David Tennant and Paul Smith

The designer Paul Smith posted a photo of David Tennant on his Blog after David visited him on Wednesday 13th January. Click here to view the entry.

Paul described David as "an absolute pleasure to meet" and "what a nice man."

Daily Mail mentions David Tennant and Catherine Tate hosting The Jonathan Ross Show

The Daily Mail mentions David Tennant and Catherine Tate hosting The Jonathan Ross show on Radio 2 yesterday in this article about Jonathan Ross having suspected swine flu.

The article says that Jonathan tweeted afterwards "Hello. Big thanks to David and Catherine for stepping in.I have been given Tamiflu by the doctor. Still feel ghastly."

However there is an error in the article as it says that Jonathan rang in on Friday to say that he could not record the show that day but in fact it was posted on Twitter on Thursday that David and Catherine would be hosting the show.

David Tennant and Catherine Tate hosting the Jonathan Ross Radio Show today

David Tennant and Catherine Tate hosted the Jonathan Ross Show on Radio 2 this morning as Jonathan was ill. This show was recorded yesterday at around lunchtime. Their appearance was first announced on Twitter on Thursday.

Their guests were Ricky Gervais and Anthony Head, plus La Roux played live in the studio.

The show was full of laughter and jokes and really emphasised how well David and Catherine get one! However apparently David Tennant did not stay in today to listen to the show as someone tweeted that they had spotted him out in London.

MP3s of all the David Tennant sections of the show are available on the Radio page of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com here.

Detailed review of Rex Is Not Your Lawyer script

Television critic and Doctor Who fan Televisionary has posted his detailed review of the script of the pilot of Rex Is Not Your Lawyer online here.

His summation at the end is:

There's a nice lightness to Rex that would separate it from other legal dramas and the lead character is fitting for David Tennant. Prone to hyperbole, dramatic gestures, and brainy discourse, Rex isn't a hotel-inhabiting lawyer embodying the Doctor but rather a compelling character whose both egocentric and sympathetic, a hyper-ambitious attorney knocked down a few pegs and humbled by his panic attacks. I can definitely see (and hear) Tennant in the dialogue and I think he's well suited for a role that calls for him to deliver fast-paced dialogue, steal the spotlight, and yet remain intriguingly vulnerable at the same time.

To date NBC has not announced a decision whether or not they will be commissioning a full series of the drama-comedy.

Billie Piper talks about David Tennant being wanted for Doctor Who The Movie

Billie Piper spoke to Sarah Cox yesterday about the possible Doctor Who movie. It can be heard at this link (from 46 minutes) but the transcript was:

SARA: Doctor Who, the movie, there's rumors about that. And, apparently, the producers want you and David Tennant, to be in it?

BILLIE: Well, I heard they are doing it, and I know that they want David to do it.

SARA: Oh, so there is a grain of truth to it.

BILLIE: I think there is.

SARA: Are you wiggling your face on purpose?

BILLIE: No it's just a nervous twitch (laughter)

SARA: I thought you were gonna signal something there

BILLIE: I don't know... I think David's slightly anxious that they're gonna ... they'll be some big kind of American producers on board and that they'll try and hijack the whole thing and cast someone like Johnny Depp.

SARA: Hummm. (Pause)

BILLIE: Sounds great. hahahah! I'll be at the premiere! hahaha!

Massive thanks to Farsighted from GallifreyBase.com for typing out the transcript.

Opinions about Rex Is Not Your Lawyer

Jace Lacob who is an American television reviewer (and a Doctor Who fan) was answering questions tonight on Twitter about David Tennant's pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer after reading the pilot script. He described it as "A quirky & original legal dramedy. I can see Tennant in this role. Procedural cases + light serialized/relationship angle. I'd watch."

When asked about the reports that the sets were being taken down, Jace replied "That was last week. Means nothing as that routinely happens with pilots."

