David Tennant: project news and updates

• Broadchurch

A worldwide link to download episode 5 of Broadchurch is here.
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All the latest Broadchurch news, reviews, articles, and photos can be found here.

• The Politician's Husband

It has not been announced yet by the BBC, but Doctor Who Magazine says that The Politician's Husband will start being broadcast on Monday 29th April. That is the Monday after Broadchurch ends!
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• The Escape Artist

Some photos of David Tennant in The Escape Artist have been posted to the Red Arrow International website. A pdf of the pictures can be downloaded from this link.
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• Doctor Who

At 8.46pm on Monday night (1 April) the official Doctor Who Twitter account tweeted that the read-though for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode had just finished, and they posted a photo of David Tennant and Matt Smith (see top of page).
Source (including photo above): David Tennant on Twitter

The BBC has announced that Joanna Page has joined the cast of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special. (Joanna played the wife of David Tennant's character in Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger!) The BBC have also posted a photo of Joanna with David, Matt and Jenna-Louse at the read-through.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Starting tomorrow (Monday 15th April) the satellite station Watch are starting a new run of repeats of David Tennant's episodes of Doctor Who. More information here.

The link to download The Doctors Revisited: The Third Doctor (with new David Tennant interview clips) has been posted to Tumblr.

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited - The Fourth Doctor will premiere on BBC America on Sunday 28th April with David Tennant interview clips again.
Pre-order the Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited (episodes 1-4) from Amazon, here. It includes David Tennant interviews but is only available in the US and Canada. It is released on 11th June.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

From David Tennant on Twitter:

"Earlier this week Ripple Junction contacted us to request that fans choose which were their favourite T-shirts from a selection so that the company could put them into production. In Ripple Junction's words "the David Tennant design absolutely destroyed all the others!" The 3 winning designs can be seen at this link which means they could be in stores in the US within 2 months. Fans outside the US will be able to order them online."

• BBC America: David Tennant Day

On Wednesday (10 April), BBC America will have a David Tennant Day! As well as the American premiere of episode two of Spies Of Warsaw at 9pm (repeated at midnight), the station will be showing David's episodes of Doctor Who. The full schedule is here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Pirates!

There will be a The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists exhibition opening in Birmingham in May for the summer. More information here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Blackpool

Tesco Clubcard TV will include programmes such as Blackpool (starring David Tennant). More information here.
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• Believe It!

Believe It! is being repeated on BBC Radio Four on Sundays at 7.15pm from this coming Sunday (7th). Radio four Extra are also repeating it on Fridays at 7.30am and 10pm (starting Friday 12th), Saturdays at 5.30pm and Sundays at 5.30am. More information here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Interviews

Collider have a new interview with David Tennant about Spies Of Warsaw (plus Doctor Who and Harry Potter!)
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Huffington Post has a new interview with David Tennant about Spies Of Warsaw (and Doctor Who).
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• Diary dates

Mon 8 Apr - Penguins - Spy In The Huddle released on DVD in the UK.
Mon 8 Apr - Episode six of Broadchurch premieres on ITV at 9pm.
Wed 10 Apr - BBC America has a David Tennant Day today.
Wed 10 Apr - Episode two of Spies Of Warsaw premieres on BBC America in the US at 9pm.
Sun 14 Apr - David Tennant stars in The Great Scott: The Fair Maid Of Perth on BBC Radio Four at 3pm.
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David Tennant: project news and updates

Audiobooks
David Tennant has started his work in 2013 by recording audiobooks as he has been in the studio reading both How To Steal A Dragon's Sword and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time.
On Thursday afternoon Soundhouse Studios tweeted that David Tennant had completed recording the new Chitty Chitty Bang Bang audiobook Chitty Chitty Bang Bang And The Race Against Time.
More information here
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Virgin Media Collection
David Tennant can currently be seen on television and online in a number of adverts for the Virgin Media Collection. He appears alongside Sir Richard Branson, Usain Bolt and some look-alikes.

There are also some clips online on the Virgin Media website.
The Virgin Media website has a new David Tennant video with at least four different endings! Keep on the page to see the first ending and then replay the video to watch them all.
More information here
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Spies Of Warsaw
A synopsis of episode one of Spies Of Warsaw (starring David Tennant) and cast list can be found here. 
A worldwide link to download episode one of Spies Of Warsaw can be found here.
The BBC Shop has the coverwork for the Spies Of Warsaw DVD (see below) which is released on 21st January.

More information here
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The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists movie (known as The Pirates! Band Of Misfits in the US) has been nominated for the Best Animated Feature Award in this year's Oscars. David Tennant voices the young Charles Darwin in the movie.
More information here
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Believe It!
Believe It! has been shortlisted for the Best Scripted Comedy Award in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013. (That page includes a new photo of David Tennant from when he hosted the 2012 Award ceremony.) In the 2012 awards David Tennant won the Best Actor Award for his role in Kafka The Musical which was first broadcast in April 2011 and somehow that drama is on the shortlist for the Tinniswood Radio Drama Award 2012 for Best Radio Drama Script.
More information here
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Much Ado About Nothing
Digital Theatre have launched a new iPad app where you can watch David Tennant and Catherine Tate's production of Much Ado About Nothing.
More information here
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Doctor Who
The Radio Times have reported that Big Finish will be releasing a 100-minute-long audio story The Light At The End to celebrate the Doctor Who 50th anniversary. Former Doctors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann are already confirmed and Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith are "behind the project" which will be released in November.
More information here
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Diary dates
Tues 15 Jan - Complete Series of Twenty Twelve is released in US and Canada.

