David Tennant: project updates

New David Tennant interview about 'Spies Of Warsaw'
In the issue of the TV Times for the week commencing Saturday 5th January, which was published yesterday, there is an interview with David Tennant from the set of Spies Of Warsaw.
There is also a preview of the two part drama which the TV Times have included as one of its Highlights for Wednesday and they give it five stars.
Read more at David Tennant on Twitter (blog)
19 new photos from Spies Of Warsaw have been posted onto a Polish website including several photos of David Tennant. Read more here

David Tennant to appear on Royal Mail stamp
David Tennant, as the Tenth Doctor, will appear on a set of Royal Mail stamps to be issued in March which will commemorate the Doctor Who 50th anniversary.
Link to pre-order the Doctor Who stamps plus the chance to win some Doctor Who merchandise.
Read more at David Tennant on Twitter


Diary dates

Mon 31 Dec - BBC America in the US broadcasts 24 hours of David Tennant / Doctor Who from 8am and into New Year's Day.
Tues 1 Jan - The television station Watch has a David Tennant / Doctor Who afternoon.
Fri 4 Jan - David Tennant records The Jonathan Ross Show in London.
Sat 5 Jan - David Tennant will be on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV at 9.45pm.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter http://www.davidtennantontwitter.com/DT.html

Tree Fu Tom
TescoDirect have Tree Fu Tom toys available to pre-order, including David Tennant's character Twiggs.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Absolute Radio
David Tennant was featured in the (pre-recorded) programme Christmas Morning With Christian on Absolute Radio.
MP3s of the new segments from all three hours of David Tennant on Absolute Radio on Christmas Day are here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

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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: project updates, public appearances

Midnight Fan Convention
David Tennant attended the Midnight Fan Convention on Sunday 16th December.
The event was held at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham. Billie Piper also attended the Midnight Fan Convention and she and David did photo shoots (both separately and together) and signed autographs, plus they did a guest talk together.
More information about David Tennant at the Midnight Fan Convention is here, and a detailed report of the David Tennant / Billie Piper panel is here.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

The Escape Artist
David Tennant will star in The Escape Artist, a new three part drama on BBC One.
More information here
BBC's original announcement about the drama is here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter


The Spies Of Warsaw
The BBC Media Centre have updated their details to reflect that the first episode of The Spies Of Warsaw will première on BBC Four on Wednesday 9th January between 9pm and 10.30pm. It is expected that the second episode will be shown at the same time the following week.
The BBC Media Centre have posted the synopsis of the second episode of The Spies Of Warsaw. It is expected to première on BBC Four on Wednesday 16th January between 9pm and 10.30pm.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

BBC America 'sneak peak' trailer

More information on The Spies of Warsaw can be found here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Amazon are now listing the UK release date of the DVD of The Spies Of Warsaw as one week ealier (21st January). However the BBC Shop currently still has it listed as 28th January.

Amazon are showing a new version of the book The Spies Of Warsaw, with a photo of David Tennant on the cover, available to pre-order.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Broadchurch
The Daily Record has reported that STV have confirmed they will screen Broadchurch in Scotland in 2013
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Diary 
Fri 21 Dec - David Tennant will co-host the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show with Christian O'Connell.

Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

Absolute Radio Nativity Play
More details about David Tennant's appearance on Absolute Radio in their Nativity play on Friday 21st can be found here
The Metro newspaper has a contest to win the chance of watching David Tennant perform in Absolute Radio's nativity play on Friday. Details here
Christian O'Connell is asking for help for writing the Nativity play which David Tennant will star in on Friday on Absolute Radio. Currently Christian is looking for funny titles for the play and has suggested people use the hashtag #twitvity to post them onto Twitter.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

Christmas TV appearances
Three David Tennant programmes will be repeated over the Christmas period - Doctor Who, Earthflight and Twenty Twelve.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

David Tennant: forthcoming appearances and project updates

• Diary dates

Sun 2 Dec - Autism-friendly screenings of Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! in cinemas around the country (UK). Details here

• Big Issue

David Tennant was featured in The Big Issue on Monday 26 November.

