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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Scottish actresses present radio show Girl on Girl - East Dunbartonshire's answer to Loose Women

Scottish actresses Elizabeth Baillie and Claire McKenna now present a weekly radio show on EDRadio, the new community radio show for the East Dunbartonshire area.  This week the girls talked to Kim Macleod who came from receiving her Hero of Happiness Medal at the House of Lords to the Bishopbriggs Media Centre for the girls' most recent podcast.  To join the fan page visit Facebook where you can also find the link to their shows.

Elizabeth Baillie has recently appeared in Archie a Wee Ghost Story and is presently working on projects with East Dunbartonshire Radio and Cue and Review Print Speaking to the Blind, to encourage the acting and radio production skills of disabled and local young people.

Claire McKenna is the Co founder of Calm Media Productions, and generously organised a calendar shoot for the charity Cue and Review Print Speaking to the Blind.  She is presently working on a short film Whispers.

Girl on Girl – East Dunbartonshire’s Answer to Loose Women. Listen here.

Source: Cue and Review (by email)

Twitter @cueandreview Facebook.com/cueandreview

Video source: YouTube

David Tennant: project news and updates

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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Elaine C Smith: 'Mum and Me' radio series

Mum and Me - radio series hosted by Elaine C Smith
1/6 How would you react if your 16 year old daughter told you she was pregnant? In this new BBC Radio Scotland series, Mum and Me, Elaine C Smith hears some heart felt stories about the unique relationship between a mother and her child. This programme looks at the issues that surround being a teen mum. Elaine C Smith talks to Lois Beaumont as she reflects back on her teenage pregnancy and how it changed her life and the relationship with her own mother.
First broadcast BBC Radio Scotland, 2:05PM Thu, 25 Oct 2012
Available until 1:32PM Thu, 1 Nov 2012
Duration 30 minutes
Listen to the programme at BBC

Tony Roper: Scotland Inspired

There are two days left to listen to Tony Roper on BBC Radio Scotland’s Scotland Inspired

Actor and writer Tony Roper presents his personal journey through the arts in Scotland.

An ambitious exploration of the arts in Scotland in which a range of artists take us on 15-minute 'personal journeys' illustrating their inspiration and the lineage of their artform.

More information here and here 

David Hayman: Six and a Tanner review and interview

• Review: Six and a Tanner

Date Reviewed: 15 August 2012

WOS Rating: 4 stars

The Assembly Rooms

1-26 August

After a successful run at A Play, a Pie and a Pint at Glasgow's Oran Mor and an extensive tour of Scotland, David Hayman brings Rony Bridges' autobiographical Six and a Tanner to the Edinburgh Fringe.

Standing over the coffin of his abusive father, a Springburn man recounts the heartaches of his childhood, laying his father's imposing leather belt before him and telling the story of the man who both made and wronged him. 

What opens as a personal exorcism of childhood demons develops into a funny and captivating seance of the loves and loathes of the character's life, offering a nostalgic yet bitter look at old Glasgow, its people and its romanticised decay.

David Hayman proves himself to be one of Scotland's finest actors. His voice, gruff and full of the private memories of a neglectful childhood, fills the Assembly Room's ballroom like the most potent incense, dramatic in its effect and at times breathtaking. His emotional intensity is rapturous and his handling of the gallows humour both poignant and affecting.

Sylvia Plath gave to the arts poetic patricide; Rony Bridges has achieved something similar in Six and a Tanner. Emotionally powerful and outstandingly acted, this a truly unmissable performance.

- by Scott Purvis

Source: What's On Stage

• Front Row

Mark Lawson reports from Edinburgh's Festival and Fringe, in a programme recorded in front of an audience, with guests including David Hayman, Tom Thum and Virginia Ironside.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has just reached the half-way mark, and this evening Front Row comes from the world's largest arts festival. Recorded in front of a live audience in the big blue tent, Mark Lawson will be providing at taste of this year's Fringe.

Guests include the Scottish actor David Hayman, whose show Six and a Tanner is a solo performance of one man railing against his dead father; Australian beatboxer Tom Thum demonstrates his extraordinary vocal talents; the writer of a new play based on the story of Anders Breivik who killed 77 people in Norway last summer discusses the background to his play The Economist.

Read more (includes iPlayer recording) at BBC

 

Please note that the interview may only be available for a limited period, and may only be accessible by UK residents.

John Barrowman: new project, forthcoming appearances, etc

• New project

John Barrowman joins cast of Arrow 
John Barrowman has joined the cast of Arrow. The Torchwood star will take on a leading role in the CW's new show about superheroes, which will concentrate on the exploits of billionaire Oliver Queen - aka 'The Green Arrow' - who fights crime with his archery skills. 

According to Entertainment Weekly, John will play a ''well-dressed man who is as mysterious as he is wealthy ... he is an acquaintance of the queen family and a prominent figure in Starling City''. His character has not been named and insiders claim the 45-year-old star could be set to take on the role of deranged Stanley Dover, who is obsessed with black magic. 

