David Tennant visit to see Jerusalem

David Tennant's visit to see the play Jerusalem at the Apollo Theatre in London on Thursday evening made the Evening Standard Diary page.

The article mentions faous people who have been to see the play including Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law and Sienna Miller.

They also mention that two seats along from David was Lenny Henry and also royal family biographer Anthony Holden was in the audience on Thursday evening.

US version of David Tennant's Hamlet DVD on pre-order

The US version of the David Tennant / RSC DVD of Hamlet can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.com. Click here to purchase it.

It currently costs $13.99 and will released on 4th May (the same day as the version on Blu-ray) which is about a week after it is broadcast on PBS.

Two LA newspapers mention Rex Is Not Your Lawyer pilot

Two Los Angeles based newspapers mention David Tennant's pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer in the past couple of days.

The Hollywood Reporter mentions it in its "Know Your Pilots" feature online.

They describe the plot as "A top Chicago litigator who becomes so crippled by panic attacks that he can no longer appear in the courtroom and starts coaching his clients to represent themselves."

Their opinion is "Another legal drama, but this actually sounds potentially cool. Question is whether this is a just a nifty pilot idea or a nifty weekly series."

The LA Times has an article about pilots and says about David Tennant's drama:

"Rex Is Not Your Lawyer is co-written by actors Andrew Leeds and David Lampson and produced by Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun. It's a comedic drama about a brilliant lawyer who begins coaching those seeking to represent themselves after he suffers debilitating panic attacks, which make it impossible for him to litigate in court. The cast includes David Tennant ("Doctor Who"), pictured left, Jerry O'Connell ("Cougar Town"), Abigail Spencer ("Mad Men"), Jeffrey Tambor ("Arrested Development"), Jane Curtin ("Crumbs"), Cleo King ("Sons of Anarchy"), and Lindsey Kraft ("Southland")."

That article also contains the photo of David Tennant to the right.

The current situation is that officially NBC are still deciding whether or not to commission the pilot into a full television series.

Dates for Doctor Who Proms

The date of the two Doctor Who Proms concerts this year are 24th and 25th July at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

The first concert will be played on the evening of Saturday 24th July and then it will be repeated at lunchtime on Sunday 25th July.

See here for more information.

Doctor Who auction

The Bonhams auction of Doctor Who memorabilia was held today in London. (See here for the original report about this auction.)

The press report that David Tennant's dinner suit from Voyage Of The Damned sold for £5,040 and one of his shirts from the series reached £1,260.

Example of press coverage after the auction are CBBC, BBC News and the Daily Mail's cynical reporting of the event.

This link has details of all the sale prices.

David Tennant leads Hello weekly vote

The Hello Weekly vote for Most Attractive Man ends today. David Tennant is comfortably leading by 5,494 to the next highest of 2,881.

David Tennant to appear in Retreat movie

ScreenDaily says Davd Tennant will be in the movie Retreat which will start filming in Canada in May.

The article says that he will be appearing alongside Thandie Newton and Jason Isaacs in Magnet Films’ psychological thriller.

The plot synopsis is:
"A couple (played by Newton and Isaacs) who are seeking to rebuild their relationship by taking time out on a remote island but their peace is shattered when they find a man in military uniform (Tennant) half-dead on their doorstep who tells them there is a lethal virus killing millions on the mainland."

The movie will be directed by Carl Tibbetts who co-wrote the script with Janice Hallett.





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David Tennant in Saturn Awards

An update on this post yesterday, thanks to fans contacting the company, David Tennant is now listed in the nominations for Best Television Actor in the Saturn Awards.

Confusion over David Tennant's nomination in the Saturn Awards

The LA Times report that David Tennant has been nominated in the Best Actor On Television category in the Saturn Awards. Unfortunately the Saturn Awards website does not list him as a nomination.

However Bernard Cribbins is nominated for the Best Guest Starring Role On Television Award for his role in The End Of Time, Doctor Who Planet Of The Dead is nominated for the Best DVD Television Release Award and Doctor Who The End Of Time is in the Best Television Presentation category.

The Saturn Awards are presented by The Academy Of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The winners will be announced on 25th June.

Murder in Samarkand review

The Independent has a review of Murder in Samarkand.

