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James Goss (producer)
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James Goss (born 1974) is an English writer and producer, known both for his work in cult TV spin-off media, including tie-in novels and audio stories for and , and for his fictional works beyond ready made universes.
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Doctor Who[]
Online content[]
In 2000, Goss was made a senior content producer and put in charge of the BBC's official Doctor Who website. Originally the site was part of the BBC's Cult TV website. Goss slowly expanded the content to include , , , and Doctor Who. He was subsequently voted Number 19 in 's 2004 poll of Top 50 Media Movers and Shakers.
With the return of in 2005, the Cult site was slowly wound down in order to concentrate solely on the show. Goss moved to to oversee the production of the new show's web site, expanding the contents to include cast and crew interviews, games and based on the broadcast episodes. His aim was to construct a whole world beyond the show that viewers could get further involved in, notably employing graphic designer for front pages and site design, and writer for the spin-off sites' fictional content. , a Cardiff-based design agency, were also responsible for all of the 2006 Doctor Who series games, experiences and many of the associated websites. Goss also produced the video clip "krill-loop" for a tie-in website.
Television, radio and DVD[]
Having produced previous Doctor Who web only animations (such as ) and , in 2005 Goss produced the animations of two missing episodes of the . The animation, developed by , was originally intended as web-only content but was later added to the DVD release and went on to be voted best DVD special feature in the 2006 awards.
In 2006, Goss developed and produced , a Doctor Who animation shown on BBC One and CBBC in 2007. He was also producer of the special features for the DVD release. He has since produced DVD extra features for further Doctor Who releases, including , , , and .
In 2006, he appeared in an episode of .
In 2013 was released on DVD with extras which include James Goss presenting a documentary on how the series came to be made and appearing in a documentary about the BBC cult website. He also produced a series of 5 (short) documentaries called Doctor Forever which appeared across Doctor Who DVD Special Edition releases in 2013. He was also involved in producing a series of documentaries for the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who which in 2013 were first shown on BBC America and subsequently on Watch in the UK.
Books[]
In 2007, he contributed to the short-story collection . His first book, , a tie-in to the Doctor Who spin-off series , was released in October 2008 and was followed by two more Torchwoodnovels and , a novel based on the TV series .
Goss's , read by , was voted 2010 Audiobook Of The Year.
His audiobook was given away free with a February 2011 issue of . It is read by and Clare Corbett. His books Dead of Winter (Doctor Who) and First Born (Torchwood) were both nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Society Awards. He has written numerous stories produced by in their Doctor Who related ranges.
In 2013, BBC Books published Goss's short novel Summer Falls, purportedly written by Doctor Who character Amelia (Pond) Williams. In September 2014 his Doctor Who novel 'Blood Cell' was published ().
In addition to the three Torchwood novels and Doctor Who novels, James Goss is the co-author, with Steve Tribe, of The Dalek Handbook (2011), Doctor Who: A History of the Universe in 100 Objects (2012) and The Doctor: His Lives and Times (2013). In 2014 he contributed to the Shakespeare Notebooks.
In 2015 his novel Haterz, about a man making the internet a better place one murder at a time, was published in the UK by and launched at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London on 12 March 2015 with a book reading and signing by the author.
Theatre[]
Goss's stage play , adapted with fellow student from the book , has been staged around the world. In 2006 it won "Best Adaptation" in the 28th .
He wrote the play 7 Spies At The Casino about the making of the 1967 film , which was performed at the in August 2007.
James Goss has also written a play about the true story of the "terribly nice friendship" between Mr and Sir, forged during their Hammer Horror careers (see ). The play, called ‘The Gentlemen of Horror’, was first performed on 27 November 2013 at the Woolwich Grand Theatre. It was performed in the summer of 2014 at the where it received favourable reviews including and
Other work[]
Goss blogged from the Edinburgh Fringe for The Guardian's web site in 2007 and wrote a series of guest blogs about archive television for the AOL UK TV web site in 2009-2010.
As mentioned above, James Goss wrote three novels for the spin-off series . In addition, in theTorchood range, he wrote four short stories, published in the Torchwood Magazine; two audiobooks, Department X andGhost Train; and two radio plays both broadcast on BBC radio 4; Golden Age on 2 July 2009 and The House of the Deadon 13 July 2011. In 2015 he became the producer of a new series of audio stories to be produced by ( ).
From 2011 to 2012, James Goss co-produced with , the ' range of audio dramas. In 2014 he also produced the New Adventures of for .
Since 2012 James Goss has written three Lady Serpent Egyptian murder stories, published by Endeavor Press. These are described as fast-paced, historical murder mysteries that brilliantly capture the atmosphere of ancient Egypt – as well as being enthralling detective stories.
Selected bibliography[]
Novels, Audiobooks & ebooks
Haterz (2015)
The Lady Serpent Series
The Race of Scorpions (2012)
Poison Seed (2013)
Blood and Sand (2013)
(2008)
(2009)
First Born (2011)
(2010)
Dead of Winter (2011)
(2011)
The Art of Death (2012)
Summer Falls (2013)
Blood Cell (2014)
(2010)
Radio Dramas
(2009)
The House of the Dead (2011) (see )
Audio dramas
(2012)
(2012)
The Scorchies (2013)
Counter Measures: The Fifth Citadel (2013)
VI: Renaissance (2013)
Missing Persons: 5.4 The Winning Side (2013)
The New Adventures of : The Lights of Skaro (2014)
: 7.2 Night of 1000 Stars (2014)
Mask of Tragedy (2014)
: 8.1 Encore of the Scorchies (2014)
The Gods of Winter (2015)
The Sins of Winter (2015)
: 10.3 The Mourning After (2015)
Diaries: 1.3 Signs (2016)
Department X (2011)
(2011)
(2015) (see )
The Doll House (2010)
The Poisoned Soul (2011)
The Crimson Pearl with (2011)
The House by the Sea (2012)
The Harvest of Souls (2014)
Three (The Liberator Chronicles Volume 5:3 (2013))
Spoils (The Liberator Chronicles 8:3 (2014))
Comeback of the Scorchies (Wildthyme Reloaded 1(2015))
Short stories
The Last Voyage of Osiris (2009) in Issue 17
The Package (2010) in Issue 22
The Mind's Eye (2010) Issue 24
We All Go Through with Steve Tribe (2011) Issue 25
Indian Summer in (2007)
Phoenix in (2009)
Non Fiction
The Dalek Handbook with Steve Tribe (2011)
Doctor Who: A History of the Universe in 100 Objects with Steve Tribe (2012)
The Doctor: His Lives and Times with Steve Tribe (2013)
The Shakespeare Notebooks (2014)
External links[]
at the
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