David Tennant mentioned in @TobyHadoke's hilarious show at Edinburgh Fringe

Comedian and big Doctor Who fan Toby Hadoke will be performing his hilarious new stage show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (at Gilded Balloon Teviot) from Wednesday 1st August (tomorrow) until Sunday 26th August (not Wednesday 15th) at 3.10pm each day. The show lasts an hour.

One of the people who helps run DavidTennantOnTwitter.com attended one of his warm-up shows earlier this month and reported that Toby mentions David Tennant twice during the hilarious show plus he has a photo of David on the screen at one stage.

Toby’s previous show was called Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf and David Tennant provided the voiceover at the beginning of that show.

This production is a continuation of the first show (although you do not need to have seen Moths in order to enjoy it) as it features a more recent part of Toby’s life.

If you can not get to Edinburgh, then Toby will be touring the show over the next few months. His website TobyHadoke.com will have all the details soon.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Monday 30th July

For the latest news about David Tennant please see the News section of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com.

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Screenrant reports that a montage of the 11 Doctors (including David Tennant) from Doctor Who WAS planned to be part of the Olympics opening ceremony but had to be dropped due to time restraints. It was shown during the rehearsals in the stadium. Instead fans had to settle for just the sound of the TARDIS in a compliation section of British television shows. 
(In the first hour that we tweeted that it had 86 retweets and now has had well over 100!) 

The Big Finish special offer on David Tennant audio (Before He Was The Tenth Doctor) ends today at 8am. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Sunday 29th July

David Tennant Treat 4 Today.

David Tennant starts working on Broadchurch.

Big Finish continue their special offer on David Tennant audio (Before He Was The Tenth Doctor) today. It ends on Monday morning at 8am.

David Tennant starts working on Broadchurch

Although filming on David Tennant's new ITV serial Broadchurch is not expected to start until mid August, it was reported that he was already doing some preparation work on Thursday.

According to one post on Twitter (see below), David visited an office to do research for Broadchurch. She doesn't specify which type of office she works in or even which town the office was located in but she lives in Gravesend in Kent which is only twenty minutes from London so he may have remained in the capital.

It is not at all unusual for actors to start work on a project in advance of filming, especially if they are as thorough and professional as David. Also, before filming starts most dramas will have a read-through as well as costume fittings and make-up tests.

Filming on David's most recent project The Politician's Husband is believed to have finished on Wednesday (25th).

It is possible that David started work on Broadchurch the following day if he is planning on making a trip to America this week as rumoured.

David Tennant is still listed as an 'expected panelist' by the Canadian website TVGuide.ca when The Spies Of Warsaw is presented at the 2012 TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour on Wednesday 1st August in Beverly Hills.

Last night several fans reported online that he was in the audience watching What The Butler Saw at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. This was the final performance as it closed a month early. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Saturday 28th July 2012

As usual Saturdays are the quietest days of the week for for David Tennant news so there are only two items today.

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Big Finish continue their special offer on David Tennant audio (Before He Was The Tenth Doctor) today. It ends on Monday morning at 8am. 


 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Friday 27th July 2012

At 5.15pm tonight Big Finish started their special offer on David Tennant audio (Before He Was The Tenth Doctor). It ends on Monday morning at 8am. 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Although it is highly unlikely to happen, there are loads of tweets today by people hoping David Tennant will carry the Olympic Torch tonight in the Olympic Stadium as the Tenth Doctor did in Fear Her! 

DoctorWhoTV looks back at David Tennant's era of Doctor Who. 


David Tennant has been voted Favourite Doctor in a poll by the American magazine Entertainment Weekly.

  

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Thursday 26th July 2012

As David Tennant has finished filming The Politician's Husband, there were only three items of news. (There was also a video of the outtakes of Twenty Twelve posted by YouTube but that has now been removed.)

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Director Sheree Folkson says some nice things about David Tennant. (The quotes are taken from another article but it is worth repeating!)

