David Tennant: TV appearances, project updates

The Jonathan Ross Show
David Tennant was a guest on The Jonathan Ross Show on Saturday 5th January on ITV. This was to promote Spies Of Warsaw and David recorded the interview the previous evening. As well as a clip from Spies being shown, David was also asked about the Doctor Who 50th anniversary this year. More information here. 

The worldwide link to download David Tennant's interview on The Jonathan Ross Show has been posted to Tumblr. The interview includes Jonathan Ross congratulating David on some personal news.
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Spies of Warsaw
Spies of Warsaw premières on BBC Four on 9th and 16th January and on 6th and 13th Feb in the US. In Poland it will be shown in 4 parts from 11th January but will be dubbed.
As well as Spies Of Warsaw being repeated on BBC HD on Saturday evenings at 11pm, it will also be repeated on BBC Four the following Monday evening at 11.45pm each week.
More information - including photos and videos - here.

Broadchurch to air in the US
The Hollywood Reporter has reported that it was announced at the Television Critics Association Press Tour on Saturday 5th that BBC America have acquired the rights to broadcast the eight part ITV drama Broadchurch.
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Herald Scotland's 'What to Watch'
Both Broadchurch and The Politician's Husband are in Herald Scotland's list of 2013: What To Watch On TV 
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Love Virtually sequel
BBC Radio Four will dramatise the sequel to Love Virtually called Every Seventh Wave. David Tennant performed in the original in March 2012 and will reprise his role of Leo Leike in the sequel.
More information here.
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David Tennant is GQ's 3rd Best Dressed Man
David Tennant was placed third in GQ's annual Best Dressed Man poll in which 275,000 voted.
More information here
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Shakespeare Uncovered
PBS have posted a trailer for the David Tennant / Hamlet episode of Shakespeare Uncovered which premières on their station on 9th February.
More information here.
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Doctor Who
The Radio Times reported that, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who this year, a new series of Doctor Who short stories will be released. The eleven "eshorts" will each be written by a different author and each will feature one of the Doctor's regenerations (including David Tennant's Tenth Doctor). The author of the first book will be revealed on the Doctor Who Facebook page on Monday 7th January and their story will be published on Wednesday 23rd January.  
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Midnight Convention
Billie Piper Fans, a Billie Piper website, has added several photos of her and David Tennant at the Midnight fan Convention last month.
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Diary dates
Sun 6 Jan - BBC Radio Three repeat of Twelfth Night from its 2012 Shakespeare Season. More information (including MP3 link) here
Wed 9 Jan - Episode one of Spies Of Warsaw premières on BBC Four at 9pm.
Fri 11 Jan - Episode one of Spies Of Warsaw premières in Poland (dubbed).
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Review of David Tennant's career during 2012
A detailed review of David Tennant's career during 2012 including photos can be found here.
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David Tennant: project updates

The first episode of Tree Fu Tom will air on Monday 5 March at 5.25 pm on CBeebies. The other four episodes will be shown on subsequent days during the week.
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David Tennant was recently interviewed about his part inTree Fu Tom

Love Virtually will air on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 8 March from 2.15pm.

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The Decoy Bride will be screened in selected cinemas from Friday 9 March.

Details are on the Official Facebook Page

On Friday 16 March, BBC Radio Four will broadcast Waiting For The Boatman.

This drama was written by Stephen Wakelam. It is set in Naples in 1610 and is about the last days of the painter Caravaggio. The story is told through the eyes of his friend and former model Mario Minniti as he searches for the artist. The play is directed by Sasha Yevtushenko and also stars Anton Lesser, Harry Livingstone and Joe Dempsie. 

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During April, BBC Radio Three will be broadcasting a Shakespeare Season as part of The Cultural Olympiad.Part of this season is a project 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.

Romeo and Juliet was recorded during the week commencing Monday 13 February and Twelfth Night the following week. 

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David Tennant: interviews / charity ad / Pirates! / photo exhibition

