David Tennant Daily News Digest for 30th August 2012

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Two David Tennant / The Pirates! movies to start being shown on UK television the week after next. 

Unfortunately, due to fans attending David's appearances over the next few weeks, the David Tennant Quiz #124 about the Doctor Who episode New Earth which was to have been held on Sunday (2nd) has been postponed until Sunday 30th September. It will be hosted by the account @DTQuiz. 

The prices for additional items from David Tennant at the Lords Of Time Fan Convention are that autographs will be £20 each and photos with David will cost £25. Everybody at the convention will receive one free autograph from each of the guests including David. 

Comic Relief are using the hilarious David Tennant / Catherine Tate sketch in their August newsletter. 

2 David Tennant / Pirates! movies to start being shown on UK TV

At 6am on Monday 10th September the movie The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists starts being shown on the Sky Movies channels. David Tennant voices the young Charles Darwin in this movie which was released earlier this year and is also released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK that day.

The movie will be repeated lots of times over the following weeks.

At DavidTennantOnTwitter.com we have a policy of not tweeting Sky movie screenings as there are so many and the tweets would get tedious.

However at 4pm on the non-movie channel Sky One on Sunday 9th is the UK non-movie channel premiere of the short movie So You Want to Be A Pirate! in which David Tennant also voices Charles Darwin.

This movie will be first shown on the channel Sky Family Movies on Saturday 8th at 5.50pm and then shown on various Sky movie channels over the next few weeks.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Wednesday 29th August 2012

David Tennant was filming Broadchurch in Hill Road, Clevedon today and we posted 8 items of news  about David Tennant including 7 chances to attend recordings of the panel show he is hosting.



David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

With the news of the filming dates for Comedy World Cup confirmed, it means that David Tennant must be attending the Lords Of Time convention on Sunday 9th September as he is recording two episodes of Comedy World Cup on Saturday 8th. 

A new photo of David Tennant from The Spies Of Warsaw which appeared in a Polish television listings magazine. 

TheaterMania have a new interview with David Tennant where he talks about The Spies Of Warsaw and Shakespeare. However, please note that the introduction to the interview states that David will be involved in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary next year which has not been confirmed. 

New filming dates for Comedy World Cup, plus the link to apply for tickets. 

Article in the Weston Mercury (with a photo) about David Tennant filming Broadchurch in the Clevedon area. 

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

Article in The Independent by Laurence Clark about Doctor Who and having his life narrated by David Tennant. 

New filming dates for Comedy World Cup hosted by David Tennant

Previously we posted the link to apply for tickets for the filming of the pilot of the panel show Comedy World Cup which David Tennant will be hosting on Channel Four.

Now filming dates for the actual programme have been added to the SRO Audience website.

The dates they list are:

Saturdays 8th September 1.30pm and 5pm
Sunday 16th September 1.30pm and 5pm
Sunday 23rd September 1.30pm and 5pm
Sunday 7th October 5.30pm

Click here for the link to book tickets to the filming of the seven episodes.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Tuesday 28th August 2012

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

WhatCulture have posted their list of ten great David Tennant / Tenth Doctor stories. 

The The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists is now released on DVD and Blu-ray in the US (under the title The Pirates! Band Of Misfits). 

ClevedonNews have added a video which includes filming some filming on Broadchurch.  (Unfortunately it was on a day when David Tennant was not on set.) The part starts at 18 minutes. 

Metro has an interview with Joanna Page where she speaks about working on Nativity 2. 

The BBC America trailer for Dramaville which includes clips of The Spies Of Warsaw. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Monday 27th August 2012

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Despite it being a Bank Holiday Monday. filming continued today on Broadchurch. Somebody tweeted a photo of filming outside a church in Clevedon. However David Tennant was not working today. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Sunday 26th August 2012

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Photo of a building in Clevedon redressed as the Broadchurch Echo newspaper office. 

David Tennant has recorded some messages for walks in Milton Keynes for their Woodland Whispers project. It runs from Monday 17th to Saturday 22nd September. This link has full details. 

The known scene / filming locations have been added to the filming section of Broadchurch. (There are not many at the moment but filming continues until November.) 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Saturday 25th August

Taking advantage of there being no filming on Broadchurch today, David Tennant was spotted flying out of the country for a break. 

Consequently there was little news today.



 

BBC America are showing another of their new compilation programmes tonight. This one is titled The Destinations Of Doctor Who and is broadcast at 9pm and midnight (ET). 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Friday 24th August

 A day when David Tennant continued to film Broadchurch in Clevedon and most of the news we posted was about his new panel show Comedy World Cup!

BBC America have posted a new video of David Tennant talking about Doctor Who:



David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The link to apply for tickets for the filming of the pilot episode of Comedy World Cup on Sunday 2nd September at the RADA Studios in London. 