The review says that David Tennant is "terribly typecast – not as Dr Who, but as himself" but later add:

"In this instance he put in a fantastic performance, but his very vivacity was almost a distraction from David Hare's superbly brisk, no-nonsense script based on Murray's memoir."

Post-Murder in Samarkand

Following the broadcast this afternoon of Murder in Samarkand on Radio 4, Craig Murray writes about his reaction, has the link to the play on iPlayer and a quip about David Tennant.

Murder in Samarkand

Craig Murray writes about Murder in Samarkand which is being broadcast today at 2.30pm on Radio 4.

Air date and photos of David Tennant in Of Mice And Men

BlogtorWho has posted some photos of David Tennant recording Of Mice And Men online here.

And the BBC have announced that Of Mice And Men will air on Sunday 7th March on BBC Radio 4 between 3pm and 4pm.

More press about David Tennant's new drama Single Father

Today several more newspapers and websites have printed articles about David Tennant's new drama Single Father:

The Guardian

The Mirror

The Daily Record

Hello Magazine

DigitalSpy.com

Metro

STV

David starts recording the drama in Gla gow next month.

See here for more information about Single Father.

Press on David Tennant's new drama Single Father

The Sun is running the story about David Tennant's new drama Single Father online here.

David Tennant to star in Single Father for BBC Scotland

The Herald (a Scottish newspaper) report that David Tennant will be starring in a new 4 part drama for BBC Scotland called Single Father.

It is described as "a man who is struggling to raise four children after the death of his wife. His character, Dave, is a photographer who then falls for his late wife’s best friend. He struggles with falling in love again while being a father to his children."

David Tennant short-listed for British Press Guild award

As posted here on DavidTennantOnTwitter.com on Tuesday 9th February, David Tennant was one of the 20 or so nominations for the Broadcasting Press Guild's 36th Annual Awards category of Best Actor.

The Guild have now announced their short-list and David Tennant is one of the four remaining nominees.

David is nominated for his roles in both Doctor Who and Hamlet and the other three are Peter Capaldi, David Morrissey and James Nesbitt.

The BPG award ceremony (which are chosen by journalists who write about TV and radio), will take place at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London on Friday 26th March.

Click here to read about these awards in The Guardian and here to see a report in The Hollywood Reporter.

In Their Own Words Volume 6

The Doctor Who magazine called In Their Own Words Volume 6 (which includes David Tennant's era) is published today.

See here for more info.

2 Doctor Who Proms concerts planned for 2010.

There will be two special Doctor Who themed Proms concerts this Summer at the Royal Albert Hall.

The Proms series of concerts run this year between 16th July and 11th September.

In 2008 there was a special lunchtime Sunday concert with a Doctor Who theme during the series and this year it has been expanded to two concerts - one on the Saturday night and the other at Sunday lunchtime.

In 2008 David Tennant was playing Hamlet in Stratford-Upon-Avon during that time so he recorded a special episode called Music Of The Spheres which was screened during the concert.

It is unlikely that David Tennant will be involved this year but it is highly likely that clips of him playing the Doctor will be played during the concert.

In 2008 the Doctor Who concert was the fastest selling one of the Proms series and the waiting list for tickets reached over 3,000 so it's advisable to apply for tickets as soon as they go on sale in a couple of months.

Special David Tennant page on Headway Essex website

The charity Headway Essex has a new website with a page especially about David Tennant.

He became their patron after filming the programme about brain damage called Recovery in 2007.

Click here to view David's page which includes videos and his two annual reviews.

David Tennant in weekly Hello poll

David Tennant is back in the weekly poll for Most Attractive Man on Hello Magazine again.

The winner of this week will be entered in the contest for this month and then the 12 winners during 2010 will compete for the annual title next January.

Currently David is comfortably winning with 2922 votes to 285 for Kiefer Sutherland.

Click here to vote.

David Tennant on cover of Doctor Who Magazine (again!)

There's a small photo of David Tennant on the front cover of Doctor Who Magazine #419 which is published on Thursday 4th March.

Click here to see it. (David's photo is on the top right.)

It's very small but most of his fans were not expecting to see his photo on the cover again and this is the second consecutive month since his tenure ended that he has made the cover!

