They're back! The Sontarans return for the first release in our third series of full cast audiobook adventures starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor - and here's the cover!

The third – and final – series of Graceless will be released at the end of June, bringing an end to the adventures of time-travelling sisters Abby and Zara. The three-part series, written by Simon Guerrier and directed by Lisa Bowerman, reunites Ciara Janson as Abby and Laura Doddington as Zara – along with a guest cast of new and familiar faces to the Graceless universe.

Following the recent release of New Frontiers, Big Finish Productions is pleased to reveal details for the forthcoming Bernice Summerfield box set Missing Persons: a bumper five-story release that marks the end of an era for the archaeologist and her friends.

The May Doctor Who releases are now available for download in mp3 or audiobook formats; that's The Lady of Mercia, The Apocalypse Mirror and Phantoms of the Deep, telling tales of the Fifth, Second and Fourth Doctors respectively.

A massive, massive thank you to everyone who took part in our May Day special offer last week. We really appreciate all customers, new and old, who dropped by and supported us, and shared the details of the offer with friends, family and any strangers they happened to chance upon. And, indeed, a huge thank you to our Sales team for tackling the increased demand in orders.

Roj Blake and his band of freedom fighters are back in three brand new Blake's 7 audio stories, and a new original novel by Avon himself, Paul Darrow - both released today!

New details have emerged about The Light at the End, the two-hour full cast audio drama from Big Finish that will celebrate fifty years of Doctor Who. Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann will be together playing the Doctor, and are accompanied by companions Louise Jameson as Leela, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, Nicola Bryant as Peri, Sophie Aldred as Ace and India Fisher as Charley. Flying the flag for the forces of evil is Geoffrey Beevers as The Master, who has devised his most cunning plan yet.

Just sneaking in under the wire, April's final release, Bernice Summerfield box set New Frontiers, is available now!

This weekend, recording was completed on the second series of The Confessions of Dorian Gray - starring Alexander Vlahos as the titular immortal - and we're pleased to reveal that a few familiar faces have joined the cast!

The cover for Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: Ghost in the Machine has been released.

The cover for upcoming Companion Chronicle Upstairs has now been released! The story stars Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves, and can be pre-ordered now!

Pictured to the left is the cover of upcoming release Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: The Beginning which, as you might expect, does exactly what it says on the tin and goes right back to before the series began!

Out now is the latest exciting Bernice Summerfield novel Filthy Lucre, which ties in to upcoming box set New Frontiers!

Upcoming box set The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes is now available for pre-order - at a special low price! It once more stars Nicholas Briggs as Holmes and Richard Earl as Watson in four intricately crafted tales covering the whole of Holmes' life...

Last year saw the release of Doctor Who Companion Chronicle The Last Post, the final story to star Caroline John as Liz Shaw, the Third Doctor's first companion. An exemplary tale which examined the character's season on the show, it was met with much approval from the critics. Read on for more...

Jago and Litefoot are back in their own time and now working by Royal Appointment in the Series Six of the popular audio drama, which is released in November.

The cover and trailer for next month's Dark Shadows story, The Phantom Bride, are now available.

Our Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Adventures continue next month with Phantoms of the Deep, but for those who've not given them a try yet, here are some thoughts from the critics about the very first release of the range, Destination: Nerva.

Big Finish Productions is pleased to reveal casting and story details for the second series of The Confessions of Dorian Gray, starring Alexander Vlahos, beginning in August.

We'd like to take the opportunity to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported last year's Bernice Summerfield story Many Happy Returns, the celebratory release featuring a wealth of talent in front of and behind the camera. It's so far raised £4454 for the charity Invest in M.E. And it's still on sale!

Some very familiar faces have joined Katy Manning and David Benson on the big red bus in series four of Iris Wildthyme...

The latest Doctor Who releases are now available for download! Main range release Eldrad Must Die! and new Companion Chronicle The Library of Alexandria are out now.

Two new Doctor Who covers have been added to the website now, namely those for July's main range and Companion Chronicles releases, Persuasion and Mastermind.

Following on from the recent success of The Confessions of Dorian Gray, Big Finish Productions is thrilled to announce that Alexander Vlahos will be reprising the role of Dorian in a further series, but also the next instalment of the Big Finish Classics range: an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's notorious novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

While the second season of The Fourth Doctor Adventures – starring Tom Baker, and the late Mary Tamm as Romana – proceeds apace, Big Finish has announced details of its line-up for 2014.

Season three reunites the Fourth Doctor with Leela (played by Louise Jameson) for a run of stories set between the TV tales The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Horror of Fang Rock.

Out now is the latest instalment of the AudioGo/Big Finish Doctor Who co-production range, Destiny of the Doctor. Entitled Babblesphere, it focuses on the Fourth Doctor and the Second Romana.

Hot on the heels of the success of Big Finish Day 3, we're delighted to announce Big Finish Day 4 - and in a brand new venue!

A massive thank you to everyone who came along to Big Finish Day 3 last Saturday, both fans and guests, and helping to make it a huge success!

Now up on the site is the cover to imminent Bernice Summerfield box set New Frontiers and its tie-in novel Filthy Lucre - plus the brand new trailer!

A brand new trailer is now up for Doctor Who: The Dalek Contract, the first half of the epic conclusion to the second series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures.

A host of stars including Tom Baker, Carole Ann Ford, Trevor Baxter, Christopher Benjamin, John Leeson, Michael Keating, David Warner and Chase Masterson will be descending on Barking this coming Saturday for the third Big Finish Day! Tickets are still available from Tenth Planet Events!

David Warner and a host of Big Finish alumni star in new Guerrier Brothers short Wizard - and you can watch it here in the main news story!

Series 3 of Big Finish's Sherlock Holmes adventures has completed its first recording block. Once again, Nicholas Briggs and Richard Earl (pictured here) star as Holmes and Watson.

Mervyn Stone is back! The crime-solving script writer and star of three books has returned to shine a light on the darkest of murderous deeds - and this time you can hear him! The Axeman Cometh is now available for CD and download pre-order at a special low price...

Splendid news for fans of Jago & Litefoot, and their alter egos, Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter. The pair are in studio this very moment recording a brand new CD release to feature them in conversation, titled simply Benjamin & Baxter.