Doctor Who Magazine 450 is published with today. A poster of David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston and Matt Smith is included.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Wednesday 25th July 2012

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BBC America will broadcast four new Doctor Who documentaries this summer. The press release is accompanied by photos of the episodes which include two of David Tennant. 

During a video interview with Neve McIntosh by Blogtorwho they talk about David Tennant's drama Single Father at the start of the clip. 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The wrap party for The Politician's Husband is apparently tonight which tends to give more credence to the 'expected' appearance by David Tennant at the 2012 TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour on Wednesday 1st August in Beverley Hills near Los Angeles. 

The overnight figure for the final episode of the David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve was that it received 1.5m viewers (which was just 10K down from last week's episode). 

The Daily Mail has an article about sideburns and claims that David Tennant's in Doctor Who were "too tidy!" 

True Love is available from today to rent from LoveFilm in the UK and Europe. (The DVD was available to purchase last month.) 

Update on David Tennant in the Politician's Husband and TCA panel

The wrap party for The Politician's Husband is apparently tonight which tends to give more credence to the 'expected' appearance by David Tennant at the 2012 TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour on Wednesday 1st August in Beverley Hills near Los Angeles!


David Tennant's next known project is Broadchurch for ITV which starts filming in mid August so it is easily possible that he will be able to attend TCA next week although to date only one website has listed him as an 'expected guest.'


Many thanks to sunshine on GallifreyBase for the info about the wrap party.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Tuesday 24th July 2012

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Unfortunately the trailer we tweeted yesterday for Nativity 2 on YouTube has been changed to private by Showcase Cinemas. 

Big Finnish will have a new special offer this weekend which will feature all of David Tennant's work for Big Finish. 

MSN Money has reported that Virgin Media has signed its one millionth customer thanks in part to David Tennant's adverts. 

The weekly round-up of news about David Tennant from the Scottish Actors blog. 

It was 4 years ago tonight that David Tennant performed the first preview performance of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon. 

Tonight at 10pm on BBC Two is the premiere broadcast of the final ever episode of the David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve. The episode is called Loose Ends and the synopsis of the episode can be read here. 

  

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Monday 23rd July 2012

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Showcase Comiemas have posted the trailer for the movie Nativity 2 onto YouTube.com. The movie is released in the UK on 23rd November and the trailer confirms that it will be called Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger. 

It is NOT confirmed but David Tennant MAY appear at the 2012 TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour on Wednesday 1st August as part of the presention for The Spies Of Warsaw. 

Series Two of the David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve starts being shown tonight on UKTV at 7.30pm in Australia.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Sunday 22nd July 2012

 

It was announced last night at the Television Critics Press Tour (Summer 2012) that Shakespeare Uncovered would be show on US television by PBS during the next season. The exact broadcast date is not known yet. 

A photo of a fan with David Tennant on the set of True Love last September which was only posted onto Twitter today. 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The Observer newspaper has a review of David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered. (The review bemoans the late broadcast slot of the programme.)    



 

NOT confirmed but David Tennant MAY appear at 2012 TCA Tour next week

It is NOT confirmed but there has been some discussion the past two days in certain sections on the Doctor Who website GallifreyBase.com that David Tennant MAY appear at the 2012 TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour on Wednesday 1st August.

A Canadian website (TVGuide.ca) have listed David as an 'expected panelist' when The Spies Of Warsaw is presented at this a twice yearly event which showcases US broadcasters' new programmes and those it has re-commissioned.

David Tennant appeared at the 2009 TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour as he attended on Wednesday 29th July for Doctor Who and on Sunday 2nd August at the PBS panel for Masterpiece Contemporary.

Currently David Tennant is filming The Politician's Husband in London so he may not be able to attend due to his filming schedule.

The TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour started this year on Saturday 21st July and ends on Friday 3rd August. It is taking place in Beverley Hills and each day a different television station presents its programmes. On 1st August it is the turn of the cable station CTAM.

