Big Finish Update

Big Finish has new word of the third batch of its Gallifrey miniseries today. "The first instalment of third and final series of Gallifrey will be released in May 2006. The series is set to bring the Time Lord saga to a dramatic climax. Gallifrey Series Three will star Lalla Ward as Romana, Louise Jameson as Leela, John Leeson as K9 and Mary Tamm as the evil Pandora who inhabits the body of the first Romana. Picking up scant weeks after the end of the previous series, the new set of five plays sees President Romana beleaguered and losing the civil war begun by the ancient Gallifreyan Imperiatrix, Pandora. Pandora is using a reconstituted body that of Romana's first incarnation, giving her access to everything a President could need to wage war, and threaten the other Trans Temporal Powers. As if that wasn't enough to deal with, Romana and her loyal followers will also have to contend with the aftermath of the Dogma Virus and those behind its release, the enigmatic Free Time conspirators." Also released today are covers for Nev Fountain's The Kingmaker released in April (starring Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant and Caroline Morris) and Simon Guerrier's The Settling in May (starring Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Philip Olivier); they can both be found on the Release Guide page here.