Tree Fu Tom: Sophie Aldred and David Tennant voice new CBeebies series
Interview with David Tennant about his role as Twigs
Twigs is Tom’s best friend and sidekick – he goes everywhere with him and is the comic heart of the show. This tiny acorn sprite is like the wide-eyed, fun-loving, free-spirited and seriously silly child in each of us.
Could you tell us who you play?
I play Twigs, who is Tom’s best friend. Twigs lives in Treetopolis and he’s a tree sprite. He’s very small, he’s sort of based on an acorn and he can retract himself into an acorn whenever he’s frightened. But he’s a little anarchic, he’s a little crazy and he’s quite loud.
Could you sum up TFT and why parents should encourage their children to watch it?
I think TFT is imaginative, inventive, exciting, really good fun and it looks beautiful. It looks like no expense has been spared and I can’t wait to see all the finished episodes as everything I have seen so far has been a visual feast. It’s an incredible wonderful thing that we have channels like CBeebies that devote so much time and effort and skill to telling wonderful stories.
Why did you decide to take the role?
Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it’s not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That’s very inspiring and it forces you to do things in a different way – to tell stories through your voice. As an acting challenge it was very appealing.
I think you always want to tell good stories and when you are doing something for children you are always so aware of how formative those stories will be. I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.
Can you tell us about Tree Fu and Big World Magic?
There are points in every story where Big World Magic is required and Tom gets the viewers to go through moves with him and that sends the magic through to him. The idea being that the real world can influence the Treetopolis world through the Tree Fu moves.
Tree Fu Tom encourages movements designed to help all children particularly including those with Dyspraxia – can you tell us more about that?
I would never have imagined that a programme like this could be used in this way to help combat Dyspraxia. It will be fascinating to see if it does have a positive effect. The children will certainly have a good time trying!
How did you arrive at Twigs’ voice?
It’s sort of my voice but up an octave really. He’s smaller and lighter so the voice had to be higher. Also there’s a thought that for pre-school audiences you want to use higher registers in your voices. I believe that the young audience hears higher voices better.
How do you gauge your performance for the audience?
I feel very un-practiced in performing to an audience this young so I am very happy to be led by other people working on the show. Like getting the level of jeopardy right, what is enough to be exciting but not too much to be alarming. When you’re older you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are. It’s fascinating to work with people who completely understand that audience. I’ve really enjoyed trying to understand that world.
I don’t think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. Generally speaking we don’t have vivid memories of that age and what influenced us yet clearly they are hugely formative years and it’s really important that we can create television of a high quality for that audience. I think the shows you remember are from when you were a bit older. But I think the programmes you watch when you are that young, when you are still learning about how the world works are really important. It’s very exciting to be involved in something that speaks to that audience.
Sophie Aldred (who plays Tom) has previously played Doctor Who’s assistant and you have played The Doctor but in this the roles are reversed, how does that feel?
Sophie and I had never met before so we didn’t have any previous dynamic but I suppose that you can infer a dynamic from previous roles that we have played. As an actor you just fit in with whatever the dynamics of the characters are so she plays the hero and I’m the annoying sidekick.
You, Tim, Samantha and Sophie all recorded Tree Fu Tom in a booth together – how was that?
What’s great about the four of us being in a booth together is that you can work off each other and you can be inspired by something that someone else does and you can collectively move something in a different direction.
Who’s the most animated in the booth?
Probably me! I do find it hard not to dance around a bit! Twigs is quite active so it’s hard to contain that. It’s not very helpful in the final edit if you knock a script off but sometimes you just have to go for it!
Source: BBC

David Tennant to star in radio drama Love Virtually
The former Doctor Who star will feature opposite Emilia Fox in a tale of email romance.
A wayward email sparks a case of “online adultery” in a new Radio 4 Afternoon Drama starring David Tennant and Emilia Fox.
When Emmi (Fox) mistakenly sends an email to Leo (Tennant), romance quickly blossoms, and the two begin a shared secret life far removed from their day-to-day existences.
The problem is, Emmi is married – but does a virtual affair count as cheating? To what extent does the relationship rely on fantasy? And is it even possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met?
Tennant fans will no doubt be answering "yes" to that last question as they make a date with David...
Afternoon Drama: Love Virtually, by Austrian novelist Daniel Glattauer, airs at 2:15pm on Thursday 8 March on BBC Radio 4.
Source: Radio Times

David Tennant - Sport Relief 

David Tennant is appearing in a trailer for Sport Relief on BBC television.
 
Sport Relief is a biennial charity event from the team who run Comic Relief. It combines sport and entertainment to raise money to help vulnerable people in both the UK and the world's poorest countries.
It started in 2002 and in 2012 Sport Relief is during the weekend Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th March.
Since Saturday 11th February David Tennant is being shown in trailers on BBC television for Sport Relief dressed as a large ketchup bottle!
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Brilliant new featurette about the making of Aardman Animations’s ‘The Pirates! Band Of Misfits’
A brilliant new featurette for Aardman Animations’ family adventure The Pirates! Band Of Misfits has been released this week, including commentary from writer Gideon Defoe, British actors Hugh Grant and David Tennant, and producer Julie Lockhart about how the film was created and just how long it took to make this beautifully crafted 3D stop-motion animation.
Read more and watch the featurette at BritScene

 Final call: intimate moments of actors backstage

For the last 25 years, top actors – from Colin Firth to Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett to David Tennant – have allowed theatrical photographer Simon Annand into the private sanctums of their dressing rooms, capturing them as they prepare to go on stage. This series focuses on the final 30 minutes before curtain-up, known behind the scenes as 'the half': a time for sinking into character, touching up makeup – or having a Diet Coke break.
• The Half is on show at the Idea Generation gallery in Shoreditch, London, from 24 February
Source: The Guardian