On being asked whether it is likely to be commissioned for a series he tweeted "It all depends on the strength or weakness of their other pilots, now that it's under consideration for fall."

When asked about a comparison between another ppilot Legally Mad and Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, Jace responded "Legally Mad was AWFUL. (I watched the pilot last spring.) I wouldn't compare the two, really. Rex much less absurd."

Also on Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, a David Tennant fan called pacejunkie posted onto LiveJournal how she feels about the stories circulating in the press about the pilot. (Please remember that this is just one fan's opinion and there are a couple of inaccuries in it but it certainly puts things into perspective.)

Photo of David Tennant and Labour MP Tom Harris

Big Doctor Who fan and Labour MP Tom Harris posted a photo of him meeting David Tennant yesterday as part of the Performers' Alliance.

Click here to read more about that event.

David Tennant and Catherine Tate to host Johnathan Ross Show on Saturday

According to a tweet by William Bowerman of the band La Roux, it appears that David Tennant and Catherine Tate will be hosting the Jonathan Ross Show on Radio 2 again this Saturday (30th).

The show will be recorded tomorrow (the Jonathan Ross Show has recorded since the scandal) and will be broadcast on Saturday between 10am and 1pm.

Apparently Jonathan Ross is ill which is why David and Catherine are standing in, especially as their shows have been so popular on previous occasions.

Digital Shakespeare archive now in Stradtford-Upon-Avon

Click here to read an article from The Guardian (with several David Tennant mentions) about a digital Shakespeare archive in Stradtford-Upon-Avon.

Dreamland DVD US release date

The David Tennant voiced Dreamland annimation on DVD (with Doctor Who's Greatest Moments) will be released in the US on 4th May (UK release date is 1st February as previously reported) according to this news item on GallifreyBase.com.

More photos of David Tennant filming Rex Is Not Your Lawyer

FanaticalWhovian has posted two new photos of David Tennant from filming the Rex Is Not Your Lawyer pilot last December.

Bumper year for British theatre

The Financial Times cites David Tennant as one of the reasons for British theatre's bumper year.

David Tennant meeting MPs and a fan today

Earlier today David Tennant attended a meeting between MPs and the Performers' Alliance.

The description on their website is "This is made up of Equity, Musicians' Union and the Writers' Guild and meets regularly to discuss matters of particular concern to performers and writers and to engage with relevant bodies such as government and the Arts Councils. Typically these include arts funding, the cultural aspects of the 2012 Olympics on the agenda, Performers' rights and copyright matters."

Several MPs tweeted about the event and meeting David Tennant including:

Tom Harris, Labour MP:
"Just met David Tennant! Please be happy for me."

"Sybil Liberty":
"surrounded by MP's and activists all fawning over David Tennant like excited boys in short trousers"

Colin Ross, Liberal Democrat:
"Omg having wine with Honor Blackman, David Tennant and er Ben Bradshaw"

Julie Morgan, Labour MP:
"Great variety here: Met David Tennant at Performers' Alliance event, backed Network for Animals campaign, went to Benazir Bhutto memorial."

Also today Rebecca Holbourn met David Tennant near the London Eye. Click the screengrabs below to read about her meeting (in reverse order):

Photos and Video of David Tennant at Radio Times Covers Party

The Radio Times website have posted a batch of photos from their Covers Party last night.

The photos of David Tennant are:

With Fiona Bruce

With Graham Norton and Bill Preston

With Bill Preston

Another photo with Bill Preston

With Ben Miller

Another photo with Ben Miller

With James Nesbitt

The Radio Times website also has a video from the party online here. As well as David Tennant talking, it features other people from the party talking about him and all his covers.

HolyMoly.com also has some pap photos of David Tennant after the party here, here and here.

Meanwhile The Sun used one of the pap photos to run a story saying that David Tennant looked "glum" due to Rex Is Not Your Lawyer not being picked up at this time (except they didn't mention the "at this time" part).

