David Tennant: project news and updates

 

Richard II

There's a message on the RSC website which says 'There is no availability for Richard II in Stratford-upon-Avon, with the exception of a few performances where there is limited availability for 16-25 year olds.'
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
More information here


The Politicians Husband
New photos of David Tennant (in an apron or a dress!) from The Politician's Husband have been posted to Tumblr, here and here and here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest news, articles, photos, etc are here


The Escape Artist
More photos of David Tennant filming The Escape Artist in Scotland last week have been posted to Tumblr.
David Tennant completed filming The Escape Artist on Friday 22 March. His next project has not yet been announced.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest news, articles, photos, etc are here


Broadchurch
ITV have posted the sixth and final interview with David Tennant about Broadchurch to YouTube:

YouTube
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Non-UK link for episode 3 of Broadchurch. (Use Firefox DownloaderHelp to download the file.)
itvPlayer link for first 3 episodes of Broadchurch (UK only).
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All the latest news, articles, reviews, photos, etc are here


The Spies of Warsaw
BBC America have posted a new trailer for Spies Of Warsaw to YouTube. The trailer plays worldwide.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter
BBC America have posted some new interview videos with David Tennant to promote Spies Of Warsaw which has its American premiere on 3rd and 10th April. the topics covered are:
Doctor Who versus Spies Of Warsaw
Why people love Doctor Who
How does Mercier compare to the Tenth Doctor?
David Tennant's favourite James Bond movie
David Tennant's favourite filming location
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest news, articles, reviews, photos, etc are here


Doctor Who
A new Doctor Who book called The Who's Who of Doctor Who: A Whovian's Guide to Friends, Foes, Villains, Monsters, and Companions to the Good Doctor will be published on 1st November by the person who runs the website BlogtorWho. It will include David Tennant's era as The Doctor.
Buy the book here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The March issue of the U.S. magazine Entertainment Weekly features a story on the Doctor Who 50th anniversary with a look back on all 11 Doctors. It calls David Tennant 'the most beloved of the post-relaunch Doctors.' A scan of the magazine is here.
The Post Office website has sheets of Doctor Who First Day Covers including some with David Tennant for people both in the UK & non-UK. The stamps are issued on 26th March.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter


United
United is apparently now available worldwide on BBCiPlayer Global.
BBCiPlayer Global provides more than 2000 hours of some of the best in British television to audiences outside the UK via the iPad, iPhone and iPod.  It is available for download through your local Apple Apps store.  Programming varies from country to country.  


Diary dates
Mon 25 Mar - Episode four of Broadchurch premieres on ITV at 9pm.
Tues 26 Mar - Doctor Who stamps issued.
Tues 26 Mar - Shakespeare Uncovered DVD is released in the US.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter


Citizens Theatre donation
David Tennant has donated a signed Decoy Bride script with a DVD to be auctioned for the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow
More information here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter


David's birthday
It is 4 weeks until David Tennant's birthday. This link has details about how to send him a card (or receive an autograph).
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

David Tennant: project updates

New David Tennant interview about 'Spies Of Warsaw'
In the issue of the TV Times for the week commencing Saturday 5th January, which was published yesterday, there is an interview with David Tennant from the set of Spies Of Warsaw.
There is also a preview of the two part drama which the TV Times have included as one of its Highlights for Wednesday and they give it five stars.
Read more at David Tennant on Twitter (blog)
19 new photos from Spies Of Warsaw have been posted onto a Polish website including several photos of David Tennant. Read more here

David Tennant to appear on Royal Mail stamp
David Tennant, as the Tenth Doctor, will appear on a set of Royal Mail stamps to be issued in March which will commemorate the Doctor Who 50th anniversary.
Link to pre-order the Doctor Who stamps plus the chance to win some Doctor Who merchandise.
Read more at David Tennant on Twitter


Diary dates

Mon 31 Dec - BBC America in the US broadcasts 24 hours of David Tennant / Doctor Who from 8am and into New Year's Day.
Tues 1 Jan - The television station Watch has a David Tennant / Doctor Who afternoon.
Fri 4 Jan - David Tennant records The Jonathan Ross Show in London.
Sat 5 Jan - David Tennant will be on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV at 9.45pm.
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Tree Fu Tom
TescoDirect have Tree Fu Tom toys available to pre-order, including David Tennant's character Twiggs.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Absolute Radio
David Tennant was featured in the (pre-recorded) programme Christmas Morning With Christian on Absolute Radio.
MP3s of the new segments from all three hours of David Tennant on Absolute Radio on Christmas Day are here.
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David Tennant: project updates and news

• Absolute Radio Nativity Play

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

Absolute Radio have added the Nativity play in 3 parts to YouTube: Part One, Part Two and Part Three.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Spies of Warsaw

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

Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Midnight convention

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 

• Shakespeare's Sonnets

The Sonnets app is voted one of the Top Ten apps of 2012 by The Independent
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Digital Theatre

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

David Tennant: project updates, public appearances

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

BBC America 'sneak peak' trailer

More information on The Spies of Warsaw can be found here
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.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

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

David Tennant: project news and updates, public appearances

• Diary dates

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.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• David Tennant in Nativity 2 - Exclusiveclip

Star of David ... Tennant in the Christmas sequel

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.