Out now is our latest Doctor Who main range title, The Seeds of War, which introduces a brand new enemy in the form of The Eminence and its Infinite Warriors.

We complete the month's releases today with not one but two Fourth Doctor Adventures releases: Doctor Who: War Against the Laan and Doctor Who: The Justice of Jalxar!

The Seventh Doctor and UNIT’s scientific advisor Dr Elizabeth Klein (Tracey Childs) return in three Doctor Who audio plays from Big Finish this summer – and they’ll be facing some of the Time Lord’s oldest foes…

Two brand new stories for you today as we present Doctor Who: The Seeds of War and Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: The Scorchies - the latter featuring Jo Grant taking on villainous singing puppets!

Released today is a brand new adaptation of a literary great: Treasure Island! It's the tale of an untrustworthy band of pirates and it stars Doctor Who's very own Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker!

Out now is the brand new series five box set of Jago & Litefoot, the Doctor Who spin-off that finds a theatrical impresario and a doctor joining forces to combat all manner of monsters in... the 1960s?

We're sorry to announce that, due to unforeseen circumstances, the release of Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Alchemists has been postponed until August. Taking its place in the April slot will be another First Doctor tale - The Library of Alexandria.

We're pleased to announce that Toby Hadoke's splendid series of Who's Round podcasts now have a home all their own on the Big Finish website; just select the relevant range option in the drop-down menu - they're all free!

Iris Wildthyme’s big red bus is heading back for more adventures. Series four of Iris Wildthyme is now available for pre-order. Katy Manning and David Benson return as everyone’s favourite Trans-temporal Adventuress and the redoubtable Panda. Also now available for pre-order is the final series of adventures for Abby and Zara in Graceless 3...

We're delighted to announce that the pre-orders are now up for next year's Blake's 7 releases, consisting of four more Liberator Chronicles box sets and two more original novels.

Out now are the brand new Doctor Who spin-off Gallifrey V box set, and the second volume of in-depth reference work The Big Finish Companion.

It's a chance to catch up! Beginning today, our brand new special offer is all four series of The Eighth Doctor Adventures for £5 per CD and download, plus further offers on purchases of a whole season! And it lasts for two whole weeks, until the morning of Saturday 2 March...

We're full of love for our listeners today on Valentine's Day, and our gift to you is a brand new Blake's 7 box set: The Liberator Chronicles - Volume 3, aka The Armageddon Storm...

Newly out today are the latest two Doctor Who full cast audiobook releases: Spaceport Fear and The Sands of Life, plus Blake's 7 ebook, Warship.

Big Finish Productions will be launching a brand new audio range in 2014.

Doctor Who: The Early Adventures will comprise four-part stories starring the surviving lead cast members from Doctor Who’s black and white era.

It's double Jamie day today, as Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: House of Cards and Doctor Who: Shadow of Death are released.

The first solo adventure for impossibly glamorous bounty Vienna Salvatori, The Memory Box, is out now! And you can hear the cast and crew discussing it in our brand new podcast, for download or streaming now!

It's only been out for a few days, but everyone's going wild for our full cast Blake's 7 release, Warship!

Big Finish is pleased to announce details of the 2013 series of Dark Shadows Dramatic Readings. As ever, the series will feature characters both old and new facing a terrifying array of spooky horrors...

One of February's releases has snuck out early! We just couldn't wait to get Blake's 7: Warship out there, so our first full cast Blake's 7 audio is available to download now!

An old friend is back with the Seventh Doctor in July… Tracey Childs returns as Dr Elizabeth Klein, who will rejoin the Doctor in his travels through time and space for a new trilogy of adventures.

The much-anticipated fifth series of our Doctor Who spin-off Gallifrey will be released in February as a three-disc box set, and details are now available.

The delayed Dark Shadows release The Haunted Refrain is now available for download.

Sherlock Holmes adventure Holmes and the Ripper is getting an outing on stage, performed by a local group of amateur actors in Stoke-on-Trent at the Stoke Repertory Theatre. It runs from 18-26 January (not Monday 21).

Big Finish will be running a very special offer this weekend with the best Doctor Who releases of 2012 - as chosen by you! - being offered at half price.

The first adventure in the second series of Fourth Doctor Adventures, Doctor Who: The Auntie Matter is out now!

Out now is the latest main range release, Doctor Who: The Wrong Doctors!

To tie in with Doctor Who’s Fiftieth Anniversary, the November main range release for 2013 will be a celebratory reunion for the Seventh Doctor, his companion Ace and the members of the Counter-Measures team.

Louise Jameson, who played the savage Leela opposite Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who, is taking a key role in Volume 5 of Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles, which is released in August 2013.

Stephen Thorne is returning as the Kastrian renegade Eldrad, a role he last played in the 1976 story The Hand of Fear, in a new adventure from Big Finish Productions. This time the Fifth Doctor and his companions Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa will be taking on the silicon-based psychopath.

We're delighted to announce that the first of January's releases out of the blocks is... Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: The Flames of Cadiz!

In November 2013, Big Finish will be releasing Doctor Who: The Light at the End, a very special 100-minute story to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who. Tom Baker (1974-81), Peter Davison (1982-84), Colin Baker (1984-86), Sylvester McCoy (1987-89) and Paul McGann (1996) will all reprise their roles as, respectively, the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors, whose paths suddenly intersect when they face imminent destruction.

Following on from the recent release of Legion, Big Finish is pleased to announce details for its next Bernice Summerfield box set - New Frontiers. Bernice Summerfield first appeared in the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novels, and now leads her own spin-off range.

Thunderbirds, UFO, Stingray (and many more) creator and master of puppets Gerry Anderson sadly passed away on Boxing Day last year at the age of 83. Nick Briggs recalls the joy he had meeting the legend a few years ago...

On the thirteenth day of Christmas (yes we know it doesn't exist) Big Finish offers you all 16 titles from the 12 days of Christmas for just 24 hours. They are all priced at £2.99 and on download only.

This is a great opportunity to buy titles you may have missed or perhaps regretted not buying in the first place. Your BIG second chance. We hope you enjoy them.

On the twelfth day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: Find and Replace - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours AND Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: The Rocket Men - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

On the eleventh day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Dark Shadows: The Night Whispers - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

On the tenth day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Doctor Who: Cobwebs - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

On the ninth day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Doctor Who: The Judgement of Isskar - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

On the eighth day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

On the seventh day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Doctor Who: Short Trips volume 1 - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

On the sixth day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Stargate SG-1 1.1: Gift of the Gods AND Stargate Atlantis 1.2: A Necessary Evil AND Stargate SG1 1.3: Shell Game all for £2.99 each - download only for 48 hours.

