David Tennant: project news and updates

• Broadchurch

The Broadchurch soundtrack EP by Olafur Arnalds will be available to American fans from 30th April on iTunes. Source: David Tennant on Twitter 
The worldwide link to watch episode 7 of Broadchurch has been posted to DailyMotion. Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The finale of Broadchurch (an extended episode) airs on ITV tomorrow (22 April) at 9pm.
All the latest Broadchurch news, reviews, photos, etc., can be found here.

• The Politician's Husband

Review of The Politician's Husband in The Lady describes it as 'a reminder of how television should be. It's a big, brainy, sexy political drama with a splendid cast and no compromise made for lightweights.'
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Amazon now list the DVD of The Politician's Husband to be released one week early - on 13th May!
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The BBC have released several new hi-res promo photos of David Tennant in The Politician's Husband. Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The Politician's Husband premieres on BBC Two on Thursday (25 April) at 9pm. 
All the latest The Politian's Husband news, reviews, photos, etc., can be found here.

• Great Scott

RadioDramaReviews has posted a review of The Great Scott: The Fair Maid Of Perth.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter
This afternoon's episode, braodcast on BBC Radio Four at 3pm, was entitled The Great Scott: Rob Roy.  
The third episode of The Great Scott (narrated by David Tennant) will be Waverley. It premieres on Sunday 28th April at 3pm on BBC Radio Four and is repeated the following Saturday.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest Great Scott news, reviews, and MP3 downloads, etc., can be found here.

• Spies of Warsaw

On 17th May, the television station ARTE will start broadcasting Spies Of Warsaw in both France and Germany. Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest Spies of Warsaw news, reviews, photos, etc., can be found here.

• Doctor Who

David Tennant will reprise his role as the Tenth Doctor (with Billie Piper as Rose) for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special episode which will air on Saturday 23rd November 2013. He's been filiming recently, and all filming locations, photos, etc., can be found here.

David Tennant spoke to Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2 briefly on Friday morning via telephone from the Doctor Who set. More info (including MP3 of the call) here.
There is a photo of David Tennant (and all the Doctors) on the front of Doctor Who Magazine #460  which is published on Thursday 2nd May. Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The Peter Davison era of Doctor Who retrospective from the Resurrection Of The Daleks DVD (introduced by David Tennant) has been posted to YouTube. Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest Doctor Who news, reviews, photos, etc., can be found here.

• Bernard Who?

David Tennant will be one of the stars interviewed about Bernard Cribbins in a two part documentary titled Bernard Who? The first episode premieres on BBC Radio Four at 11.30am on Thursday 25th April.
More info here. Source:  David Tennant on Twitter

• Double Income No Kids Yet

The Double Income, No Kids Yet Series One audio is available for £2.99 from AudioGO. (The page has a photo of a young David!) Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Virgin Media Shorts

Screen Daily reports that David Tennant will help judge the Virgin Media Shorts Competition.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

• Much Ado About Nothing

Screen Daily have announced that CinemaLive are to release the David Tennant / Catherine Tate's production of Much Ado About Nothing worldwide in cinemas. Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Tree Fu Tom

TBIVision reports that Tree Fu Tom will be shown on the US station Sprout from 22nd April.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Diary dates

Sun 21 Apr - David Tennant stars in The Great Scott: Rob Roy on BBC Radio Four at 3pm.
Mon 22 Apr - Penguins - Spy In The Huddle released on Blu-ray in the UK.
Mon 22 Apr - Joe Sims (Nige Carter) on Lorraine on ITV at 8.50am and at 12.35pm on Channel 4 on What's Cooking to promote Broadchurch.
Mon 22 Apr - At 7.15pm real life political couple Peter and Virginia Bottomley will discuss The Politician's Husband in Front Row on BBC Radio Four.
Mon 22 Apr - Episode eight of Broadchurch premieres on ITV at 9pm.
Mon 22 Apr - Tree Fu Tom will be shown on the US station Sprout from today.
Tues 23 Apr - Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection Tenth Doctor book Beautiful Chaos is published.
Thurs 25 Apr - David Tennant interviewed in Bernard Who? on BBC Radio Four at 11.30am.
Thurs 25 Apr - Episode one of The Politician's Husband is broadcast on BBC Two.
Sun 28 Apr - The first two episodes of Broadchurch will be shown in Paris at Forum des Images.
Sun 28 Apr - BAFTA Television Craft Awards announced. Writer John Morton nominated for Writing: Comedy for Twenty Twelve.
Sun 28 Apr - Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited - The Fourth Doctor will premiere on BBC America with David Tennant interview clips.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 


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• Broadchurch

Currently the Radio Times website lists the final episode of Broadchurch (on 22nd April) to last an extra 5 minutes so it would run from 9pm to 10.05pm.
The first six episodes of Broadchurch are now available to download from iTunes. Each episode costs £1.89.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The original soundtrack EP of Broadchurch, featuring music written by Olafur Arnalds, will be available for download on Mercury Classics from Monday 15 April. Clips have been posted to Mercury Classics Sound Cloud.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The first two episodes of Broadchurch will be shown in Paris on 28th April at Forum des Images.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest Broadchurch news, reviews, interviews, photos, etc., can be found here.

