#john dorney

[gallifreywhere]

(In the TARDIS)

Flip: Doctor? Doctor! I...I feel weird.

Six: What? No... Flip! You're... You're fading out!

Flip: What's happening to me? Doctor I'm sorry...

Six: She's gone. One morning and then she's vanished already. That's a record, even for me.

(The Fourth Wall, by John Dorney)

#six #flip #sixth doctor #big finish #flip jackson #philippa ramon #john dorney #doctor who #philippa jackson #is doctor who really doctor who when no companion disappears #welcome to the TARDIS!... oh nvm you're already gone 😅

[starfleetwitch]

I'm board. My predictions for Nemesis 4 under the cut.

(Also it's been out like... 20 years 💀 but spoiler for one of the Sarah Jane Smith audios)

1. Osgate are gonna have a fight

2. Osgate may share a cell

3. Kate is going to deck a time lord (this one's not a prediction, I just think Kate deserves to)

4. Kates gonna get shot. I don't mean shot at, that's a given, I mean SHOT. They did it to Sarah Jane Smith, they aren't above doing it to Kate and Nemesis has already been rough af on her so it's not a massive stretch.

5. Kate will free the remaining Vulpreen in the void world.

6. This will be the last Unit audio 😭

6.2. Because we're gonna get a spin off 🥳🥳🥳🥳

6.3. But it does mean well loose my baby boi Vikram (if we haven't already given he's not really been in Nemesis 😭) 🥺

6.4 And John Dorney's damn good writing if the spin off show doesn't take him on board as one of the writers 😭😭😭 He knows the craic. He knows the kind of actiony angsty bull shit I'm into 🥺 and he writes Kate and Osgood SO WELL! 😭 THEY HAVE DEPTH IN HIS AND THE OTHER BIG FINISH UNIT WRITERS HANDS 🥺🥺🥺

#jemma redgrave #kate stewart #ingrid oliver #Osgood #Doctor who #Unit #Vikram shindi #My beloved #Big finish #Sarah Jane smith #John dorney #Holy sweet mother of oz it's been out 20 years!!! 💀💀💀💀

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Coming Soon from Big Finish: The Diary of River Song -- Friend of the Family

Coming Soon from @bigfinish: #DoctorWho The Diary of River Song -- Friend of the Family

Alex Kingston will return as the much-loved Professor River Song in January, in a new boxset from Big Finish, in which she is the titular Friend of the Family. And this set is a bit different from the previous ones: it’s one long adventure, set in one location. In a four-hour epic multi-generational family saga, written by Tim Foley, Alex Kingston stars as the time-travelling archaeologist…

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#Alex Kingston #Big Finish #David Richardson #Jemima Rooper #John Dorney #River Song #The Diary of River Song #Tim Foley

[pers-books]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Oh. My. Gods!

Ninth Doctor Adventures: Flatpack was so freakin’ excellent!!

Liv saved the day! She saved the Doctor! And millions of other people by being her usual contrary, stubborn self and I bloody loved it!!!! 

I love John Dorney so fucking much!!!!!

#Big Finish #Liv Chenka #Spoilers #Ninth Doctor #John Dorney #Doctor Who #Audio Drama

[denimbex1986]

‘...Producer David Richardson says: “Was it really two years ago that we were all locked away in our homes, unable to mingle in the outside world? It feels like a lifetime, or like it was yesterday, or it never happened! 

“It was the worst of times but also, for me in my little bubble, in some ways the best of times because it meant that with the TV and film industry shut down indefinitely, David Tennant had availability to work with us! Tenth Doctor, Classic Companions was recorded towards the end of a big recording block – we’d pitched the premise of the set to David and he couldn’t resist the idea of the Doctor reuniting with some old friends.

“It was also clear that David was delighted to be working with Doctor Who legends from his own childhood – Louise, Sarah, Sophie and John received the warmest of welcomes and they in turn were thrilled to be working with David.”

SPLINTERS BY John Dorney opens the set...

With the stories being commissioned in lockdown it meant John had a short turnaround on his script to fit in with David Tennant’s new-found availability. John explains: “With a longer deadline you can often end up trying to second guess yourself for ages but with a shorter one you’ve just got to decide, ‘Well, what do I want to do?’ Often, it can be just as good, if not better, with a shorter turnaround. And, to be honest, this is one of my favourite things that I wrote during lockdown.

 “I didn’t have ages to run around trying to work out what I wanted it to be, exploring everything, and I feel it actually works better because of that. 

“One of my highlights was a joke that I’ve been playing about with for ages that I knew was a Tenth Doctor gag but I’d never found a spot for it. I eventually managed to get it in here because it was the perfect place for it – it was now or never! 

