David Tennant: TV appearances, interviews, adverts etc

TV appearances
The Minor Character on the Sky Arts channel at 9pm, Thursday 12 April.
More information here

Discovering Hamlet at 9.40pm on Sky Arts 2 HD, Sunday 15 April.
More information here

As part of it's Shakespeare Season the BBC have announced that Twelfth Night (with David Tennant as Malvolio) will broadcast on Sunday 22 April at 8.30pm, and Romeo and Juliet (with David as Prince Escalus) will have its first transmission on Sunday 29th April also at 8.30pm. 
Both plays will be broadcast on BBC Radio Three. Also there are some great new pages for all the BBC Shakespeare programmes in the upcoming months including a new photo of David Tennant recording the radio plays. 
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

SFX interview: David Tennant on The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists

David Tennant is the voice of Charles Darwin in Aardman Animation’s latest stop motion movie The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists which was released  on 28 March. See more pics at SFX


XFM interview 
David was interviewed by Danny Alexander on the XFM Breakfast Show. You can listen to the interview here


Virgin TV adverts
Virgin Media Collection have added an extra advert for online only. Find out more at David Tennant on Twitter


Review of Silver: Return To Treasure Island

The Book Café on BBC Radio Scotland at 1.15pm reviewed Silver: Return To Treasure Island with an audiobook extract read by David Tennant. 



The item included an audiobook extract read by David Tennant. Click here to listen to the eight minute review (David Tennant's brief part starts at 4 minutes 40 seconds). 

Stonemouth review 
Laurence Raw reviews Stonemouth, read by David Tennant

David Tennant: news and project updates

Afternoon Drama - Waiting For The Boatman

Naples is a dangerous place in 1610. Following a violent attack on the street, the renowned painter and hell-raiser Caravaggio has gone missing. Mario Minniti, his former apprentice, arrives in the city to retrace his last known movements, but his search leads to uncompromising discoveries.

Waiting For The Boatman by Stephen Wakelam stars David Tennant as Minniti and Anton Lesser as Piero. The cast also stars Peter Hamilton Dyer as Abraham Vinck, Joe Dempsie as Cecco and Tracy Wiles as Marchesa di Colonna.
To be broadcast on Friday 16 March, 2.15-3.00pm, BBC RADIO 4 
Source: BBC Media Centre

The Decoy Bride - review and competition

• The Guardian reviews The Decoy Bride (beware spoilers!) here

• Competition: win The Decoy Bride on DVD

To celebrate the release of The Decoy Bride, Entertainment Focus has 3 DVD's to give away.
Please note you must be a registered user to enter the competition. If you don't have an account sign-up now.
This competition closes on Friday 30th March 2012 at 11.59pm
More details at Entertainment Focus

The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists - advance screening
There will be an advance screening of The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists in Bristol on 27th March followed by a Q&A with Bristol-based Aardman Productions co-owner and producer Peter Lord.
More information at This Is Bristol
Source: DavidTennantOnTwitter

The Minor Character

Four publicity photos of David Tennant in The Minor Character have been posted online on photographer Chris Lobina's website. The first one is on the front page of the website and the other three are in the publicity photos section (see gallery menu at foot of page). 

Source: DavidTennantOnTwitter

Interview: Red Magazine

David Tennant’s interview by Lauren Laverne is published in Red magazine this month. 

Click here to see a scan of the interview. It says that True Love will be broadcast in April whereas previously May had been announced. 

Source: DavidTennantOnTwitter

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Sky Arts announces a range of new commissions

Sky Arts has boosted its investment in original content with a range of ambitious new commissions, innovations and initiatives for 2012, both on and off screen.

A host of British national treasures will feature in Playhouse Presents – a new series of original comedy and drama productions airing from April.

Building on Sky Arts’ Playhouse Live and Theatre Live series, which were executive produced by Sandi Toksvig, Playhouse Presents is a series of diverse productions which recreate famous moments in history. They span universal themes and genres and showcase acting, directing and writing talent in the UK.

Playhouse casts will include Emma Thompson as the Queen and Sir Tom Jones in his first acting role. Will Self is writing for David Tennant. Other high profile actors to feature include Brenda Blethyn, Trevor Eve, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant, Sheila Hancock, Douglas Henshall, John Hurt, Geraldine James, Tom Jones, Eddie Marsan, Gina McKee, Paul O’Grady, Will Self, Martin Shaw, Harry Shearer, Stellan Skarsgård, Alison Steadman, David Tennant, Emma Thompson, Russell Tovey, Zoe Wanamaker and Olivia Williams.

Read more at Televisual 

Also reported by Deadline and The Stage 

More details of The Snipist starring Douglas Henshall 

More details of The Minor Character starring David Tennant (and here)