Review
of The Minor Character
Ian D Hall of Liverpool Student Media gives The Minor Character 5 stars.
Read the full review here
BBC Radio Three Shakespeare Season
Starts
Sunday
David
Tennant will be one of the actors involved in the BBC Radio Three Shakespeare
Season as part of The Cultural Olympiad. Part
of this project is 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.
Twelfth
Night will be broadcast on Sunday 22nd April and Romeo and Juliet on Sunday
29th April. Both transmissions wil be at 8.30pm on BBC Radio Three.
Read
more here
Believe
It!
Based
on glimmers of truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing and, most
importantly, untrue celebrity radiography of Richard Wilson.
Celebrity
autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has always said he'd never write
one. Richard, however, narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised
scenes from his fictional life story. He
plays a heavily exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national
treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester
United - all true.
He’s
a confidant of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a drunken
father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction,
charity work, secret work for governments and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery
- all not true.
All
the melodramatic staples of celebrity-autobiography are wonderfully undercut by
Richard's deadpan delivery.
Throughout
the series, Richard is supported by a small core cast including David Tennant,
John Sessions, Lewis Macleod, Arabella Weir and Jane Slavin.
Ep 1/4
Wednesday 9 May
11.30-12.00pm
BBC RADIO 4
Source: BBC Media Centre
Faber
launches Shakespeare app
Faber is in the final stages of producing a "spectacular" digital
edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in which a broad swathe of high-profile
actors including David Tennant, Sir Patrick Stewart and Fiona Shaw will read
each of the 154 poems to camera.
The
Apple iPad app will be published within the next month, with a price likely to
be on a par with Faber's previous app, T S Eliot's The Waste Land (£9.99).
Shakespeare's
Sonnets has been created in a partnership with three other parties: digital
publisher Touch Press, which Faber also collaborated with for The Waste Land;
TV company Illuminations, which filmed the 154 sonnet readings by the act; and
the authoritative Arden Shakespeare series, which has contributed its complete
Arden notes on the sonnets to the edition.
Scholars
including the editor of the Arden edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Katherine
Duncan-Jones, also offer filmed commentary as part of the digital edition and a
facsimile of the 1609 Quarto edition of the sonnets is also included.
Faber
c.e.o. Stephen Page said: "The book is changing and the opportunity to
claim new turf is enormous," adding that head of digital publishing Henry
Volans had taken a role akin to that of a producer in brokering the
partnerships.
The
app has cost a "low six-figures" to create, with Faber's contribution
a five-figure sum.
Source: The Bookseller
For all the latest
David Tennant news, check out DavidTennant on Twitter
David
Tennant to star in TV drama 'The Spies Of Warsaw'
Former Doctor Who star David Tennant will play a French spy in a new two-part
Second World War-era drama by Likely Lads writers Dick Clement and Ian La
Frenais.
The
actor will appear with Merlin star Janet Montgomery in the BBC Four show The
Spies Of Warsaw based on the best-selling novel by Alan Furst.
Tennant's
character is drawn into the murky world of espionage in the story which is set
in Poland, Paris, London and Berlin in the years leading up to the outbreak of
war.
BBC
Four controller Richard Klein described the show as "a tense, passionate
and sexy love story set against the increasingly strident clang of coming
war".
He
said: "Spies Of Warsaw is an entertaining, thrilling and insightful drama
with a very different take on the Second World War, seen through the eyes of
characters who know from the start that they and their fellow countrymen will
face the brunt of the horrors to come: this is top class drama, and perfect for
BBC Four."
Clement
and La Frenais have written some of the most popular British television shows
of the last 40 years including The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen,
Pet.
Filming
will start next month in Poland.
Source: The Independent
Also
reported by Hollywood Reporter
Televisual ATVToday TheaterMania, and many more!
Regular updates on The Spies of Warsaw can be found at David Tennant On Twitter
Netflix Sign Up BBC United Drama For Streaming
Netflix
are said to be one of several international buyers of the rights to BBC’s
English direct-to-TV film United, a feature starring David Tennant and Dougray Scott, based on the
true story of the tragic 1958 Munich air disaster that killed many of the
Manchester United football team of that season.
The
crash, which saw 21 people (including 8 players) lose their lives (out of a
total 45 people on-board the plane), shocked the world of football (in
particular in England), and tributes are still made to this day, most notably
on its 50th anniversary in 2008. The 90-minute long film, written by Chris
Chibnall and directed by James Strong, was first aired over three years later.
A
year after it was premièred on BBC Two, the production is now being licensed
abroad through Content Television, with online streaming giant Netflix snapping
up the broadcasting rights in both USA and Canada.
Other
multiple rights holders now include Universal Pictures Pty for Australia &
New Zealand, Tele-Munchen Group for ‘German-speaking Europe’, and subscription
HBO for a number of countries throughout Asia. European nation-wide
broadcasters picking up rights include TV2 (Denmark), RTE (Ireland), NRK
(Norway), ITI Neovision (Poland), and SVT (Sweden), and ITI Neovision (Poland).
Paradiso hold all rights to United in Japan, whilst M Pictures hold a similar
arrangement in Thailand, and a number of other providers such as Sundance Global
Channel and Carmen Film have also signed deals, the culmination of an
impressive session in Cannes (France) for Content Television.
Source: World TV PC
Also reported by Virtual Press Office and C21 Media
This week's TV appearances
- Thurs
12 April - The Minor Character, Sky Arts channel at 9pm.
- Fri
13 April - Episode Three of the David Tennant narrated comedy Twenty Twelve, BBC Two at 10pm.
- Sun
15 April - Discovering Hamlet at 9.40pm on Sky Arts 2 HD.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