Rex Is Not Your Lawyer mentioned in US and UK press today

The Hollywood Reporter reports today that NBC are picking up another legal drama pilot. This pilot is called Justice and the big news is that Conan O'Brien is one of the producers of the drama.

Click here to read the report. The Hollywood Reporter lists David Tennant's Rex Is Not Your Lawyer as one of the other pilots it is looking at for later this year.

Meanwhile the British newspaper The Sun ran a very negative article about the fact that NBC have not yet given the green light to Rex Is Not Your Lawyer. The article is titled "End of David's American Dream."

New Doctor Who audiobook read by David Tennant

A new Doctor Who audiobook (which is read by David Tennant) will be released on 4th March 2010.

The story is called Dead Air and is written by James Goss.

Click here to pre-order it from Play.com for £6.99.(It may be cheaper elsewhere.)

David Tennant at the Radio Times Covers Party

On the evening of Tuesday 26th January 2010 David Tennant attended the Radio Times Cover Party in London.This is an annual event that David has attended for the last few years as it is for people who have appeared on the front cover of the Radio Times Magazine during the previous year.

Radio Times were tweeting from the event and their Tweets included:
"Ooh...David Tennant and James Nesbitt having a nice old natter..."
"And now they're arguing over who's been on the most covers. Er, we think David wins that one..."

"David Tennant comes up for his LAST EVER Doctor who cover. Sad!"

"Very classy: David Tennant always acknowledges the band as he leaves the stage."

"DT collects the Waters of Mars cover, then Ruth Jones and James Corden for G&S."

"David Tennant collects the first Doctor Who cover! And very probably not the last..."

"David Walliams, Ben Miller, David Tennant, Outnumbered on stage. It's Tyger's birthday - many happy returns!"
"Comic Relief covers mean a celeb fest on stage!"

"I just stood next to David Tennant and didn't notice for a minute.

"Who's that? It's David Tennant! Sorry ladies, he's with girlfriend Georgia Moffett..."

A funny thing occured as this account, David_Tennant on Twitter re-tweeted some of the Radio Times' tweets and they then tweeted: "We just got excited when we mistakenly thought David Tennant was retweeting us- lucky we could check with the man himself. Thanks, David! :)"
(This account is written in the third person so is clearly not by David himself.)

David Tennant to attend sci-fi convention next week?????

CBBC today posted an article about The Hobbit / Bilbo Baggins RUMOURS and stated that both David Tennant and Hobbit producer Peter Jacksone will be at a Sci-Fi convention next week in America.

However they may be confusing it with ComicCon which they both attended last July.

David Tennant and the Hello Magazine poll

Hello Magazine closed their poll for Most Attractive Man 2009 early (on 25/1) and David Tennant was placed in 4th place overall.

David Tennant's Hamlet included in Weird Experiences of Dead Bodies list

The David Tennant / RSC/ Illuminations's Hamlet is included on the bizarre list of "The Weird Experiences of 7 Dead Bodies" on Neatorama.com.

It is included due to the use of a real skull on stage throughout its run of 92 performances.

More media picks up on Rex story

More and more online websites and press have the story (with varying degrees of negativity) about the delay in NBC deciding whether to commission a full series of David Tennant's pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer.

The Daily Mirror today have the story and include a David Tennant quote from a previous radio interview quoted as though he is talking about the previous report that the "sets are being folded this week."

Billie Piper talks about David Tennant leaving Doctor Who

According to an article on DigitalSpy, Billie Piper says she "hates" that David Tennant has left Doctor Who.

Articles about David Tennant's pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer in the British Press

Following the report here earlier this morning taken from Ausiellofiles saying that the sets of David Tennant's pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer are "coming down this week", some British newspapers are picking up on the story too.

The Telegraph leads with an article titled "David Tennant's US debut 'put on hold' by NBC" and The Daily Mail call their article "David Tennant's plans to break America on ice as new TV show is put 'on hold'."