“Also, the opportunity to write for the Tenth Doctor is always great. It’s such a fun thing to do, and pairing him Leela was wonderful. When you’ve got a couple of really great actors, like David and Louise, you want to put something new in there for them, and see what interesting angles you can explore.”

THE SECOND story of the set is The Stuntman by Lizzie Hopley...

“With so many fabulous actors being available during lockdown Big Finish was understandably making the most of them. The brief was ‘old companions with K9’. We put up a bit of a fight for who got who! There was a bidding war and I ‘won’ David Tennant, Sarah Sutton and John Leeson. Now that was an exciting email to read!”...

ACE RETURNS in the third episode, Quantum of Axos by Roy Gill...Roy tells Vortex: “Writing this felt like being a kid on Christmas Day! Like you’re mixing up all your Doctor Who toys, teaming Ace with K9 and making up a new story! 

“I’ll always jump at the chance to write for David Tennant: he’s  so nimble, deft and mercurial as a performer. And I’ve always loved K9 – he’s a robot dog, how could you not? Plus Ace was pretty much ‘my’ companion when I was growing up watching Doctor Who. Those seasons with Sylvester really show her mature and change in a way that was relatively unusual for a companion then, so it was an extra thrill to write for her.” 

What was in the brief from Matt? Roy replies: “It just said the Tenth Doctor, Ace and K9...”...

JUST AS delighted to be joining the Tenth Doctor is Sophie Aldred, Ace herself, who admits it was hugely exciting when she got the message during lockdown asking if she would like to do an audio with David Tennant. Sophie says: ”It was so bizarre because at the beginning of lockdown I thought, ‘Right... how am I going to sort things out so I can keep working?’ So I bought myself a microphone, although I didn’t know what I was doing at first – like most of us, I guess. People had often said that my airing cupboard was actually very good acoustically so I turned this tiny little place into a studio! I took some of the shelves out, put my microphone in there, and I used the towels and sheets because, of course, they’re really good for dampening the sound. And then I got some woollen material, sewed it all together and put it on the walls, before I started learning the technical side of recording which took a little time...

“It would have been absolutely lovely to see David in person, of course, but it’s almost as good to hear his voice in your ears! So there was me in the airing cupboard with my laptop and microphone and we had a bit of a laugh because I said, ‘Well, where are you?’, and I think he said he was in the attic because it was nice and quiet! 

“It was just so funny having this visual image of us both sitting in these bizarre spaces that we would never have thought that we needed to use before – and recording Doctor Who. It’s amazing.” 

Sophie first worked with David back in 2001 when a young Scottish actor guest starred in a Big Finish Doctor Who adventure called Colditz. She recalls: “Yes, it is amazing to think of that and I remember I kind of clocked him at the time. David has a presence. When he walks into a room you can’t help but notice him and I did think, ‘Oh, who is this young man?’ 

“As an actor you are aware of him because he’s very good, obviously, and I just love his voice. I think he’d really wanted to play the Doctor as a Doctor Who fan. And then the very next time I met him was when he had left Doctor Who and he played my sidekick – let’s make that clear, MY sidekick – in Tree Fu Tom, the children’s series!

“David played this wonderful character called Twig, a funny character and a great job he did too. It was just so lovely to see him again. “We had a great time recording Quantum of Axos, and the way we worked together was really, really good. We had such a good ensemble cast as well and it was a lovely way to spend the day.”’

#Big Finish #Doctor Who Tenth Doctor Classic Companions #David Tennant #Ace #Sophie Aldred #K9 #Quantum of Axos #Roy Gill #The Stuntman #Lizzie Hopley #Nyssa #Sarah Sutton #Splinters #John Dorney #Leela #Louise Jameson #John Leeson

[radiofreeskaro]

Radio Free Skaro #927 - Fonts of Knowledge

Radio Free Skaro #927 - Fonts of Knowledge - First #Gally1 guest announcement! - Adventures in Type and Space with Graham Kibble-White, Jack Kibble-White, and Stuart Manning!

