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: convention appearances, project updates, DVD releases

David Tennant has been announced as a guest at two major conventions in the UK -

• Showmasters Lords of Time

Showmasters announced this afternoon that David is their first confirmed guest for the event, scheduled for Friday 7th - Sunday 9th September 2012, Hilton Birmingham Metropole.
More information can be found on the Showmasters Forum
Source: @David_Tennant (on Twitter) with further details at their blog

• Starfury Midnight

It was confirmed on Friday that David Tennant will attend the Midnight Fan Convention at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham on Sunday 16th December.
Billie Piper is also attending that day and she and David will be doing a photo shoot (both separately and together) and will sign autographs, plus they will do a guest talk together and the closing ceremony.
Entry tickets for the convention are £90 for Regular Tickets and £160 for Gold. Tickets can be purchased from this link.

Additional prices are £30 for a photo with David, £20 for a photo with Billie and £50 for a photo with both David and Billie. Extra autographs (outside of any included in the price of admission) will be £20 for David and £15 for Billie.
More information about David Tennant at the Midnight Convention can be found at David Tennant on Twitter.
Starfury Conventions' official site is here




The Politician’s Husband 
Recent news about casting, filming, etc, has been reported by C21 Media and Cultbox


DVD and other releases:

• Mon 25 June - The DVD of True Love was released in the UK and Europe. More info at David Tennant on Twitter (blog)

• Tues 26 June - The Decoy Bride was released in Region One (the US and Canada) on both DVD and Blu-ray. More info at David Tennant on Twitter (blog)

• Thurs 28 June - The Shakespeare Sonnets app for iPads was released on Thursday. David Tennant reads 4 sonnets and this link has direct links to them all. The Bookseller has more information about the app here

Source: David Tennant on Twitter 




Diary date: 
Tues 3 July - Bonhams auction of some of the costumes from David Tennant's era of Doctor Who. More info at Doctor Who News






Source for all David Tennant news (updated daily): David Tennant on Twitter 

David Tennant - project updates

The Politician’s Wife
The BBC have published their official press release for The Politician’s Wife which started filming last week (the photo above is from a location shoot).
Read the full press release here




On Her Majesty's Secret Service
More information on David Tennant reading On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond) has been released by The Book Bond and Radio Times. 




Shakespeare’s Sonnets
The Independent has a review of the Shakespeare’s Sonnets app (and a revised release date)
- read more here 





Diary dates:
Mon 25 June - True Love is released on DVD in the UK and Europe.
Tues 26 June - The Decoy Bride is released in Region One (the US and Canada) on both DVD and Blu-ray.
Thurs 28 June - Shakespeare Sonnets app for iPads is released.
 

Project updates and diary dates source (updated daily): David Tennant On Twitter



BBC America have a two-part feature on David Tennant's film and TV career beyond Doctor Who, including many video clips. 
Read and watch here: BBC America

David Tennant: project news and updates

Leith, camera, action: Proclaimers musical to become a film

Sunshine on Leith, the hit musical based on The Proclaimers’ songs, is to be turned into a film with David Tennant and Billy Connolly tipped for key roles.

A huge song and dance routine will be filmed on Calton Hill in Edinburgh this autumn, with as many as 1,000 extras taking part.

Former Doctor Who star Tennant has already expressed his interest in the role, and it is understood producers are keen to draft in Annie Lennox and the “Big Yin.”

Tennant is a huge fan of the band, highlighting them in an appearance on Desert Island Discs.

Though casting has yet to take place, it is hoped the film will debut at the Edinburgh film festival next year.

Read more at Deadline News 
Also reported by The Scotsman



Doctor Who star David Tennant films BBC drama in Watford
Former Doctor Who star David Tennant is not known for being camera shy but did his best to keep his head down while filming in Watford on Friday.
The 41-year-old Scot was spotted outside Christ Church on St Albans Road filming scenes for his latest project – a three-part BBC drama series.
Tennant, wearing a dark suit and a white shirt, sat in an Audi saloon car before running for cover the moment filming was completed.
The drama, titled The Politician’s Husband, is expected to air on BBC 2 in 2013.
Source (with photo): Watford Observer
 

News updates from David Tennant On Twitter: 

• Shakespeare Unlocked

TenAlpsplc has announced that Prefaces to Shakespeare has been renamed Shakespeare Unlocked. The series begins on Tuesday 19th June on BBC Four and David Tennant's episode about Hamlet is likely to broadcast on Tuesday 10th July. 
More details here

• James Bond audio collection

Ian Fleming.com has announced that David Tennant will read On Her Majesty's Secret Service in a new audio collection of Ian Fleming's classic Bond novels due to be released on Thursday 6th September. Pre-orders will be available from 1st August.

• Fright Night

Fright Night has its UK television première on Friday 22nd June. More details here

• Shakespeare iPad app

The Shakespeare Sonnets app for iPads was due for release on Monday 11 June but it has been delayed until Thursday 28th June.
The Shakespeare Sonnets iPad app (with some read by David Tennant) will also be released on DVD. It can be pre-ordered from this link 

News updates source: David Tennant On Twitter

David Tennant: casting rumour, Shakespeare iPad app, filming update, radio premiere

The Fast and the Furious 6 

LatinoReview have a RUMOUR of David Tennant in talks for a role in the Fast Six movie. 

This has also been reported by CraveOnline  Geeks Of Doom  STV  and EntertainmentWise

 

Shakespeare Sonnets app

The first video of David Tennant from the new  iPad Shakespeare Sonnets app by Illuminations & TouchPress can be viewed at TouchPress  
Alternate source: Vimeo

The Spies Of Warsaw
David Tennant is currently filming The Spies Of Warsaw in Poland. He plays the lead role of Jean Francois Mercier in an adaption of the Alan Furst's book The Spies Of Warsaw. Janet Montgomery plays his love interest Anna and the supporting cast includes Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anton Lesser, Burn Gorman, Tuppence Middleton and Julian Harries.
 
The Spies Of Warsaw covers the years 1933 to 1943 and is a portrait of subjugated people who try to resist the suffocating inevitability of Hitler’s regime.
 
Filming started on Wednesday 11th April and will take place in Poland (Warsaw, Chabówka and Krakow); it may be screened as early as Autumn 2012.

More information at David Tennant on Twitter

Believe It!
The first episode (Drink) of Believe It! is on BBC Radio Four at 11.30am tomorrow (Wed 9 May)

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David Tennant: radio & audio projects (Shakespeare, comedy) and The Minor Character review

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

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