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First Doctor, River Song and more from Big Finish in January

First Doctor, River Song and more from Big Finish in January

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As always, Big Finish have some big stories for Whovians and in January you can find the return of the First Doctor, as played by David Bradley, and River Song, with Alex Kingston reprising her role, and much, much more!

Check out all the details and artwork below.

he Diary of River Song Series 3

The Diary of River Song Series 3

The Lady in the Lake by Nev Fountain
On Terminus Prime, clients choose their own means of demise. Something exciting, meaningful, or heroic to end it all. But when River discovers that there are repeat customers, she knows something more is going on. She begins to uncover a cult with worrying abilities. Its members can apparently cheat death, and that’s not all they have in common with River…

A Requiem for the Doctor by Jac Rayner
River has joined the Doctor and his friend Brooke on their travels, and they stop off in 18th century Vienna. Brooke thinks history is dull. Until people start dying. Mozart’s legacy is not just his music. River has more than one mystery to solve before a killer is let loose on the people of Vienna – and on the Doctor.

My Dinner with Andrew by John Dorney
Welcome, Mesdames et Messieurs, to The Bumptious Gastropod.

The most exclusive, most discreet dining experience outside the universe. For the restaurant exists beyond spacetime itself, and the usual rules of causality do not apply. Anything could happen.

It is here that the Doctor has a date. With River Song. And with death.

The Furies by Matt Fitton
Stories of the Furies abound across the cosmos: vengeful spirits hounding guilty souls to death. Madame Kovarian taught them to a child raised in fear, trained to kill, and placed inside a spacesuit.

Kovarian knows the universe’s greatest threat, the Doctor must be eliminated. An assassin was created for that purpose.

But if Melody Pond has failed, Kovarian will simply have to try again…

The Diary of River Song Series 3 is a 5 CD set starring: Alex Kingston (River Song), Frances Barber (Madame Kovarian) and Peter Davison (The Fifth Doctor), and many more. This title goes on general release from March 31, 2018.

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The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 7 Vol 1

The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 7 Vol 1

The Sons of Kaldor by Andrew Smith
The Crowmarsh Experiment by David Llewellyn
The Mind-Runners by John Dorney
The Demon Rises by John Dorney

The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 7 Vol 1 is a 4 CD set starring: Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), John Leeson (K9), and many more. This title goes on general release from Feb 28, 2018.

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The First Doctor Adventures Vol 1

The First Doctor Adventures Vol 1

The Destination Wars by Matt Fitton
The TARDIS arrives in a gleaming utopia in the Space Year 2003. Has the Doctor truly brought Ian and Barbara home, to glimpse their future?

The world owes much to its legendary Inventor, and Susan finds herself face to face with the great benefactor. But soon, the time travellers are in a world at war and the Doctor must confront his past.

The Great White Hurricane by Guy Adams
Rival gangs turn streets into battlegrounds, and the Doctor and his friends are caught in the crossfire. They find themselves separated, and lost in the cold.

As the hunt for a fugitive turns ever more desperate, a blizzard descends. The snow keeps falling. And so on it will prove as deadly as any weapon…

The First Doctor Adventures Vol 1 is a 5 CD set starring: David Bradley (The First Doctor), Claudia Grant (Susan), Jemma Powell (Barbara Wright), Jamie Glover (Ian Chesterton), James Dreyfus, and many more. This title goes on general release from March 31, 2018.

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Kingdom Of Lies

Kingdom Of Lies

By Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky

On the planet Cicero Prime, the kingdom of Cardenas is divided, with the whole population forced to swear allegiance to either the effete Duke or the fiery, hard – edged Duchess. This is a situation both parties have grown tired of. What use is half a kingdom when, thanks to a carefully engineered murder, you could have it all?

Surely, neither of them would be rash enough to summon the deadly off – world assassin The Scorpion to help with their problem? And surely, this terrifying figure wouldn’t arrive wearing a long cream coat and striped trousers…?

Kingdom Of Lies is a 2 CD set starring: Peter Davison (The Fifth Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), and many more. This title goes on general release from Feb 28, 2018.

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Short Trips: The Authentic Experience

Short Trips: The Authentic Experience

By Dan Starkey

Tired of the old 9 to 5? The daily grind getting you down? Step this way to discover a universe of possibilities! If you’re fed up with looking at screens all day, we can offer the authentic experience: whether you want to be as rich as Croesus and swim in gold, or feel the dirt and sweat of honest toil we’re ready for your business. Forget the “Same Old”, embrace the “New Old”! Terms and conditions apply.

The Authentic Experience is narrated by Nicola Bryant (companion Peri) and will be available exclusively on the Big Finish website. It is written by Dan Starkey, known for playing Sontaran Strax in the television series.

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All titles are initially available exclusively from the Big Finish website in January.

Jodie Whittaker hopes her Doctor Who casting will open the door for more women in future

Jodie Whittaker hopes her Doctor Who casting will open the door for more women in future

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The importance of Jodie Whittaker’s casting as the first female lead of Doctor Who is certainly not lost on the actress.

The former Broadchurch star’s debut as the Thirteenth Doctor aired last week, kicking off a new era of diversity for the beloved BBC One science fiction series when it returns later in 2018.

In an interview with Total Film, Jodie acknowledges how the very act of her casting as The Doctor may already have opened up doors for other actresses.

“This is the defining moment of my life,” she tells the magazine. “I feel old enough for it. And I feel like I understand how important it is, and I’m so excited that the role models for young children, boys or girls… or teenagers, or adults, come in different forms.

“There’s nothing unattainable about me. I don’t look like I’ve been carved out of rock. I don’t sound like I’ve had the extraordinary glamour.”

