What's On Stage Awards announced tonight - David Tennant is nominated

Tonight the What's On Stage Awards are announced at the Prince of Wales theatre in London.

David Tennant has been nominated for the Best Actor In A Play Award for his portrayal of Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. However David is in a difficult category as he is up against James Corden (One Man, Two Gurvnors), Jude Law (Anna Christie), Kevin Spacey (Richard III) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Frankenstein).

His production of the play was also nominated for Best Shakespearean Production. (One of the other nominees in that category was The Globe's version of the same play.)

David Tennant & Catherine Tate reuniting on stage in Much Ado About Nothing was also nominated in the Theatre Event of the Year Award and Josie Rouke was nominated for Best Director for Much Ado About Nothing.

It is not known whether or not David Tennant will attend the awards.

The awards were voted for by the public and the voting period was from lunchtime on Friday 2nd December until midnight on Tuesday 31st January 2012. Apparently 12,000 theatre fans voted in the 26 categories.

For the first time the ceremony will be streamed online. However it will not be just a stream of the performances on stage but a mixture of results announcements, acceptance speeches, audience reactions and backstage interviews with the winners.

Video coverage will commence from 7pm tonight and will be carried exclusively on the Whatsonstage.com and www.timeout.com/london websites. On Whatsonstage.com, the video player will sit on the Awards microsite homepage at www.whatsonstage.com/awards.

As usual at DavidTennantOnTwitter.com we will tweet the news as it happens.

Final day of recording David Tennant's production of Romeo and Juliet

 Yesterday was the final day of recording Romeo and Juliet which will be broadcast as part of BBC Radio Three's Shakespeare Season in April. There were just a couple of tweets yesterday from the unofficial twitter account from Studio 60A.

So far they have not indicated on which day David Tennant recorded his lines (he is only in three scenes).

Among the tweets posted yesterday were:

At 4.15pm:

Dancing at Capulet's - mainly men in studio, so some had to wear practice skirts. I got to lead Ron Cook...he was the woman in a red skirt.

At 5.40pm:

Finishing up on Romeo and Juliet. Or to quote a certain writer, parting..is such sweet sorrow...

They also made some fun tweets such as a photo of their costume cupboard.

Next week the same cast record Twelfth Night. It has not been announced about which character David Tennant will play but it is expected that he with have a larger role in that production.

More tweets from the studio where David Tennant's production of Romeo and Juliet is being recorded.

Today there were more tweets from the unofficial twitter account from Studio 60A. This is the BBC Radio Drama studio where the cast are recording Romeo and Juliet this week which will be broadcast as part of BBC Radio Three's Shakespeare Season in April.

So far they have not indicated whether or not David Tennant has recorded his lines (he is only in three scenes). It's NOT confirmed but there was a tweet earlier today which hinted that David Tennant was involved in interviewing people today for the role of Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Among the tweets posted today were:

At 11.30am:

A funny thing about recording a play out of sequence: killing a character, then bringing them back to life for the next scene #playinggod

At 12/45pm they tweeted a photo of the studio:

At 2pm:

Juliet and the Nurse are centre stage (well, mic) this afternoon. News of Tybalt reaches the Capulet's pad.

At 4pm:

The wedding night arrives! The Studio Manager has fashioned a lovely bed for Romeo and Juliet, and she's now trying to get Romeo to take of his...er...shoes.

At 5pm:

I didn't realise how many times Romeo has to leg it over the balcony in this play!

Tweets from the studio where David Tennant's production of Romeo and Juliet is being recorded.

Today there were a few tweets from the unofficial twitter account from Studio 60A. This is the BBC Radio Drama studio where the cast are recording Romeo and Juliet this week which will be broadcast as part of BBC Radio Three's Shakespeare Season in April.

Among the tweets posted today were:

At 12.15pm:

Well after a day of love, it's back to the war... Capulet versus Montague. The actors are swapping words for swords.

(It was announced in advance that yesterday they were going to record the famous balcony scene.)

At 1.15pm:

Capulets & Montagues sit side by side in the green room, sharing anecdotes and biscuits. Wasn't like this in Shakespeare's time.

At 2.50pm they joked:

Ben and Mercutio....the likely lads enter the studio!

At 5pm the final tweet was:

Romeo's banished, crying on the floor. Still, cheered up by the fact that his wedding night's just round the corner.

So far the studio has not tweeted whether or not David Tennant has recorded his lines in the play.

Viewing figures for the David Tennant narrated Wild About Pandas

Last night was the first non-Scotland broadcast of the David Tennant narrated documentary Wild About Pandas on BBC Two at 9pm.

It received 1.52million viewers which was 6.3% of the viewing audience at that time but it is unlikely that it had many viewers in Scotland as it had already been broadcast twice in that country.

On BBC1 in the 9pm slot was Hustle which obtained 4.64million (19.4%) and on ITV1 was Law and Order UK which received 4.80m (20.1%) plus a small number of viewers on ITV HD.

To the best of my knowledge there was no advertisement in advance for Wild About Pandas and both Hustle and Law and Order UK are in the middle of a series so have an established viewing public.

If the documentary had been broadcast at the same time all over the UK and on a different evening (as a Friday is an unusual choice for a nature documentary) it is quite likely that the figures would have been much higher.

As usual the final figures will be announced in about ten days.

Confirmation that David Tennant is in two Shakespeare plays for BBC Radio Three Shakespeare Season

As we posted exclusively on Tuesday David Tennant will be performing in both Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night for BBC Radio Three.