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs927.mp3 Download MP3 It’s getting close to new Doctor Who and the 60th anniversary and it’s also getting close to new Gallifrey One, as seen by the first batch of guest announcements including Alex Kingston, Lalla Ward, Segun Akinola, and more! In 59th anniversary news, Doom’s Day comes to an end, there are new dollies on the way, and our special feature…

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#Action Dollies #Adventures in Type and Space #Alex Kingston #BBC #Big Finish #Character Options #Doom&039;s Day #Eric Saward #Frazer Hines #Gallifrey One #gary russell #Graham Kibble-White #Jack Kibble-White #Jacqueline King #James Goss #Jason Haigh-Ellery #John Dorney #Jonathon Carley #Lalla Ward #Lisa McMullin #Mark Morris #Matthew Waterhouse #Nabil Shaban #Ray Holman #Revenge of the Cybermen #Segun Akinola #Simon Guerrier #Stuart Manning #Time and the Rani

[eutravels]

Lady Christina : Series Two

This one felt way less entertaining than the first one, but the fact of having an overall plot in the series helped a lot, it was great to see Christina's dad back causing mayhem and all the characters work incredibly well together. It reallys hows in the last episode how well they all fit together. This last one was really well executed and has great rythm.

I'm not sure I care much about Christina's character enough for her own series, even though it actually is good.

Anyway, this one is worth a listen!

#big finish #doctor who eu #dweu #doctor who expanded universe #nuwho #new who #doctor who #dr who #lady christina de souza #michelle ryan #unit #sam bishop #warren brown #jacqui mcgee #james goss #sarah grochala #john dorney

[theladyjojogrant]

Okay but the doubly great thing about the “Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without plum pudding” reference is that these audios come before Chimes, yes? And the story is centred around a man seeing echoes of an event that hasn’t happened yet.

The reference is more than a joke; it’s Charley sensing an echo of what’s coming, and therefore, it’s perfectly plausible that she’d say the quote and have no idea why.

#I’m 99% John Dorney realised this and that’s why he did it #it’s so brilliant what the heck #twenty four doors in December #charley pollard #eighth doctor #8th Doctor #Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas #in the bleak midwinter #the chimes of midnight #big finish #Doctor who

[pureanonofficial]

Broadway World exclusive photos of The Secret Garden at the Ahmanson Theatre, running February 19 to March 26, 2023. Cast featured in photos include Kelley Dorney, Aaron Lazar, Susan Denaker, Sierra Boggess, Derrick Davis, Julia Lester, Emily Jewel Hoder, and John-Michael Lyles.

#The Secret Garden #The Secret Garden musical #Kelley Dorney #Aaron Lazar #Susan Denaker #Sierra Boggess #Derrick Davis #Julia Lester #Emily Jewel Hoder #John-Michael Lyles #Neville Craven #Mrs Medlock #Lily Craven #Archibald Craven #Martha Sowerby #Mary Lennox #Dickon Sowerby #musical theater #broadway

[thebraxiatelcollection]

I forgot how good The Diary Of River Song: Series 2 is. Five Twenty-Nine just remains one of my favourite stories they've produced.

#april listens to big finish #big finish #river song #john dorney knows how to break your heart into two #doctor who #five twenty-nine is solid drama #10/10

[riversofmars]

NOT JOHN DORNEY REVEALING THAT *THAT* ENDING OF STRANDED WAS NOT HIS DECISION. FAITH RESTORED!

#Honestly good for him #sounds like he might not entirely agree with it either.... :D #I mean it doesn't change anything but makes me feel better!!!! #He's one of my favourite BF writers and the fact he did that ending killed me... #so thank you for clarifying that!! #doctor who #liv chenka #big finish

[gallifreywhere]

River: I need to find someone to take his place at dinner.

Maître d': But the table is for him, n'est-ce pas?

River: Oh, that's exactly what everyone's supposed to think, but the Doctor isn't dining today.

Maître d': Oh, poor Sir! First he is shot, then disrobed, then he does not get to experience the menu. Is it possible his day could get any worse?

The Diary of River Song: My Dinner With Andrew

#big finish #the diary of river song #river song #fifth doctor #five #my dinner with andrew #doctor who #john dorney #alex kingston

[silverfoxstole]

I finally started listening to In the Bleak Midwinter earlier while I was wrapping some presents and I think I would have enjoyed 24 Doors more without the structure of announcing the setting for each scene. I appreciate what John Dorney was trying to do but it kept taking me out of the story and made it seem like things took forever to get going. It was a nice little idea but for me a bit underwhelming.

That said, it’s lovely to hear Charley again and Audacity is much less aggravating, but I am concerned that having her there at this particular juncture will undermine the relationship between the Doctor and Charley, especially given what’s around the corner for them. Would they have got so close with someone else in the TARDIS? I’m not sure.

I’ll listen to the other two stories tomorrow and Friday but in the meantime I do agree with Audacity re Roy Wood and Wizzard: anyone who wishes it was Christmas every day is mad.