The Daily Mail article says that the decision will be made in the autumn but The Telegraph say that it could still be commissioned for the autumn schedule.

The Telegraph also mentions The Hobbit rumours which are circulating around the Internet again.

Sets for REx is Not Your Lawyer are "coming down this week"

Ausiellofiles report that sets of David Tennant's pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer are "coming down this week."

Ausiellofiles say that NBC declined to comment about the report from an (unnamed) 'a source close to the show' but a Peacock source stated that Rex Is Not Your Lawyer is still under consideration for an autumn (fall) slot.

Ausiellofiles quoted the insider saying “The sets are on fold-and-hold. They will still be available if the show is picked up for the fall.”

Click here for the Ausiellofiles article and reactions by fans.

Lots of David Tennant's fans believed that David missed the chance to play in the movie Burke and Hare due to Rex Is Not Your Lawyer being commissioned but it appears that it is because NBC has not yet made their decision so he is unable to commit to filming through until the end of March.

Broadcast date for David Tennant's David Hare play

David Tennant said during his telephone call with Christian O'Connell on Thursday that he was recording a "war on terror" radio drama for Radio 4 which was written by David Hare.

Craig Murray posted on his Blog that they completed recording it yesterday and that it will be broadcast on Saturday 20th February at 2.30pm as part of Radio 4's The Saturday Play series.

Craig also said that David Tennant will be playing himself and Jemima Rooper will play Nadira.

The play is called Murder in Samarkand.

Complete National Television Awards show repeated total

ITV2 (Sky 118) are repeating the complete National Televison Awards Show (with David Tennant / Doctor Who's 2 wins) today from 2.45pm.

David Tennant talks about Jedward and Billie Piper talks about kissing David!

Click here to see a video of David Tennant talking (briefly) about Jedward (at about the minute mark) from the National Television Awards on Wednesay evening.

Last night Billie Piper was asked on the Jonathan Ross show about kissing both David Tennant and Matt Smith. Click here to watch the video. (She reckoned that David is the better kisser!)

David Tennant watches The Rivals at the Southwark Playhouse

Last night David Tennant went to see the production of The Rivals by Sheridan at The Southwark Playhouse.

David appeared in The RSC's production of the play in 2000 playing Captain Jack Absolute (who is also disguised as Ensign Beverly).

Today the Southwark Playhouse tweeted "David Tennant came to see the Rivals last night, how cool is that!!" and later (in response to a question) "Nah, it was Ellen, she was cool as a cucumber, he had to sit on the front row tho, the actors got a shock 'ahhh its doctor who!'"

Also click here to read Prudence Catley's Blog about the performance last night.

More photos of David Tennant at NTAs

imbio have 3 different batches of photos of David Tennant at the NTAs (about 25 photos in total).

The one at the right is an example!

(As usual with photos on this page, click on the picture for a bigger version.)

David Tennant's telephone call to Absolute Radio this morning

David Tennant's telephone call to the Christian O'Connell Show on Absolute Radio this morning has been added to the Radio page of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com.

David speaks about his NTA award, Rex Is Not Your Lawyer and the Radio 4 drama he is recording today.

He is also asked about 80s movies!

High quality photos of David Tennant at NTAs last night.

DavidTennantFan.com have added 28 high-quality close-up photos of David Tennant at the NTAs last night.

David Tennant does not have an official website but there are several well-run fan websites about him with DavidTennantFan.com usually having the best selection of photos.

The David Tennant / Bilbo Baggins rumours surface again

As David Tennant has pulled out of the Burke and Hare movie, TotalFilm.com has started the Bilbo Baggins rumours again.

These rumours originally started in July 2009. See this link for more about the history of the rumours.

Brief video of David Tennant on The Guardian website

The Guardian has a brief videoclip of David Tennant from the National Television Awards last night saying ""I'm done on the aspirational roles!"