• The Politician's Husband

The BBC have posted the first trailer for The Politician's Husband to YouTube.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter

It has been confirmed that the first episode of The Politician's Husband will premiere on Thursday 25th April at 9pm on BBC Two. This means that the first episode of the three part drama will be broadcast the same week as the final episode of Broadchurch. More information here.
The BBC Media Centre has added a new David Tennant interview (plus photos) about The Politician's Husband. This is to promote the three part drama, and extracts from the interview will be used in various publications over the next few weeks. In the interview, David explains that Paula Milne's writing and the fact that it is a political drama drew him to the project. Read more here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Amazon are now showing both the front and back cover of The Politician's Husband DVD. It will be released on Monday 20th May.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter

All the latest news, etc., is here.

• Headway

Headway has published April's newsletter, which includes the new David Tennant signed cards.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Spies of Warsaw

In the US, Spies Of Warsaw is available now on Amazon Instant Video.
DentonRC says that the US version of the Spies Of Warsaw DVD (released on Tuesday) includes "a 10-minute featurette with Tennant discussing the feature." Other websites indicate that the extra features will be the interview clips which are on the BBC America website.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
More information here.

• The Great Scott

From Sunday 14th April 2013 at 3pm on BBC Radio Four for three consecutive Sundays, David Tennant will be starring in a series of radio plays written by Walter Scott. The first story is The Fair Maid Of Perth and the second one will be Rob Roy. The final story has not been announced yet.
More information (including MP3 links) here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Richard II

The Richard II performance which was listed in some places for Saturday 7th December has now been removed from both the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Barbican websites. Tickets never went on sale for this performance. This means that now David Tennant will play 84 performances (39 in Stratford-Upon-Avon and 45 in London). Most performances of Richard II on the Royal Shakespeare Company website are sold out but The Barbican Centre website still has availablilty for most dates.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest news, etc., is here.

• Diary dates

Mon 15 Apr - Broadchurch soundtrack EP available for download on Mercury Classics.
Mon 15 Apr - Watch start a new run of repeats of David Tennant's episodes of Doctor Who.
Mon 15 Apr - Episode seven of Broadchurch premieres on ITV at 9pm.
Tues 16 Apr - Spies Of Warsaw DVD is released in the US and Canada.
Thurs 18 Apr - David Tennant's birthday!
Sun 21 Apr - David Tennant stars in The Great Scott: Rob Roy on BBC Radio Four at 3pm.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter



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Richard II
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that David Tennant will star in their production of Richard II which will play in Stratford-Upon-Avon from 10th October and transfer to The Barbican in London on 9th December.
Video interview of David Tennant talking about Richard II for the Royal Shakespeare Company:

The front page of the Royal Shakespeare Company website currently has a silent video of David Tennant / Richard II.

Read more here


Spies of Warsaw
The Spies Of Warsaw DVD was released in the UK on Monday (21 Jan).
Spies Of Warsaw will air on BBC America in the US on Wednesdays 3rd and 10th April at 9pm (Eastern). Spies Of Warsaw will be released in the US on Blu-Ray (with bonus UltraViolet copy) and DVD on Tuesday 16th April.
The Spies Of Warsaw DVD in the US has a different cover to the UK version. This is the link to pre-order for its release on 16th April.
More info here



Every Seventh Wave
On Tuesday 15 January, David Tennant and Emilia Fox recorded Every Seventh Wave which is the sequel to Love Virtually.
It will premiere on BBC radio Four on Valentine's Day (Thursday 14th February).
Read more here 



BBC Radio Drama Awards
On Sunday (27 January) David Tennant hosted the BBC Audio Drama Awards ceremony in Central London.
Two of David's projects (Believe It! and Kafka The Musical) won awards at the ceremony.
A report and photos have been posted by an attendee here
Read more here


Virgin Media
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.
Read more here


Doctor Who
BBC Worldwide have launched a Doctor Who 50th Anniversary website with a David Tennant section. Please note it is a commercial-based website.
The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary 10th Doctor 1:6 Scale Collector Figures went on sale at 6pm on Thursday (24 Jan), with the signed version selling out within half an hour. Big Chief have posted some photos of the figure.



The Escape Artist
TVWise reports that Stephen Wight has been cast in The Escape Artist. None of the cast has been officially announced yet by the BBC.
TVWise have more casting news for The Escape Artist - Toby Kebbell (Black Mirror) and Sophie Okonedo (Sinbad) are the two we did not already know about. However the BBC have not officially announced any cast members yet.
David Tennant was seen at the Old Bailey on Wednesday (23 Jan) presumably doing some preparation work for The Escape Artist.
Nigel Lindsay tweeted that he was also at the Old Bailey with David Tennant, so it seems that he will be in The Escape Artist too.
More info here




Project Motormouth 
Alongside Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker and Paul McGann, David Tennant attended the Project Motor Mouth fan convention in Slough on 19th January.
Janet Fielding has tweeted a photo of herself with the five Doctors who were at Project Motor Mouth.
Read more here


Diary dates
Wed 30 Jan - 2013 Broadcast Awards are announced. Twenty Twelve is short-listed in the Best Comedy Programme category.
Fri 1 Feb - Episode four of Spies Of Warsaw premieres on TVP1 in Poland.


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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
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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
Source: David Tennant on Twitter  

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
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter 


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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.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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 
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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.  
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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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