THIS WEEK: 16th – 23rd July 2017


*** STOP PRESS 18 July 2017 ***
Big Finish have announced the release of of their long anticipated all cast box set Blake's 7 - The Spoils of War! For more information, click here!













CAST & CREW NEWS

For updated news of the Blakes 7 cast and crew, click Here








GOING OUT?
John Leeson is among the guests celebrating the 40th birthday of K9 at Smallspace 6 Model Show. Sunday16th July at Hanslope Village Hall, Newport Road, Hanslope, Bucks, MK19 7NZ

Josette Simon plays Cleopatra in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until 7th September 2017. The play transfers to the Barbican Theatre in London from 30th November 2017 - 20th January 2018.
Watch a trailer on Youtube here.




STAYING IN?

Stephen Greif plays Phil in the BBC Radio 4 drama Carter Mysteries: The Incident of the Russian Visitors. First broadcast in 2015, the play was repeated on 16th June and is available now on BBC iPlayer.

HORIZON REWATCHES
Grateful thanks as always to rewatch organisers Trevor Travis and Gauda Cheese.

Northern Hemisphere Season D rewatch concludes with D13: Blake. Join us to watch our heroes live happily ever after on Tuesday 18th July at 7.45pm BST.

The Southern Hemisphere continues its rewatch of Season C with C10: Ultraworld. Join us for the Blue Man Group episode Saturday 22nd July 2017, 7.00pm Australian time (AEST), 10.00am UK time (BST).




B7 BLOGS, ARTICLES AND PODCASTS
For our list of recommended Blakes 7 blogs and podcasts, click Here








FAN FICTION CHALLENGES – JULY 2017
Try out two new July challenges!
1. Word Prompt: Census
2. Yet again the crew have been so busy celebrating a successful mission that they haven't noticed they've left someone behind. What happened/happens?
Post your ficlets HERE.
Grateful thanks again to Horizon member purplecleric for organising the ficlet challenges, and to all our contributors who have lost no time in submitting their stories!


ARTWORK FAN FICTION CHALLENGE – JULY 2017
Write a ficlet based on this Picture of Cally and Avon.
Grateful thanks again to Horizon member Lurena for providing the artwork!

Reminders:
Overlong ficlets may not fit in the monthly collections, so please try to limit your contributions to 500 words.
This is a family-friendly website so stories should be rated no higher than PG-13.
Comments and suggestions for future ficlet challenges are invited HERE

Previous Ficlet Collections can be read in Horizon's Fan Fiction Section.




DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

28th - 30th July 2017 Colin Baker and Deep Roy are among the guests at London Film & Comic Con at London Olympia, Hammersmith Rd, London W14 8UX .

12th August 2017 Paul Darrow is one of the guests at Sheffield Film & Comic Con at the Sheffield Arena, Broughton Lane, Sheffield S9 2DF.

19th August 2017 Colin Baker is one of the guests at Worcester Comic Con at the Worcester Arena Sansome Walk, Worcester WR1 1NU .

12th September Stephen Greif and Fenella Fielding are giving a repeat performance of Just a Little Murder at The Crazy Coqs Theatre, 20 Sherwood St, Soho, London W1F 7ED.

16th September 2017 The annual Bristol Meet Up at The Knight's Templar Inn, 1 The Square, Temple Quay, Bristol BS1 6DG. Everyone welcome!

1st October 2017 Michael Keating, Colin Baker and John Leeson are among the guests at Who's at the Playhouse at Epsom Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5AL.

1st October 2017 Jacqueline Pearce is among the guests at Coventry Comic Con at Sports Connexion, Leamington Rd, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Coventry CV8 3FL.

27th January 2018 Studio54 and Sgt Bilko’s Emporium present Blakes 40, a special signing event with cast & crew from B7 at The Box in FarGo Village, Far Gosford Street, Coventry CV1 5ED. First guest to be announced is Laurie Goode (Hi-tec patient in Powerplay). Watch this space for further announcements.

28th - 30th September 2018 Tickets have now gone on sale and the first guests have been announced for Cygnus Alpha 4.0, a full weekend celebration of B7's 40th Anniversary.




TIME ON YOUR HANDS?
Try Lurena's Match-the-Pairs Puzzles!


FAN PRODUCTIONS
Fan Anthology Blake's Heaven is available from Amazon in paperback and on Kindle.

Horizon member Clanger68's celebration of the model, prop, sets and visual effects design that went into all four series of Blake's 7 is on YouTube here - B7 Models.

Kevin Davies' Making of Blakes 7 Documentary, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, which were never released on DVD, are now available to watch on YouTube.

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