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Sunday, 5 August 2012

David Tennant: appearances and project updates

  • Television Critics Association

On Wednesday 1st August, David Tennant appeared at the at Television Critics Association Summer Tour in Beverley Hills to help promote The Spies Of Warsaw.
Although the BBC America panel was only 15 minutes in length it gave about a hundred television journalists the chance to talk to David and the writers and to watch a clip of the drama which wil start being broadcast in the US in November.

Some journalists also interviewed David later too.
More details about David Tennant at the Television Critics Association can be found here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 


  • Attack Of The Show
On Thursday 2nd August, an interview with David Tennant was broadcast on the programme Attack On The Show in the US and Canada.
Attack Of The Show is geared towards the male viewers as the description on the G4TV website says "Welcome to TV's only source for all the stuff you care about from the coolest viral videos to the hottest new gadgets, comics and movies. Attack of the Show gets it before it gets out."
Attack Of The Show was broadcast at 7pm ET on G4 in America (repeated at 2am) and at the same time on G4 TechTV in Canada. It was also shown in Australia on the channel Fuel at 4.30pm the following day.
Click here to watch a video of the full interview. 
More information on David Tennant on Attack On The Show can be found here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

David Tennant Talks Spies Of Warsaw & Doctor Who
David Tennant joins Matt Mira in studio to share the latest on his upcoming miniseries, The Spies of Warsaw, on BBC America and what life is like as the most popular Doctor Who.

Source: G4TV 

Also reported by BBC America 



  • Broadchurch
David Tennant will start filming Broadchurch in Somerset and the Bristol area on Monday 13th August 2012 and it will be broadcast on ITV during early 2012.
Inspired by the series The Killing, David's 8 part series is written by Chris Chibnall, directed by James Strong and produced by Richard Stokes for Kudos Productions.
David Tennant will play a gritty detective who investgates crimes which other policeman have been unable to solve.
More information can be found here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

Town to become star of ITV drama
A new ITV drama starring David Tennant will be filmed in Clevedon from this month with shops, houses and a church to be used as integral locations throughout.

Kudos Film and Television will produce the eight-part drama, entitled Broadchurch, which will centre around a murder investigation in a fictitious Dorset town of the same name.
Hill Road will be used to represent Broadchurch High Street, where a number of exterior scenes will be shot.
The former Seeley’s Newsagent in Hill Road will be adapted, both inside and out, to turn it into the offices of local newspaper, The Broadchurch Echo. The film company is also in talks to use another property in Hill Road as a key location.
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.
Filming is due to begin on August 13 and will run until the end of November, mostly in North Somerset. Some scenes will also be shot in West Dorset.
David Tennant, a star of film, theatre and TV, will be joined by Olivia Coleman, star of Peep Show and Twenty Twelve, in the lead roles as the police officers heading up the murder investigation. They will be joined by BAFTA-winning actress Vicky McClure.

The story will explore what happens to a small community when it suddenly becomes the focus of a major event and is subjected to the full glare of the media spotlight.

Writer Chris 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.”
All eight episodes, to be screened in 2013, will be filmed in order, meaning cast and crew will return to Clevedon a number of times over the coming months. The team will set up a base in the Salthouse Fields car park when filming in Clevedon, consisting of trailers for costume and make-up, a mobile kitchen, toilets and a mobile dining facility.
When filming in Hill Road, vehicles carrying technical equipment will be parked in The Regent car park.
Source: The Weston Mercury 

  • The Politician’s Husband
David Tennant has just completed filming The Politician's Husband in and around London.
David attended the read-through and a photo shoot on Saturday 9th June and started filming on Monday 11th June 2012. The final day of filming was Wednesday 25th July.
The drama will air as a series of three one hour programmes during early 2013 on BBC Two.
The Politician's Husband is a drama exploring what happens in a political marriage when the wife becomes more successful than her husband.Emily Watson will play his wife and Ed Stoppard is also in the drama which was written by Paula Milne.
More information can be found here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
 
  • Twenty Twelve DVD
On Monday 6 August, the second series of the David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve will be released on DVD in the UK and Europe. For £2 more you can buy both Series One and Series Two together.Source: David Tennant on Twitter


  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service audiobook
The audiobook (on both download and CD) of On Her Majesty's Secret Service is available to pre-order via the AudioGo website. David Tennant reads On Her Majesty's Secret Service and the audio CD also features a bonus interview with David.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter (blog)

AudioGo have a competition to win a David Tennant signed copy of the hardback book of On Her Majesty's Secret Service if you pre-order the CD or download from them.

The CD version of David Tennant reading On Her Majesty's Secret Service is £4.01 cheaper (at £10.99) if you purchase it via the BBC Shop. It is available for pre-order and will be released on 6th September.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter


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