The Radio Drama newsletter today included in their In Production section:

On Valentine's Day, by sheer coincidence, or star-crossed delight, Trystan Gravelle and Vanessa Kirby will record Act II Scene ii of Romeo and Juliet , better known as the balcony scene. The production, for broadcast as part of Radio 3's Shakespeare Season in April, boasts a fantastic cast, including Audio Drama Award winners David Tennant (as Prince Escalus) and Rosie Cavaliero (as the Nurse), Ron Cook, Johnny Flynn, Naomi Frederick, Carl Prekopp and Paul Ready. The play is directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

The following week the cast will come back together to record Twelfth Night .

Update about David Tennant movies

Today ScreenDaily.com posted an article which said that the first footage of David Tennant’s forthcoming movie Nativity 2: The Second Coming would be shown at the Berlin European Film Market.


Nativity 2 is being shown by Moviehouse Entertainment which is a film sales company. Their website says that it is in post-production which is expected as the movie was filmed towards the end of last year and is not due to be released until November. eOne Entertainment are distributing Nativity 2 in Britain.


The European Film Market started today and continues until 17th February. As well as screening hundreds of completed movies, film companies will also show clips of movies which are in pre-production and are due to be released in the coming year (such as Nativity 2) to get them distributed in other countries too.


ScreenDaily.com also posted today that the movie Emotional Rescue was in pre-production and linked David Tennant’s name with it despite his name being removed from the movie website earlier this week.

David Tennant's name no longer on Emotional Rescue movie website

On 4th January we posted that a US based PR company had tweeted that David Tennant was attached to the movie Emotional Rescue which was due to start shooting in Winter 2012.

David's name, an unofficial photo and an out of date bio soon appeared on the movie website EmotionalRescueTheMovie.com.

In the past couple of weeks there have been rumours circulating that the movie has been struggling for funding and today David's name (and the name of all the cast members) have been removed from the website, plus the filming period has been changed to Spring 2012.

One or two POSSIBLE new radio productions for David Tennant

Today an interview with actor Joe Sims on the ThisIsBristol website stated that his "next project is with David Tennant working on Romeo and Juliet for Radio 4."

Also today a BBC radio producer confirmed that new productions of Shakespeare's plays The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night are all scheduled to be broadcast in April / May but he said that it was for BBC Radio Three.

Last November the BBC issued a press release to say that both Romeo And Juliet and Twelfth Night would be performed by a single company of actors cast across both productions on Radio Three.

Please remember that David Tennant's involvement in this project or projects is NOT confirmed. 

David Tennant Tidbits for Monday 6th February 2012

 

This is another of our occasional posts of Tidbits of news about David Tennant. 

These Tidbits are items which are not really worthy of being full news items but are still of interest to fans of David Tennant. 

 

Some of these Tidbits will have already been tweeted by the account David_Tennant but some are new items.

Websites

Some sad news was announced at the end of January as one of the best David Tennant websites DavidTennantFan.com has announced that it was closing after operating for 5 years. 

Twenty Twelve

A scene, voiced by David Tennant, from the new series of Twenty Twelve was shown on The Jonathan Ross show on ITV1 during his interview with Hugh Bonneville. The second series of Twenty Twelve is currently expected to start being broadcast at the end of March. 

Tree Fu Tom

Sophie Aldred has some nice things to say about David Tennant in this video (the relevant part starts at 21 minutes 30 seconds) and about working with him in Tree Fu Tom. 

Press

David Tennant came 60th in the Heat Magazine 101 Hottest Hunks In The World poll. However only 1,000 people in the world voted! 

What'sOnStage has an article about the massive success of Digital Theatre's release of Much Ado About Nothing. 

BBC Radio Six presenter Lauren Laverne who interviewed David Tennant on 25th January said that her article would be about 800 words in length. She has not announced which publication the interview was for yet.

Doctor Who

Somebody tweeted that David Tennant's acreen appearance (the regeneration scene) at the Doctor Who concert by the Melboune Symphony Orchestra in Australia on Saturday night received "thunderous applause." 

The following day the Sydney Morning Herald had a review of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's concert of Docto Who music. The final paragraph says "While enthusiasm was general and persistent, the concert's biggest cheers went to the appearance of David Tennant, No.10 in a round-up of all the Doctor's incarnations, and the original theme tune by Ron Grainer." 

 The Decoy Bride

David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride is one of the 10 Indie Films to watch on VOD in America this February according to IndieWire.com.  

Anglotopia have posted the first review of The Decoy Bride. Be warned that it contains minor spoilers.

BlogtorWho has posted quite a negative review of The Decoy Bride. 

Television

The David Tennant narrated documentary about singer / songwriter Gerry Rafferty called Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line will be repeated on BBC Four on Friday 24th February at 8pm. 

The DVD of the programme Fry's Planet Word was released today. It is from the 2011 television series and includes Stephen Fry's interview with David Tennant which was filmed at The Globe.  

Much Ado About Nothing

Delfont Mackintosh currently have tickets available for the What's On Stage Awards ceremony on Sunday 19th February to find out whether David Tennant has won the Best Actor Award and if Much Ado About Nothing has been named Best Shakesperian Production. 

Broadcast Awards

Unfortunately David Tennant's drama United did not win the Best Single Drama Award at Broadcast Awards tonight but did win the Highly Commended honour. (This is not simply second place but is an indication of how respected the drama was as in most categories a Highly Commended was not bestowed.) The ITV drama Appropiate Adult won that award. Also unfortunately The Itch Of The Golden Nit did not win the Children's Award as it was won by Grizzly Tales. 

Fright Night

Fright Night will start being screened on Sky Movies during the week commencing Monday 20th February. 

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