#i have misgivings about going back and adding extra companions like this when what’s going to happen relies so much on existing dynamics #i’ve also always liked the fact that with the eighth doctor there’s no need to shoehorn stories into gaps because he can keep going forward #until night of the doctor at least! #the charley and lucie sets were fine because they didn’t change anything just added adventures where there was a sensible gap #but with neverland/zagreus/scherzo looming this just doesn’t feel right to me #plus paul’s performance as the doctor has matured over the years and his voice has deepened #so it’s pretty much impossible to imagine him as younger eight in these stories #doctor who #eighth doctor #big finish #i will freely admit that i prefer older eight these days because i’m that much older now myself #so these sets probably aren’t for me

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor Faces Off Against the Sea Devils

Christopher Eccleston's Ninth #DoctorWho Faces Off Against the Sea Devils for @bigfinish

Not only will the Ninth Doctor meet up again with his Eighth Doctor companions, Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) and Tania Bell (Rebecca Root), in the next box set from Big Finish; he’ll also be facing off against the Sea Devils — only this time, they’re in space! Plus, the Doctor meets the first woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize! The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Hidden Depths also stars Jeremy Swift…

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#Big Finish #Christopher Eccleston #David Richardson #Hidden Depths #John Dorney #Lisa McMullin #Liv Chenka #Lizbeth Myles #Nicola Walker #Ninth Doctor #Rebecca Root #Sea Devils #Tania Bell #The Ninth Doctor Adventures

[pers-books]

The Ninth Doctor meets River Song! 

Christopher Eccleston is joined by Alex Kingston in Star-Crossed, a brand-new box set of full-cast audio dramas from Big Finish Productions, due for release in May 2024. 

For the final release in the current series of The Ninth Doctor Adventures, the Time Lord with a war-torn past meets a very important woman from his future. 

Alex Kingston first played Professor River Song in Steven Moffat’s 2008 Doctor Who TV episode Silence in the Library, and since then the assassin-turned-archaeologist has met many incarnations of the Doctor – though not in the right order. 

It’s finally time for her to say “Hello, sweetie” to her husband’s ninth incarnation, as the two of them embark on three adventures together. They visit a planet in thrall to a dating app, an intergalactic bank with a catastrophic glitch, and a raging maelstrom. Fantastic! 

Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Star-Crossed is now available to pre-order for just £29.99 (collector’s edition CD box set + download) or £22.99 (download only), exclusively here. 

The three thrilling stories are: 

Swipe Right by John Dorney  Face of the Apocalypse by Lizzie Hopley  Archipelago by Tim Foley 

Christopher Eccleston said: "Returning to the world of the Doctor has been a great experience precisely because it has allowed me to re-explore my interpretation of the character and how he interacts with the many extraordinary beings he encounters along the way. Alex’s River was one such character and this was an interesting, challenging and enjoyable encounter for the Doctor too.” 

Alex Kingston said: “This is the first time that I’ve had an opportunity to work with Chris's Doctor. It’s a challenge for River to step into his interpretation and navigate it. He’s got a different energy to any of the other Doctors – she has to work harder to engage him, to get through to him, which is great fun.” 

Big Finish listeners can purchase Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Star-Crossed as part of a as part of a complete four-volume series bundle for just £108 (on collector’s edition CD box set + download) or £88 (download only). 

All the above prices include the special pre-order discount and are subject to change after general release. 

Series 1-2 of The Ninth Doctor Adventures are still available to purchase as triple LP vinyl bundles – limited to a pressing of 1,000 per volume – for £140 per series. Collector's edition (CD box set + download) bundles are also available at £110 per series, as are digital download bundles, for just £96 per series.  

Please note: the vinyl editions do not include any behind-the-scenes extras. However, listeners purchasing vinyl LP editions will receive a download of the story automatically and be given access to the CD edits as a bonus download. Episodes will be edited specifically for the vinyl format, presented as 2 episodes, one on each side, each with opening and closing music. In addition, all pre-orders of the vinyls will also receive the behind the extras as a bonus download.

Please note that Big Finish is currently operating a digital-first release schedule. The mail-out of collector’s edition CDs may be delayed due to factors beyond our control, but all purchases of this release unlock a digital copy that can be immediately downloaded or played on the Big Finish app from the release date.

-- What an announcement - and on Alex's birthday, too!!! 💙😍💙

#Big Finish #Ninth Doctor #River Song #*brb squeeing and flailing* #Christopher Eccleston #Alex Kingston #Doctor Who #Audio Drama

[xisco-lozdob]

What do we know of Dark Gallifrey?

So, yesterday Big finish finally announced a new range titled Dark Gallifrey. The initial reveal left me underwhelmed because it didn't look as Gallifrey-oriented as I'd at first thought, but some of the comments the creators have posted afterwards are making me warm up to the idea.