Read more and see the clip here

• Dragons: Riders of Berk

A worldwide link to watch the video of David Tennant's episode of Dragons: Riders of Berk called Thawfest is here 

Source: DToT

• Big Issue interview

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.

- Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest with Trevor Nunn 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET
Read more at: Broadway World
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David Tennant: forthcoming appearances and project updates

• Diary dates

Sun 2 Dec - Autism-friendly screenings of Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! in cinemas around the country (UK). Details here

• Big Issue

David Tennant was featured in The Big Issue on Monday 26 November.

 This link has details regarding how you can buy a copy from anywhere in the world.

• Nativity 2

During the opening weekend of Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! it grossed £1.6 million which was double the amount the original Nativity movie earned in its first weekend.
The Guardian (who gave the movie a bad review) has an article titled "A stable start for Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger." It says that the movie was the third most popular movie at UK cinemas during its opening weekend:
1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, £5,344,598 from 559 sites. Total: £26,979,458
2. Skyfall, £3,809,893 from 550 sites. Total: £89,620,677
3. Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!, £1,614,675 from 435 sites (New)
The soundtrack of Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! now available on iTunes.

The Mumsnet Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! Advent Calendar today has a free download of the song Yes We Can from the movie.

A David Tennant video interview about Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! from Magic FM can be viewed here.

• Secret Universe: The Hidden Life Of The Cell

There is now a worldwide link to watch the David Tennant narrated documentary Secret Universe: The Hidden Life Of The Cell.

• How To Train Your Dragon

The BBC have announced the outline of their Christmas programming and it includes the movie How To Train Your Dragon in which David Tennant has a couple of lines.

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

A clip of David Tennant reading an extract from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has been posted onto Tumblr.

• Christian O'Connell / Absolute Radio

Christian O'Connell has tweeted that his last show of 2012 on Absolute Radio will be co-hosted by David Tennant and he has described it as an 'Alternative Nativity.' Christian did not specify on which day the programme will air.
Christian O'Connell further tweeted that the show will be on Friday 21st December and that it will be in front of a live audience with people taking part as in a children's Nativity play. He will broadcast how to win a part in the audience next week.

• Riders of Berk

David Tennant voices a character in the US television series Dreamworks Dragons: Riders Of Berk. More information here
Scotsman.com has an article about David Tennant voicing a character in Dreamworks Dragons Riders Of Berk on US television.

• The Spies of Warsaw

The Spies Of Warsaw was one of the programmes included in a BBC Worldwide's showcase last night according to a report on Bandt.com. This means that the drama will be broadcast on Australian television.

• Broadchurch

DavidTennantOnTwitter.com has published an update on Broadchurch filming schedules, including David Tennant arriving on set at 10.30am on Friday, and the news that filming on the drama will now end on Tuesday (4th) and not Friday as originally announced.

greylight5_b on Twitter has posted a photo of shooting in a graveyard during the day for Broadchurch. Apparently David Tennant was involved with the filming (and then filmed that night too!)

On Thursday night David Tennant had a night shoot for Broadchurch. It started at 10pm in Hill Road, Clevedon which Andrew (who emailed us about the shoot) described as "next door to Scoozi restaurant where they had made a mock up hotel opposite what was Seeleys stationers and has now been mocked up as the Echo news office."



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Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger!
The London première was on Tuesday 13th November with celebrity arrivals starting at around 5.45pm at the Empire in Leicester Square. David Tennant attended, together with his co-stars. Loads of information, photos and links can be found here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter (blog) 

On Saturday 11 November, MumsNet's advent calendar based on Nativity 2: Danger In The Manager had an exclusive clip of Mr Peterson (David Tennant) arriving at the school on his first day:

Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Broadchurch
Broadchurch producer Richard Stokes tweeted last night that they had completed the studio shoots and would be back to shooting on location from Monday. This explains why there have been so few sightings of filming in the past couple of weeks.
Meanwhile sunshine posted on the GallifreyBase forum that filming on Broadchurch took place in Weston-Super-Mare hospital on Thursday and that they were also in Bowlish House in Shepton Mallet last week.
These details have been added to the Broadchurch known filming dates and locations section of the website.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter


The Spies of Warsaw
BBC America sets premiere dates for Spies Of Warsaw
The Spies of Warsaw will follow Doctor Who alum David Tennant and Made in Jersey’s Janet Montgomery as lovers in Warsaw whose relationship is complicated as WWII approaches. The two-part series will air over two nights, on February 6 and February 13.
Read more at Cinema Blend

Children in Need
David Tennant has signed a Pudsey Bear which is being auctioned for Children In Need. It is currently £310 after 34 bids. The auction ends on Wednesday.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

• Doctor Who - 10th Doctor Time Leech Comic - sgned by David Tennant

The last copy of the Kasterorous.com's Limited Edition Doctor Who comic Time Leech, signed by David Tennant, raised £185 for BBC Children in Need
Source: Kasterborous

• Top 10 Children In Need moments:

Doctor Who fans everywhere died and went to heaven when then-Doctor David Tennant and former Timelord Peter Davidson ‘met’ for the first time in this 2007 skit. Tennant’s Doctor had the upper hand here, realising early on that he was meeting himself, while Davidson’s Doctor remained oblivious. Highlights included Davidson’s character describing the Timelord as we’d all been wanting to: ‘Some skinny idiot ranting in front of my face about every single thing that happens to him.’

Read more: Metro

Shakespeare Uncovered
David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered will have its first US broadcast on BBC America on Friday 8th February at 9pm. More info here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Star Wars
Doctor Who star David Tennant wants role in Star Wars
Former Doctor Who star David Tennant has revealed that he would love to feature in future Star Wars films.
The actor recently provided the voice of a droid in the animated cartoon series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Disney has bought Lucasfilm, the company behind Star Wars and plans to release a new Star Wars film, episode seven, in 2015.

The actor was speaking to Newsbeat's entertainment reporter Natalie Jamieson.
Source: Newsbeat

Doctor Who 
Eight of David Tennant's episodes are mentioned in TheCelebrityCafe's "Top 10 Doctor Who Episodes".
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Diary Dates
Tues 20 Nov - In America, DVD box-set of Doctor Who Series One to Six is released.
Wed 21 Nov - Nativity Two Danger In The Manger! will be reviewed on Film 2012 on BBC One at 11.25pm.
Fri 23 Nov - Nativity Two: Danger In The Manger is released in the UK.
Sat 24 Nov - David Tennant voices Huyang in Star Wars: The Clone Wars in a new episode which premières on the Cartoon Network at 9.30am in the US.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

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David Tennant: project updates

Comedy World Cup
The Channel 4 YouTube page now has episode 6 of Comedy World Cup added, here.
The link for those outside the UK to watch episode 6 of Comedy World Cup is here.
Channel Four's YouTube link to video for the final of Comedy World Cup from last night (UK only) is here.
4OnDemand'a link to video for the final of Comedy World Cup from last night (UK only) is here. 

Tree Fu Tom
The DVD of the first series of Tree Fu Tom was released in the UK on Monday (22 Oct) - details here

Ebay auction
David Tennant drew and signed a doodle for the Steps For Young People charity which was auctioned on eBay. 

The auction ended earlier today (Sunday) and raised £311 for the charity. Details here.

Secret Universe
The iPlayer link (UK only) for the David Tennant narrated documentary Secret Universe: The Hidden Life Of The Cell is valid for 7 days.
The link for those outside the UK to watch Secret Universe: The Hidden Life Of The Cell is here 
A different link for Secret Universe: The Hidden Life Of The Cell which will play worldwide is here

Seven Stories
Seven Stories in Newcastle have a new exhibition which opens on Saturday and is voiced by David Tennant. A teaser video has been shared by the Seven Stories marketing department, here.

The Spies of Warsaw
BBC America are now listing they will broadcast The Spies Of Warsaw in the Winter of 2013, whereas previously they specified January.

Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger
There will be some charity screenings of Nativity 2! Danger in The Manger on 11th November. All proceeds will go to Children In Need.
Cinemas participating are listed here
The Birmingham Mail report on a competition for children to sing at the première of Nativity 2! Danger in The Manger (plus the winner will appear in Nativity 3). Details here.