The Channel 4 press release about Comedy World Cup which includes the quote by David Tennant "As a big comedy geek I'm looking forward to proving that I know more about it than the professionals!" 

UnrealityTV have more details about the format of Comedy World Cup and say that it is 8 episodes and not 7. 


An item in The Sun says that David Tennant's panel show Comedy World Cup will air in September. It also has a close-up photo of David filming Broadchurch.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Thursday 23rd August

Today it was announced that David Tennant will host the Channel Four show Comedy World Cup.

 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The news about David Tennant hosting Comedy World Cup has now been reported by both the Radio Times and DigitalSpy. 

Announced today at the Edinburgh International Television Festival by Channel Four controller Jay Hunt and then reported immediately on both Broadcast Now and The Guardian, was the news that David Tennant will host a new seven part panel show called Comedy World Cup for the channel. The synopsis of the programme is that teams of comedians will use their stand-up routines to avoid being ejected from the competition. It will be broadcast on Saturday evenings but no broadcast date has been announced. 

Some screencaps from the BBC America trailer of The Spies Of Warsaw have been added to Tumblr (including two of a bare-chested David Tennant!) 

Today David Tennant is believed to be filming Broadchurch in a school in Clevedon. 

David Tennant to host new panel show Comedy World Cup

Announced today at the Edinburgh International Television Festival by Channel Four controller Jay Hunt and then reported immediately on both Broadcast Now and The Guardian, was the news that David Tennant will host a new seven part panel show called Comedy World Cup for the channel. 

The synopsis of the new programme is that teams of comedians will use their stand-up routines to avoid being ejected from the competition. 

Comedy World Cup will be broadcast on Saturday evenings but no broadcast date has been announced yet.

The news has already been reported by both the Radio Times and DigitalSpy.  

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Wednesday 22nd August

The day that the first photos of David Tennant in Broadchurch were posted onto Twitter a few minutes after we tweeted that none had been posted yet!
 
David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The first photos of David Tennant on the set of Broadchurch have been posted onto Twitter. 

The Observer last weekend had photos of their 10 best Doctor Who villains which mentioned David Tennant a few times. 

ThisIsBristol has a brief mention of David Tennant filming Broadchurch in Clevedon in an article about Doctor Who filming in Bristol at the moment. It says that the film crews were set up near Lavington Close and Marshalls Field. 

Today and tomorrow at 2.15pm BBC Radio Four are repeating the two parts of the Stevenson In Love radio drama which David Tennant recorded in September 2011. 

First photos of David Tennant filming Broadchurch

The first photos of David Tennant on the set of Broadchurch have been posted onto Twitter today.

Many thanks to ‏@whatashilohpitt for kindly sharing the pictures below which were taken in Clevedon on Monday.

In this scene David and Olivia Colman both appeared.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Tuesday 21st August

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Tickets are now on sale to the general public for the Q & A with writer Paula Milne at the BFI in London on 24th September which will include clips of The Politician's Husband. 

Peter Lord, producer of The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists movie will be making an appearance at Waterstones in Piccadilly, London to talk about the movie and its DVD release on Monday 10th September. Tickets are £5 and can be purchased on 020 7851 2400. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Monday 20th August

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

According to a poll by CultBoxTV David Tennant is The Doctor which most fans would like to see back for any 50th Anniversary Doctor Who special. David Tennant won with 47.5% of the poll and Tom Baker was second with 17.2%. Voting ended on Friday. 

The Telegraph has an interview with Olivia Colman which briefly mentions Twenty Twelve and mentions that she is filming Broadchurch. (It states that she has requested that she can go home each weekend.) 

Today David Tennant is reported to be filming Broadchurch in Clevedon as the base was set up in the Salthouse Fields car park last night. The Weston Mail previously described it as "consisting of trailers for costume and make-up, a mobile kitchen, toilets and a mobile dining facility." 

A great blog by someone on work placement in the props department of Broadchurch. 

Several fans have reported that last night BBC America showed a trailer for The Spies Of Warsaw as part of a compilation trailer for several drams. Please remember the US television stations show trailers much sooner than British ones. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Sunday 19th August

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

There are chances to see clips of two new David Tennant projects before they are released. On Monday 24th September at the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London, there is a screening of all three parts of A Politician's Wife. There will be a Q and A with the writer Paula Milne which will be "illustrated by clips from her past work and her eagerly awaited follow-up, The Politician’s Husband."

On Wednesday 10th October at 2pm writer of Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger Debbie Isitt will make an appearance at the Christian Resource Exhibition (CRE) at Event City, Manchester and will show clips of the movie. 





 

See clips of 2 new David Tennant projects before they are released

There are opportunities to see clips of two new David Tennant projects before they are released - The Politician's Husband and Nativity 2.

On Monday 24th September at the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London, there is a screening of all three parts of A Politician's Wife. Part one is at 6.10pm and parts two and three are from 8.40pm.

After the screening of part one, there will be a Q and A with the writer Paula Milne which will be "illustrated by clips from her past work and her eagerly awaited follow-up, The Politician’s Husband."

Tickets for these two events are already on sale to BFI members and go on sale to the general public on Tuesday at 11.30am.

On Wednesday 10th October writer of Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger Debbie Isitt will make an appearance at the Christian Resource Exhibition (CRE) at Event City (next to The Trafford Centre) in Manchester.

CRE is on 10th and 11th October and Debbie Isitt will be talking and showing clips of Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger on the first day. Tickets are only £4 and are already on sale.

EDITED TO ADD: The Nativity 2 discussion starts at 2pm. (Thanks to sunshine for this info.)

Please note David Tennant will not be appearing at either of these events.

Many thanks to Emily for emailing DavidTennantOnTwitter.com about both of these events.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Saturday 18th August

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

A re-cap on the first week of filming on David Tennant's ITV drama Broadchurch. 

Doctor Who Magazine reports a decline in sales since David Tennant left the programme in Jan 2010. In that half year they recorded sales of 35,374 but in the months January to June 2012 the circulation figures was down to 27,089. 

First week of filming on David Tennant's ITV drama Broadchurch

This is the first week of filming on David Tennant's eight part gritty police drama Broadchurch for ITV.

So far there have been very few sightings of filming by fans but it is known that they were filming in the Fishponds area of Bristol on Tuesday and Wednesday and Will Mellor started filming his scenes on Wednesday (15th).

On Monday somebody posted onto Tumblr that David was filming at her friend's dad's workplace but no further details were given.

Yesterday somebody on set tweeted "Today I have been opening and closing a mortuary door and walking past David Tennant. As you do. #averageday"

Somebody else tweeted "Yesterday David Tennant literally frowned in my general direction - highlight of my year."

Last night producer Richard Stokes tweeted that it had been "a fast first week."

Next week there will be some filming in a school so hopefully more tweets will be posted.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Friday 17th August

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The BBC Media Centre has posted that the remaining un-broadcast episodes of Tree Fu Tom will start being broadcast on CBeebies from 5.25pm each day starting on Monday 3rd September. We noticed that the link only lists from episode 18 but the producer of the series kindly informed us via Direct Message that episode 14 onwards will be shown. David Tennant voices the character Twiggs. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Thursday 16th August

 

A large new promo photo of David Tennant from Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger. 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The Pirates! In An Adventure With Pirates! movie is released on DVD and blu-ray today in Germany under the title 'Die Piraten - Ein Haufen merkwürdiger Typen.' 



 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Wednesday 15th August

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

A special short DVD called So You Want To Be A Pirate is being sold by Tesco for only £5. It features David Tennant's voice as the young Charles Darwin. 

Writer Ian La Frenais will appear at the Whitley Bay Film Festival at the Whitley Bay Playhouse on Friday 31st August and among the subjects covered will be the drama The Spies Of Warsaw which he co-adapted with Dick Clement. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Tuesday 14th August

DigitalSpy have a report about Steven Moffat talking today on BBC Radio Five Live about having met David Tennant recently. 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

A MP3 of Steven Moffat talking about multiple Doctors stories and him having met David Tennant recently. 

The David Tennant read My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece audiobook was due to be released in the US today on CD but Amazon still has it on pre-order. 

The David Tennant read Doctor Who audiobook The Feast Of The Damned was due for release in the US today but has been delayed until 28th August. 

DigitalSpy have an interview with Will Mellor who describes Broadchurch as "It's the biggest drama I've ever done." 

David Tennant is shown in a clip on the CultBoxTV website from BBC America's programme called The Women Of Doctor Who which was broadcast last weekend. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Monday 13th August

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

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

MP3 of David Tennant reciting the words of Spandau Ballet's Gold from Absolute Radio which was broadcast (twice) this morning. 

David Tennant starts filming Broadchurch today. 

  

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Sunday 12th August

As he wasn't at the Opening Ceremony, there are loads of tweets hoping that David Tennant would make an appearance at the Olympics Closing Ceremony tonight instead! (After we tweeted that, it was retweeted 100 times!)

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

Absolute Radio DJ Christian O'Connell will play a recording of David Tennant reciting the words of Spandau Ballet's 1983 hit Gold during his breakfast show tomorrow. 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Saturday 11th August

Doctor Who and Nativity Two movie are the two topics covered in the David Tennant Daily News Digest today.

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

BBC America in the US are broadcasting a short series of Doctor Who compilation programmes. The first one, The Science Of Doctor Who, was broadcast last week (and is repeated at 11pm tonight) and the second one is called The Women Of Doctor Who and is on at 9pm and midnight. 