 This link has details regarding how you can buy a copy from anywhere in the world.

• Nativity 2

During the opening weekend of Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! it grossed £1.6 million which was double the amount the original Nativity movie earned in its first weekend.
The Guardian (who gave the movie a bad review) has an article titled "A stable start for Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger." It says that the movie was the third most popular movie at UK cinemas during its opening weekend:
1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, £5,344,598 from 559 sites. Total: £26,979,458
2. Skyfall, £3,809,893 from 550 sites. Total: £89,620,677
3. Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!, £1,614,675 from 435 sites (New)
The soundtrack of Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! now available on iTunes.

The Mumsnet Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! Advent Calendar today has a free download of the song Yes We Can from the movie.

A David Tennant video interview about Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger! from Magic FM can be viewed here.

• Secret Universe: The Hidden Life Of The Cell

There is now a worldwide link to watch the David Tennant narrated documentary Secret Universe: The Hidden Life Of The Cell.

• How To Train Your Dragon

The BBC have announced the outline of their Christmas programming and it includes the movie How To Train Your Dragon in which David Tennant has a couple of lines.

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

A clip of David Tennant reading an extract from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has been posted onto Tumblr.

• Christian O'Connell / Absolute Radio

Christian O'Connell has tweeted that his last show of 2012 on Absolute Radio will be co-hosted by David Tennant and he has described it as an 'Alternative Nativity.' Christian did not specify on which day the programme will air.
Christian O'Connell further tweeted that the show will be on Friday 21st December and that it will be in front of a live audience with people taking part as in a children's Nativity play. He will broadcast how to win a part in the audience next week.

• Riders of Berk

David Tennant voices a character in the US television series Dreamworks Dragons: Riders Of Berk. More information here
Scotsman.com has an article about David Tennant voicing a character in Dreamworks Dragons Riders Of Berk on US television.

• The Spies of Warsaw

The Spies Of Warsaw was one of the programmes included in a BBC Worldwide's showcase last night according to a report on Bandt.com. This means that the drama will be broadcast on Australian television.

• Broadchurch

DavidTennantOnTwitter.com has published an update on Broadchurch filming schedules, including David Tennant arriving on set at 10.30am on Friday, and the news that filming on the drama will now end on Tuesday (4th) and not Friday as originally announced.

greylight5_b on Twitter has posted a photo of shooting in a graveyard during the day for Broadchurch. Apparently David Tennant was involved with the filming (and then filmed that night too!)

On Thursday night David Tennant had a night shoot for Broadchurch. It started at 10pm in Hill Road, Clevedon which Andrew (who emailed us about the shoot) described as "next door to Scoozi restaurant where they had made a mock up hotel opposite what was Seeleys stationers and has now been mocked up as the Echo news office."



Source of all David Tennant news: DavidTennantOnTwitter

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: news and project updates

• Radio

Tomorrow (Mon 13 August) Absolute Radio DJ Christian O'Connell will play a recording of David Tennant reciting the words of Spandau Ballet's 1983 hit Gold during his breakfast show. 
Source: David Tennant on Twitter (blog) 
 

• DVD and Audiobook releases

Tues 14 Aug - My Sister Lives On The Mantlepiece audiobook released in the US.

Tues 14 Aug - An abridged version of the Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned audiobook released in the US.

The release of the DVD of Shakespeare Uncovered (the DVD is currently called Prefaces To Shakespeare) has been postponed in the UK and Europe, according to Amazon, from 27th August to 29th October. The release has been delayed in the US until 5th November.

