{"id":37137,"date":"2022-11-29T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/?p=37137"},"modified":"2022-11-28T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T18:05:04","slug":"frank-skinner-joins-the-ninth-doctor-in-upcoming-big-finish-boxset-shades-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2022\/11\/29\/frank-skinner-joins-the-ninth-doctor-in-upcoming-big-finish-boxset-shades-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Skinner Joins the Ninth Doctor in Upcoming Big Finish Boxset, Shades of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div>\n<p>Frank Skinner will join Christopher Eccleston&#8217;s Ninth Doctor in <em>Shades of Fear<\/em>, an audio box set coming in February 2023 from Big Finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But no, Frank won&#8217;t be playing Perkins, the role he took in the Twelfth Doctor tale, <em>Mummy on the Orient Express<\/em>. Instead, Skinner guest stars in&nbsp;<em>The&nbsp;Colour&nbsp;of Terror<\/em>&nbsp;as Pete Snow, a nosy&nbsp;neighbour&nbsp;who gets roped into investigating a junk shop with the Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the boxset blurb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Alien threats come in many forms \u2013 and many different hues. A charity shop where customers vanish, a 1920s gentleman\u2019s club besieged by giant plants, and a distant colony planet where death hides in darkness \u2013 wherever they manifest, the Doctor is on hand to fight every shade of fear\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Ninth Doctor Adventures:&nbsp;Shades of Fear<\/em>&nbsp;includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>The&nbsp;Colour&nbsp;Of&nbsp;Terror<\/strong>&nbsp;by Lizzie Hopley&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>The Blooming Menace<\/strong>&nbsp;by James Kettle&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Red Darkness&nbsp;<\/strong>by Roy Gill<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank Skinner said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cI loved the Ninth Doctor [on TV]. Chris was brilliant with an amazing energy. I was very sad when he left but I\u2019m glad we\u2019ve got that one series as it\u2019s an absolute corker. Without him, I don\u2019t think we\u2019d have everything we\u2019ve had since. It\u2019s pretty exciting viewing Chris as the Ninth Doctor close up.<\/p><p>\u201cI listen to Big Finish regularly and it\u2019s great because it can take it anywhere. No-one ever listens to the same recording \u2013 we\u2019ve all got our own versions [in our imagination] and that makes it very intimate. I\u2019m a big fan of audio.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Director Helen Goldwyn added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cWhen Lizzie Hopley said she\u2019d written the role of Pete specifically with Frank Skinner in mind, I thought we had to try! As Frank is a&nbsp;<em>Doctor Who<\/em>&nbsp;fan he said yes pretty much immediately.<\/p><p>\u201cAs soon as Chris and Frank met, they hit it off and you could see the mutual respect and admiration which was lovely to be around. Frank did admit to his&nbsp;<em>Doctor Who<\/em>&nbsp;passion. Chris is such a humble guy and he understands the love and affection people have for it. It was really good fun, with lots of anecdotes being told.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Also joining Christopher Eccleston and Frank Skinner in this set are Dave Hearn (<em>The Goes Wrong Show<\/em>), Susan Penhaligon (<em>Doctor Who: The Time Monster<\/em>), Laura Rollins (<em>Doctors<\/em>), actor and impressionist Luke Kempner, Clive Hayward (<em>Anything Goes<\/em>), Harki&nbsp;Bhambra&nbsp;(<em>Our Girl, Coronation Street<\/em>), and Moyo&nbsp;Akand\u00e9&nbsp;(<em>The Cry<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/releases\/v\/doctor-who-the-ninth-doctor-adventures-shades-of-fear-2527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Shades of Fear<\/em>&nbsp;is now available to pre-order<\/a> for \u00a324.99 (collector\u2019s edition CD box set and download) or \u00a319.99 (download only).&nbsp;&nbsp;All four volumes of&nbsp;<em>The Ninth Doctor Adventures<\/em>&nbsp;Series 2 are available to pre-order together in a bundle for \u00a388 (CD and download) or \u00a378 (download only).<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But no, he won&#8217;t be playing his Mummy on the Orient Express character, Perkins!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"Frank Skinner Joins the Ninth Doctor in Upcoming @bigfinish Boxset, #DoctorWho Shades of Fear","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[278],"tags":[5,152,2965,584,5586,5660,1983,156,2581,7038,5867],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Frank-Skinner-and-Christopher-Eccleston-2-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11667,"url":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2017\/09\/03\/frank-skinner-jokes-about-bradley-walshs-casting-rumour\/","url_meta":{"origin":37137,"position":0},"title":"Frank Skinner Jokes About Bradley Walsh&#039;s Casting Rumour","author":"Philip Bates","date":"3 September 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"While we must stress that speculation about Bradley Walsh being cast as the next companion on\u00a0Doctor Who is just that - speculation - it has certainly got people talking: whether for good or bad, that's for you to decide. 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