It is with sadness that we report the passing of Jonathan Frid, who died peacefully last week at the age of 87. As vampire Barnabas Collins, he created a truly enduring character and cemented Dark Shadows' place as a pop culture phenomenon. Big Finish was lucky enough to work with Jonathan on the 2010 audio drama The Night Whispers, which featured his one and only return to the role that made him famous.

It's back to the beginning once again for this month's Companion Chronicles release, as William Russell returns to the role of Ian Chesterton.

The Wanderer finds the First Doctor and the original TARDIS crew of Ian, Barbara and Susan in 19th century Siberia, and there are some very high stakes indeed. With the Doctor and an increasing number of the locals afflicted by a strange illness, Ian teams up with a pilgrim named Grigory in the search for a cure. But that search brings Ian closer to a prize he's sought since he and Barbara first stepped on board the TARDIS: a way home...

Big Finish has announced a series of one-day special offers for April. It starts on April 23rd and continues for five days, and features a selection of Doctor Who double-CD releases available to buy from bigfinish.com for just £5 each for one day only on CD and download.

The Emerald Tiger - out now! A brand new trilogy of adventures starring Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor begins this month, and once again he's joined by Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson and Sarah Sutton as Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa!

It was inevitable really, wasn't it? We couldn't really have a whole series of Fourth Doctor Adventures without him battling his greatest foes, could we? Yes, this month's release sees Tom Baker and Louise Jameson (as the Doctor and Leela) face off against the Daleks.

As Nick said might be the case in last week's podcast, we are sorry to have to announce a delay to the launch of our new website. At Big Finish we are always striving to make things better for you, our loyal listeners, and while in the final phase of testing the new site we realised that we had an opportunity to do just that.

Details have been announced for the seventh season of The Companion Chronicles, the Big Finish audio range which follows the Doctor’s companions in brand new, exciting adventures.

Big Finish is pleased to announce that our new website will be launched on the evening of 11th April 2012, and you can get a sneak peek of the homepage over to the left!
The new site has been carefully designed and built with the user in mind. We have taken on board many of our customers’ comments and have tested the new site to ensure that you can do the things you want to do and find the things you want to find quickly and simply.

It's all very well us telling you how delighted we are with our range of Sherlock Holmes adventures, but there's an even greater joy that comes from hearing others have loved them too. To that end, here's The Baker Street Blog waxing lyrical on the subject of recent release The Final Problem and The Empty House:

Following the recent cast announcements for Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion, further details are now available, along with a teaser trailer and the box set cover design (pictured left). This exciting box set is part of a special offer subscription package from Big Finish in the Doctor Who Special Releases section of the website.

We are very pleased to announce that a third series of Sherlock Holmes Big Finish audios has been confirmed. Nick Briggs will once again play Holmes, aided by his trusty Watson, Richard Earl.

There's a hefty chunk of coverage of our Mervyn Stone novels over on the website of the reborn Starburst magazine right now! There's an interview with writer Nev Fountain and a review of the first book in the series, Geek Tragedy, describing it as "first class".

Jacqueline Pearce, who now lives in Africa, has flown into the UK and is currently recording four brand new stories as the scheming and manipulative Servalan for the audio series Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles. The series of enhanced audiobooks is being released in a licence deal with B7 Enterprises.

Ian Hogg, who memorably played Josiah Smith in the TV story Ghost Light, has been reunited with Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred in Protect and Survive, a new Doctor Who audio play from Big Finish. The story, by Jonathan Morris, also stars Elizabeth Bennett (Calendar Girls) and Peter Egan (Ever Decreasing Circles), and kicks off a pivotal mini-series for the Seventh Doctor and his companions.

Big Finish Productions is pleased to confirm plans for the Bernice Summerfield audio adventures, following on from the recently-released Road Trip and the forthcoming charity project, Many Happy Returns.

Big Finish Productions is pleased to announce a very special release to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of archaeologist and adventurer Bernice Summerfield.

The lovely Kenny Smith has been a busy chap. Not content with putting in some hard graft on the second volume of The Big Finish Companion, he's also been writing another issue of The Finished Product, the superb unofficial Big Finish fanzine.

A couple of little sneak peeks for you as we reach the end of the week. Trailers are now online for March's Companion Chronicle, April's Dark Shadows release and the May Fourth Doctor adventure.

Big Finish is pleased to announce details for May's Dark Shadows release The Eternal Actress, featuring the return of Donna McKechnie – reprising her role as Quentin's lost love, Amanda Harris.

Following an excellent critical response to the release of the first volume of Blake’s 7 – The Liberator Chronicles, Big Finish Productions is delighted to announce that its output for the range will be increased in 2013.

Our latest series of Sherlock Holmes adventures has been getting plenty of praise in reviews, including this from Mass Movement magazine...

Big Finish is pleased to announce that Amber Benson, best known as Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will be taking on the iconic role of Judith Collins in upcoming Dark Shadows release Dress Me in Dark Dreams.

Now, in case you accidentally overlooked it amid all the excitement and podlets of last week, we'd just like to remind you that episode one of the Toby Hadoke podcast is now available in the comedy podcast feed (which will be its natural home from now on).

A massive, huge, enormous thank you to everyone who ordered something in our week of Eighth Doctor sales, which have been a big success. And just as big a thank you to Alison, Catrin and the Sales team, who've been dashing around putting together orders, and Paul Wilson, who's been updating the website daily and nightly with new prices and different series.