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Post by dannybl on Jan 6, 2019 16:51:40 GMT
As always Big Finish have a load of bonkers, fun and exciting stuff up their sleeves, but they have a strategy for announcements. What do we unofficially know about thanks to social media?
- A Second Doctor Dalek story with Frazer Hines
- 'Empire of the Time Lords' a Fourth Doctor story featuring Annette Badland
- possible Lost Stories revivial
- Scott Handcock producing the Sixth Doctor and Peri
There's bound to be more I've forgotten!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2019 16:56:05 GMT
Due to how far in advance they're recorded, there are a number of Fourth Doctor stories we know the titles of but nothing else, the most intriguing of which is "Shellshock" which features Alicia Ambrose-Bayly as "companion" Hannah Schumann - but we don't know if "Shellshock" is a one-off release, a boxset, or a series of 4DAs in the same vein as the forthcoming Syndicate Masterplan.
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Post by shallacatop on Jan 6, 2019 17:21:18 GMT
We know that every Doctor is apparently getting a set to celebrate 20 years of Doctor Who at Big Finish. Three have been announced / released; Four, Seven and Eight. One we are led to believe is the Sixth Doctor and Peri.
The others we’re not so sure about. Personally, I can’t see every Doctor getting their own special set. I think some will just be their regular ranges, like the Third and Tenth Doctors.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2019 17:27:22 GMT
We know that every Doctor is apparently getting a set to celebrate 20 years of Doctor Who at Big Finish. Three have been announced / released; Four, Seven and Eight. One we are led to believe is the Sixth Doctor and Peri. The others we’re not so sure about. Personally, I can’t see every Doctor getting their own special set. I think some will just be their regular ranges, like the Third and Tenth Doctors. I think the Scott Handcock-produced Six/Peri stories recorded late last year must be for Sixie's boxset. I agree that the Fifth Doctor's set - which doesn't appear to have been recorded yet - is the only 20th Anniversary release to go after that. |
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Post by mbt66 on Jan 6, 2019 21:53:59 GMT
We know that every Doctor is apparently getting a set to celebrate 20 years of Doctor Who at Big Finish. Three have been announced / released; Four, Seven and Eight. One we are led to believe is the Sixth Doctor and Peri. The others we’re not so sure about. Personally, I can’t see every Doctor getting their own special set. I think some will just be their regular ranges, like the Third and Tenth Doctors. I think the Scott Handcock-produced Six/Peri stories recorded late last year must be for Sixie's boxset. I agree that the Fifth Doctor's set - which doesn't appear to have been recorded yet - is the only 20th Anniversary release to go after that. So could the Fifth Doctor set include the Graceless twins? Wasn’t there a rumour that they would be back this year, but not in their own range? |
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Post by Digi on Jan 6, 2019 22:17:14 GMT
I think the Scott Handcock-produced Six/Peri stories recorded late last year must be for Sixie's boxset. I agree that the Fifth Doctor's set - which doesn't appear to have been recorded yet - is the only 20th Anniversary release to go after that. So could the Fifth Doctor set include the Graceless twins? Wasn’t there a rumour that they would be back this year, but not in their own range? A few weeks ago Nick answered my Graceless question on the podcast, without actually answering my question as to if/when the Graceless sisters would return. No confirmation they’d be back, but no definitive no/“just imagine” either. |
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Post by pawntake on Jan 6, 2019 22:25:26 GMT
Isn't this thread just the same as A place to collect obscure Big Finish news?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2019 22:49:22 GMT
Isn't this thread just the same as A place to collect obscure Big Finish news? Not really. That thread could be retitled "Big Finish-Related Social Media Announcements" |
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Post by Digi on Jan 6, 2019 23:27:43 GMT
Isn't this thread just the same as A place to collect obscure Big Finish news? I had the exact same thought; this thread seems a little redundant. |
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Post by Ela on Jan 7, 2019 1:08:48 GMT
I do think it's redundant and pretty much the same as "a place to collect obscure Big Finish news".
I'd like to combine it with that thread, if there are no major objections.
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Post by Whovitt on Jan 7, 2019 1:10:33 GMT
While I agree that the thread appears somewhat redundant, it's also very time consuming to scroll back through the 'Place to Collect Obscure News' thread. Some of the stuff mentioned in this thread dates back months, and we can added several pages to that thread in a matter of days, so having a resource to compile all the scattered news into one place is useful. An entire thread for it does feel slightly like overkill, but there aren't really any other options that I can think of either.