On the fifth day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Doctor Who: Destination Nerva - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

On the fourth day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Doctor Who: Death In Blackpool - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

On the third day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Doctor Who: Relative Dimensions - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

On the second day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

On the first day of Christmas Big Finish offers you: Doctor Who: Lucie Miller - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours AND Doctor Who: To The Death - £2.99 - download only for 48 hours.

Philip Pope is a lovely actor who works for us regularly. He's done a lot of our Doctor Whos.

His son Will needs a donor heart. He is 20.

The 12 days of Big Finish special offer will start on Christmas Day. There will be 16 titles from across the Big Finish range available over the 12 days of Christmas for just 48 Hours each.

Following the extremely positive reception to the first five episodes, Big Finish Productions is pleased to announce that the hour-long Christmas episode of The Confessions of Dorian Gray, Ghosts of Christmas Past, is now available to download.

The brand new Stargate SG-1 box set, containing three full cast audiobooks, is now available for download. It stars Michael Shanks as Daniel Jackson and Claudia Black as Vala, reprising their roles from the TV series.

This weekend only, we're offering a special CD and download rollback price on the full cast and enhanced audiobook releases comprising Doctor Who: The Lost Stories series three – now £10 cheaper!

A lot's been going on recently on the site, so in case listeners have missed them, a little note to say that Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: The Child and Doctor Who: Voyage to the New World are out now!

The new Big Finish website forum is now up and running. Thanks to you all for being patient during the transition today.

There are just two weeks left in which to take advantage of our Doctor Who Special Releases offer which will end when the year does. And the bundle includes Doctor Who: Dark Eyes, a story recently described by SciFiNow magazine thus: "as emotional and rewarding as anything on TV."

You spoke, we listened. We are delighted to announce that the Big Finish web development elves have been hard at work ensuring that our trailers and podcasts will now work on mobile devices.

December's Dark Shadows story, A Collinwood Christmas, is now available to download. Enjoy a spot of festive spirit!

Counter-Measures, the audio series centred upon an elite group that investigates dangerous technologies and alien incursions, will return in July 2013 for a second series of four brand new hour-long episodes. The spin-off from the Seventh Doctor TV tale Remembrance of the Daleks stars Pamela Salem as Rachel Jensen, Karen Gledhill as Allison Williams and Simon Williams as Group Captain Gilmore while Hugh Ross is the organization’s shady boss, Sir Toby Kinsella.

Today sees the release of Doctor Who: 1001 Nights and this year's bonus CD (for subscribers only), Doctor Who: Night of the Stormcrow.

Sally Knyvette, who plays former smuggler Jenna Stannis, and Stephen Greif, who plays Blake’s mortal enemy Travis, are joining the cast of Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles for the fourth volume, out in May 2013.

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... and seasonal spectres lie in wait for two iconic literary characters, as Dorian Gray and Sherlock Holmes collide in Ghosts of Christmas Past.

From January next year, we'll be joining in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary celebrations with a gorgeous new look for our titles.

We've had a few people contacting us asking if their order will arrive in time for Christmas. The Sales team is currently up to date with orders, so anything ordered up to Tuesday has been processed and shipped, with yesterday's orders being processed today. Those still intending to order should note the Post Office's last posting dates in the main news story. Orders may still arrive in time if sent after these dates, but sadly we can't guarantee it.

The cover and trailer for December's Dark Shadows story, A Collinwood Christmas, are now available, but sadly The Haunted Refrain will be delayed until January.

Following the recent release of Doctor Who: Love and War, Big Finish is pleased to announce that a special Bernice Summerfield charity adventure - Many Happy Returns - is now available to download.

The fifth episode of The Confessions of Dorian Gray, The Fallen King of Britain, is available now for download.

If you haven’t yet caught up with Doctor Who: Dark Eyes, starring Paul McGann (who starred as the Doctor in the 1996 TV Movie of Doctor Who), you might like to know what those who’ve heard it are saying. It’s a definite thumbs-up from our listeners...

It's Colin Baker's tenth day in the I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here! jungle, and today our special download offer moves into the Lost Stories with Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair!

This month’s Doctor Who full cast audiobook is the thrilling climax to a trilogy that spans three Doctors, the life of an empire… and a doomed love affair.

The brand new Drama Showcase release, a co-production with Louise 'Leela' Jameson's tlc Productions, is out now!

It's now nine days in the I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here! jungle for Colin Baker (the Doctor from 1984-1986), and today's special reduced download is... Peri and the Piscon Paradox.

Eight days in the jungle for Colin Baker (the Doctor from 1984-1986) in I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!, and to kick off week two, we're reducing the price – on download only – of Dark Shadows: The House by the Sea.

The fourth episode of The Confessions of Dorian Gray, The Heart That Lives Alone, is available now for download.

To celebrate his seventh day on I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!, we're reducing another story on download only featuring Colin Baker (the Sixth Doctor from 1984-1986). Today's choice is Project: Twilight.

Welcome to the Victorian wonderland of Jago & Litefoot! The self-styled investigators of infernal incidents have been seeing off the threats of dark forces for four series now, but this weekend you can hear how it all began for a specially reduced price on The Mahogany Murderers and the first two series box sets!

Sixth Doctor Colin Baker (TV reign 1984-1986) has now enjoyed five days in the I'm a Celebrity jungle, so we're reducing the price of another of his stories, on download only. Today it's Doctor Who: The Holy Terror!

It's Sixth Doctor Colin Baker's sixth day in the I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here! jungle, and today's reduced (on download only) classic story is Bloodtide!

It's day four for Colin Baker in the I'm a Celebrity jungle, so we've reduced a fourth title on download only. Today it's The Spectre of Lanyon Moor!

The spooky cover and trailer for the next Dark Shadows story, The Haunted Refrain, are now available.

It's day three for Colin Baker in the Australian jungle of I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here! so we've reduced the price of a third Doctor Who story on download - The Marian Conspiracy!

Congratulations to three of our Big Finish writers - Alan Barnes, Gordon Rennie and Emma Beeby - who've been nominated for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Videogame Script.

