David Tennant: project updates, radio appearance

• Broachchurch update

This is the first week of filming on David Tennant's eight part gritty police drama Broadchurch for ITV.
So far there have been very few sightings of filming by fans but it is known that they were filming in the Fishponds area of Bristol on Tuesday and Wednesday and Will Mellor started filming his scenes on Wednesday (15th).
On Monday somebody posted onto Tumblr that David was filming at her friend's dad's workplace but no further details were given.
Yesterday somebody on set tweeted "Today I have been opening and closing a mortuary door and walking past David Tennant. As you do. #averageday"
Somebody else tweeted "Yesterday David Tennant literally frowned in my general direction - highlight of my year."
Last night producer Richard Stokes tweeted that it had been "a fast first week."
Next week there will be some filming in a school so hopefully more tweets will be posted.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter (blog) 
 

• AbsoluteRadio - Christian O’Connell’s Breakfast Show

David Tennant recited the words of Spandau Ballet's Gold on Absolute Radio last Monday (13 Aug)
From Absolute Radio:

Friend of the show and thespian extraordinaire David Tennant gave us his VERY SPECIAL spoken-word version of 'Gold' for today's Spandathon

David Tennant - 'Gold' (Spoken Word)’ on Audioboo

Source: Absolute Radio audioboo 

• Tree Fu Tom

The BBC Media Centre has posted that the remaining un-broadcast episodes of Tree Fu Tom will start being broadcast on CBeebies from 5.25pm each day starting on Monday 3rd September. We noticed that the link only lists from episode 18 but the producer of the series kindly informed us via Direct Message that episode 14 onwards will be shown. David Tennant voices the character Twiggs.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

• Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger

A large new promo photo of David Tennant from Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger has been released; you can see it here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter


David Tennant filmed the movie Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger from October until early December 2011. He plays two roles in the movie as he plays identical twins!
The movie also stars Marc Wootton, Joanna Page and Pam Ferris and is directed by Debbie Isitt.
It's working title was Nativity 2: The Second Coming and will be released in the UK on Friday 23rd November 2012.
Trailers are already being shown in cinemas.
More info at David Tennant on Twitter 

• The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists!

The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! movie was released on DVD and blu-ray in Germany on Thursday, under the title 'Die Piraten - Ein Haufen merkwürdiger Typen.' 
Source: David Tennant on Twitter (blog)
 
A special short DVD called So You Want To Be A Pirate is being sold by Tesco for only £5. It features David Tennant's voice as the young Charles Darwin.  
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

• Audiobooks update

On 14 August, the David Tennant read My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece audiobook was due to be released in the US on CD, but Amazon still has it on pre-order.
The David Tennant read Doctor Who audiobook The Feast Of The Damned was due for release in the US but has been delayed until 28th August.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Doctor Who

David Tennant is shown in a clip on the CultBoxTV website from BBC America's programme called The Women Of Doctor Who which was broadcast last weekend. 
Source: David Tennant on Twitter