More photos of David Tennant from Observer Magazine shoot

xebgoc has posted loads more photos of David Tennant from the Observer Magazine photo shoot online here.

David Tennant on Absolute Radio this morning

schehera posted on LiveJournal that David Tennant rang into Absolute Radio this morning to discuss the NTAs last night that that he said he was on his way to do a Radio 4 war on terror drama today.

Round-up of Press articles about David Tennant at the NTAs last night

The Herald newspaper (in Scotland) has a photo of David Tennant on the front page. Click here for a screencap of it for when it disappears from their website.

There's currently a photo of David Tennant from the NTAs currently on the BBC homepage or click here for a screencap for when it disappears.

Click here for a photo (from ktb on GallifreyBase) of David Tennant's name in lights at the National Televison Awards last night.

InTheNews has an article about both David Tennant and Stephen Fry winning two awards each.

The Glasgow Evening Times has the headline "Tennant triumphs in a bumper TV night."

EntertainmentTimes mainly focuses on David Tennant and Doctor Who's success at the NTA cermony. (Like most of these articles it's main photo is of David Tennant.)

SkyNews declares that "Who is the winner" and says that it is now a tradition that the show wins at these awards.

Now Magazine also features Doctor Who / David Tennant's two wins.

Coventry Telegraph also heavily features David Tennant's success last night (with main photo).

This video on YouTube shows David's popularity on the red carpet last night.

This Rex Is Not Your Lawyer Blog has the transcripts of David's speeches.

More photos of David Tennant from tonight

Click here for photos of David Tennant at the National Television Awards from Getty.

Round-up of firstDavid Tennant press articles about NTAs

More press items will be posted later but the first press articles about David Tennant's success at the National Television Awards are:

Sky News have a funny photo of David Tennant and Bernard Cribbins.

The Daily Mail have a photo of David Tennant backstage with the Prime Minister's wife Sarah Brown.

STV report on the awards (including a photo of David).

DigitalSpy have another report (and another photo!)

Video of David Tennant winning Best Drama Performance Award

Click here for the video of David Tennant winning the Best Drama Performance at the NTAs.

Press Assoiation report on David Tennant's success at the NTAs

The Press Association report on David Tennant and Doctor Who's wins tonight at the NTAs.

Video of Doctor Who winning Best Drama Award

Click here for the video of Doctor Who winning the Best Drama Award at NTAs tonight.

David Tennant wins Best Drama Performance at NTAs

David Tennant has won the Best Drama Performance Award at NTAs tonight!!!

There were 1,269 tweets with David's name during his 2 minute acceptance speech!

Also, click here to see a video of David Tennant on the red carpet tonight (at about 1 minute).

More red carpet photos of David Tennant

Click here for more photos of David Tennant on the red carpet tonight.

Video of David Tennant presenting at NTAs

Click here for a video of David Tennant presenting the Star Travel Documentary Award at the NTAs.

David Tennant not in Burke and Hare repeated on MTV news

MTV have the news that David Tennant will not be in the Burke and Hare movie.

Andy Serkis will be playing Hare instead.

Doctor Who wins award at National Television Awards

Doctor Who won the Best Drama Award tonight at the NTAs.

David Tennant let Bernard Cribbins give the acceptance speech.

Also on stage with David and Bernard were Elizabeth Sladen and June Whitfield.

David Tennant presents an award at NTAs

David Tennant presented the Star Travel Documentary Award at the NTAs. The winner was Stephen Fry for his documentary series about America.

There were 778 Tweets mentioning "David Tennant" during his 3 minute presentation of the award to Stephen Fry!

Click here for the first photos of David Tennant on the red carpet tonight.

David Tennant NOT to be filming Burke and Hare

Tonight Simon Pegg tweeted that David Tennant will not be appearing in the Burke and Hare movie.

A clue about David Tennant in Burke and Hare???

