Dark Eyes Series Companion

Big Finish have announced that the new companion for the Eighth Doctor in the Dark Eyes series will be Molly O’Sullivan played by Ruth Bradley. Ruth recently starred in Titanic the four-part mini-series in the UK with Jenna-Louise Coleman who will play the new companion to the Eleventh Doctor in the new series on BBC1.
Molly is a nurse in World War I and will make her first appearance in the episode titled The Great War.

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Paul McGann still unsure of 50th Anniversary

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Speculation is mounting amongst fans that there will be a multi-Doctor reunion episode for the anniversary - especially after Tom Baker recently said he is willing to return to Doctor Who.
Paul McGann, who played the Eighth Doctor, was asked if he has been contacted about the 50th anniversary while speaking to The Independent.
"No," he answered, adding: "I mean, I know it's imminent but no, there's been no invites to or sounding out taking place but maybe it will happen, we don't know."
McGann went on to admit that he's not actually very familiar with the revived Doctor Who series.
"I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything," he explained.
"In fact some of my mates, particularly my gay mates, they say, 'How do you live? What do you do?' I've never seen an episode of Friends. I don't know who the newscasters are...I just got out of the habit."
Adding that he never watches recordings of his own performances, McGann admitted: "I've just about got used to the sound of my own voice, doing voice works. But actors are like everyone else, why would you want to look at yourself? See yourself leaving a room?
"But I know Matt Smith and I saw him the other day," he continued. "It's in safe hands, the kid's obviously brilliant, a really, really good choice to take it on."

Dark Eyes

From Big Finish.com:
In the aftermath of To The Death...
An epic, box set adventure, taking the Doctor on a desperate journey through space and time.
Part One. The Great War - The Doctor is heading to 'the edge' and beyond. But the Time Lords have other ideas. On Earth, during the First World War, Molly O'Sullivan works hard as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nursing assistant. How can her destiny be bound up with that of the Doctor's?
Part Two. Fugitives
Part Three. Tangled Web
Part Four. 'X' and the Daleks
More details soon...

In Paul's Own Words...

Paul McGann admits that he hasn't watched the new series: "I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything. But I know Matt Smith and I saw him the other day. It's in safe hands, the kid's obviously brilliant, a really, really good choice to take it on." The actor is due to appear in a couple of dramas on television, alongside Martin Clunes in A Mother's Son for ITV, and in Ripper Street for the BBC. Independent, 30 Jun 2012]

Paul Channels Willaim Hartnell

Paul McGann (the Eighth Doctor) reads First Doctor's speech from The Dalek Invasion Of Earth at I-CON 31 in Stony Brook, New York.

Mary Shelley

In June 1816, Shelley encountered the Eighth Doctor and witnessed him apparently coming back to life after being dead, providing inspiration for Frankenstein. Shelley then left with the Doctor and travelled with him for an unknown period of time. A Company of Friends

Hours after leaving Lake Geneva, the Doctor took Mary to Vienna on 11 September 1873, where they encountered two Cybermen. The Silver Turk

During her travels with the Doctor, Mary met Axons and King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. A Company of Friends

After her encounter with the Bone Lord, Mary decided to leave the Doctor's company as she feared his other companion death. Army of Death

The chronological order of Mary's encounters with the Doctor in 1816 from her point of view is not known.

The Eighth Doctor had a copy of Shelley's Frankenstein in his TARDIS library, inscribed to him by her. The Doctor read the preface aloud, and mentioned that what Shelley wrote wasn't the entire truth about what happened. Storm Warning
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Series 11: Army of Death

NOTE: This series takes place before the series 1 story Storm Warning

The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Mary Shelley to the continent of Zelonia, on the frontier world Draxine – where, many moons ago, the twin citystates of Garrak and Stronghaven bore testament to mankind’s colonial spirit. That was before the sinister death cult of Garrak’s President Harmon took hold – and Garrak annihilated itself, utterly, in an apocalyptic explosion. Before the bones of Garrak’s dead came back to life, and its skeletal citizens began marching, marching, marching on Stronghaven itself. Starring Paul McGann and Julie Cox.

8th Doctor Special: A Company of Friends

The Company of Friends is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The play is made of four one-part stories, by different authors, rather than the usual multi-part serial. All episodes use the Eighth Doctor as played by Paul McGann, and he is joined in each episode by a companion who originated in either the Doctor Who book or comic ranges.