On Friday 21st December, David Tennant co-hosted the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show with Christian O'Connell from 6am. At 8am they performed the Nativity play in which David played the Virgin Mary.
Also in the play were football presenter Ian Wright, Absolute Radio presenters Richie Firth as 'the star', travel presenter Maggie Doyle as 'Queen Herod', newsreader Andrew Bailey as 'Narrator' and DJ Russ Williams as 'Shepherd'. Christian played Joseph and live music was supplied by singer songwriter Newton Faulkner.
The show streamed live on the internet so was heard worldwide at this link.
MP3s of all four hours of David Tennant on Absolute Radio are here
The BBC Media Centre has confirmed that, as expected, episode 2 of Spies Of Warsaw will premiere on BBC Four on Wednesday 16th January 2013 between 9pm and 10.30pm.
A new clip of David Tennant in Spies Of Warsaw was shown on a news programme on Polish Television. More information here
The first BBC trailer for Spies Of Warsaw was broadcast on BBC Four on 20 December, and has been posted onto Tumblr
Some videos of David Tennant and Billie Piper from the Midnight Fan Convention have been posted onto YouTube.
The videos are: David Tennant and Billie Piper talking about the parallel universe Rose and Doctor 10.5. David Tennant and Billie Piper talking about the Doctor Who monster the Zygons. David Tennant and Billie Piper talking about possible future collaborations. David Tennant and Billie Piper saying goodbye and David says Allons-y as a fan had requested.
Source:David Tennant on Twitter
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
The DVD of Nativity 2 Danger in The Manger! will be released on Monday 18th November 2013. It can be pre-ordered on Amazon.
The Guardian has reported that Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! has gone up two places back to #3 at the UK Box Office. This week it took £938,309 from 508 sites and has taken £5,582,224 in total so far.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Doctor Who
Two of David Tennant's episodes of Doctor Who (Blink and Midnight) will be featured in the Cine Lumière Doctor Who Night on 19th January in London.
The television station Watch will have a David Tennant / Doctor Who afternoon on 1st January 2013. More info here
Stuff.co.nz reports that UKTV in New Zealand will focus on one Doctor a month in 2013 with one Doctor Who story each Sunday afternoon, with each month devoted to a different incarnation of The Doctor.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The Guardian lists an app from Digital Theatre where you can stream Much Ado About Nothing onto your phone in its list of 40 Best iPhone and iPad Apps.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The Jonathan Ross Show
David Tennant will be on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV on Saturday 5th January at 9.45pm. The show records on Friday 4th and this is the link to apply for tickets to watch the recording.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Midnight Fan Convention David Tennant attended the Midnight Fan Convention on Sunday 16th December.
The event was held at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham.Billie Piper also attended the Midnight Fan Convention and she and David did photo shoots (both separately and together) and signed autographs, plus they did a guest talk together.
More information about David Tennant at the Midnight Fan Convention is here, and a detailed report of the David Tennant / Billie Piper panel is here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The Escape Artist David Tennant will star in The Escape Artist, a new three part drama on BBC One.
More information here
BBC's original announcement about the drama is here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The Spies Of Warsaw
The BBC Media Centre have updated their details to reflect that the first episode of The Spies Of Warsaw will première on BBC Four on Wednesday 9th January between 9pm and 10.30pm. It is expected that the second episode will be
shown at the same time the following week.
The BBC Media Centre have posted the synopsis of the second episode of The Spies Of Warsaw. It is expected to première on BBC Four on Wednesday 16th January between 9pm and 10.30pm.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Amazon are now listing the UK release date of the DVD of The Spies Of Warsaw as one week ealier (21st January). However the BBC Shop currently still has it listed as 28th January.
Amazon are showing a new version of the book The Spies Of Warsaw, with a photo of David Tennant on the cover, available to pre-order.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Broadchurch
The Daily Record has reported that STV have confirmed they will screen Broadchurch in Scotland in 2013
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Diary
Fri 21 Dec - David Tennant will co-host the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show with Christian O'Connell.
Absolute Radio Nativity Play
More details about David Tennant's appearance on Absolute Radio in their Nativity play on Friday 21st
can be found here
The Metro newspaper has a contest to win the chance of watching David Tennant perform in Absolute Radio's nativity play on Friday. Details here
Christian O'Connell is asking for help for writing the Nativity play which David Tennant will star in on Friday on Absolute Radio. Currently Christian is looking for funny titles for the play and has suggested people use the hashtag #twitvity to post them onto Twitter.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Christmas TV appearances
Three David Tennant programmes will be repeated over the Christmas period - Doctor Who, Earthflight and Twenty Twelve.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Wed 12 Dec - British Comedy Awards are announced live on Channel Four. Twenty Twelve (narrated by David Tennant) is nominated in Best Sitcome category.
Sun 16 Dec - David Tennant attends the Midnight Fan Convention.
Sun 16 Dec - Autism-friendly screenings of Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! in cinemas around the country (UK)
Midnight Convention
From David Tennant on Twitter:
As it is only a week until lots of visitors to the website will be meeting David Tennant at the Midnight Fan Convention, here are some tips we previously posted about how to get the best out of the experience.
David Tennant finds a shrine to Martin Freeman in our exclusive clip from
Nativity! 2.
The seasonal sequel shows the Doctor Who actor as new teacher Mr Peterson, who
has stepped into the shoes of the former Office star.
He incurs the wrath of devoted colleague Mr Poppy (Marc Wootton) when he
stumbles across his "private cupboard", filled with photos and
memoirs of predecessor Mr Maddens (Freeman).
