https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/christopher-eccleston-returns-to-doctor-who
Four box sets of three full-cast stories, starting in May 2021.
Four box sets of three full-cast stories, starting in May 2021.
Eccleston joins Big Finish (no, really)
- Thread starter Brendan Moody
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Hallelujah!
I knew it would happen eventually, especially after Tom Baker finally joined Big Finish. It was all a matter of patience.
I knew it would happen eventually, especially after Tom Baker finally joined Big Finish. It was all a matter of patience.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...-return-as-doctor-who-in-new-audio-adventures
Chuffed about covers it !
Chuffed about covers it !
Oh, yes! Yes, yes, yes!
I've not been this excited from Doctor Who since Paul McGann's return for Night of the Doctor (and on a smaller scale, David Bradley's First Doctor debut in The Doctor Falls).
Don't know about you, but 2020 just got brighter, for me. Roll on May 2021!
I've not been this excited from Doctor Who since Paul McGann's return for Night of the Doctor (and on a smaller scale, David Bradley's First Doctor debut in The Doctor Falls).
Don't know about you, but 2020 just got brighter, for me. Roll on May 2021!
Got to make it to next year first...
Right. Didn't mean to sound insensitive, sorry. Its the excitement.
But on the other hand, here's a reason to stick around and wait out this horrible pandemic. Good health to all, and good riddance to the fucking virus!
So will they get Piper too, or will it be pre-"Rose"?
Wow. I don’t really do BF but this is undoubtedly a BFD (the D stands for Deal, you can guess what the BF stands for). Hopefully it means he might be interested in participating in the 60th anniversary of the tv show.
They haven’t said anything about Piper’s involvement yet, but given that she’s worked with BF already both in Tennant stories and in the Dimension Cannon box set, I can’t imagine they won’t try to get her for at least some of these stories.
BF have been oddly silent on the second and third Out of Time releases given they’re available in a bundle with the third, which is out this month; that might be because Eccleston’s also in one of them.
I'm trying to figure out which Doctor I'd love for 9 to do a story with and while 10 is tempting, I'd love to see him work with McCoy or McGann at some point.
Big Finish’s site is struggling to keep up with the traffic.
The Out of Time releases each feature different Doctors, so if Eccleston is in one of them, it wouldn’t be alongside Tennant or Tom Baker. I believe Davison and Colin Baker are both confirmed, so unless they’re together Eccleston might be with one or the other... or, of course, Eccleston might not be involved at all.
Funny to think that it will only take two more stories beyond these for Eccleston to join the Bakers, Davison, McCoy and McGann as Doctors who have recorded more material for Big Finish than they did on TV.
The Out of Time releases each feature different Doctors, so if Eccleston is in one of them, it wouldn’t be alongside Tennant or Tom Baker. I believe Davison and Colin Baker are both confirmed, so unless they’re together Eccleston might be with one or the other... or, of course, Eccleston might not be involved at all.
Funny to think that it will only take two more stories beyond these for Eccleston to join the Bakers, Davison, McCoy and McGann as Doctors who have recorded more material for Big Finish than they did on TV.
I noticed. I'm going to hold off pre-ordering until later.
Goes to show audio plays are a great medium and Big Finish has done an incredible job recreating the Doctor Who magic with it, thanks to all of the wonderful writers and so many of the returning actors.
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I got into Doctor Who with Eccleston, but I fell out of it after Season 11 (Didn't see Season 12). Something like this might tempt me to get back into it because I absolutely loved Eccleston in the role. I don't know anything about Big Finish or how it works though. I guess they are audio adventures, kinda like audiobooks or podcasts?
They’re audio dramas: fully-cast stories with music, sound effects, etc, not narrated (though Big Finish does do narrated and part-narrated stuff as well). Like an old-fashioned radio play, basically; radio drama is still a thing in the UK, where it hasn’t died out the way it did in the US.
Some people who’ve preordered are saying that even after the transaction completes and their money is taken the order doesn’t appear in their account afterwards, so probably not a bad idea to wait.
I think this will join The Light at the End, the three volumes of Tenth Doctor Adventures, and The Legacy of Time as my only physical purchases from Big Finish.
Some people who’ve preordered are saying that even after the transaction completes and their money is taken the order doesn’t appear in their account afterwards, so probably not a bad idea to wait.
I think this will join The Light at the End, the three volumes of Tenth Doctor Adventures, and The Legacy of Time as my only physical purchases from Big Finish.
But considering previous false leads of that nature, must of us wisely dismissed it until there was real evidence.
And now we have it!
I got into Big Finish dramas just over a year ago through an Audible offer and this month I got my first Star Trek audiobook and they are very different. The audiobook is one narrator reading the story while doing voices for different characters. Whereas the BF dramas are, as Brendan Mooney says, full on audio-dramas with different actors doing different parts, music, sound-effects etc. It is very much like an episode without the visuals.
I am going through the Eight Doctor stories at the moment, and a good example of what the experience is like is to listen to The NIght of the Doctor but not watch it.
Nah, was being a bit tongue in cheek - not planning on leaving the house any time soon, so should make it !
Had the Masterful special edition for Christmas off my wife, expecting it to come in February. Checked it out in March as it hadn't come - due Feb 2021 ! Got to hang on that long anyway !
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