David Tennant: project news and updates

• Broadchurch

A worldwide link to download episode 5 of Broadchurch is here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
All the latest Broadchurch news, reviews, articles, and photos can be found here.

• The Politician's Husband

It has not been announced yet by the BBC, but Doctor Who Magazine says that The Politician's Husband will start being broadcast on Monday 29th April. That is the Monday after Broadchurch ends!
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• The Escape Artist

Some photos of David Tennant in The Escape Artist have been posted to the Red Arrow International website. A pdf of the pictures can be downloaded from this link.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Doctor Who

At 8.46pm on Monday night (1 April) the official Doctor Who Twitter account tweeted that the read-though for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode had just finished, and they posted a photo of David Tennant and Matt Smith (see top of page).
Source (including photo above): David Tennant on Twitter

The BBC has announced that Joanna Page has joined the cast of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special. (Joanna played the wife of David Tennant's character in Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger!) The BBC have also posted a photo of Joanna with David, Matt and Jenna-Louse at the read-through.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Starting tomorrow (Monday 15th April) the satellite station Watch are starting a new run of repeats of David Tennant's episodes of Doctor Who. More information here.

The link to download The Doctors Revisited: The Third Doctor (with new David Tennant interview clips) has been posted to Tumblr.

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited - The Fourth Doctor will premiere on BBC America on Sunday 28th April with David Tennant interview clips again.
Pre-order the Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited (episodes 1-4) from Amazon, here. It includes David Tennant interviews but is only available in the US and Canada. It is released on 11th June.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

From David Tennant on Twitter:

"Earlier this week Ripple Junction contacted us to request that fans choose which were their favourite T-shirts from a selection so that the company could put them into production. In Ripple Junction's words "the David Tennant design absolutely destroyed all the others!" The 3 winning designs can be seen at this link which means they could be in stores in the US within 2 months. Fans outside the US will be able to order them online."

• BBC America: David Tennant Day

On Wednesday (10 April), BBC America will have a David Tennant Day! As well as the American premiere of episode two of Spies Of Warsaw at 9pm (repeated at midnight), the station will be showing David's episodes of Doctor Who. The full schedule is here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Pirates!

There will be a The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists exhibition opening in Birmingham in May for the summer. More information here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Blackpool

Tesco Clubcard TV will include programmes such as Blackpool (starring David Tennant). More information here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Believe It!

Believe It! is being repeated on BBC Radio Four on Sundays at 7.15pm from this coming Sunday (7th). Radio four Extra are also repeating it on Fridays at 7.30am and 10pm (starting Friday 12th), Saturdays at 5.30pm and Sundays at 5.30am. More information here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Interviews

Collider have a new interview with David Tennant about Spies Of Warsaw (plus Doctor Who and Harry Potter!)
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Huffington Post has a new interview with David Tennant about Spies Of Warsaw (and Doctor Who).
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• Diary dates

Mon 8 Apr - Penguins - Spy In The Huddle released on DVD in the UK.
Mon 8 Apr - Episode six of Broadchurch premieres on ITV at 9pm.
Wed 10 Apr - BBC America has a David Tennant Day today.
Wed 10 Apr - Episode two of Spies Of Warsaw premieres on BBC America in the US at 9pm.
Sun 14 Apr - David Tennant stars in The Great Scott: The Fair Maid Of Perth on BBC Radio Four at 3pm.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter



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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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David Tennant: Comedy World Cup, convention report, project updates

• Comedy World Cup

Channel Four have posted their trailer for Comedy World Cup onto YouTube.com:

Source: David Tennant On Twitter

Here is the official Four On Demand link to watch episode one of Comedy World Cup. 