David Tennant appeared clean shaven at the National Televison Awards whereas lots of his fans were expecting that he may have a beard which would indicate that he would be starting filming Burke and Hare on Monday (25th).

Patrick Stewart talks about RSC / David Tennant Hamlet

Click here for an unusual Patrick Stewart video interview. It's a video recorded while Patrick is being driven home!

He talks about "David Tennant's Hamlet" (as he calls it!) at around 27 minutes in.

National Television Awards (NTAs)

A message received from the organisers of the National Television Awards tonight stated that doors open at 5.30pm and everyone must be in their seats for the 7pm start.

The show is televised from 7.30pm until 10pm on ITV1 tonight and on ITV2 at 10pm for an hour is a backstage programme.

Voting for the NTAs is now closed. David Tennant stated that last year he learnt at about 6.40pm on the evening that he had won his award so the live link from Stratford-Upon_Avon would be going ahead during the interval of Hamlet that evening.

St Trinian's II The Legend of Fritton's Gold is 5th most successful UK film of 2009

According to this report on the UK Film Council website, St Trinian's II The Legend of Fritton's Gold was the fifth most successful British film in 2009 for both independent productions and productions partially funded by US studios (St Trinians 2 was an independent production).

The box office figure for St Trinians 2 is not final as it is still in cinemas.

David Tennant plays the villian of the film called Pomfrey.

The Writer's Tale (Doctor Who book)

Click here for a detailed review of The Writer's Tale.

Patrick Stewart talks about David Tennant

Sir Patrick Sewart made some nice comments about David Tennant about their time working together on Hamlet which were repeated on FilmReviewOnline.com from the PBS Day at the TCA last week.

Patrick's comments included:

"David Tennant is an outstanding stage actor and was before Doctor Who, and it has been rather unfortunate that he has somehow, in parts of the media, been cast as the television actor who got lucky. Nothing could be further from the truth. David Tennant was an important stage actor, had worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in leading roles long before he was cast as Doctor Who.

I love being at the top of the company and being the guy who sets the standard, sets the benchmark, speak for everybody, and David Tennant was absolutely brilliant at that. He led that Hamlet company, and was always accessible, committed, pleasant and utterly delightful. As you can see, I’m a fan of his."

Reviews of Rex Is Not Your Lawyer

Click here for some reviews by members of a focus group who were asked by NBC to view the pilot of Rex Is Not Your Lawyer.

One of the reviewers in the article said about David Tennant's acting:

"First, David Tennant's American accent is pretty good. Almost House good. Second, his character has that same "hyper" feel as The Doctor where he will be deep in thought and then jump up and around the room explaining himself. Pretty good performance, overall."

The Stage's view on David Tennant in the NTAs

The Stage believe that David Tennant will win his award at the NTAs on Wednesday according to this item about television this week.

Colin Baker discusses David Tennant

Former Doctor Colin Baker discusses Doctor Who, David Tennant and Hustle in an interview with DigitalSpy.

Colin describes David as "He's a very fine actor and from what I've seen of his Doctor, he's been superb."

Article about food on the set of Rex Is Not Your Lawyer

Food Stylist Chris Oliver describes preparing food on the set of Rex Is Not Your Lawyer in her Blog online here.

More photos of David Tennant at Legally Blonde Opening Night Gala

Two more photos of David Tennant at the Legally Blonde Gala Opening Night have been posted online here and here.

Video of Hamlet Q&A

Click here for a video of part of the Q&A from the BFI screening on 14th December. (David Tennant did not attend the Q&A.) This video shows director Gregory Doran and Patrick Stewart being interviewed by Mark Lawson.

BBC4 are repeating Hamlet on Saturday 30th January from 7pm.

Very late Sunday Express article about David Tennant filming Rex Is Not Your Lawyer

The Sunday Express has an article about David Tennant filming the scene on the golf course for Rex Is Not Your Lawyer today.

This is about one month after they actually shot the scene!