Our very own Sixie, aka Colin Baker, is currently in the heart of the Australian jungle as part of ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here! And to support the Sixth Doctor (who Colin played on TV between 1984 and 1986), we'll be offering special reductions on some of our Doctor Who titles while he faces the perils of the outback...

After yesterday's difficulties with our download service, we are pleased to announce that the problems have been resolved and everything seems to be working well.

The third episode of The Confessions of Dorian Gray, The Twittering of Sparrows, is available now for download, and features special Doctor Who guest star Katy Manning!

This month's three Doctor Who releases are now available to download - Dark Eyes, The Shadow Heart and Return of the Rocket Men. CD orders will be posted out in the coming week.

Big Finish Productions would like to apologize for the temporary problems that have prevented some of our loyal customers from being able to download Doctor Who: Dark Eyes and other releases. As of 21.04 today November 10th 2012, the news is as follows... Problems experienced by our server company in adding extra bandwidth have finally been overcome, but to ease demand, The Shadow Heart and The Return of the Rocket Men have been temporarily made unavailable.

The highly-anticipated next stage in the life of the Eighth Doctor will be available tomorrow as we release Doctor Who: Dark Eyes!

Jacqueline Pearce, who plays Servalan in Blake's 7: The LIberator Chronicles, will be joining the Big Finish team at the Dimensions Convention in Newcastle this weekend.

Several members of the Big Finish team will be appearing at the Dimensions Doctor Who convention in Newcastle this weekend.

Doctor Who star Louise Jameson, who plays Leela opposite Tom Baker in The Fourth Doctor Adventures, will be making a special public appearance on Thursday 15 November.

We are sorry to announce that publication of The Big Finish Companion – Volume 2 has been delayed, and now the book will be released in February 2013.

Executive producer Nicholas Briggs says: “Many apologies to those who have pre-ordered Volume 2, or were hoping to buy it in November. We have taken the difficult decision to delay publication until February, simply because we want to get it exactly right."

Out now is the second release in the download-only Confessions of Dorian Gray series, The Houses in Between.

Lisa Bowerman, best known for playing Bernice Summerfield in a vast number of adventures and directing many Doctor Who audios, will be appearing at a special charity concert on Sunday 18 November.

Now available for pre-order is a brand new addition to the Drama Showcase range: My Mother Was an Alien... Is That Why I'm Gay? starring Max Day, Nigel Fairs and Louise Jameson!

We're delighted to announce the release today of Dark Shadows: Dreaming of the Water, the latest instalment in the popular audiobook series.

Big Finish is pleased to announce details for the Dark Shadows Christmas special, A Collinwood Christmas.

Out now is the first release in the download-only Confessions of Dorian Gray series, This World Our Hell.

Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion is out and our listeners are already letting us know what they think! If you're wondering whether to buy it or not, this could be just the information you're looking for...

It's a month early - but we couldn't wait to bring you Doctor Who: Voyage to Venus, the latest in the line of Special Releases.

Now released is Doctor Who: The Acheron Pulse, an epic new adventure and the second release of the day for the Sixth Doctor!

Big Finish is proud to present the final story to feature the late Caroline John as Liz Shaw: Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: The Last Post.

Ahead of its debut this weekend, Big Finish Productions is pleased to reveal the artwork for the final two stories that make up The Confessions of Dorian Gray.

Big Finish is delighted to announce the release of the second of the Special Releases: Doctor Who: Love and War.

We're very pleased to announce the release of the very first of our Doctor Who Special Releases: UNIT: Dominion!

With anticipation mounting for the first of our Doctor Who special releases, we're pleased to announce that we're extending the timeframe to purchase all five releases until the end of the year!

Big Finish is delighted to announce that Chase Masterson, best known to science fiction fans for her role as Leeta in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (the Star Trek spin-off which ran from 1993-1999), will be getting her own audio series as the impossibly glamorous bounty hunter Vienna Salvatori.

Two of Big Finish's Doctor Who authors - Nev Fountain and Robert Shearman - will be appearing at the Beverley Literature Festival this coming weekend - 11-14 October.

Later in October the epic five-disc audiobook Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion will be avalable, and we are counting down to release day with another look at the story's fascinating characters...

Big Finish is pleased to announce the return of David Selby as Quentin Collins, in Dark Shadows: The Haunted Refrain.

Listen to Big Finish and TV Doctor Who writer Robert Shearman read a new short story in a special podcast! Rob was the guest of the British Science Fiction Association in September, where he performed The Dark Space in the House in the House in the Garden at the Centre of the World and was then interviewed by Big Finish writer Simon Guerrier.

Later in October the epic five-disc audiobook Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion will be released, and it's full to the brim with the most hideous monsters...

There’s the opportunity to meet a number of people involved with Big Finish Productions at the Cult Publishers Expo event in London on Saturday 13th October. The event is FREE to enter, and headlining the day for Big Finish is Paul Darrow – best known as Avon in Blake’s 7 – who will be signing copies of the Blake’s 7 audiobooks and novels.

Issue 11 of The Finished Product, the unofficial companion to the Big Finish Doctor Who audio adventures, has now been released.

Later in October the epic five-disc audiobook Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion will be released, and we're counting down the days...

Everyone's Just So So Special (published by Big Finish) won Best Collection at the British Fantasy Awards on Sunday, presented at the Albion Hotel in Brighton as part of the British Fantasy Convention. The shortlist was determined by votes from the members of the society, and the winner chosen by a jury of professionals, and the awards are truly international - other recipients were from Australia, Canada, the US and Chile.

Our epic box set Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion is released later in October. In this five-disc full cast audiobook the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) is accompanied by companion Raine Creevy (Beth Chalmers), who was previously heard in the Lost Stories.

Our epic box set Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion is released later in October. In this five-disc full cast audiobook the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) will meet a future incarnation of himself - played by Alex Macqueen (The Inbetweeners, The Thick of It).

Sylvester McCoy returns as the Seventh Doctor in the epic box set Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion. The four-hour full-cast audiobook, with accompanying one-hour 'Making of' documentary, is a battle for the future of the universe...

The latest special offer from Big Finish is a reduction in prices for our Highlander and 2000AD enhanced and full cast audiobook ranges!