After entering the school into a national Song For Christmas competition, Mr
Peterson finds himself in his own version of the Nativity as he and his
heavily pregnant wife – played by Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Page – embark
on a long road trip with the kids.
Pam Ferris returns as no-nonsense headmistress Mrs Bevan and Jason Watkins is
back as the rival school leader Gordon Shakespeare.
Now that the issue is no longer on sale, scans of David Tennant's interview in The Big Issue have been posted onto Tumblr
Source: DToT
The Big Issue website has now posted David Tennant's interview. Read it here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Extras DVD
David Tennant's sketch is on the Extras Complete Collection DVD, which includes a photo of him on on the cover. The DVD is available from Amazon
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The Spies of Warsaw
The first episode of The Spies of Warsaw will be broadcast on 11th January 2013 at 8.20pm in Poland. (It will be dubbed into Polish.) As we previously posted, the drama will be broadcast on 6th and 13th February in the US and the UK broadcast (on the station BBC Four) will be sometime in January. More information here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Broadchurch
Broadchurch has finished filming and is now in post-production, with an expected broadcast in Spring 2013. More information can be found here.
Shakespeare Uncovered: PBS Premiere on January 25
In a unique series of six films debuting on PBS Friday, January 25 at
9 p.m. (check local listings), Shakespeare Uncovered will combine
history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal
passions of its celebrated hosts – Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Trevor Nunn, Joely Richardson, and David Tennant – to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare’s greatest plays.
Produced by Richard Denton
for Blakeway Productions & THIRTEEN for WNET in association with
the BBC and Shakespeare’s Globe, each episode explores and reveals the
extraordinary world and works of William Shakespeare
and the still-potent impact they have today. The films combine
interviews with actors, directors and scholars, along with visits to key
locations, clips from some of the most-celebrated film and television
adaptations, and illustrative excerpts from the plays staged specially
for the series at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.
Behind every Shakespeare play there is a story: for instance, how he
and his company dismantled their theater and rowed it across the river
Thames when their landlord cancelled their lease – then staged Henry V
for the first time. There are echoes of the playwright’s life -- who
named his twins Hamnet (a boy, who died at age 11) and Judith -- in
plays like Twelfth Night, where the plot turns on the adventures of
separated twins; and Hamlet, where the drama begins with the grief of a
son who has lost his father. The series shows Shakespeare as an
impresario who, four centuries ago, defined early the tenets of show
business – drawing on historical sources, stealing and adapting ideas,
bringing back popular characters, writing prequels, and developing
dramatic ideas from the politics of the day.
Each program’s host has
deep personal experience with Shakespeare’s work and relates not only
the stories of the plays themselves, but also the stories of how they
came to be written, how they have been performed, and how they have
survived over 400 years.
The six episodes will air as follows: Friday, January 25, 2013
- Shakespeare Uncovered: Macbeth with Ethan Hawke 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET
- Shakespeare Uncovered: The Comedies with Joely Richardson 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET
Friday, February 1, 2013
- Shakespeare Uncovered: Richard II with Derek Jacobi 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET
- Shakespeare Uncovered: Henry IV & Henry V with Jeremy Irons 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET
Friday, February 8, 2013
- Shakespeare Uncovered: Hamlet with David Tennant 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET
An acclaimed Hamlet in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s hit production (also a recent Great Performances production), David Tennant meets fellow actors who’ve tackled this most iconic of roles, including superstar Jude Law,
and compares notes on the role’s titanic challenges. Tennant digs deep
into the text about the doomed Danish Prince alongside the actors Simon Russell Beale and Ben Whishaw.
With them he works to plumb the deeper meanings of the play and the
reason it is widely considered the greatest of Shakespeare’s canon. The
historical sources and religious wars, existential questions of the
meaning of life and death, the idea that ghosts exist and may speak –
all these and a searing personal drama, too – comprise this Everest of a
play. Tennant also finds that many actors who have played Hamlet share
an experience that is deeply and profoundly personal. This is also,
perhaps, the reason audiences feel the play touches them more than any
other before or since.
David Tennant has been announced as a guest at two major conventions in the UK -
Showmasters Lords of Time
Showmasters announced this afternoon that David is their first confirmed guest for the event, scheduled for Friday 7th - Sunday 9th September 2012, Hilton Birmingham Metropole. More information can be found on the Showmasters Forum Source: @David_Tennant (on Twitter) with further details at their blog
Starfury
Midnight
It was confirmed on Friday that David Tennant will attend the Midnight Fan
Convention at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham on Sunday 16th December. Billie Piper
is also attending that day and she and David will be doing a photo shoot (both
separately and together) and will sign autographs, plus they will do a guest
talk together and the closing ceremony. Entry
tickets for the convention are £90 for Regular Tickets and £160 for Gold.
Tickets can be purchased from this link. Additional
prices are £30 for a photo with David, £20 for a photo with Billie and £50 for
a photo with both David and Billie. Extra
autographs (outside of any included in the price of admission) will be £20 for
David and £15 for Billie. More information about David Tennant at the Midnight Convention can be found at David Tennant on Twitter. Starfury Conventions' official site is here
The
Politician’s Husband Recent news about casting, filming, etc, has been reported by C21 Media and Cultbox
DVD and other releases:
Mon 25 June - The DVD of True Love was released in the UK and Europe. More info
at David Tennant on Twitter (blog)
Tues 26 June - The Decoy Bride was released in Region One (the US and Canada)
on both DVD and Blu-ray. More info at David Tennant on Twitter (blog)
Thurs 28 June - The Shakespeare Sonnets app for iPads was released on Thursday.
David Tennant reads 4 sonnets and this link has direct links to them all. The Bookseller has more information about the app here