Amazon are listing The Spies Of Warsaw DVD available to pre-order for the UK and Europe with the release date of 29th October. However the BBC Shop have it for £1 cheaper with the release date of 24th September.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter 

• Broadchurch

David Tennant will start filming Broadchurch in Somerset and the Bristol area tomorrow (Monday 13th August 2012). The read-through for at least the first block of filming was on Tuesday 7th August. Broadchurch will be broadcast on ITV during early 2013.
More information on Broadchurch can be found here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

• The Spies of Warsaw

Some new photos of David Tennant from The Spies Of Warsaw (which contain minor spoilers) have been posted onto Tumblr - view them here
A Polish industry website has posted more photos of filming The Spies Of Warsaw. Find out more at David Tennant on Twitter (blog)

• Doctor Who

Due to his reactions on Attack Of The Show last week, Blastr.com believe that David Tennant will be involved in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary next year. (David did not confirm or deny anything although previously his stock answer has always been that he had not been asked yet.)
Source: David Tennant on Twitter

David Tennant on the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show

David Tennant co-hosted the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show with Christian O'Connell on Friday 2 September.

Videos and photos of the show can be found at the Absolute Radio site here and further information and MP3 downloads can be found at DavidTennantOnTwitter.com

David Tennant - new projects, news, updates

New projects
- David Tennant will be one of the stars in a big BBC Radio Four production called Love And Fate in September. See here for details.

- Love Life, a new BBC drama with David Tennant, Billie Piper and David Morrissey will start filming soon.
The BBC Press Release about Love Life says David Tennant's episode is the first one in the series. See here for more info.
More about Love Life at Metro

- David Tennant will narrate the documentary Gerry Rafferty - Right Down The Line on Monday 29th August on BBC Two Scotland. See here for more details.

TV
- It has been announced that David Tennant's episode of This is Jinsy will air on Monday 19th September on Sky Atlantic.

Radio
- David Tennant will be a guest on the Fearne Cotton Show on BBC Radio One on Wednesday 31st (sometime between 10am & 12.45pm) to promote Fright Night.

- David Tennant's appearance on the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show this Friday (2nd Sept) will be shown live on video at this link. There is currently a countdown clock on the page.

Source for all items: DavidTennantOnTwitter

David Tennant's Absolute Radio sketch

A funny clip featuring David Tennant and Christian O'Connell from last Thursday's appearance on Absolute Radio:

Preview of 'Single Father', episode 3 + David Tennant on Absolute Radio

David Tennant will co-host the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show with Christian O'Connell on Thursday, October 28. The show starts from 6am. More details are below:

Listen live online at: http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/

or on DAB Radio or If you are in London and the South East on 105.8FM

or TVSky Channel 0107

Virgin TV 915

Freeview Channel 915

David Tennant nominated for theater award, 'Waters of Mars' air dates + more press

London's Evening Standard announced that David Tennant was nominated for Best Actor for his role in Hamlet. The winners of the 2009 Theatre Awards will be announced on November 23 at the Royal Opera House. Go here for a look at the full list of nominees.

Air dates for the next Doctor Who special, The Waters of Mars have been revealed. In the US, the special will air on BBC America on Saturday, December 19 at 9pm Eastern time. Remaining specials will air over the holiday season as a two-part special. The air dates for these remaining specials will be announced in early December.

The Waters of Mars will air in the UK on Sunday, November 15 at 7pm on BBC One.

The Waters of Mars and the two-part finale will debut on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, February 2, 2010.

David also did a lot of interviews over the weekend to promote The Waters of Mars, which you can watch below:

David Tennant and Russell T. Davies discussing The Waters of Mars on BBC News:


An exclusive Doctor Who interview on GMTV:


ITN interview:


And finally:


David will also co-host the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show for an entire week starting November 9 in the UK. You can listen in at 6am or listen online.

Update: David Tennant will be co-hosting the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show on November 11, 12, and 13 rather than the entire week of November 9. The show will be on at 6am as previously posted. Sorry about the error everyone.

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David Tennant to appear on the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show

David Tennant will reportedly be co-hosting with Christian O'Connell for a week this November in the UK. The show is on weekdays between 6am and 10am.

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