David Tennant / RSC Hamlet on Blu-ray

Blu-rayNews.com have announced that Hamlet will be released on Blu-Ray on 4th May.

This is about a week after it is aired on the US TV station PBS.

David Tennant wins two more awards

David Tennant won both the Best Male Actor and the Sexiest Male Awards in the SFX Magazine Readers poll according to DigitalSpy.com

David Tennant voted Best Dressed Man of 2009 by Hello Magazine readers

David Tennant has been voted Best Dressed Man of 2009 by Hello Magazine readers according to this article here.

They report that he received more than 10,000 votes and more than 35 per cent of the total vote.

David Tennant in the broadsheets supporting The Labour Party

A couple of the broadsheets (The Guardian and The Telegraph) have run articles in the past couple of days about The Labour Party using celebrities (including David Tennant) to help promote their party in the lead up to the General Election later this year.

(David Tennant even appeared in a party political broadcast for them in 2005.)

The Telegraph article says "It is thought that the fight for the celebrity vote is more intense during this general election campaign for a number of reasons - the MPs' expenses scandal has meant stars are more reluctant to associate themselves with politics, while showing sympathy to the arts is also seen as a vote winner.

Kathy Lette, the author and Labour supporter, told The Observer: "It is particularly important for the Labour party because the Conservatives have such funds.

"They may have the coffers, but we have the charisma and the comedians.""

However the article concludes with a quote from film director Michael Winner saying that he believes that the celebrity vote has little impact:
"We just don't have stars of that level. I am not sure even someone like David Tennant is widely enough known. If you went out on the street, quite a lot of people would not be sure who he is. I have been voting for 55 years and this time I think I will probably wait until the last minute and then vote simply to keep one or other of them out."

Rumours circulating again about David Tennant playing in Madonna movie

The "David Tennant to play in Madonna / Wallis Simpson movie" RUMOURS are circulating again with this article in the Coventry Telegraph today.

These rumours originally circulated in The Sun on 1/9/09.

The End Of Time gets good viewing figures in Australia

The End Of Time Part One had its premiere in Australia last night and received very good ratings according to this article on GallifreyBase.com.

Murder in Samarkand featuring David Tennant

Click here to listen to the trailer for the David Tennant / David Hare play Murder In Samarkand which is currently being aired on Radio Four.

David Hare interview about Murder In Samarkand

Earlier tonight David Hare was interviewed on the Rdaio Four arts programe called Front Row about his play Murder In Samarkand in which David Tennant plays Craig Murray (the former ambassador to Uzbekistan).

David Hare talks about the play and mentions that he thinks that David Tennant is a great actor.

Murder In Samarkand airs on Saturday (20th) at 2.30pm as part of Radio 4's The Saturday Play series.

Click here to listen to David Hare's interview.

Last night at the What’s On Stage Awards ceremony at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, the second award to be announced was for Best Supporting Actor which went to Sir Patrick Stewart and the MC introduced him as from the “David Tennant / RSC production of Hamlet .“

That was the only time that David Tennant was mentioned on stage at the award ceremony although Patrick Stewart was asked to stay on stage as the play also won the Best Shakespearean Production Award (which was sponsored by Shakespeare 4 Kidz) with 29.8% of the vote (the next highest only scored 18%).

These awards were voted for by the public and 46,000 voted which was 11,000 up from 2009.

Unfortunately director Gregory Doran did not win the Best Director Award as that went to Trevor Nunn with 23.9% of the vote compared to Greg’s 22.9%.

Edward Bennett (who took over the role of Hamlet while David was having his operation) unfortunately came last in the category of Best Takeover In A Role only scoring 9% of the vote against 30% for John Barrowman who won.

Click here to see the full list of winners and here for the Press Association report of it.

Arabella Weir talks about David Tennant

Arabella Weir mentions David Tennant in her Witter interview in The Times today.

Carig Murray talks about David Tennant playing him in Murder In Samarkand

Craig Murray talks about David Tennant playing him in Murder In Samarkand on Saturday in this article in the Daily Mail.