This is an industry only event which fans can not attend.

 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Saturday 21st July 2012

Only 3 items of David Tennant news today:
 
A photo of the poster of David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston and Matt Smith which will be given away with Doctor Who Magazine 450 (published on Thursday). 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

A review of the DVD The Story Of The Costume Drama which will be released by Acorn Media on 31st July in the US. It includes a look at behind the scenes of David Tennant's drama Casanova. 


 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Friday 20th July 2012

This is the David Tennant Daily News Digest for Friday 20th July 2012. If you would like to read news about David Tennant 'as it happens' please see the News section of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com.

The news is in reverse chronological order.

 

The BBC have uploaded three video clips for the final ever episode of the David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve. The episode is called Loose Ends and premieres on BBC Two at 10pm on Tuesday (24th) which is just 3 days before the actual opening ceremony of London 2012. David Tennant's voice can be heard in all three of these clips (which may only play within the UK). 

Paul Whitelaw, who is writing an article for Broadcast Magazine which will be published around the time that The Politician's Husband is broadcast, today tweeted "Earlier I was in the vicinity of David Tennant. He was attired in pyjamas & dressing gown. It was like The Christmas Invasion all over again." Paul also tweeted "Excitingly, I can confirm that David Tennant is very tall. Can also verify that he owns a mobile phone. Sorry DT fans, that's all I've got." He then added the amusing anecdote "During a scene set in a child's bedroom, a Doctor Who boardgame with David Tennant's fizzog on the cover had to be hidden from view." 

The Guardian has an article about the success of Touch Press apps (including the Shakespeare Sonnets app which features David Tennant). 

The overnight figures for David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered about Hamlet were that it only received a disappointing 238K viewers which was 3.3% of the viewing public at that time. However lots of fans have said that they used iPlayer to watch it (as it was broadcast at 11.20pm) so the final figures will be higher. 

The new permanent Doctor Who Exhibition in Cardiff opens today. It includes exhibits of costumes and props from David Tennant's era. 

3 new David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve video clips

The BBC have uploaded three video clips for the final ever episode of the David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve.

The episode is called Loose Ends and premieres on BBC Two at 10pm on Tuesday (24th) which is just 3 days before the actual opening ceremony of London 2012.

David Tennant's voice can be heard in all three of these clips (which may only play within the UK).

Click here for the BBC micro-site about Twenty Twelve and here for the Twenty Twelve section on DavidTennantOnTwitter.com.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Thursday 19th July 2012

David Tennant Treat 4 Today.

David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered about Hamlet has been reviewed by The Stage and The Hamlet Weblog.

Katie Olivia has posted a photo of David Tennant from filming The Politician's Husband today.

The details of a pilot of a television show hosted by Miranda Hart mentions David Tennant as one of its topics as the episode is all about men called David. The pilot films on Wednesday 25th July.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Wednesday 18th July 2012

David Tennant Treat 4 Today - it's the second anniversary of posting a Treat each day! 

The David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve last night received 1.51 million viewers which was 7.4% of the viewing audience at that time. Last week 1.1million saw the episode which was 5.3%. So far there has been no word on how many watched Shakespeare Uncovered. 

David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered has been uploaded to YouTube.com in four parts. The DVD of the whole series is released in the UK and Europe on 27th August. 

A link to the subtitles for David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered about Hamlet. 

Links for both UK and non-UK people to download David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered about Hamlet. It is repeated tonight on BBC HD at 11.50pm and the DVD (called prefaces To Shakespeare) is released on 27th August in the UK. The US broadcast date for the programme has not been announced yet. 

 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Tuesday 17th July 2012

Today in London there was a preview screening of David Tennant's movie Nativity 2. Currently there appears to be some doubt regarding the name of the movie as some industry websites are calling it Nativity Two: The Second Coming (which was the working title while it was being filmed) but other industry websites are calling it Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger. 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The BBC have uploaded a video of a deleted scene from Twenty Twelve. 

