Why Stop the Novel Adaptions?

Maybe they're going onto new series book adaptations?

I dont know. @davygallagher did say on one occasion that they were stopping them after the epic one in December.

sadly i doubt that they'd do any adapts of the NSA books, since they are quite recent in regards to the others and they do have audio readings anyway

Whilst I can see that side of the argument, on the other side it wouldn't surprise me if Big Finish would want to capitalise on the current popularity of the new series by adapting the new series books and advertising them as full cast audiobooks/audio dramas. They might do Engines of War first to test the waters.

If that is the case, it may simply be that they prefer to do something original. (Also, it sounds like a lot of work to adapt a book... it may even be cheaper just to make something up afresh).

As of this weeks Podcast they're sill undecided.

Personally though I enjoy them they're more niche than other ranges, which BF try to adapt next is a lottery based on what the BBC want to do an audio reading of, and the original author's personal feeling about the prospect and there's only a couple more I'd like to hear anyway.

Regards

mark687

Is that July's issue?

I would expect that BF would be all over another set of adaptations if they were selling very strongly, if they have OK sales, then they will just have to find room and justification for why they should be done when they have loads of other content they can do, if the sales are poor, then they'll stop because other things are more fruitful.

My expectation is that more will come with time. The past is full of things BF would "not do" which later happened, it's not so much that they changed their minds, but that opportunity has to exist in a context where it doesn't knock other things out of line.

I think it's most likely that Big Finish want to refocus their energies on the revival releases for now. I do remember it mentionced on the podcast back in 2014 that preorder sales for Gareth Roberts Presents were VERY strong.

I'm sure we'll see further Novel Adapations down the line, at some point, although I'd imagine they might want to make them more approchable to new listeners coming on board with the revival releases (Deciet isn't that well-regarded, so maybe we'll see Ace return in an adapation of Lucifer Rising?).