The actress then explained: “For me, knowing what I thought were my limitations as a person and an actor, because this industry is about, ‘You sound like this, you look like this’… but I’m normal.

“And that was exciting to [Broadchurch co-star and former Doctor] David [Tennant] – it was a superhero he could play. And now it opens it a little wider, to women as well.

“It’s amazing to be a milestone, but how wonderful if it wasn’t, if it was just accepted, embraced. I’m not dissing the moment – it’s f**king brilliant – but hopefully when other people grow up, it’s not so much of a surprise.”

In her first series, Jodie will be joined in the TARDIS by a diverse team of companions — Hollyoaks‘ Mandip Gill as Yasmin, The Cut‘s Tosin Cole as Ryan and funnyman Bradley Walsh as Graham.

Doctor Who returns for its 11th series later in the year on BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US. Watch Jodie Whittaker’s debut scene below:

AUTONS AND PRE-CONVERSION CYBERMEN FROM DOCTOR WHO FIGURINE COLLECTION

AUTONS AND PRE-CONVERSION CYBERMEN FROM DOCTOR WHO FIGURINE COLLECTION

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Doctor Who Figurine Collection

The latest issues of the Doctor Who Figurine Collection feature two memorable foes from the Third and Twelfth Doctor eras.

Every two weeks, Whovians can enjoy an exclusive hand-painted and highly-detailed figurine and a magazine packed with info on its subject.

Check out the details and images below from Issues 115 and 116 and the fourteenth Special edition.

Auton

Doctor Who Figurine Collection: Part 115 (available mid-Jan 2018)
From the 1970 Third Doctor adventure Spearhead from Space.

These Autons are used as guards at the Auto Plastics factory where the physical embodiment of the Nestene Consciousness is growing, and as hunters of the strange meteorites that have been landing in one particular part of southeast England…

This highly detailed, hand-painted figurine comes complete with a magazine featuring the big changes that came with this first Jon Pertwee-era story: a new Doctor, the series was in colour (and shorter), and the TARDIS didn’t work! 
Plus, 2014 and new Doctor Peter Capaldi makes his very first public appearance in costume.

Auton

Available here.

Cyber Patient

Doctor Who Figurine Collection: Part 116 (available late-Jan 2018)
From the 2017 Twelfth Doctor episode World Enough and Time.

Seemingly unseeing, attached to a strange drip-feed, wearing medical gowns, with rubber-covered hands, legs and feet. They are the nightmare before the Cybermen, pity-inducing with their cries of “Pain. Pain. Pain,” and “Die. Me,” and just as terrifying.

This highly detailed, hand-painted figurine comes complete with a magazine that goes behind the scenes for this terrifying Twelfth Doctor tale, plus Matt Lucas and Doctor Who in 2014.

Pre-conversion patient

Available here.

For more info on the Doctor Who Figurine Collection, visit their website here

Twice Upon A Time: Official Rating

Twice Upon A Time: Official Rating

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Doctor Who: Twice Upon A Time had a 7-Day official rating of 7.92 million viewers.

The rating includes those who recorded the programme and watched it within 7 days. The final rating is an increase of over 2.2 million on the initially reported figure. It makes Twice Upon a Time the highest rated episode of Doctor Who since the 2014 Christmas episode Last Christmas.

An additional 600,000 viewers have accessed the episode on the BBC iPlayer so far.

Doctor Who was the 6th highest rated show on Christmas Day. Top for the day was the Drama Call The Midwife with 9.57 million watching, just ahead of Mrs Browns Boys with 9.04 million. The Queen’s Christmas Message had 8.18 million viewers across BBC One and ITV1. The highest rated show on ITV1 was Coronation Street with 6.99 million.

A chart placing for the whole week will be available next Monday.

In 2017 Doctor Who had an average rating of 5.64 million viewers, compared with 6.16 million for the 2015 series.

Doctor Who’s New Year video is the final goodbye to the Peter Capaldi era

Doctor Who’s New Year video is the final goodbye to the Peter Capaldi era

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Doctor Who is beginning 2018 with one final farewell to the dearly departed Twelfth Doctor.

A video shared by the official Doctor Who account on New Year’s Eve (December 31) marks the end of an era in perhaps the most poignant way possible — by physically dismantling Peter Capaldi’s TARDIS.

It’s okay to feel wistful at the sight of the dutiful Doctor Who production team pulling down Capaldi’s TARDIS control room one piece at a time in the time-lapsed video below, but don’t fret too much.

After all, the tweet itself reminds fans that Doctor Who will be back in 2018, albeit on a new adventure with Jodie Whittaker in control of the TARDIS as the Thirteenth Doctor.

Or at least we think she’ll have a TARDIS. In the final seconds of last week’s ‘Twice Upon a Time’, Thirteen could be seeing getting dumped out the door into the vastness of space as the TARDIS sputtered and then de-materialised.

Re-live those exciting final moments of Peter Capaldi’s era and the beginning of Jodie Whittaker’s tenure with the video below:

In case you are still feeling a bit down about all this change in Doctor Who, keep in mind Peter Capaldi’s own wise and comforting words written to a young fan who was sad to see him go.

“Even though [regeneration] can be a little icky (like a really bad flu), it has always, always turned out good for Doctor Who,” Peter assures young fan David in his note. “The New Doctor always becomes your favourite and the one that goes… Well, he never really goes.

“He is always there, somewhere in time and space, and if you think about him hard enough, you’ll see him and he’ll see you. It’s like The Doctor says, ‘Everything ends and it’s always sad. But everything begins again and that’s always happy.’ Be happy.”

Doctor Who will return with Jodie Whittaker’s first full series in the New Year, on BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US.