Big Finish is proud to announce the winners of the Blake's 7 Writer's Opportunity. Once again, we are bowled over by your talent! Over 150 writers sent in original ideas for Blake's 7 novellas and, as always with writer's opportunities like this one, it was extremely hard to narrow the entries down to just three winners as the standard was so high.

Today sees the release of the last of September's releases: Bernice Summerfield: Legion and its accompanying book The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis.

Big Finish Productions is excited to announce details of the Christmas edition of The Confessions of Dorian Gray. Ghosts of Christmas Past, written by New York Times Best Selling Author Tony Lee, pits Dorian against phantoms from his past... and the world's greatest detective: Sherlock Holmes!

With the release of our exciting Doctor Who UNIT box set rapidly approaching, it's time for a new trailer, which is truly cinematic in scope.

Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Fear, the stage play starring our own Nicholas Briggs as Sherlock Holmes, continues its UK tour. And for those of you who have not caught up with it yet, here's a teaser trailer.

See Big Finish Doctor Who author and playwright Robert Shearman at a free event in London on 26 September, organised by the British Science Fiction Association.

Big Finish is delighted to announce a brand new full-cast adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure yarn Treasure Island, written and directed by Barnaby Edwards, and starring Doctor Who's Tom Baker as Long John Silver, Nicholas Farrell (The Iron Lady, Chariots of Fire) as the Narrator and Edward Holtom (Sherlock, Oliver!) as Jim Hawkins. And all pre-order copies will be signed by Tom Baker!

The September Doctor Who releases begin with the first of this month's main range full cast audiobooks Gods and Monsters, which finds the Seventh Doctor and a gaggle of companions facing off against the evil Fenric!

Today's second Doctor Who release is the latest enhanced audiobook in our Companion Chronicles range, Project: Nirvana.

Today's third Doctor Who release is the second of this month's main range full cast audiobooks The Burning Prince, the start of a new linked trilogy with each story featuring a different Doctor. This opener stars Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, who he played from 1982-1984.

The last - but by no means least - of today's Doctor Who releases is the enhanced audiobook of the last in the latest season of Lost Stories, The Rosemariners.

The reviews are in for Counter-Measures, our box set of full cast audiobooks that stars Simon Williams, Pamela Salem and Karen Gledhill, reprising their roles from the 1989 Doctor Who story Remembrance of the Daleks, and Hugh Ross.

The Doctor Who Lost Stories - a range of full cast audiobooks made from adventures devised originally for TV but abandoned - are discussed on the fan website Kasterborous.

Twenty years ago, archaeologist Bernice Summerfield had her first adventure with the Seventh Doctor in print in a series of Doctor Who novels published by Virgin. Now, she's about to relive that first adventure in audio form in Love and War, the first of our Doctor Who Special Releases - and it's been extended to three discs!

Nicholas Briggs (known to many as the voice of the Daleks in Doctor Who) is on a theatre tour of Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Fear. And there's a new Big Finish series of full-cast audiobook Holmes adventures on the way...

The Guerrier brothers' short film The Plotters will be shown in more than 200 cinemas around the UK over the next year, ahead of main features. It's one of 13 films to be selected from this year's Virgin Media Shorts competition, announced on 13 September.

It's a Dalek-filled finale for the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9 in this forthcoming full cast Doctor Who audiobook

The Daleks return to take on Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, in a new Doctor Who full-cast audiobook in 2013

In December this year, Doctor Who main range subscribers will be able to get our Fourth Doctor release Night of the Stormcrow absolutely free, starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson! And to whet your appetite, you can now hear a trailer for it on the product page...

Revealed today is the cover of a new forthcoming full cast Doctor Who audiobook starring Tom Baker and Mary Tamm.

The latest Dark Shadows release, based on the classic US TV series, is available now. The Last Stop features original series star Jerry Lacy and Doctor Who alumnus W Morgan Sheppard!

Big Finish is delighted to announce that The Big Finish Companion – Volume II, the definitive guide to the audiobook library, will be released in November. This volume covers Doctor Who, Bernice Summerfield, The Tomorrow People and Stargate ranges - among many others.

Revealed today is the cover for 1001 Nights, December's main range full cast audiobook release which stars Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor (seen on TV between 1982 and 1984) alongside his companion Nyssa (Sarah Sutton).

There will be a host of Big Finish names from our Doctor Who and Blake's 7 audiobooks, and major exclusive CD and book discounts at this FREE event in October!

The latest cover to be released is for Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: Return of the Rocket Men, an audiobook starring Peter Purves as Steven Taylor (seen in the TV series alongside First Doctor William Hartnell), and Tim Treloar as Van Cleef.

Every single year, Big Finish Productions rewards Doctor Who main range subscribers with a brand new story absolutely free! This year, the full cast audiobook in question is Night of the Stormcrow, starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor (who he played on screen between 1974 and 1981) and Louise Jameson as Leela. And here's the cover for it!

Have you ever wondered about the life of a professional actor? Or thought that you had what it takes to tread the boards for a living?

In her frank, funny and insightful book, Jo Bloggs gives you a rare glimpse into the reality of this 'glamorous’ industry as she shares the ups and downs of her struggles as she starts out in her chosen profession.

Tom Baker and Mary Tamm star in this Doctor Who full cast audiobook

Big Finish Productions is pleased to reveal casting details for the first five episodes of The Confessions of Dorian Gray.

Joining Alexander Vlahos across the series are Marilyn Le Conte, Lorna Rose Harris, Wilf Scolding, Hugh Skinner, David Blackwell, Sophie Melville and Alexander Griffin-Griffiths.

The cover of Doctor Who full cast audiobook The Auntie Matter has been revealed.

We're exceedingly excited about our November Doctor Who Special Release Dark Eyes. So excited, in fact, that there's now a brand new trailer to listen to on its product page!

The third series of Iris Wildthyme, starring Katy Manning, is now available to buy. The box set, featuring brand-new exploits for the trans-temporal adventuress created by Paul Magrs, contains three full-cast stories.

Next month sees Bernice Summerfield's twentieth anniversary kick off in style with the release of a brand-new novel and box set: Legion and The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis.

Arriving on Legion at the end of their Road Trip, Bernice and Ruth found themselves reunited with a host of familiar faces - including Peter Summerfield, Irving Braxiatel and the enigmatic Jack - and are now flung into a series of perilous adventures on an inhospitable world - and you can hear the trailer now!

