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B7 Media is a UK indie producer (radio, television and film) and publisher (audiobooks, comic books, graphic novels) telling stories across multiple content forms and working with much-loved IP, including Blake’s 7, Dan Dare, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot.
B7 Media is particularly known for its award-winning indie films – Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Exit Thread, The Colour of Spring – and audio dramas – Greenborne, Venna’s Planet, Barred, The Space Race, The Effect, Unsinkable and the much-praised series retelling of the poem ‘Mahabharata’ set in modern Mumbai, Mahabharata Now.
Under its B7 Comics imprint, titles include John Freeman and Neil Edward’s sci-fi mini-series Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies; Keith Page and Stephen Walsh’s acclaimed graphic novel Hancock: The Lad Himself (charting the rise and fall of legendary British comic Tony Hancock); Iqbal Ali and Priscilla Grippa’s 19th Century supernatural mystery, Mr Jones’s Smoking Bones; and the recently announced the return of the iconic Pilot of the Future, Dan Dare in a new series of graphic novels to be written by bestselling author and screenwriter Alex de Campi (Rogue Trooper: Ghost Patrol and Duncan Jones’ Madi: Once Upon A Time in the Future) and Marc Laming (James Bond, Eden, Endeavour)
UK independent production company and publisher B7 Media has established B7 Central, a brand-new regional base of operations located in the East Midlands, as an expansion of its main base in Berkshire.
B7 Central is a hub to leverage regional creative talent, while continuing to produce award-winning, multi-format stories. This strategic move integrates a proven legacy of adapting major IP with a new commitment to local development across audio, film, and publishing.
Known for its cross-media adaptations of legacy science fiction IP including Blake’s 7, Dan Dare, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, and Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, B7 Central aims to break away from London-centric production models, unlocking a rich and underrepresented pool of creative talent spanning the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Northeast of England.
Fronted by B7 Media’s Head of Content, Helen Quigley (a native northeasterner) and Natalie Chisholm, already based in Northamptonshire, in the role of Development Producer, the new arm will be able to tap into tailored creative grants, regional development funds, and other localised resources to unearth underrepresented creators and voices, and build a sustainable, northern engine for world-class transmedia storytelling outside the capital.
.Blending classic comic storytelling with a modern style, and also looking to spotlight comic gems from around the globe both past and present, B7 Comics looks to offer a range of series spanning science fiction, action-adventure, spy-fi, steampunk, fantasy and gothic horror.
B7 Comics is the graphic novel and publishing arm of UK indie B7 Media, the acclaimed audio drama producers of the Dan Dare Audio Adventures, Blake’s 7, The Martian Chronicles and countless other recognisable sci-fi properties.
Titles include the recently announced revival of the classic British sci-fi adventure series Dan Dare in a trilogy of graphic novels written by bestselling author Alex de Campi (Duncan Jones’ Madi: Once Upon A Time in the Future) with art by Marc Laming (James Bond, Star Wars); John Freeman’s (Doctor Who) sci-fi thriller mini series Pilgrim: Secrets & Lies with art by Neil Edwards (Fantastic Four); Keith Page and Stephen Walsh’s acclaimed biographical graphic novel Hancock: The Lad Himself – charting the rise and fall of legendary comic, Tony Hancock; and Iqbal Ali’s paranormal mystery Mr Jones’s Smoking Bones with art by Priscilla Grippa.
From republishing Anthony Armstrong’s doppelganger classic The Strange Case of Mr Pelham (best known by its movie adaption The Man Who Haunted Himself starring Roger Moore), to the imminent release of Bev Doyle’s comic novel Mrs Messiah where the saviour of mankind is a woman for once, these are books that break the rules of storytelling.
We aren’t the only ones breaking the rules. Marriage Bureau is the republished memoirs of Mary Oliver, the founder of Britain’s first dating agency in the 1940s and also available as a stage play, adapted by Richard Kurti. Another play exclusive to B7 Media is Angelfish by Bev Doyle, a comedy drama set London’s East End of the 1950s.
B7 Media’s eclectic mix of books reflect what we do best: discovering and rediscovering quirky, important and hard-to-define stories and reinventing the many ways to tell them.
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