News updates – week commencing 23 March 2020
Check here for this week's latest news from Big Finish Productions.
[Last updated 27 March 2020]
Monday 23 March
DIGITAL-FIRST RELEASE SCHEDULE: amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, Big Finish has made the decision to move its release schedule to a digital-first basis, to protect the health and well-being of warehouse and supply chain staff.
All orders for collector's edition CDs and box sets made before 23:59 (UK time) on 24 March were mailed out before the warehouse's closure. All CD orders made after this date will be fulfiilled when it is safe to do so. Remember that all CD orders include a digital download FREE, which is available immediately from the release date of each title.
To read the full information on the revised schedule click here.
PODCAST! This week's podcast features reviews of The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles and Doctor Who: Short Trips: Deleted Scenes, behind-the-scenes with New Counter Measures: The Movellan Manoeuvre and The Dalek Gambit and a Drama Tease for The Movellan Manoeuvre and much, much more from Nick and Benji.
Download the full episode here or listen wherever else you find your podcasts.
You can find older episodes of the podcast here.
FIRST LISTEN! Hear Tom Baker in the new trailer for Doctor Who: Return of the Cybermen, part of the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories series. Due for release in November 2021, you can preorder now from £12.99. Listen to the trailer here.
Tuesday 24 March
TRAILER RELEASE! Join the team in the middle of a war between the Movellans and the Daleks in the new trailer for The New Counter Measures: The Dalek Gambit. Due for release in April 2020, preorder now from £8.99.
Wednesday 25 March
CAPTAIN JACK IS BACK! The Lives of Captain Jack Volume 3 is out now. John Barrowman is joined by Camile Coduri and Alex Kingston for three new episodes of extraordinary adventure. Available to download now from £19.99 or as a bundle with volumes one and two from £66.
In case you missed the first instalment, The Lives of Captain Jack Volume 1 is now 40% off, offer ends 23:59 (UK time) 31 March.
SALE! Up to 50% off on all seven series of The Diary of River Song. Alex Kingston is joined by a fantastic cast including Tom Baker, Paul McGann, Michelle Gomez and Alexander Vlahos. Downloads are starting from £14.99, offer available until 23:59 (UK time) on 23 March 2020.
Thursday 26 March
FREE TO DOWNLOAD! Alexander Vlahos returns as Dorian Gray for Big Finish's first ever quarantine-recorded audio book. Join Dorian in a series of voicemails sent on a train journey home. Download The Confessions of Dorian Gray: Isolation now for free.
You can listen to star, Alexander Vlahos talk to Heart North and Mid Wales about recording a Big Finish production in the time of Corona here.
FLASH SALE! After the succesful #TripOfALifetime tweetalong, celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Ninth Doctor's first ever episode, Rose, we are offering 33% off of Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon. Billie Piper is joined by Camile Coduri, Shaun Dingwall and Mark Benton in an interdimensional race against time. Offer ends 23:59 (UK time) 27 March 2020, so act fast, time...is... running... out.
FIRST LISTEN! Hear the new trailer for the sixth volume of Doctor Who:The Third Doctor Adventures. Poison of the Daleks and Operation Hellfire will drop May 2020, starring Tim Treloar and Katy Manning. Pre-order it now from £19.99.
WE ARE IN PRODUCTION! As announced yesterday on our Twitter feed, Big Finish is back in production, recording new stories and adventures remotely with different actors and teams across the UK.
Friday 27 March
FLASH SALE! The Ninth Doctor Chronicles, starring Nicholas Briggs, Camille Coduri and Bruno Langley, is on sale for 50% OFF for a limited time only, as a download. Make sure you grab this "fantastic" bargain before 23:59 (UK time) on 27 March 2020.
NEW TRAILER: the audio trailer for Susan's War has been released. Click below to listen and then PRE-ORDER the full-cast box set as a collector's edition CD box set or download, due for release in April.