  • whotoys

    May 9th, 2016 - 7:34am

    This is great news so that means more torchwood and hopefully more 10th doctor audios

    Reply
  • Doctorfan

    May 7th, 2016 - 8:36am

    Why does it say adventures of the first 11 doctors

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    • CaptainJimiPie

      May 7th, 2016 - 2:11pm

      The Destiny of The Doctor series featured an adventure with the Ninth, Tenth & Eleventh Doctors as well as one of the Churchill Years stories taking place with each of those Doctor’s too, although they are more narrative stories than actual dramas with actors

  • GallifreyanKnight

    May 6th, 2016 - 5:25pm

    It’s a shame that Chris Eccleston, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi won’t be involved.., 🙁

    Reply
    • Sam Richard Bentley

      May 6th, 2016 - 6:11pm

      Never say never for Matt – he has expressed interest in doing BF in the past. Has said that if they asked him, and could fit around his schedule, that he would.

  • POP!

    May 6th, 2016 - 3:43pm

    Great news!

    Reply
  • WhovianJay

    May 6th, 2016 - 3:32pm

    Great, I hope they will start to get the Rights to SJA, But In a Companion Chorcles type way

    Reply
  • Al

    May 6th, 2016 - 1:42pm

    Good news. But when did they start referring to the Classic Era as “Legacy”? I thought that was a Star Wars thing.

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      May 6th, 2016 - 6:17pm

      Because classic is everything pre-Moffat at the moment, they needed a new term.

  • ahunter8056

    May 6th, 2016 - 11:41am

    Great news. I don’t listen to Big Finish, but extending the license means we’re probably not far off from getting Ten/Rose audios or Eleven/Amy audios or Eleven/Clara audios. I would buy any of those three team audios.

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      May 6th, 2016 - 2:21pm

      Not sure why your waiting for those audios when you could be listening to fantastic adventures with the 8th Doctor and his companions

    • ahunter8056

      May 6th, 2016 - 2:31pm

      I don’t think you should assume that everybody will be interested in what you’re interested in. I have little interest in audio-only products, but I would gladly welcome further adventures with characters I already love. Ideally, to me, Big Finish is a chance for further adventures with past TARDIS teams. Since they likely won’t return to TV, audio dramas are the next best thing. For what they are, some of Big Finish’s audio dramas are expensive. Being unemployed, I can’t afford to waste money on a product starring companions I might not even like. I would only stick to what I know I already love. I saw absolutely no need for your reply, I was just stating what TARDIS team compositions I would love to hear again.

    • Savethecoffeeboysavetheworld

      May 6th, 2016 - 4:13pm

      Here, here

    • whotoys

      May 9th, 2016 - 7:33am

      I totally agree with you I would love audio dramas with tennant and rose and matt with karen

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