The Arts Desk has a review of David Tennant hosting Comedy World Cup last night

Details about the second episode of Comedy World Cup, which premières on Saturday 22nd at 8.15pm, are here

Source: David Tennant On Twitter

• Lords of Time convention

Photos:
Matt Holden has added over 100 great photos of David Tennant onto Facebook. GingerFoxy has posted 59 photos of David Tennant at the Lords Of Time convention here.
Three photos of David Tennant at the Lords Of Time convention have been posted onto Tumblr.
Talk:
The main points that David Tennant mentioned during his panel at the Lords Of Time convention are here
Source: David Tennant On Twitter

• The Spies of Warsaw

SFGate have the following listing in their 'Fall TV preview - highlights, lowlights'

David Tennant returns to BBC America to star in this show based on the book by Alan Furst, master of World War II-era spy fiction. Tennant is well known to BBCA viewers as the original title character on "Doctor Who." He co-stars in the new series, set in the years leading up to World War II, with Janet Montgomery, who was in "Black Swan" and is also appearing as the lead character in the new CBS drama "Made in Jersey."
-- Not yet scheduled

Source: SFGate
 

• Chris Moyles show

On Wednesday, David Tennant rang into Radio One as part of Chris Moyles final week on BBC Radio One. David rang from the car park of where he is currently filming Broadchurch. Click here for a MP3 of David's call.
Source: David Tennant On Twitter

• DVD review: The Pirates! Band of Misfits

The Pirates! Band of Misfits (A-)
U.K.: Peter Lord, 2012, Sony Pictures

Pirates! In real-life, most of them were probably scurvy gangs of sea-going psychopaths, but in the irresistible world of Aardman Animations, they're cute and funny and as lovable as a hungry pussycat. Aarrh! Myarrh! Utter contentment. Such is the effect of the latest stop-motion feature cartoon from the company that gave us Wallace & Gromit (good deed enough for one lifetime, you might think) and that here pleasures us with a new, feature-length stop-motion animated wonder called The Pirates! Band of Misfits -- a yo-ho-ho voyage based on one of the amusing Pirates! book series by author/screenwriter Gideon Defoe.

Ostensibly a movie for children -- and one that most children should love, even the potential sea-going psychopaths among them -- it is also marvelously crafted and delightfully scripted and scrumptiously acted by the kind of high-class British players who usually pop up these days in Harry Potter movies. It's not as good as the Aardman company's inimitable Wallace & Gromit cartoons, but what is?

Lord, primarily a producer, has overseen much of the Aardman output, long and short, since the '90s -- including the Nick Park-directed Wallace & Gromit classics, the studio's masterpieces. More occasionally, he's directed (Wat's Pig) or co-directed (Chicken Run, with Park). Here, working from a script by Defoe, with Aardman hand Jeff Newitt as co-director, Lord comes up with yet another jewel of stop-motion, that dauntingly ambitious and painstaking animation process, in which little clay puppets on small constructed wooden or clay backdrops are photographed one deliciously funny frame at a time, with a little CGI tossed in now and again these days for ocean waves and such.

The story, in the usual Aardman manner, is whimsical and literate and -- the word has never fit better --droll. The story's main character, The Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant), is a boastful, flamboyant, criminally ambitious but basically harmless dude of a buccaneer, with an immense red beard in which he hides parrots and other piratical objects, and a whimsical and oddly named crew that includes his Second Mate, The Pirate with a Scarf (Martin Freeman) and such other amiable privateers as The Pirate with Gout (Brendan Gleeson), The Albino Pirate (Anton Yelchin), The Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate (Ashley Jensen) and The Pirate Who Likes Sunsets and Kittens (easy-going U.S. weatherman Al Roker). They seem a fairly contented lot, except for Pirate Captain himself, who is rankled by the fact that he's never won a Pirate-of-the-Year award, in competition with his main rascally rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven), Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) and The Pirate King (Brian Blessed).

Pirate Captain thinks he's found the key when his ship, which has been coming up empty in recent sea-sweeps and sea-attacks, happens upon no less than The Beagle, and its scientist-explorer, young Charles Darwin (David Tennant) -- or "Chuck," as Pirate Captain likes to call him. Eureka! Chuck excitedly identifies Captain's strange, lumpy-looking parrot, as no parrot at all, but probably the last living example of the thought-to-be-extinct dodo, a discovery that Chuck convinces the Captain will reap "untold riches" if they exhibit Polly at the next scientist-of-the-year competition in London.