So, first of all, it's going to be "a brand-new series showcasing the most chaotic, mischievous and evil Time Lords the planet has ever produced" and it consists of 8 different trilogies, each focusing on one these dark children of Gallifrey. The fact that three of those were given to three different incarnations of the Master who all already have their own ranges gave me pause, but it could be alright if the themes and focus is distinct enough.

However, the Monk and the Nun and, more importantly, Morbius (the incarnation played by Samuel West from the 8DAs 16 years ago) also have their own trilogies. Morbius' one is actually the opening act of the series, though we don't know exactly when it's set. But Morbius is always a great character to delve into Gallifreyan lore.

First thing I want to point out is that they chose to use the same Gallifrey logo as the Gallifrey series, so at the very least they think it should be branded the same way. So we don't only have a link through the title choice but also the same visual identity.

Now, even if John Dorney, writer and script editor for the Morbius trilogy, said this:

It’s completely disconnected from regular Gallifrey.

It doesn't have to mean it's disconnected from Gallifrey the planet, and its history, which, for me, is the most important part, just that it's disconnected from the main cast of the series: Romana, Leela, Narvin and Braxiatel.

So let's see what the other creatives are saying. Rob Valentine, who serves as producer for the series, had this to say:

Dark Gallifrey is a sprawling, multi-story event in which all the most dastardly Time Lords are being let out of the box in various unexpected ways. [...] ...and, behind it all, something massive is brewing.

That means there's some overarching theme or threat in the shadows, probably to be resolved in the last trilogy. What I think is that, more likely than not, it's not going to be a big crossover kind of deal. Maybe some characters and even a couple of the trilogy protagonists are going to be there, but, from what is know, I surmise that we'll be looking at a... Rassilon? trilogy which ties together things that have been set up during the others, but we won't know they have been until we have all the pieces. Let me explain.

Firstly, and something which I really like the sound of, from the Big Finish Talk Back panel at Gally1, they want to do more experimental stories and Dark Gallifrey is part of that.

Dorney, again, said that these are:

Writer led concept albums full of bold creativity. [...] these are not your standard stories.

Whereas Scott Handcock, director and script editor for the War Master trilogy, teased that there are "baffling surprises" and that he doesn't know how his trilogy pieces together with the other ones.

I do like that this range seems to be based on allowing the creators freedom to tell the story they want to tell, so they can experiment with the storylelling and the format. Valentine also says there are all sorts of stories, from darker ones to some that are more comic. But, while Handcock seems to confirm he wasn't privy to all the plans for the range, I read that as implying he did know there was something that linked the trilogies together, but that due to his involvement being with just this trilogy in particular, he didn't need to know every detail.

Still, one last piece of information from Dorney, tells me it's particularly not necessary for the individual creators to know how it all pieces together (if the producers did a good job in keeping tabs):

Just to repeat what I said on the panel this series is influenced by things like Alan Ayckbourn’s Norman Conquests, the old Transformers comic strip Aspects of Evil and Chris Ware’s magnificent Building Stories. [...] it inspired the entire series.

All of these have one particularity in common: they're stories that build a bigger tapestry if put together, with multiple layers of storytelling. But they still work as your basic anthology.

But why do I think it'll all come together with a Rassilon story? Well, for that let's go to writer Tim Foley's blogpost with some visual clues. All the pictures are really interesting, but two in particular piqued my interest. (Btw, Foley seems to have worked at least on the Morbius trilogy with Dorney.)

The first illustration comes from the DWM story The Tides of Time. This story features Rassilon (actually his first appearance in any medium) and the Matrix, as well as the Higher Evolutionaries, a group of ancient and powerful time-aware beings. Basically, they're to Gallifrey's Temporal Powers what Division sorta is to the CIA.

The other image is a rendition by Daryl Joyce of Ancient Gallifrey, from the Lungbarrow ebook. You all know what kinds of implications this has. I really hope we take a long overdue trip to other episodes in Gallifrey's History. This is what I'm expecting (hoping) from this series and, in a way, the Fugitive Doctor's one.

Will we have references and nods to other stories that built on the mythology and history of Gallifrey (and not just those two, Morbius being a main character has the potential to link with some more obscure things)? I don't know but I hope so.

I think that's all the information we have. I don't even really know what I want to say with this post, just wanted to collect all this somewhere, and I guess speculate a bit there at the end.

I really hope this series ends up being as special as it promises.

#doctor who #big finish #big finish gallifrey #dark gallifrey #rassilon #lungbarrow #ancient gallifrey #the master #the monk #morbius #long post