David Tennant: BBC Audio Drama Awards, and project updates

David Tennant won the 'Best Actor' award at the first BBC Audio Drama Awards ceremony, held at Broadcasting House in London on Sunday evening. David also hosted the ceremony. He won the award for his lead role in Kafka The Musical!
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Transmission dates and premières:

The transmission all over Britain of the David Tennant narrated documentary Wild About Pandas has been moved from Tuesday 7th to Friday 10th February at 9pm on BBC Two. Scotland will still be able to view it first on Wednesday 1st February.
More details at David Tennant on Twitter

The David Tennant voiced Tree Fu Tom will première at BBC's celebration of CBeebies and CBBC's 10th birthday on Saturday 18th February in Salford Quays near Manchester.
See here for full details.

The release date of the movie The Pirates! Band of Misfits has been delayed in the US from the original date of 30th March to 27th April. (This is the movie which is called The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists in the UK.)
See here for more details and the opening dates of the movie all around the world.

Kafka: the musical

Murray Gold's new play starts from the suitably Kafkaesque premise that Franz Kafka (played by David Tennant) finds he has to play himself in a musical about his own life. The play - or is it the musical? - introduces Kafka and the audience to some of the key characters in his life, Milena Jesenska, Dora Diamant and Felice Bauer.

Read more at BBC

Kafka The Musical aired on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 24 April. It is available, worldwide, on the BBC iPlayer

David Tennant - Kafka, Radio Times, British Comedy Awards

Kafka the Musical

There has been no official confirmation but tweets by Murray Gold, Reetu Kabra and Jeremy Mortimer report that David Tennant recently recorded "Kafka The Musical" which Murray Gold stated will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April.

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Karen Gillan, David Tennant attend Radio Times party

The annual Radio Times Cover Party took place in London on Tuesday evening (18 January). The party celebrates the array of stars to have been given the spotlight on the cover of Radio Times over the past 12 months, and Karen was there for her The Pandorica Opens issue from June 2010, while David, who also hosted the event, featured on a cover for his role in the 4-part drama Single Father back in October.

More pictures and information at Radio Times

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David Tennant to appear at British Comedy Awards

On Friday night (21 Jan), Jonathan Ross tweeted at about 5.15pm "Just came off the phone with the marvelous Mr David Tennant -one of the guests at the Comedy Awards tomorrow night!"

The British Comedy Awards are an annual awards ceremony which celebrate notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year. The Awards started in 1990 and this year are being hosted by Jonathan Ross. They are being held at O2 in Greenwich, London.

The British Comedy Awards are broadcast from 9pm until 11.05pm tomorrow evening on Channel 4 (U.K.) and are repeated from 11pm until 1.05am on Sunday evening. (Both screens are repeated an hour later on Channel 4 + 1.) There is also a programme called The British Comedy Awards: Live Lock-In from 11pm until 12.05am on E4 tomorrow (Saturday) evening.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter