Tenth Doctor’s Dead Air, cover and details
The Tenth Doctor might be no more, but there’s another new adventure yet to be had with him in the form of Dead Air, the upcoming original audiobook which is due to be released in the Spring!
The story, which has been written exclusively for CD by James Goss, is read by David Tennant himself, and takes listeners to the wreck of a floating radio station at the bottom of the sea, where a lost recording has been discovered…
After careful restoration, it is played for the first time – to reveal something incredible. It’s the voice of the Doctor, broadcasting from Radio Bravo in 1966. He has travelled to Earth in search of the Hush - a terrible weapon that kills, silences and devours anything that makes noise - and has tracked it to a boat crewed by a team of pirate DJs. With the help of feisty Liverpudlian Layla and some groovy pop music, he must trap the Hush and destroy it – before it can escape and destroy the world!
Dead Air will be available to buy in shops, at the RRP price of £8.99, from 4th March 2010.
Somebody tell BBC Audio David Tennant is not the Doctor and Matt Smith is!!!
I agree! I love 10, but it’s time to let him go.
At the same time, the Eighth Doctor lived on books and audiobooks (without which there’d be just one movie), as well as the Fourth Doctor now doing audio things as well, so…….I take the point that the Tenth Doctor has only just left and they should have left it longer, but perhaps they just want to finish off his stories for now with this one.
Bit of a weird thing to say. Smith is the Doctor on TV ok but Tennant can still do audios surely? If not, then maybe go tell Big Finish that they can’t do stories featuring the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth Doctors then since only Matt Smith is the Doctor now.
Always nice to enjoy new adventures of Doctors who preceeded whichever one is currently the focus of the TV show.
Big finish were around before the new Doctor Who. In Big Finishes remit, they are not allowed to use the new Doctors, companions, logos. Also, the new Who has used Virgin books and Big Finish audios to do new adventures. (Jubilee, a 6th Doctor, big finish story, became Dalek with the 9th Doctor. The 7th Doctor story Human Nature came along with the 10th Doctor) Big Finish and the BBC are quite separate. The eight Doctor on audio came along before well before the 2005 series. Released in January 2001, the audio drama (Storm Warning, the first 8th Doctor Audio) was broadcast on BBC 7 in four weekly parts starting on 6 August 2005, the first of the Big Finish audio dramas to be broadcast. Lets not forget, the BBC have scrapped older Doctor stories in favour of the current incarnation. While the BBC are making money from Big Finish and Big Finish has the audience, neither are going to stop Big Finish producing the audio dramas.
Why is everyone going on about Big Finish? This is made by BBC Audio, not BF! BF haven’t even secured the rights to released David Tennant stories!
If you read JC’s post, he goes on about the 8th Doctor Audio’s. They were done by Big Finish and not the BBC. Then if you read mine, you will see why BF have not done any stories with any of the new cast etc. Easy stuff t follow!@ChildofTime
@Steve
Catherine Tate left Doctor Who before the DoctorDonna novels were released, doesn’t mean they should have pulled them. Just like the remaining Ninth Doctor novels were released, after his regeneration. The Tenth Doctor can still live on in media while the Eleventh Doctor exists.
Also, this is released in March, before Series Fnarg even starts so…
@Steve
Not so easy ‘t’ follow when half of your post makes so little sense…
@TE
Exactly, TE, I agree completely. Bring on Fnarg!
@TE
Er…David Tennant was the Doctor when those were released. He ain’t any more. And, actually to blow your argument out of the water. Who was that playing Donna in The End OF Time? I believe it was Catherine Tate. Still appearing on Doctor Who! David Tenannt RESIGNED! His last appearance was on New Years day, The same day that Matt Smith took over.
@ChildofTime
So I missed out the o in to! Still does not alter anything I have written but just to get this through. The BBC does not make so called “Classic Doctor” Full Cast Dramatisation audio. This “Classic Doctor” also includes Paul McGann’s 8th. The BBC does not make Full Cast Dramatisation for Doctor Who full stop. It does audio books, “read by”.Big Finish does make “Classic Doctor” Full Cast Dramatisation audio under licence by the BBC. That was my point to JC. David Tennant has appeared in a number of Big Finish productions but would not be allow to play the Doctor for Big Finish.
This all goes back to the point that David Tennant was the 10th Doctor and we have an 11th Doctor. Perhaps you would prefer books and audio released halfway through Matt Smiths first full season read by David Tennant as the 10th Doctor?
Basically the arguement here is that Matt is now the “current” Doctor, so nothing of David Tennant can be released anymore?
In that case, lets all take back our special boxsets as they were released afterwards, and your no longer allowed to read DT books, or watch repeats on BBC3….
Grow up and deal with it, David is gone!
As for Big Finish, they deal with “classic” Who tremendously well and have a great relationship with the TV production team, however they are both separate entities, so they arguement is moot, as is the “BBC doesnt do cast audios” argument, as they recently released a 4 part tale with the 4th Doctor.
@Mass
To your point -” Basically the arguement here is that Matt is now the “current” Doctor, so nothing of David Tennant can be released anymore?” – How many books, CD etc were released for Chris Eccleson after he left? DVD’s are different as the so called specials were released relatively quickly after the final story, which Matt Smith appeared in.
And as for the 4th Doctor story – “The Hornets Nest” it not really a Full Cast Drama really, more of a Talking Book with a couple of extra’s who rarely engage in conversation. Most of the 5 books are “read”
but you have to remember this would have been decided on months ago and recorded back in December. Making it part of the DT era so really your argument is over
@Steve
How many books and CD’s were released after CE? Probably as many as were left to be published after they were commisioned, same as now.
The point still stands, i mean according to your view, only Matt Smith will ever be allowed on the cover of DWM during his tenure, but if you look at say the last twelve months, there have been many past doctors on there. Tom Baker had two in a row!
Not really. The BBC should have taken into account the release date but thinking about the appalling way the BBC operate, I am not surprised by the action. Halfway through Donnas full season, they released 3 novels featuring Martha. Why? The result of that was only 4 novels with Donna in total! So I am expecting David Tennant to go on and on and on and on and become very boring. Which will be a pity as the BBC should throw more support behind Matt Smith
I’d like to have a look at this “rulebook” that states ‘this’ shouldn’t happen here and ‘that’ shouldn’t have been done then, etc. Quite amusing, especially when you consider we’re talking about something that is based around the concept of time-travel.
As for ‘Hornet’s Nest’ not being a full-cast drama. What’s that got to do with it? It’s an audio, with the Fourth Doctor, released 28 years after he regenerated!
Someone should have told them that’s not allowed :)
I’m pretty certain that the BBC will be showing Matt Smith massive support in the coming months. He will be everywhere, and they will be making sure he is – the last thing they want is their DW cashcow to fade in any way whatsoever.
Money, money, money!
@David
Strange you should mention Money. Doctor Who was one of the most successful exports even in the 1980’s, never stopped the BBC cancelling the series!
Yet, Chris wasn’t the Doctor when his final novels were released, and they didn’t pull them.
So, what does that make Dead Air then, hm? A soundtrack of a previously televised episode? Your argument doesn’t really have a stable ground.