Earlier this year we had the exciting announcement that Kate Lethbridge Stewart would be joining Big Finish for Unit. Although it was exciting that the new series was merging with the old, Kate was never one of my favourite characters. Jemma Redgrave's a decent actor but I feel that the character's popularity comes more from having the Lethbridge-Stewart name than from having an interesting personality. Today there's been some new announcements that have me much more excited.
The major news is that River Song will be teaming up with the Eighth Doctor in' Doom Coalition 2' followed by 'The Diary of River Song' in 2016. Fans are puzzling over how this will fit in with the complex chronology of River Song's timeline. In Silence in the Library she said that the Tenth Doctor was the youngest she'd known him but this was revised in The Time of Angels with her saying that she'd met many Doctors, though not necessarily in the right order. It's possible that the Doctor will be made to forget about the encounter, or that some complex time incident will erase his memory. Still, who cares when you can have Paul McGann facing off against Alex Kingston. I still hold out hope that she'll meet Peter Capaldi someday but this is pretty good as well.
We will also be seeing old Doctors facing newer monsters. The Fifth Doctor will be facing off against the Weeping Angels. How they're going to accomplish this on audio I have no idea, but it will be interesting. Colin Baker will be up against the Judoon. Sylvester McCoy will be up against the Sycorax. These monsters are a particularly good choice since I always imagined that there was more that could be done with their space voodoo
We will also be getting the return of Ian McNiece as Winston Churchill in 'The Churchill Years'. It's great to have Ian McNiece back in Doctor Who although it's harder to gauge at this stage how good this particular audio will be since we know so little about it. Hopefully it will surprise us.
This is pretty exciting. Hopefully it won't be too long before we get new Doctors joining the range.
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