Big Finish has released new details about several of their forthcoming 2006 Doctor Who audio plays:
Elisabeth Sladen has returned to reprise the role of Sarah Jane Smithin a new four-part serial that sequelizes the five-release earlier run in 2002 of the same name. Also returning from that series are actors Sadie Miller(Sladen's daughter) as Nat and Jeremy James as Josh. The series will also feature guest appearances by Tom Chadbon (who played Duggan in "City of Death"), Jacqueline Pearce ("Blake's 7," plus Chessene in "The Two Doctors"), David Gooderson (Davros in "Destiny of the Daleks"),Stephen Greif ("Blake's 7"), Ivor Danvers ("Nekromanteia," "A Storm of Angels") and BBC newsreader Shaun Ley as well as Daniel Barzotti (Luca), Jon Weinberg and Patricia Leventon. The four-part serial is written by David Bishop and directed by John Ainsworth and will be released from January to April in four volumes: Buried Secrets, Snow Blind, Fatal Consequencesand Dreamland.
Author Rob Shearman ("Dalek") is penning the script for a four-part serial to be released by Big Finish in 2006, a pure historical saga that focuses on the time period of the Borgias of Italy in the late 15th century. There is no word about what links this will have to Doctor Who.
March's Time Works by Steve Lyons is directed by Ed Salt and stars "Born and Bred" actress Tracey Childs as the Figurehead, as well as actorRonald Pickup, who was the Physician in the first Doctor Who season episode "The Reign of Terror" in 1964, as Kestorian. The play also stars Paul McGann (the Doctor), India Fisher (Charley), Conrad Westmaas (C'rizz), Beth Vyse (Vannet), Adrian Schiller (Zanith), Philip Edgerley (Collis) and Merryn Owen (Revnon).
April's The Kingmaker by Nev Fountain guest stars Jon Culshaw of "Dead Ringers" fame (but not as the fourth Doctor, a popular voice of Culshaw's; he plays Earl Rivers) as well as comedian/actor Michael Fenton-Stevens (as Mr Seyton). The story also stars Peter Davison (the Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Caroline Morris (Erimem), Arthur Smith (Clarrie), Stephen Beckett (Richard, Duke of Gloucester), Shaun Lyon Hutton (Henry, Duke of Buckingham), Chris Neill (Sir James Tyrell), Katie Wimpenny (Susan) and Linzi Matthews (Judith). The story deals with the famed tale of the Princes in the Tower, from the time of Richard III (a story that was also briefly touched on in a BBC novel by Justin Richards, but is unconnected to this story).
The June release, formerly "The Cube," has now been retitled Something Inside. Written by Trevor Baxendale, it stars Paul McGann (the Doctor), India Fisher (Charley), Conrad Westmaas (C'rizz), Steven Elder (Rawden), Ian Brooker (Twyst), Liz Crowther (Tessa), John Killoran (Latch) and Louise Collins (Jane).
Also, at a recent convention appearance in Chicago, producer Gary Russell revealed that a follow-up book to their Big Finish: The Inside Story will likely be released in late 2006; writer Benjamin Cook, who wrote the first volume, will be working with a co-writer on the second. Russell also noted that the Bernice Summerfield line will be 'relaunched' in 2006, with a new branding (it will be moved into the "New Worlds" brand Big Finish currently uses), but will continue with several new audios. There will also be progress on the "Inside Story" book for this range as well, with a likely publication date of late 2006.
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