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Post by Ela on Jan 7, 2019 1:16:20 GMT
While I agree that the thread appears somewhat redundant, it's also very time consuming to scroll back through the 'Place to Collect Obscure News' thread. Some of the stuff mentioned in this thread dates back months, and we can added several pages to that thread in a matter of days, so having a resource to compile all the scattered news into one place is useful. An entire thread for it does feel slightly like overkill, but there aren't really any other options that I can think of either. But soon you will have the same situation with this thread. I don't see how that won't happen. It's pretty inevitable with any thread of this type. |
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Post by Digi on Jan 7, 2019 1:18:36 GMT
While I agree that the thread appears somewhat redundant, it's also very time consuming to scroll back through the 'Place to Collect Obscure News' thread. Some of the stuff mentioned in this thread dates back months, and we can added several pages to that thread in a matter of days, so having a resource to compile all the scattered news into one place is useful. An entire thread for it does feel slightly like overkill, but there aren't really any other options that I can think of either. But soon you will have the same situation with this thread. I don't see how that won't happen. It's pretty inevitable with any thread of this type. It kind of is, yeah. Unless the OP is willing to commit to update the first post in the thread forever, it's just going to grow and grow into the same thing. And even then - anybody else finding news is going to post it, making the thread grow in order for the OP to update the original post.... |
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Post by Whovitt on Jan 7, 2019 1:38:59 GMT
While I agree that the thread appears somewhat redundant, it's also very time consuming to scroll back through the 'Place to Collect Obscure News' thread. Some of the stuff mentioned in this thread dates back months, and we can added several pages to that thread in a matter of days, so having a resource to compile all the scattered news into one place is useful. An entire thread for it does feel slightly like overkill, but there aren't really any other options that I can think of either. But soon you will have the same situation with this thread. I don't see how that won't happen. It's pretty inevitable with any thread of this type. Good point. What I was trying to get at was that while I don't think this is an ideal way of going about it, I do think the idea of wanting a repository for this sort of information is valid. It's just that I'm not sure there's a way of really doing it, is all  |
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Post by Ela on Jan 7, 2019 1:40:56 GMT
I pretty much agree. Which is why I'd like to merge threads.
We have the news thread. We have monthly threads about the upcoming releases. It ends up being a lot of redundant news in multiple places.
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Post by Digi on Jan 7, 2019 2:01:31 GMT
But soon you will have the same situation with this thread. I don't see how that won't happen. It's pretty inevitable with any thread of this type. Good point. What I was trying to get at was that while I don't think this is an ideal way of going about it, I do think the idea of wanting a repository for this sort of information is valid. It's just that I'm not sure there's a way of really doing it, is all It might work if we had something akin to a Wikia -- pull up the Scott Handcock article and it has within it all the collected bits and pieces that have involved him but haven't been made clear, that sort of thing. I'm not sure there's any good way of doing it in a forum context, though. |
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Post by lidar2 on Jan 7, 2019 9:10:35 GMT
Good point. What I was trying to get at was that while I don't think this is an ideal way of going about it, I do think the idea of wanting a repository for this sort of information is valid. It's just that I'm not sure there's a way of really doing it, is all It might work if we had something akin to a Wikia -- pull up the Scott Handcock article and it has within it all the collected bits and pieces that have involved him but haven't been made clear, that sort of thing. I'm not sure there's any good way of doing it in a forum context, though. It might work if, as was suggested above, the OP kept being updated with new things added and items deleted when they were officially announced. Maybe if the thread was pinned to the top? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 16:39:12 GMT
Stuff we know about for sure but hasn't been announced yet, beyond ongoing ranges like the 4DAs and Early Adventures:
- Lost Stories revival (exact form this is taking TBC - we are *definitely* getting at least one Fifth Doctor story, and possibly some Sixth Doctor ones too)
- The Donna Noble Adventures (probably not recorded yet)
- The Fifth Doctor's 20th anniversary set (may not have been recorded yet?)
- The Sixth Doctor's 20th anniversary set (has been recorded)
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- There *may* be another Philip Hinchcliffe Presents story/set
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jan 13, 2019 20:34:53 GMT
The mind boggles as to how Donna - who, notoriously, gains no benefit or development from her travels and goes back to being a blah ordinary person - could get a spinoff.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 20:41:08 GMT
The mind boggles as to how Donna - who, notoriously, gains no benefit or development from her travels and goes back to being a blah ordinary person - could get a spinoff. When we met her in S4 she had been looking for The Doctor for a while. Presumably that's the gap there. Could be fun. I don't expect this to be a big, epic set at all. BF could use a more comedic range, I think. |
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