As well as giving the background to both his life and the making of the radio play, Crag has the following to say about David:

Even I did not know David Tennant was playing me until two days before recording started. I am of course absolutely delighted. I watched Tennant's Hamlet on TV at Christmas and thought it was superb. I have been a Doctor Who fan virtually my whole life - I even once knitted myself a Tom Baker scarf. To have my story retold by great talents such as David Hare and Tennant outweighs the Hollywood dream.

Nadira got to work directly with Tennant and found him charming, helpful and entirely unassuming. After working with Tennant playing me, it must be pretty disappointing to return home to the real thing.

I am delighted with the final outcome. I had doubted it would be possible to reduce such a morally complex book to a 90-minute radio drama, but it is stunning.

Update on the David Tennant Quiz

On Sunday on DavidTennantOnTwitter.com we tried a new way of playing the quiz which was having a predetermined position to win each question. (See here for more info.)

DavidTennantFan won on Sunday and, by coincidence, after checking back on the quiz answers, if we had played it under the first-past-the-post rules then it would have been a tie (with 2 correct answers first) between DavidTennantFan and iantoscybergirl. DavidTennantFan then won the tie-break (which iantoscybergirl was also eligible to answer).

Of course that doesn't really prove anything as, for example, rizzleskizzle_x (who has won quizzes the most number of times) was obviously deliberately posting his or her answers later than usual which I expect other people were too. (Although he or she wouldn't have known it, there was only once that the 1st place was the winner on Sunday.)

Afterwards people were asked for feedback but very little was received! The responses were quite evenly split between those who liked the new system and those who didn't.

Personally I think the winner should be the first to answer or it's not really a contest but equally it's understandable that if people have a slower connection then they are rarely going to win. Unfortunately no realistic solutions about how to make it more fair all round were received.

Therefore for tomorrow's quiz we are going to experiment by having two winners for each question. The first will be the first to answer correctly and the second winner for each question will be the tenth person to answer correctly. If you like or dislike this then please send feedback via either a Tweet or an email after the quiz. (Not during it as there's too many tweets to read properly.)

The quiz tomorrow (number 46!) will be at 10am (as it's Valentine's Night and also so that the Australians can join in). There will not be a quiz next weekend but on Wednesday 23rd February there will be a special quiz at 8pm of 10 questions about the Doctor Who episode The Christmas Invasion.

Above all please remember that these quizzes are just about FUN! They do not prove that someone is a bigger fan of David Tennant than anyone else. It's just a way of answering questions about David and having FUN.

Tenth Doctor in Geek poll

The Tenth Doctor and Joan Redfern are in the "Top 10 Tragic Love Stories in Geek Fiction" list.

David Tennant on cover of Glorious 39 DVD

FemaleFirst has a review and a photo of the cover of the Glorious 39 DVD which is released on 8th March.

They give it four out of five stars and it has a photo of David Tennant on the cover of the DVD (pictured right).

Caught In The Web

Click here and here for videos of the David Tennant narrated NewsRound Special called Caught In The Web which aired earlier today.

A longer version will also be shown at 11am on BBC2 on Thursday 11th February.

This link has more information about the programme.

In Their Own Words magazine

Doctor Who Magazine's In Their Own Words Vol 6 magazine (which includes David Tennant's era as Doctor Who) is published on Thursday 18th February.

Click here to see the cover.

David Tennant nominated in Broadcasting Press Guild's 36th Annual Awards

Voting is currently taking place for the Broadcasting Press Guild's 36th Annual Awards. David Tennant nominated for Best Actor.

The winners are chosen by members of the Guild and takes place between the 11th and 18th February according to a post on GallifreyBase.com.

More about David Tennant donating his bag for charity

Following the post yesterday about David Tennant donating his bag to aid money for Marie Curie Cancer Care, the part about David's bag in the newspaper report is:

"ACTOR David Tennant has used this Adidas kit bag all around the world. He told Marie Curie it was something he used all of the time, even while filming Dr Who. The large holdall also contains signed DVDs from the Dr Who series. "

In David's usual self-depreciating style he is quoted as saying “This battered old thing has been all round the world and has been very faithful. There’s a signed DVD inside – so it might be worth something...”