Big Finish Productions is pleased to announce details for its brand-new audio horror series - The Confessions of Dorian Gray.

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic story of hedonism and corruption, The Confessions of Dorian Gray imagines a world where Dorian Gray was real, and his friendship with Oscar Wilde spawned the notorious novel.

For years, it has all been leading to this...

It began with a time storm that whisked young Dorothy McShane away to Iceworld...

Now the game reaches its climax with Doctor Who: Gods and Monsters, which pits the Seventh Doctor against his bitter enemy Fenric from 1989 TV story The Curse of Fenric..

This Bank Holiday weekend we are giving you the opportunity to go back to the beginning with Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles. If you’ve never heard these acclaimed stories featuring the first four Doctors' companions, then this is an excellent jumping on point! You can buy each release at just £5 (plus 50p postage) or £15 (plus £2 postage) for the whole first season of four plays.

We're delighted to reveal the cover for Doctor Who: The Shadow Heart, the final part of the upcoming multi-Doctor crossover trilogy.

Now online is the cover for January's Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles release, The Flames of Cadiz.

The final cover for the Big Finish Doctor Who Special Releases, Love and War, has now been unveiled, and features stars Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Lisa Bowerman alongside a Hoothi.

The cover for Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – The Last Post is now online. The story stars Caroline John as Liz Shaw, in her last performance before her death in June.

Speak No Evil starring Doctor Who's Arthur Darvill is now available for download, and CDs will be posted out today.

A new Doctor Who audio brings answers to the mystery of the Seventh Doctor…

The oldest lost Doctor Who story is finally available to enjoy!

Big Finish are pleased to announce the return of Christopher Pennock as Sebastian Shaw, in Dark Shadows: Dreaming of the Water.

The second volume of the acclaimed Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles is available to buy now at bigfinish.com.

We've kept it a secret for long enough; here's the real cover for Doctor Who: Black and White, which reveals the answer to a question posed in Protect and Survive!

Many legends surround the aftermath of the collapse of The Federation, including the fate of Kerr Avon...

What happened to Avon after the death of Blake and the crew of the Scorpio? Paul Darrow's vivid re-imagining picks up Avon’s story at the final moments of the final episode of Blake's 7 and follows him on his fight for survival, this time with no crew and no ship to help him.

August sees the return of everybody’s favourite transtemporal adventuress as Katy Manning (aka Jo Jones nee Grant from Doctor Who) is back playing Iris Wildthyme for a third series of adventures in time, space, and the little bits in between…

The trailer is now available for Dark Shadows: Speak No Evil starring Doctor Who's Arthur Darvill.

The first trailer is now available for Warship, the gripping full-cast Blake’s 7 production that reunites Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Sally Knyvette, Jan Chappell and Jacqueline Pearce.

Big Finish is delighted to announce that its licence with AudioGO to make Doctor Who on audio has been extended up to December 2015.

“I’m so excited that we can continue our voyages with the Doctor for at least another three years,” says Big Finish executive producer Jason Haigh-Ellery, “and so pleased that AudioGO and the BBC continue to trust us with the telling of these stories.”

The Lost Stories, Big Finish’s audio productions of stories that were devised for television but never made, will return in 2013 for a fourth and final season.

Big Finish is enormously saddened to learn of the passing of Mary Tamm, aged 62, who played Romana alongside Fourth Doctor Tom Baker.

It's time for the July releases! To kick off, we have Doctor Who: Protect and Survive in which the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) is missing and his companions Ace (Sophie Aldred) and Hex (Philip Olivier) take the TARDIS in search of him.

Tune in on Radio 4 Extra tonight at 6pm to hear the first episode of Graceless, a spin-off from our Doctor Who: Key 2 Time trilogy which stars Ciara Janson and Laura Doddington.

One of the original stars of Doctor Who returns this month in our latest Companion Chronicle, The Time Museum.

Out now is the latest in our Doctor Who: The Lost Stories range: The First Sontarans, but you can hear episode one for free right now by downloading or streaming our new podcast!

Big Finish is pleased to announce the casting of acclaimed actor W Morgan Sheppard in Dark Shadows: The Last Stop.

Guerrier Brothers Tom and Simon have made a new short film, entitled The Plotters, and you can watch it now!

Big Finish is pleased to reveal Stuart Manning’s cover artwork for the latest Bernice Summerfield novel, The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis, the book which accompanies the brand new Legion box set in September and kicks off Benny's twentieth anniversary celebrations.

The first season of Counter-Measures, is now available on CD and download at bigfinish.com - and a second run has been confirmed!

Del Grant returns in a huge three-episode story.

Group Captain Gilmore wants YOU! Counter-Measures is released today, and the download is online now.

The Doctor Who main range subscriber special for 2012 is Night of the Stormcrow, a two-part story starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Louise Jameson as Leela.

We're proud to release the cover image for the upcoming Dark Eyes box set, featuring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Ruth Bradley as Molly, Toby Jones as Kotris and the Daleks!

Work is continuing apace on the upcoming series of Jago and Litefoot, our acclaimed Doctor Who spin-off that stars Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter.

We present a first look at new companion Molly, played by Ruth Bradley, in action! Click on the image on the full news page to see the whole picture...

Big Finish Productions has completed recording for the upcoming Eighth Doctor audio box set, entitled Dark Eyes. Paul McGann once again returns to the role of the Doctor in a story set immediately after the devastating events of To the Death, when he parted company with popular companion Lucie Miller (Sheridan Smith).

Drama Showcase, our much-loved series of original dramas, will be available for £5 (was £10.99!) each or £15 for the whole series (saving £28.96). The line up comprises Not A Well Woman, written by and starring Katy Manning, Pulling Faces (written by Helen Goldwyn and starring Louise Jameson), In Conversation with An Acid Bath Murderer (written by and starring Nigel Fairs, with Louise Jameson and Richard Franklin) and Unintelligent Design (written by and starring Geoffrey Beevers).

Our Doctor Who: Short Trips audio series will be on special offer, for £7.50 each (usually £12.99 CD/£10.99 download) or £20 for the series (a saving of £31.96 on CD and £23.96 on download).

The short stories are performed by William Russell, David Troughton, Katy
Manning, Louise Jameson, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sophie Aldred and India Fisher.