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David Tennant: project updates and diary dates

Diary dates
Sun 21 Oct - David Tennant narrated documentary Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell premières at 8pm on BBC Two.
Mon 22 Oct - DVD of the first series of Tree Fu Tom is released in the UK.
Tues 23 Oct - Nativity 2 director Debbie Isitt is doing a talk about the movie in Birmingham.
Sat 27 Oct - The final of Comedy World Cup is broadcast on Channel Four at 8pm.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

The Spies of Warsaw
The Amazon website now says that the European release of The Spies Of Warsaw DVD has been delayed until 28th January 2013.
(This ties up with the delayed broadcast time of around Christmas / New Year.)
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Doctor Who
Next year AudioGo and Big Finish will produce a series of releases to commemorate the Doctor Who 50th anniversary. The series will feature one Doctor per month, according to SciFi Bulletin
ScienceFiction.com have details of a new Doctor Who Limited Edition Gift Set of the six years of "New Who" which covers Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith's eras.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of The Cell
The David Tennant narrated documentary Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell has its television première at 8pm tonight on BBC Two.
The BBC have added a video clip from Secret Universe: The Hidden Life Of The Cell.
A graphic for the David Tennant narrated Secret Universe: The Hidden Life Of the Cell documentary has been uploaded to Twitter.
Radio Times have a preview of Secret Universe: The Hidden Life Of The Cell.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

David Tennant: project updates

• The Spies Of Warsaw goes international

Increasing its chances to be seen beyond the territories of its co-production companies, The Spies of Warsaw – starring David Tennant – is to be offered on the international TV market at MIPCOM 2012 next month.
BBC Worldwide are launching this and a number of other titles on the market including Top of the Lake, staring Elizabeth Moss (Mad Men) and written and directed by Jane Campion (The Piano), The Paradise featuring former Doctor Who guest star Sarah Lancashire (Partners in Crime), and A Young Doctors Notebook, starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and John Hamm (Mad Men).
The BBC’s commercial arm will also be hosting the stars of Ripper Street, who will be appearing in Cannes to promote the series.
MIPCOM- held annually in Cannes – is a worldwide content provider for creating, co-producing, and buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment across all platforms.
This year’s event runs from the 8th – 11th October 2012.
The Spies of Warsaw – an adaptation of Alan Furst’s novel by the legendary writing duo of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais – a co-production between the UK’s BBC Four, BBC America, ARTE France and Poland’s TVP 1 (where the drama was filmed) is rumoured to be airing on BBC Four during the Christmas period.
Source: Kasterborous
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• Broadchurch location report

 A number of famous faces have been seen in North Somerset as filming for a new drama featuring Doctor Who star David Tenant goes out on location.
Crews have been in the Clevedon and Portishead during the past weeks filming for a new eight part drama series, Broadchurch, for ITV1.
The star studded cast includes David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Andrew Buchan, Jodie Whittaker, Vicky McClure, Pauline Quirke, Will Mellor, Arthur Darvill and Carolyn Pickles.
Scottish-born David Tennant, aged 41, is best known for his work in theatre, as the 10th incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and in the title role in the TV serial Casanova (2005).
Olivia Colman is a BAFTA nominated English comedy actress who received critical acclaim for her breakthrough performance in the 2011 film Tyrannosaur.
Most of the  other players have all had considerable big and small screen success especially Pauline Quirke of Birds of a Feather fame.
Broadchurch is inspired by the series The Killing and written by Chris Chibnall, creator of Law and Order: UK and Doctor Who.
It explores what happens to a small community in Dorset when it suddenly becomes the focus of a police investigation following the mysterious and tragic death of 11-year-old Danny Latimer (Oskar McNamara).
Working under the glare of the media spotlight David Tennant will play a gritty detective who investigates crimes which other policeman have been unable to solve.
As DI Alec Hardy, an out of town, newly promoted police detective he takes the job local girl DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) believes should have been hers.
The sadness of losing a child consumes the family, Beth and Mark Latimer (Andrew Buchan and Jodie Whittaker) and their 15-year-old daughter Chloe (Charlotte Beaumont) and Beth's mum Liz (Susan Brown) as they attempt to cope with their grief, everyday normal life and the abruptness of the unwarranted attention heaped upon them.
Mr Chibnall said: "Broadchurch focuses on a small British community which finds itself at the eye of a storm.
"In the wake of one boy's death, the residents of Broadchurch come under scrutiny and suspicion."
In the past week the crew has been filming at St Andrew's Church at Wains Hill, Clevedon as well as Strode Road.
Hill Road has been used to represent Broadchurch High Street where a number of exterior scenes have been shot.
The former Seeley's Newsagent in Hill Road is also being adapted, both inside and out, to turn it into the offices of local newspaper, The Broadchurch Echo - which sadly is only yards from the former Clevedon Mercury base at Albert Road.
A number of scenes will also be shot in the West End area of the town, around Marshall's Field and Clevedon Pill.
Two private houses in St Andrews Drive and Lavington Close will be used to represent the homes of some of the characters and St Andrew's Church will represent the Broadchurch parish church.
The drama is being filmed in and around the Bristol area until the end of November.
It will be broadcast on ITV during early 2013.
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• A Puckish send-off for a free spirit of the arts world