Other celebrities who have donated items for the auction include footballer Alan Shearer, Dame Helen Mirren, Cherie Blair and Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Bidders will get the chance to get their hands on the celebrity items at an auction at the Hilton Hotel, Bottle Bank, Gateshead, next month. Marie Curie Cancer Care has arranged the event as part of their Handbags and Gladrags Ball. All proceeds will be donated to the charity’s appeal. Tickets for the ball, on March 13, are £75 per person.

Marie Curie is hoping to raise enough money to provide more free nursing care for people with terminal illnesses, both in their own homes and in the charity’s hospices.

Taking place during Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal month, the ball will also feature a drinks reception, a four-course meal, live entertainment, disco and a specialist silent auction.

More info about the auction and the work the charity does is at www.mariecurie.org.uk.

David Tennant donates a bag for Marie Curie auction.

David Tennant has donated one of his bag to be auctioned at a ball for the cancer charity Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Click here for more info.

David Tennant NOT a nightmare

Following the interview in Doctor Who Magazine #418 with Louise Page talking about dressing David Tennant in Doctor Who, today DigitalSpy posted an article with the title "Tennant was a nightmare" with a negative slant about David.

They have now changed the article to reflect the fact that Louise was joking and talking affectionately about him (although the title remains).

Doctor Who awards

DigitalSpy looks at the awards that Doctor Who (including David Tennant) has won since its revival in 2005 online here.

David Tennant wins Best Actor at SFX Sci Fi Awards 2010

David Tennant won the Best Actor Award in the SFX Sci Fi Awards 2010 which were announced this weekend.

Unfortunately Doctor Who did not win Best TV Show (although it was nominated) as that award went to Supernatural.

Related Doctor Who wins at the awards were:

Best TV Episode: Torchwood: Children of Earth Day Five

Best Collectable, Toy or Boardgame: Doctor Who: The Journal of Impossible Things
Best Actress: Eve Myles for Gwen Cooper in Torchwood: Children of Earth
Hope For The Future award: Steven Moffat
Cult Hero: Ianto Jones in Torchwood

Both The Next Doctor and Planet Of The Dead were nominated in the Best TV Episode Award.

David Tennant intro for Elaine Paige

Click here to listen to David Tennant's intro for the Elaine Paige radio show which was broadcast this afternoon.

David Tennant on Wii advert

David Tennant is voicing an advert on television at the moment for Wii.

Click here to see a video of his voice-over.

David Tennant and Hollywood

The Daily Express have posted an article today saying that they believe that David Tennant COULD be about to make a Doctor Who movie in Hollywood following on from what Billie Piper said on 29th January.

The article starts with the paragraph:

"Hollywood is calling Doctor Who star David Tennant to play the Time Lord on the big screen."

It then uses the phrase "But David, 38, may be too busy in America" before talking about both Rex Is Not Your Lawyer and the Burke and Hare movie.

Press items on the Doctor Who and Torchwood props auction

Several websites and newspapers have picked up on the Bonhams auction of Doctor Who and Torchwood props and clothing first mentioned here on Tuesday.

Examples are the BBC Doctor Who website, The Guardian, BBC News website, Scottish Daily Record, Daily Mirror and Los Angeles Times.

The auction takes place in Knightsbridge, London on Wednesday 24th February and the lots can be viewed from Sunday 21st onwards.

David Tennant Quiz #45 on Sunday 7th February

Each week on DavidTennantOnTwitter.com there is a David Tennant Quiz.

Sometimes it is about a specific aspect of his career (e.g. Doctor Who Series Four) and sometimes it is a general quiz about his career and productions that he has been involved in.

On Sunday 7th February there will be the 45th quiz and we will be trying an experiment.

Several people have mentioned that having the first person to post the answer as the winner each time favours those with the fastest Internet connection so this time a pre-determined position will win each question.

For example for the first question the fifth correct answer may be the winner but for the second question it may be the tenth correct answer.

As previously stated this is only an experiment so please leave feedback after the quiz either by a message through Twitter to David_Tennant@Twitter or send an email to DavidTennantOnTwitter@Gmail.com.

The quiz will be at 8pm UK time on Sunday and after the quiz proof that the winning positions were pre-determined will be posted.