The latest issue of Big Finish fanzine The Finished Product is now available and covers the Divergent Universe arc.

The first season of our acclaimed Sherlock Holmes series is now available to buy as a Special Offer and comprises The Last Act, The Death of Life and our first full cast story, Holmes and the Ripper, plus the free story The Speckled Band. The series will be available for £5 each, or all four for £15.

The gate opens for a fantastic special offer! Series one of our Stargate audios will be
available for just £5 each, or £25 for the bundle of six stories. They are performed, in turns, by Michael Shanks, Torri Higginson, Claudia Black, Paul McGillion, Teryl Rothery and David Nykl.

We are deeply saddened by the news that Caroline John has passed away.

The acclaimed Sara Kingdom trilogy from Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles will be on special offer. Starring Jean Marsh as Sara, alongside Niall Macgregor as Robert, the trilogy comprises Home Truths, The Drowned World and The Guardian of the Solar System, all written by Simon Guerrier. The bundle is available for £15 (or individual CDs cost £5).

On June 17, 18 and 19 a trio of stories featuring the Celestial Toymaker will be available on special offer. Doctor Who - The Lost Stories: The Nightmare Fair and Doctor Who: The Magic Mousetrap will be available for just £10 and Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – Solitaire will be only £5. The set will also be available as a Bundle for just £20!

It’s a celebration of Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot, as series one of
Jago and Litefoot will be available for just £20 on CD and download. Doctor Who: The
Companion Chronicles – The Mahogany Murderers, which began the pair’s adventures
on audio, will also be available for £5.
The offer will begin at 18:00 BST on June 15 and end at 08:00 BST on June 18.

We have had a few customers pointing out that some orders appear to have postage fees applied to them which seem to have increased our prices. Others are saying that postage fees have been added to pre-orders when in a previous news item we had said there would be none.

As Bernice Summerfield hurtles towards her twentieth anniversary in October, Big Finish Productions is pleased to reveal the cover artwork for its forthcoming charity adventure, Many Happy Returns.

Some US customers have been having difficulty with online payments on our site. We have some answers for you here! Read on...

The cast of Blake's 7 is reunited in a new full cast adventure. The original cast of Terry Nation's acclaimed series Blake's 7 are reuniting for a special audio episode, to be released in February 2013 (in a licence deal with B7 Media).

Big Finish is pleased to announce the casting of Arthur Darvill, Doctor Who's Rory Williams, in the August Dark Shadows release.

Executive Producer Nick Briggs is away from his desk for a couple of weeks and will be appearing at the Theatre Royal Nottingham as the incompetent Inspector Pratt.

Fantastic special offers on the way...
June will be a month of special offers at bigfinish.com

The Doctor, Leela and the Master will be back...

An open submissions window for Blake's 7 writers is announced.
Big Finish is proud to announce a very special Blake's 7 book, which will comprise three original novellas, to be published in 2013. The book will consist of stories chosen from an open submissions opportunity, and it is being released in a licence deal with B7 Media.

Big Finish is pleased to announce details for six more tales of horror and intrigue as part of its popular Dark Shadows range.

The new subscription package kicks off in July with Operation Victor.

Three Big Finish productions are nominated in the Scribe Awards.

Open the iris and come with us once more as we bring back Stargate for three brand new original adventures!


A year after the cancellation of Stargate Universe and four years since the last Stargate SG-1 TV movie, Big Finish is very proud to announce the release of a new Stargate SG-1 series of full cast audio dramas, set during its tenth season. Reuniting Michael Shanks as Daniel Jackson and Claudia Black as Vala Mal Doran, the first trilogy of stories also features the return of Cliff Simon as Ba’al.

The trailer for the upcoming Blake's 7 boxset is now available

To celebrate the transmission of the Seventh Doctor and Klein trilogy on BBC Radio 4 Extra, Big Finish is providing a limited time offer on the stories.

For this weekend, May 26 and 27, the three stories are available complete and uncut for just £9 each or £25 as a bundle, on CD and download.

Just visit Big Finish Bargains - http://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/released/special-offers

To order the bundle of all three, just click on the green 'subscribe' button.

Sixth Doctor Specials details revealed...
November and December 2012 sees the release of two special Sixth Doctor stories. And for these adventures only he has two very familiar companions in the form of Henry Gordon Jago (Christopher Benjamin) and Professor Litefoot (Trevor Baxter).

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star in Doctor Who Audio.

Chase Masterson, who played Leeta in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has teamed up with Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor in the forthcoming main range audio The Shadow Heart.

Chase plays Vienna Salavatori, who is described on the script front as 'an impossibly glamorous mercenary'. Those who meet her don't tend to stay alive...

To mark the release in cinemas of the new Dark Shadows film by Tim Burton, for the three days of the 11th, 12th and 13th May Big Finish will be offering some very special discounts on Dark Shadows audiobook and full cast releases. We are also offering you the chance to download for FREE the first part of the recent Dark Shadows audiobook release, The House by the Sea, starring Colin Baker.

The latest issue of the unofficial Big Finish fanzine, The Finished Product, has now been released.

Issue nine concentrates on the second run of adventures for the Doctor and Charley, from Invaders From Mars to Neverland, plus the 40th anniversary special Zagreus.

Here's the latest news on issues concerning downloads in your accounts, ebooks and podcasts on itunes.

Guerrier brothers Simon and Thomas have made a new short film, Revealing Diary, which you can watch free and online here. Simply click the title, image or "Read more" below to see it!

A new range of Blake's 7 novels launches today!
We're delighted to announce that our first Blake's 7 novel, The Forgotten by Mark Wright and Cavan Scott, is now available to buy.

The novel is available as a hardback, or can be downloaded instantly in ebook form in either MOBI or EPUB formats.

The final main range mini-series of 2012 has been confirmed, and it forms a sweeping storyline, with each story focusing on a different Doctor.

It is finally here! The new BigFinish.com is revealed. Please have a good look round and let us know your thoughts.

There are some similarities and some differences between this and the old site. For example, subscriber bonus material can now be found listed under the release with which the material came, rather than as a separate entity. However, now there are more ways to filter and search your account, you should be able to find things much more easily.

Our video website guides is now up to introduce the new site to you and help you find your way around.

As you will be aware, we will be launching the new Big Finish website on Monday 30th April. Ahead of that, we thought it would be good to take you through the stages of that launch so there is no confusion or frustration.