David Tennant is mentioned briefly in regards to his movie Nativity 2: Danger In The Manager in an interview with Joanna Page in The Mirror. 




 

Recording of David Tennant reciting words of Gold on Christian O'Connell Show tomorrow

A few weeks ago Absolute Radio DJ Christian O'Connell had a bet with his producer that if Team GB won more than 20 gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics then he could play Spandau Ballet's 1983 hit Gold 20 times in tomorrow's show.

Of course Team GB surpassed the 20 gold medal tally by winning 28 so, instead of playing exactly the same track 28 times, Christian has arranged for some famous people to sing or recite the lyrics and today he tweeted that David Tennant is one of the names.

Tony Hadley (lead singer of Spandau Ballet) has also been invited onto the programme for a live performance of Gold.

The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show is on Absolute Radio from 6am until 10am and can be heard worldwide from this link. (David's recording is likely to be towards the end of the show.)

If you miss the broadcast then DavidTennantOnTwitter.com will post it afterwards too. 

EDIT: After this was posted Team GB won a 29th gold medal.

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Friday 10th August

Just a note that the David Tennant Daily News Digest tomorrow will be sent two hours later than normal i.e. 11am UK time.

 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

The Telegraph briefly mentions David Tennant in Hamlet in a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company's latest production of Much Ado About Nothing. 

The Sun has an article about David Tennant, the Doctor Who RUMOURS and some quotes by him about The Spies Of Warsaw. 

Doctor Who RUMOURS and David Tennant Daily News Digest for Thursday 9th August

Today reports of the rumours about David Tennant being involved in any Doctor Who 50th Anniversary project went through the roof on the internet! Most websites seem to forget that David specifically refused to confirm or deny anything during his appearance on Attack Of The Show last Week and he only said when asked that he had one of the Doctor's suits, which he has had since 2009!

However there were four other pieces of David Tennant news today:

SFX has a photo of the real Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Monopoly Board and the story behind it. The previous photo was a fake one although it had a larger photo of David Tennant on it! 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

An article in The Independent mentions David Tennant's comments on Attack Of The Show in an article about the new drama of the early days of Doctor Who which was announced today. 

The release of the DVD of Shakespeare Uncovered (the DVD is currently called Prefaces To Shakespeare) has been postponed in the UK and Europe according to Amazon from 27th August to 29th October. The release has been delayed in the US until 5th November. 

  

 

David Tennant Daily News Digest for Wednesday 8th August

9 pieces of David Tennant news today! 

David Tennant Treat 4 Today. 

A Polish industry website has posted more photos of filming The Spies Of Warsaw. 

On Sunday 14th October there will be a panel on Twenty Twelve at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. 

Now the Radio Times also has an article about the RUMOUR regarding David Tennant and the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary. 

Some new photos of David Tennant from The Spies Of Warsaw (which contain minor spoilers) have been posted onto Tumblr. 

DoctorWhoNews.net have reported that Winning Moves are issuing a special Doctor Who 50th anniversary limited edition version of Monopoly. The set features a photo of all the Doctors (including David Tennant) on the board. 

CableFax.com have posted a brief quote by David Tennant in an item about The Spies Of Warsaw panel at TCA last week. 

Today writer and executive producer of Broadchurch Chris Chibnall tweeted that he would be too busy to tweet until 2013 as work was "cranking up" on the drama. 

Due to his reactions on Attack Of The Show last week, Blastr.com believe that David Tennant will be involved in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary next year. (David did not confirm or deny anything although previously his stock answer has always been that he had not been asked yet.) 

 

More photos from filming of David Tennant's drama The Spies Of Warsaw

Earlier today we tweeted a link to some photos of David Tennant during filming The Spies Of Warsaw which had been posted onto Tumblr.

Many thanks to Ania who has kindly provided the link to the original website where the photos were posted.

Also on that website is a short item which Ania has kindly transcribed for us:

"On April 11, 2012, historical serial Spies of Warsaw started being

filmed. Screening of this 4 part production is scheduled for autumn

2012, will be shown simultaneously by the British channel BBC 4 and

Polish TVP1.

Spies of Warsaw was realized in full in Poland - in Warsaw and

Krakow, and Nieborów.

Director of Spies of Warsaw is Coky Giedroyc, relative of Jerzy

Giedroyc journalist, author and editor of the Parisian "Kultura".

Scenery co-author is Eva Skoczkowska, cinematographer - Wojciech

Szepel, and Bartlomiej Wozniak realized sound. The producer of the

Polish side is Dariusz Jablonski (Apple Film Production).

ATM System participated in this production by providing Arri Alexa

camera with accessories, Master Prime lenses, and a preview of the

maintenance plan."

Please note that previously it has been reported that The Spies Of Warsaw would air as a two part drama so it may be that the plans have changed or that the article is incorrect.