To answer a question, start your Tweet with @David_Tennant and there will be 10 questions about all aspects of David Tennant's career. Please remember that if you have your updates locked then I won't be able to see your answers so unblock your updates for the duration of the quiz.

Previous winners are posted here.

Press release about The BBC have issued a press release about Murder In Samarkand

The BBC have issued a press release about the David Hare radio play Murder In Samarkand which David Tennant stars in on Saturday 20th February.

Click here to read the press release but as it will disappear after broadcast it says:

"Saturday Play – Murder In Samarkand

Saturday 20 February

2.30-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4

David Tennant stars in David Hare's new drama for radio, Murder In Samarkand, based on the memoir by Craig Murray.

In Hare's play, Craig is a high-flyer in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who loves his job and is proud to be appointed Ambassador for the first time, to Tashkent. It's before the Iraq war and Uzbekistan is newly in focus as a useful ally in the "War on Terror".

Craig is a man who, when he works, likes to work really hard, and when he has fun, he likes to really enjoy himself – and he immediately starts to do both. He visits the local British businesses, he finds the girls, the night clubs and the drinking friends. And he discovers he is Ambassador to a dire regime that imprisons dissidents and routinely uses torture on its citizens. He realises the Uzbeks are supplying the Americans with intelligence derived from torture, and he cannot get his head around the fact that UK complicity in this doesn't seem to concern his superiors – though they are shocked by the girls and the night clubs. The consequences for him couldn't be greater.

Producer/Ann Scott"

The BBC have also released these two photos of David Tennant with David Hare.

Click here for more information about this play.

Labour MPs meeting David Tennant

Labour MP (and Doctor Who fan) Tom Harris has written an amusing detailed Blog item about missing meeting various incarnations of the Doctor but finally meeting David Tennant last Wednesday as part of the Performers' Alliance.

He posted two photos of him with David Tennant, plus Labour MP Ann McKechin has also posted a photo of her and David online here.

David Tennant second favourite to be school teacher

Several newspapers today are reporting that David Tennant has been voted second favourite person schoolchildren would like as teacher in a poll conducted by the website Swapit.co.uk. (X-Factor judge Cheryl Cole came first.)

Examples are MonstersAndCritics.com, The Guardian and The Press Association.

David Tennant in Doctor Who Magazine 418

Kasterborous has a preview of Doctor Who Magazine #418 where dresser Louise Page talks about dressing David Tennant.

On GallifreyBase.com polyg described the article as:

"Louise Page gives an interview and half the interview is about David Tennant and his costume. There are some new bits including people's reaction to the blue suit (including David's), about working with David and whether Matt Smith wore the stunt brown costume (which is one size bigger) or not.

One extract about David reads "I couldn't have asked for a more wonderful actor. I was really lucky. He wore the costume with such style. He's the loveliest man to dress and to work with. To have four years with somebody who looks that good in your clothes was so nice. It was very much our costume, and I 'm proud of the fact that the suits and coats just about withstood the battering that they got from filming. I started Doctor Who with David, and I felt that the time to go was when he did. My biggest scare was when I thought he might stay for an extra year, because that would have made it difficult for me to go. I wouldn't have wanted someone to inherit my costume. I don't mind Matt Smith putting it on for a couple of scenes, but..."

It's funny how DT was doing things with the costume that wound her up (the buttons, putting a knife and a fork at his top pocket at lunch times: "The more I 'd say 'Don't do it' the more he would, for my benefit" but Louise's tone is very affectionate.

Elsewhere in the magazine Steven Moffatt answers the question "Is it important that the actor playing the Doctor is a bit barmy?"

"Not at all. And nor does it have to be! It doesn't hurt, but it's not a necessity. David Tennant is a brilliant, vibrant, huge, quite theatrical Doctor but in reality he's a kindly modest man. He's not 'Doctor-y' at all. He absolutely understands and gets the Doctor, a brilliant version of him, and his Doctor is a big Doctor, he's an in-your-face Doctor. David is not an in-your-face man at all. That's the last thing he is, he's far too well mannered." "

David Tennant voices NewsRound Special

David Tennant is voicing a NewsRound Special about staying safe on the Internet.