It's the final day of the Doctor Who main range special offer!

Today, Friday 27 April, your can take your choice from releases 41-50. Each story can be bought for a mere £5 (CD or download), or £45 for the complete set of ten - today only!

Welcome to the fourth day of the Doctor Who main range special offer!

It's Thursday 26 April, and today's choice is from releases 31-40. Once again, each story is available today only for only £5 (CD or download), or £45 for the complete set of ten! It's a bargain!

It's Wednesday; it must be day three of the Doctor Who main range special offer!

Today, Wednesday 25 April, you can choose from releases 21-30, with each one available today only for £5 (CD or download), or if you'd prefer to avoid all that tricky decision making, it's £45 for the complete set of ten.

As Nick mentioned in a recent Podcast and those in the UK may well be aware, the British Post Office in the UK has put up its prices by a very substantial amount. In the case of first class, this rise is over 30% and for second class it’s over 38%.

Onwards and upwards: it's day two of the Doctor Who main range special offer!

Today, Tuesday 24 April, it's releases 11-20 which are on offer, and they're absolute corkers! Each story is available today only for £5 each (CD or download), or £45 for the complete set of ten.

Welcome to the first day of our Doctor Who main range special offer!

Today, Monday 23 April, finds the first ten main range titles available for £5 each on CD or as a download. You can also order all ten for only £45!

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.

Big Finish starts adds another string to its already well-strung bow with the launch of the Toby Hadoke podcast! You can download from this very site for no charge! FREEEEE!

Big Finish is proud to announce the second book in the new series of original Blake's 7 novels. Written by Scott Harrison and set between the TV stories Trial and Killer, Archangel finds the rebels trying to move on from the horrific death of crew-member Olag Gan.

The very first episode of The Eighth Doctor Adventures, starring Paul McGann as the Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller, is available to download for free from Friday February 17 to Sunday February 19 only at www.bigfinish.com.

This weekend is Gallifrey One, the biggest Doctor Who convention in the world. The Con is held annually in LA and this year guests include Big Finish executive producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs, plus writer/director Barnaby Edwards, writer Richard Dinnick and Big Finish companions Beth 'Raine' Chalmers, Lisa "Flip' Greenwood and Philip 'Hex' Olivier.

The teaser trailer for Counter-Measures, the new audio spin-off featuring characters from Remembrance of the Daleks, is now online.

Big Finish are pleased to announce that Sixth Doctor Colin Baker will be taking the starring role in March's Dark Shadows release, The House By the Sea.

Over 30 guests will be attending Big Finish Day 2 on Saturday 11 February, a big BF celebration organized by tenthplanetevents.co.uk.
There will also be a massive sale of Big Finish stock at the event with substantial discounts. Tickets can be bought at the venue on the day.

Gallifrey series V and Gallifrey series VI are due for release in 2013 and are now available for pre-order on CD and download. The two 3-disc box sets will see the long-running series come to a final, definite, end!

We are delighted to announce that Volume 1 of Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles is now available to buy on CD and download.

Recording has now been completed on Doctor Who: Love and War, a full-cast adaptation of Paul Cornell's classic New Adventures novel, featuring the introduction of Professor Bernice Summerfield.

To celebrate Davros’s return to Doctor Who audio drama in this month’s The Curse of Davros, all of the Dalek creator’s previous Big Finish outings will be for sale at just £5 each on CD or download.

After being delayed from 2011, Big Finish is pleased to announce that Graceless 2 will now be released in February. We’d like to take this opportunity to apologise once more for the unavoidable delay, which was caused by unforeseen problems during post-production, and thank you for your patience in waiting for this second series of adventures for Abby and Zara.

The long-awaited third series of Stargate on audio is just around the corner, and it's now available for pre-order!

Recording is underway on Doctor Who: The Butcher of Brisbane by Marc Platt, in which the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa take on Magnus Greel in a prequel to The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

Magnus Greel – aka the murderous Chinese god Weng-Chiang – is returning to Doctor Who this year to menace the 5th Doctor in a new audio adventure from Big Finish.

Big Finish is pleased to announce that 2012 will see the release of an unprecedented 11 Dark Shadows Dramatic Readings.

The trailer is now online for the fourth series of Jago and Litefoot, which is out in March.

We're just three months away from the eagerly-awaited fourth series of Jago and Litefoot, and the cover has just been unveiled.

2013 will see Mary Tamm return as the first Romana, alongside John Leeson as K9, in a run of new stories set after the Key to Time adventures.

The final story title has been announced for The Fourth Doctor Adventures, the forthcoming audio series from Big Finish starring Tom Baker, which launches in January 2012 - The Oseidon Adventure!

The first of Big Finish’s original Blake’s 7 novels - The Forgotten - is set for publication in May 2012. The books are being released in a licence deal with B7 Enterprises.

The story titles and writers for the Counter Measures box set Season One - coming July 2012 - have been revealed!

Season Three of Doctor Who: The Lost Stories continues this month with The Children of Seth.

We've had quite a few requests for it, so we've released a short section of The Big Finish Companion as a sample.

Having announced Bernice Summerfield books to go with our upcoming Road Trip (starring Lisa Bowerman and featuring Arthur Darvill and Anjli Mohindra!) and Legion box sets, we can now reveal that the first novel, by Matthew Griffiths, will be entitled The Weather on Versimmon.

It's time for another little tease of things to come in the third series of Lost Stories. Shown here is the cover to The First Sontarans, a story from Full Circle writer Andrew Smith

They're back! The twins who double as Tracers for the Key to Time return to the Big Finish fold for a second series of adventures this December in Graceless II.

Big news! Deborah Watling returns as Victoria Waterfield in Power Play, in which she joins forces with the Sixth Doctor and Peri when aliens threaten to cause havoc at a nuclear power station.

Massive thanks to all those of you who dropped by the site on Saturday for Companion Chronicles Day.

July 2012 will see the launch of a brand new Doctor Who audio spin-off from Big Finish Productions, in the shape of Counter-Measures.

Whether you're yet to partake of the joy that is The Silver Turk or you've already been loving every minute of the Eighth Doctor's latest encounter with the Cybermen, you may be one of those people wondering where his latest companion came from.

Go behind the scenes on the latest season of Sherlock Holmes