Actor David Tennant stepped in to fulfil the dying dream of Brunswick Arts PR Helen Scott Lidgett and read a Shakespeare soliloquy at her memorial at Central St Martins. Comedian Arabella Weir, an old friend of Scott Lidgett, who died aged 63, said the tribute was a bone of contention.
“One thing we argued about was what was going to be read at her memorial. She said, ‘You’re going to read Puck’s soliloquy because you’re a professional actress’, and I said, ‘I’m absolutely not’.” 
In the event, Weir persuaded Tennant to speak from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other tributes were led by Scott Lidgett’s former business partner, ex-PM’s wife Sarah Brown, artists Antony Gormley and Grayson Perry, Royal Academy chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith and ex-V&A boss Mark Jones. 

Sir John Tusa, who runs the University of the Arts, where Scott Lidgett was a governor, summed up her working process as “good business deserved good friendship deserved good parties”. A scholarship for a future fine arts student is being established in her name. 

Daughter Holly acknowledged her maverick spirit. When she was to be expelled from school, her mother said: “Some of the most successful people have been expelled at least once.”

Source: Standard

•  Nativity 2 trailer

VirginMedia have posted the full trailer for David Tennant's forthcoming movie Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger. 
The trailer can be viewed here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
 

• GQ Best-dressed man of 2013

David Tennant has been nominated in the GQ Magazine 2013 Best Dressed Man poll. Voting is at this link.
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• Our Boys Press Night and after party

On Wednesday evening, David Tennant attended the Press Night of Our Boys. There are photos of David arriving on Tumblr, WireImage and Getty
Some photos from Zimbio of David Tennant and Matt Smith attending the Press Night of Our Boys have been added to Tumblr
There are articles (with photos) in both the Evening Standard and on the What's On Stage website about both David Tennant and Matt Smith attending the Press Night of Our Boys.
Daily Mail has an article (with photos) of David Tennant and Matt Smith together at Our Boys Press Night
Dan Wooler has added more photos of David Tennant at Our Boys Press Night (including some of David with Matt Smith)
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

• Doctor Who in the US

Links to download David Tennant's interview on the BBC America programme Doctor Who In The US have been added to Tumblr. 
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• Diary dates

Wed 10 Oct - Nativity 2 writer Debbie Isitt appearance at CRE, Manchester including showing clips of the movie.
Fri 12 Oct - BAFTA Pirates day including a screening of The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists movie in Belfast.
Fri 12 Oct - New Doctor Who book is published with contributions from fans and celebrities to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research UK.
Sat 13 Oct - Episode 5 of Comedy World Cup is broadcast at 7pm on Channel Four.
Sun 14 Oct - A panel on Twenty Twelve at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.  
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

David Tennant: project updates

The Spies Of Warsaw
On BBC America's The Spies Of Warsaw page, they have added a 'sneak peek' video with clips of the drama.  It will air in America in January 2013 and slightly sooner in the UK 
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
There's some confusion over the broadcast date and DVD release date of The Spies Of Warsaw - see here for details.
Source: DavidTennantOnTwitter

Comedy World Cup
Channel Four have posted episode 3 of Comedy World Cup onto YouTube. Unfortunately the link will only work within the UK. 
The worldwide link to download episode 3 of David Tennant hosting Comedy World Cup has been posted onto Tumblr  
Source: DavidTennantOnTwitter
The international link to download episode two of Comedy World Cup has been posted onto Tumblr.
Source: DavidTennantOnTwitter

Nativity 2! Danger In The Manger
According to the MarkMeets.com website, the premiere of Nativity 2! Danger In The Manger will be on Wednesday 14th Novmber in London. The exact cinema is not known yet and it is not known whether or not David Tennant will be there (but it seems likely!) MarkMeets also says that the celebrity arrivals are likely to be between 5.15pm and 6.15pm (which is the usual time at these events). 
Source: DavidTennantOnTwitter

The Decoy Bride
Behind-the-camera footage of The Decoy Bride from the US DVD has been posted onto Tumblr. 
Source: DavidTennantOnTwitter 

Other news

• David Tennant's profile as director is now on the official RSC site
• David Tennant Daily News Digest available here
• DavidTennantOnTwitter.com will post a David Tennant Daily Photo each day onto their Facebook page