It is called Caught in the Web and it "tells the story of a girl who gets into trouble after her virtual life in an online chatroom spills into the real world. There are also real-life case studies with kids who've had bad experiences online, like a girl who was cyber bullied and a boy addicted to gaming" according to the press release.

The programme will be shown at 4.55pm on BBC1 on Tuesday 9th February and at 6.30pm on the CBBC Channel on the same day. It will then be repeated on the CBBC Channel at 5pm on Saturday 13th February, plus a longer version will also be shown at 11am on BBC2 on Thursday 11th February 2010.

Click here to hear an audio clip of David Tennant from the show and here for the full BBC press release.

Guardian review of David Tennant co-hosting Jonathan Ross Show

The Guardian has a positive review of David Tennant and Catherine Tate's stint of The Jonathan Ross Radio Show last Saturday on Radio Two online here.

The Guardian has a positive review of David Tennant and Catherine Tate's stint of The Jonathan Ross Radio Show last Saturday on Radio Two online here.

One part of the review included the phrase:
" The show proved an absolute delight: the sound of two people genuinely enjoying each other's company. Even an interview with Ricky Gervais made for good listening. Had Ross made it into the studio, listeners would almost certainly have been treated to the usual Gervais love-in – but Tennant and Tate brought out his best side."

David Tennant and Catherine Tate recorded the show last Friday after being asked to step in on Thursday (or earlier).

All the David Tennant / Catherine Tate parts of the show can be found on the Radio page of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com

BBC America on David Tennant's new radio play

BBC America have a short article about David Tennant in the Murder in Samarkand radio play online here.

It also includes a Craig Murray video to give a taster of how David may sound in the play.

David Tennant at charity Pub Quiz for Centrepoint

Last night David Tennant was one of the celebrities who attended "The Ultimate Pub Quiz" at Shoreditch House and helped raise over £40,000 for the homelessness charity Centrepoint.

Among the other celebrities there were Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Richard Bacon, and Shane Ritchie. Kirsty Young was the quizmaster.

For the second round there was an auction of some of the celebrities among the corporate tables. Richard Bacon tweeted the following about the auction:

"At a charity quiz - auctioned against Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Xander Armstrong and David Tennant. Guess who received the lowest bid? "

"I received the lowest bid, by a considerable margin. David Tennant went for £1,900. I was £250."

"Steve Coogan was auctioned for £1,700, to which he said, "Ive got to be worth more than Dr f****** Who". "

"Quite flattered to know I was independently valued at 13% of David Tennant."

Click here for more information about the event from Centrepoint's website and here for more photos by Rex Features.

The event made a couple of newspapers - click here for the Evening Standard and this link for an article on the event on MonstersAndCritics.com.

TV Guide discusses Rex Is Not Your Lawyer

TV Guide's Matt Roush talks about Rex Is Not Your Lawyer and about fast-tracking (or not fast-tracking) the series here.

Being asked about fast-tracking in relation to the series, her reply was:

To rush a show on air that’s as offbeat as this one appears to be could be a huge mistake. Trying to launch something on NBC in the spring risks having it get lost in the current swamp of failure. Much better to wait and put something like this in the mix next season, when NBC pretty much has to take risks to make noise to reverse the PR nightmare of the current debacle. It’s hard to imagine them going anywhere but up, and to do that, they need to get behind at least a few shows in the fall that will command attention (and not the sort that remaking Knight Rider tends to get you). I can’t attest to the quality of Rex at this stage of the game, but NBC could do far worse than building a show around a major talent like David Tennant. Fingers crossed.

Many thanks to wrytered for the link.

David Tennant's salary at the BBC

The Daily Mail says (and is surprised) that actor Trevor Eve earned more than David Tennant at the BBC.

It was widely reported (but never denied or confirmed by the BBC) that David Tennant was paid less than Christopher Eccleston when he took over the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who in 2005.

Subsequently various newspapers reported increasing sums that they believed David was paid for his later series.

David Tennant in the Radio Times

There are photos of David Tennant from the Radio Times Cover Party in the 6th to 12th February issue (in shops now).

Click the photos on the left for the larger versions. Many thanks to JBFan_Belle for the photos.

David Tennant attended the party on Tuesday 26th January. See here for more about the event.