It is not strictly legal but this is a worldwide link to watch David Tennant in Shakespeare Uncovered and narrating Twenty Twelve tonight. 

From several tweets posted David Tennant is filming scenes for The Politician's Husband in Hartswood Road, West London again today. 

Tonight David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered about Hamlet premieres on BBC Two at 11.20pm.

Tonight Twenty Twelve Series 2 Episode 6 (Inclusivity Day) has its premiere broadcast on BBC Two at 10pm. 


 

Link to download David Tennant's Shakespeare Uncovered (UK and non)

For anybody in the UK, this is the iPlayer link (valid for 7 days) to download David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered about Hamlet which aired last night on BBC Two.

The Shakespeare Uncovered page on DavidTennantOnTwitter.com has more info about the filming of the hour long programme which included David Tennant talking about the play with scholars, Jude Law and Simon Russell Beale among others.

The programme also featured David Tennant's feelings about playing the role (he said that he was terrified even up until his final performance) and his reflection on the part three years later (he said that sometimes he will catch himself thinking about playing it again).

The DVD of the whole series will be released on 27th August and is available to pre-order via Amazon. (They list the DVD as Prefaces To Shakespeare.)

For anybody outside the UK Londonphile has posted a download of the programme.

 

Preview screening of David Tennant's movie Nativity 2 today

Although the movie is not scheduled to be released until 23rd November, today there was a preview screening of David Tennant's movie Nativity 2 in London.

Sophie Lister, who lists herself as a 'writer for the Damaris Trust on Christian faith and contemporary culture', was invited to the screening and afterwards described it as "I've just been run over by a Christmas bulldozer. Or smacked repeatedly on the head with a Christmas hammer. It's absolute chaos but most will prob find it hard to resist."

The Nativity Two section of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com has details about the filming of the movie in which David Tennant plays twins. There is also a detailed account of the movie on Wikipedia.

Currently there appears to be some doubt regarding the name of the movie as some industry websites are calling it Nativity Two: The Second Coming (which was the working title while it was being filmed) but other industry websites (and Sophie Lister) are calling it Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger.

Deleted scene video from David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve

The BBC have added a new video clip of a deleted scene from the Catastrophisation episode of the David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve.

(Unfortunately this video is unlikely to play outside the UK.)

 

 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Monday 16th July 2012

The Guardian lists David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered as one of its television highlights for tomorrow. 

Today David Tennant was believed to be filming The Politician's Husband in Hartswood Road, Stamford Brook, London, W12. There was also a report that he was fiming a scene where he was wearing pyjamas today. 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The Metro newspaper has an article about Matt Smith saying he would like Chris Eccleston and David Tennant to appear in a Doctor Who special to mark the 50th anniversary. The article includes a photo of David. 

Some new locations and scene details have been added for the filming of The Politician's Husband. 

Adverts for The Spies Of Warsaw are already being screened on BBC America in the US. Typically US TV stations screen future programme advertisements earlier than UK television. The Spies Of Warsaw is currently still expected to be shown in UK and Poland first. The adverts show a brief shot of David Tennant wearing a cap and the name of the programme. 

 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Sunday 15th July 2012

Please see this link which explains about the David Tennant Daily News Digest. (All news is in reverse chronological order.)

Alternatively if you would like to read news about David Tennant 'as it happens' please see the News section of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com.

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The Radio Times has reported that Matt Smith said at ComicCon today "It would be amazing to bring back David Tennant and Chris Eccleston" before being temporarily drowned out by the cheering! 

TheInspirationRoom has a great article showing all of David Tennant's adverts for the Virgin Media Collection. 

There is now a video of the preview clip from David Tennant's episode of Shakespeare Uncovered for non-UK people on YouTube.com. 