John's casting comes after he shot the pilot for another US TV series, Gilded Lilys - which is being billed as America's answer to Downton Abbey. He plays Julius Ashford Lily in in the period drama, which has been commissioned by ABC. It tells the story of the first luxury hotel built in New York in 1895 and John's character is described as the ''favourite son and golden boy'' of the Lily family, whose financial and social fortunes are undermined by a scandal. Gwyneth Paltrow's actress mother Blythe Danner has also been cast in the show, as has 'Mildred Pierce' actor Brian O'Byrne. 
Source: STV  
Originally reported by Entertainment Weekly
Also reported by Reality TV World and BBC America and many many others! 

• TV, radio, and public appearances

Attack of the Show
John will be a guest host on Attack of the Show in the week of 3 Sept.
Read more at Futon Critic


Gotta Sing Gotta Dance 
BBC Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night presents a tribute to Gene Kelly - Gotta Sing Gotta Dance! at 8:00 pm on Friday 28th September. Starring John Barrowman with the sixty piece BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Broadway maestro Larry Blank, the concert also stars Scarlett Strallen (currently starring in Singin' in the Rain a the Palace Theatre) and big band vocalist Matt Ford who performs regularly with the BBC Big Band, Halle, Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, RTE Concert Orchestra and the John Wilson Orchestra performing at the BBC Proms in Hooray For Hollywood.. 

The concert features classic numbers including: Singin in the Rain; You Were Meant For Me; Almost Like Being in Love; I Could Write A Book; Make 'Em Laugh; Get Happy; For Me and My Gal; I Got Rhythm; Good Morning and Broadway Melody. 
Source: Musical Theatre News

John Barrowman to visit Waterstones in Glasgow 
On September 14 at 6pm, Torchwood and musical star John Barrowman and his sister, Carole E Barrowman, will make a return visit, after an extremely popular event earlier this year. 

They’ve co-written a new book, Torchwood: Exodus Code, which they’ll be signing copies of – the follow-up to Hollow Earth which is already available in the UK. Again, staff expect the event to be popular – so the advice is to arrive early. 
Read more at STV 

John’s forthcoming appearances are listed and regularly updated on his official site

• Torchwood audiobook

Torchwood: The Exodus Code audiobook 
Regulars will already know about Torchwood: The Exodus Code novel by John Barrowman and his sister Carole – but did you know that there is also an audiobook version from AudioGO? Scheduled for release on 13th September, Torchwood: The Exodus Code currently has no reader confirmed (Eve Myles or John Barrowman would seem most likely for a big original title like this), so we can only assume that they’re busily recording and putting the results through post-production right now! You can get your copy of the 7 CD audiobook – lasting around 9 hours – for an RRP of £15.99, or head to Amazon where the story can be pre-ordered for just £13.68.  
Read more at Kasterborous

One of the comments states It will be read by Daniel Pirrie, it has been confirmed by Audiogo here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=377175169014350&set=a.137883742943495.26252.101173216614548&type=1

 

• Interview with George R R Martin

John Barrowman interviews ‘Game of Thrones’ author George R.R. Martin 
Fandoms collide: Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin spoke to Torchwood star John Barrowman at Comic-Con, and the video interview is online now!

The interview was done at Comic-Con and released a few weeks ago, but Martin thought it was noteworthy enough to write about recently on his blog to share it with his fans. 

In the video, Martin talks about his first Comic-Con and his favourite comics, and they discuss being fans while being unable to walk around the convention without being mobbed. They also go over some of the things we’ve heard before, like how Martin was originally inspired by turtles and why Tyrion is his favourite character. On season 3, Martin won’t give anything away but does warn book fans that there are changes coming: “I kill a lot of characters, [the showrunners] kill even more.” Well, that’s just terrifying, right guys?! The interview was done with G4. 

Source: Hypable 

John Barrowman: Hay Festival, radio interviews, June tour details

• Hay Festival 

The 1 June podcast of The Chris Evans Show from Hay Festival, featuring John Barrowman reading one of the winning entries, is now live at BBC Podcasts 

A full report of John's appearance at the Hay Festival is in The Telegraph 

• Radio interviews

John Barrowman was Ally Bally’s guest on the Mid Morning Show (Radio Forth2) on 31 May. Listen to the interview here 

John Barrowman was also interviewed by Darren Spence on Radio Magic999 – hear the interview here 

• John Barrowman announces tour and takes part in the Queen’s jubilee

Actor and performer John Barrowman is embarking upon a four-date summer tour this June.

The tour begins at Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre on Thursday, June 21st before fans in Scotland can book Glasgow hotels on Friday, 22nd June to catch the second date at Glasgow Green.

He then finishes at Tower Festival Headland in Blackpool on Saturday, 23rd June and Hampton Court Palace in London on Sunday, June 24th.

The tour follows the success of his 2010 and 2011 UK tours and these dates are even more special, as they take place in some of Britain’s most fabulous open-air venues. Attendees will be able to get in early to eat, drink and relax in the surroundings before the concert begins. These four dates are his only headline dates of 2012.

Fans will also have kept their eyes peeled during BBC America’s live coverage of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: Thames Pageant yesterday (Sunday, June 3). John put on his reporter’s hat, presenting live coverage of the boat race from the Belfry Barge on the Thames.

Source:  Divine Varod