So it's off to England -- where scientific fame and riches supposedly await the daffily dauntless P.C., along with streets abustle with famous Londoners and such literary and historical allusions as Jane Austen (who proves priggish) -- but where the Captain must also contend with the woman he calls "Vicky": pirate-hating, dodo-coveting Queen Victoria (played by that supreme character actress Imelda Staunton). Troubles at court and a sea-going fracas are obviously in the offing, and Lord and his Aardman armada don't disappoint.

Like many of the best cartoon features of today, Pirates! is so much brighter and wittier and more entertaining than most of the current live action films for adults, it's almost embarrassing. Everything is classier and better-done, especially the visuals and the dialogue. The fact that The Pirate Captain is being played by Grant -- who would usually be cast as some sort of fop -- indicates something of the the sheer joyous playfulness of Lord's film, which is neither bloodthirsty nor psychopathic, save for the moments Vicky has Polly in her queenly clutches.

Grant's charm sits well on The Pirate Captain, especially matched against the bellicose roaring of Black Bellamy and The Pirate King. Tennant is a properly prim Darwin; his constant companion is a frisky, literate chimpanzee, whom he resembles. Staunton, who played intense outlaw goodness in Mike Leigh's great period British soial drama Vera Drake and, just as well, establishment evil in the Potter series, pilfers a lot of the movie here, and against formidable competition.

But the scripting and voice acting is only part of the secret of Aardman. Much of the magic comes from their incredible, painstaking but exuberant craft, the way they can make us relate so well to a dodo or an angry queen, the sense in their movies of playthings-come-alive, the little worlds they create with such effortless-looking art and beguiling wizardry. Not many movies these days are genuinely lovable. But the Aardman movies make you happy in ways that mostly haven't been available to us since childhood, and that blessedly revive the spirit of youth and the joys of childhood as we watch, entranced. Pirates! (Extras: Peter Lord short films; Lord's "Pirates" film So You Want to be a Pirate?; filmmaker's commentary; featurettes.)

Source: The Daily Page
Also reviewed by Cine Vue and Inside Pulse 
The DVD was released on Monday 10 September

David Tennant: Lords of Time convention, and project updates

• Lords of Time convention

Today (Sunday) David Tennant was the headline guest at Showmasters' Lords of Time convention. Comments and photos are trickling in via Twitter which will be included in a full update next week. 
In the meantime, check out this page on DavidTennantOnTwitter for updates as they happen. 

• The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists (DVD release)

Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman and David Tennant talk The Pirates!: video

The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists hits DVD and Blu-ray next week, and we’ve got an exclusive early look at a bonus featurette (which you can watch below).

Hugh Grant discusses the unusual task of getting into character when you’re playing a plasticine pirate, and also shares his bemusement at the quality of his co-stars.
Co-stars Martin Freeman and David Tennant also contribute to the featurette on voice acting.

Aardman/Sony Pictures animation The Pirates! sees Grant’s Pirate Captain attempting to bag the elusive ‘Pirate of the Year’ award for seven-seas adventuring. Charles Darwin (Tennant) may be key to landing the prize, but The Pirate with a Scarf (Freeman) isn’t convinced.
Check out the featurette below:



The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists is available on (deep breath) Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download from 10 September 2012. 

Source (and review): Total Film

• Much Ado About Nothing (digital download)

Introducing a new online theatre platform
Gone are the days when theatre was accessible to limited audiences – today’s trend is for shows to be screened, live streamed or put online. Pushing the digital revolution further is a new partnership between Digital Theatre and Routledge Publishing.

Digital Theatre works with Britain's leading companies to capture live performance on screen. Using multiple camera angles and high-definition technology, they bring acclaimed stage productions to an online audience.

