David Tennant has provided the voice over for a new six part comedy mock documentary series shortly to start on BBC Four. Twenty Twelve stars Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes, Amelia Bullmore, Olivia Colman, Vincent Franklin and Karl Theobald and is about the people paddling hard beneath the water to make the Olympics happen in London in 2012.
Twenty Twelve is written and directed by John Morton, produced by Paul Schlesinger and the executive producer is Jon Plowman, the same team responsible for People Like Us in which David Tennant starred in the episode entitled The Actor.
The voice over was recorded in two sessions at studios in Alberquque last year whilst David Tennant was filming Fright Night. Not that you would ever know director and performer were nearly 5000 miles apart at the time of the recording or that at one point director, John Morton had to direct down an ordinary phone line. Delivered in David's native Scottish accent the voice over is at all times perfectly pitched very subtly sending up the more traditional documentary voice over.
Twenty Twelve is written and directed by John Morton, produced by Paul Schlesinger and the executive producer is Jon Plowman, the same team responsible for People Like Us in which David Tennant starred in the episode entitled The Actor.
The voice over was recorded in two sessions at studios in Alberquque last year whilst David Tennant was filming Fright Night. Not that you would ever know director and performer were nearly 5000 miles apart at the time of the recording or that at one point director, John Morton had to direct down an ordinary phone line. Delivered in David's native Scottish accent the voice over is at all times perfectly pitched very subtly sending up the more traditional documentary voice over.
The series website at here goes live next week, but you will have to wait until the series starts to hear David as none of the trails or clips currently destined for the website contain any voice over.