There are two items (with photos) about David Tennant in this week's Radio Times. One looks at his current and future projects (The Spies Of Warsaw, The Politician's Husband and Broadchurch) and the other is an item about Shakespeare Uncovered. 

Unfortunately it seems that David Tennant's Fear Her episode of Doctor Who will be proved wrong on 2 counts. 

 

David Tennant's Fear Her episode of Doctor Who proved wrong on 2 counts

Back in 2006 the Doctor Who episode Fear Her was broadcast in June that year.

It was set around the London 2012 Olympic Games and featured The Doctor lighting the Olympic Torch in the stadium and included a line in which he says that in the 2012 Olympics Papua New Guinea surprises everyone in the shot put.

Unfortunately it appears that both of these will not happen!

Of course when Matthew Graham (helped by Russell T Davies) wrote the episode it was six years ago so anything he wrote was well in the future but it hasn't stopped fans of both David Tennant and Doctor Who speculating.

The most popular aspect was the idea that David Tennant as The Doctor would light the Olympic flame in the stadium but this week it was reported that the two most likely people are former Olympic Gold Medal winners Daley Thompson and Steve Redgrave.

There were loads of tweets on Twitter when the current Doctor Matt Smith carried the Olympic Torch through some of Cardiff as lots of fans thought that honour should have gone to David Tennant. (As it was arranged by BBC Wales it was obvious that they would use the actor currently playing the role.)

There have even been some online petitions running for David to light the torch!

In regards to the second 'prediction', earlier this week the Papua New Guinea Olympics Team was finalised and, although they have their biggest team since Atlanta in 1996, they only have 8 athletes competing in 5 sports. The sports are Athletics, Swimming, Judo, Taekwondo and Weightlifting so Papua New Guinea are not even competing in the shot put!

  

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Saturday 14th July 2012

This is the first David Tennant Daily News Digest. Please see this link which explains more. (All news is in reverse chronological order.)

Alternatively if you would like to read news about David Tennant 'as it happens' please see the News section of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com.

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

From the number of tweets just posted (at 8.40pm), it seems that the Stephen Fry Virgin advert has just aired and lots of people wish it was still David Tennant's version! 

The David Tennant episode of Shakespeare Uncovered about Hamlet (to be broadcast on BBC Two on Tuesday at 11.20pm) is The Times Pick of The Day. 

The BBC have added a video of David Tennant from Shakespeare Uncovered. 

There is a poster of David Tennant in this week's Doctor Who Adventures magazine. 

A new book called Who Is The Doctor is published in the UK today. The book includes David Tennant's era as The Doctor. 

New method of receiving David Tennant news each day

At DavidTennantOnTwitter.com we do not keep repeating the same tweets. We assume that fans of David Tennant know that if they wish to catch up on the latest news about him they either read the News section of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com or the @David_Tennant timeline as DavidTennantOnTwitter.com is David Tennant's most frequently updated website. (For example between January and June this year the website was updated with 1,112 different items of news!)

We tend to use this Blogger account for when more detail is required than can be typed in 140 characters!

However, starting today, we are going to add a Digest of David Tennant News each day to Blogger so if you would like the previous days news emailed to you at 9am each morning, please follow this Blogger account. To do that join Blogger and add the account to your reading list via the Dashboard.

A tweet will also be sent each day too with the link.

The Digest will be sent at 10am for today only.

David Tennant video from Shakespeare Uncovered (worldwide link)

The BBC have added a video from the David Tennant episode of Shakespeare Uncovered about Hamlet which is broadcast this Tuesday (17th) at 11.20pm on BBC Two.

The video shows David Tennant in the shop at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon looking at all the Hamlet merchandise (including David's own Hamlet DVD).

The BBC video (below) unfortunately will only play within the UK but Londonphile on Tumblr has kindly posted a link to download the video which will play anywhere in the world. (Some fans have reported that they can only play it on the free VLC player.)

A DVD of the whole series of Shakespeare Uncovered will be released on 27th August.