Shows featured on www.digitaltheatre.com include Much Ado About Nothing, starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, and All My Sons, with David Suchet and Zoë Wanamaker. Each video is available to download or rent online, for a one-off payment or as part of a subscription.
Routledge bring an extensive publishing programme of theatre-related books and journals to the partnership, to offer a web audience an impressively comprehensive collection of material and resources on Routledgeperformancearchive.com.

The fully searchable and cross-referenced website includes more than 40 hours of video and will continue to grow, with additional content added every three months.

Read more at Evening Standard 

• Comedy World Cup

David Tennant has started filming episodes of Comedy World Cup. Details, reviews, and the future filming schedule can be found at DavidTennantOnTwitter (blog) 

• Diary dates

Mon 10 Sep - The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists released on DVD in the UK and Europe.
Mon 10 Sep - Peter Lord, producer of The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists movie will make an appearance at Waterstones in Piccadilly, London to talk about the movie and its DVD release.
Sat 15 Sep - Episode 1 of Comedy World Cup is broadcast on Channel Four at 8.20pm.
Sun 16 Sep - At 1.30pm David records episode three of Comedy World Cup at Teddington Studios and at 5pm he records episode four.
Source: DavidTennantOnTwitter

• David Tennant donates autographed Doctor Who boxset to the Alzheimer's Society

David Tennant and Chris Martin have donated signed memorabilia in an exclusive “as seen on tv” star collection to raise funds for Alzheimer’s Society.
More details at Alzheimers.org 
David's donation can be seen - and bid for - here 


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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

David Tennant: Pirates, Sport Relief, TV

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists 

As well as attending the première, David Tennant made several radio and TV appearances this week to promote The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, including:

• BBC Radio One Breakfast Show (Wed 21 March)

Read more (including clips of all of David's segments of the show) at David Tennant On Twitter

•  Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show (Wed 21 March)

Read more (including clips) at Absolute Radio 

•  MovieJuice on STV (Friday 23 March)

Watch the interview at STV

'The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists' exclusive video
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists has revealed a new video exclusively through Digital Spy.
The teaser clip sees the cast of Aardman's latest animated movie debate the benefits of being a pirate. Looting and cutlasses are at the heart of the argument, which spills over into violence before Hugh Grant's captain breaks up the scuffle.


Grant recently revealed that he was "a bit nervous" about voicing the Pirate Captain, saying that it took him some time to get the vocal intonations right.
"I thought I was timing the jokes right, but I kept thinking whether the voice was basso enough to go with this great big Pirate Captain," he explained.
"So we worked on that a bit. Then watching the stuff, in a way it's soothing because they're so clever with their animation, so much of the humour is in visual stuff, that the pressure felt slightly off me - it doesn't all completely depend on whether I land the line or not. That was helpful."
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, featuring Salma Hayek, Martin Freeman and David Tennant, opens on March 28 in the UK and on April 27 in the US under the title The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
Source: Digital Spy 

Following the première of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists last week (Wed 21 March), there have been a number of reviews:
Screen Daily
Den of Geek
Skwigly

Sport Relief
After appearing on an advert on television for Sport Relief for the past few weeks, today David Tennant joined thousands of people running a mile for Sport Relief to raise money for charity.

David ran his mile in The Mall in London (near Buckingham Palace) and was interviewed both before and after the race.





Read more at David Tennant on Twitter

 

We Won’t Drop The Baby
This evening (Sunday 25 March) David Tennant provides the voiceover for the documentary which was originally called Disabled Parents: Are You Having A Laugh? before the name was changed to Jokes, Nappies and Wheelchairs but is now called We Won’t Drop The Baby.


The programme focuses on comedian Laurence Clark and his wife (who are both disabled) as they prepare for the birth of their second child.

It will be broadcast on BBC One as part of BBC's Disability Season.
It will be shown at 10.25pm in England, 10.45pm in Northern Ireland and Scotland and at 11.05pm in Wales.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter




Links to this week's other David Tennant news reports can be found here