Tues 15 Jan - Satellite station Watch start a new run of repeats of David Tennant's episodes of Doctor Who.

Wed 16 Jan - Episode two of Spies Of Warsaw premières on BBC Four at 9pm.

Sat 19 Jan - David Tennant attends the Project Motor Mouth Charity Convention.

Sat 19 Jan - Two of David Tennant's episodes of Doctor Who (Blink and Midnight) are featured in the Cine Lumière Doctor Who Night in London.

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David Tennant: casting rumour, Shakespeare iPad app, filming update, radio premiere

The Fast and the Furious 6 

LatinoReview have a RUMOUR of David Tennant in talks for a role in the Fast Six movie. 

This has also been reported by CraveOnline  Geeks Of Doom  STV  and EntertainmentWise

 

Shakespeare Sonnets app

The first video of David Tennant from the new  iPad Shakespeare Sonnets app by Illuminations & TouchPress can be viewed at TouchPress  
Alternate source: Vimeo

The Spies Of Warsaw
David Tennant is currently filming The Spies Of Warsaw in Poland. He plays the lead role of Jean Francois Mercier in an adaption of the Alan Furst's book The Spies Of Warsaw. Janet Montgomery plays his love interest Anna and the supporting cast includes Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anton Lesser, Burn Gorman, Tuppence Middleton and Julian Harries.
 
The Spies Of Warsaw covers the years 1933 to 1943 and is a portrait of subjugated people who try to resist the suffocating inevitability of Hitler’s regime.
 
Filming started on Wednesday 11th April and will take place in Poland (Warsaw, Chabówka and Krakow); it may be screened as early as Autumn 2012.

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Believe It!
The first episode (Drink) of Believe It! is on BBC Radio Four at 11.30am tomorrow (Wed 9 May)

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Richard Wilson interviews to promote Believe It

Richard Wilson recently took part in two promotional interviews to promote the radio comedy Believe It!  

Believe It! is a four part comedy which is based loosely on Richard Wilson’s life. David Tennant is one of the actors in the radio drama which can be heard worldwide. 

The first episode of Believe It! premières on Wednesday 9th May at 11.30am on BBC Radio Four and is called Drink. 

On Saturday (5th) at 10am Richard Wilson was interviewed on the Jon Holmes Show on BBC Radio 6 Music. Then at 6.15pm the same day, Richard was a guest on Loose Ends on BBC Radio Four. 

All of these programmes can be heard worldwide. Full details and links to the interviews can be found at David Tennant on Twitter

 

The National Autistic Society Scotland have announced that highly-respected Scottish actor, theatre director and activist Richard Wilson OBE is their new Ambassador. 

Read more at The National Autistic Society

David Tennant: radio & audio projects (Shakespeare, comedy) and The Minor Character review

Review of The Minor Character  
Ian D Hall of Liverpool Student Media gives The Minor Character 5 stars.
Read the full review here

BBC Radio Three Shakespeare Season
Starts Sunday

David Tennant will be one of the actors involved in the BBC Radio Three Shakespeare Season as part of The Cultural Olympiad. Part of this project is where a company of actors perform two different plays - Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. David Tennant will be playing Prince Escalus in Romeo and Juliet and Malvolio in Twelfth Night.

Twelfth Night will be broadcast on Sunday 22nd April and Romeo and Juliet on Sunday 29th April. Both transmissions wil be at 8.30pm on BBC Radio Three.
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Believe It!
Based on glimmers of truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing and, most importantly, untrue celebrity radiography of Richard Wilson.

Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has always said he'd never write one. Richard, however, narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his fictional life story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester United - all true.

He’s a confidant of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, charity work, secret work for governments and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery - all not true.

All the melodramatic staples of celebrity-autobiography are wonderfully undercut by Richard's deadpan delivery.

Throughout the series, Richard is supported by a small core cast including David Tennant, John Sessions, Lewis Macleod, Arabella Weir and Jane Slavin.


Ep 1/4
Wednesday 9 May
11.30-12.00pm
BBC RADIO 4
Source: BBC Media Centre 

Faber launches Shakespeare app
Faber is in the final stages of producing a "spectacular" digital edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in which a broad swathe of high-profile actors including David Tennant, Sir Patrick Stewart and Fiona Shaw will read each of the 154 poems to camera.

The Apple iPad app will be published within the next month, with a price likely to be on a par with Faber's previous app, T S Eliot's The Waste Land (£9.99).

Shakespeare's Sonnets has been created in a partnership with three other parties: digital publisher Touch Press, which Faber also collaborated with for The Waste Land; TV company Illuminations, which filmed the 154 sonnet readings by the act; and the authoritative Arden Shakespeare series, which has contributed its complete Arden notes on the sonnets to the edition.

Scholars including the editor of the Arden edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Katherine Duncan-Jones, also offer filmed commentary as part of the digital edition and a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto edition of the sonnets is also included.

Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page said: "The book is changing and the opportunity to claim new turf is enormous," adding that head of digital publishing Henry Volans had taken a role akin to that of a producer in brokering the partnerships.

The app has cost a "low six-figures" to create, with Faber's contribution a five-figure sum.


Source: The Bookseller

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