link for terms and conditions.
The David Tennant Daily Photo.
In respect of theatre etiquette we will not post links to any Richard II reviews until after Press Night on Thursday 17th October. Also any production SPOILERS we post will be clearly marked as such.
The BBC released the schedule of television programes for the week Saturday 26th Oct to Friday 1st November and The Escape Artist was not listed which means that it will now be broadcast in November and not October as origianlly expected.
The Telegraph looks at the 12 Doctors.
Flicks And The City has a Neve McIntosh video interview where she discusses Vastra's return and working with Peter Capaldi, David Tennant and Matt Smith.
Watch start broadcasting a new repeat of Series Four of Doctor Who from today.
David Tennant in Richard II for The RSC opens in Stratford-Upon-Avon. They play six previews before Press Night next Thursday (17th).
Today a dress rehearsal is scheduled before the first preview performance at 7.30pm.
David Tennant Daily News Digest for Wednesday 9th October.
Wednesday 9th October 2013
Doctor Who Magazine editor Clayton Hickman has tweeted a photo of himself dressed as a Monoid with David Tennant.
Tonight Nigel Lindsay tweeted 'Today I have been mostly harnessed to a throne wearing two dresses. All in a day's work for a busy king. Opening tomorrow folks #RichardII'
David Tennant Treat 4 Today.
The David Tennant Daily Photo.
Amazon have posted that the US release date of The Doctors Revisited - Ninth to Eleventh has been changed to 3rd December plus the cover of the DVD has been posted online.
There are currently good stall seats available for the Richard II Press Night on 17th October on The RSC website.
The RSC have asked if fans could tweet any questions about the Richard II costumes to them and they will be answered on their website next week. They have asked that people use the hashtag #RSCRichardII.
With just one day until David Tennant plays his first performance of Richard II, today we ended our 260 day countdown!
David Tennant Daily News Digest for Tuesday 8th October.
Tuesday 8th October 2013
David Tennant Treat 4 Today.
The David Tennant Daily Photo.
Broadcast Now reports that Broadchurch has been sold to 100 territories!
BBC have announced that a Doctor Who pop-up shop will open in Brisbane, Australia on Saturday.
The Independent reports that British TV exports hit �1.2bn (the article includes Broadchurch).
Geeks Of Doom list details of the Doctor Who Series 1-7 Limited Edition Blu-ray Giftset which features Doctors 9,10 and 11. It is released in the US on 5th November.
Broadway World has an article about the Music and Speeches CD from Richard II.
Doctor Who News reports that the press conference about the missing Doctor Who episodes has been delayed to the end of the week.
David Tennant Daily News Digest for Monday 7th October.
Monday 7th October 2013
At 10.30pm Sam Marks tweeted 'Day1 tech finished, walking out all in costume was crazy, like stepping back in time.'
A few minutes later Youssef Kerkour tweeted 'First day of tech done for Richard II. Oh my Gaude does it look fantastic in the space. RSC stage crew working miracles again!'
The latest update from John Wyver about Richard II (including a new photo of David Tennant's back!) has been posted to the Illuminations blog.
David Tennant Treat 4 Today.
The David Tennant Daily Photo.
Broadchurch has been nominated for a Writer's Guild award in the TV Drama Series category.
Broadchurch is up against Silk and The Village (both written by Peter Moffat).
The winners are announced on Wednesday 13th November in London.
Nigel Lindsay tweeted a photo of David Tennant at the tomb of Richard II in Westminster Abbey from a couple of weeks ago.
Currently there are tickets available for several Richard II performances on the Barbican Centre website.
Doctor Who Site reports that the BBC shop has the Tenth Doctor / David Tennant Anniversary print (100 only) at 10% off.
New York Daily News mentions David Tennant in both the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary simulcast and Richard II Live from Stratford-Upon-Avon. (Scroll down that page to read it.)
David Tennant and the cast of Richard II start tech rehearsals in Stratford-upon-Avon today.
The Escape Artist is to be showcased at industry event MIPCOM from today. Writer David Wolstencroft tweeted a photo from the event (below).
David Tennant Daily News Digest for Sunday 6th October.
Sunday 6th October 2013
Doctor Who News reports that BBC Worldwide are believed to have arranged a press conference and a screening on Tuesday about aome of the missing Doctor Who episodes.
David Tennant Treat 4 Today.
Brief shots of David Tennant are included among the last seasons guests in the advert for the new Jonathan Ross Show currently being advertised on ITV.
The David Tennant Daily Photo.
The BBC Radio 3 programme Private Passions with Greg Doran is now available to download. Richard II is only mentioned in passing.
An interview with Billie Piper has been posted to YouTube. Billie Piper is asked about returning for the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special, working with David Tenant and Matt Smith and Doctor Who rumours and speculation.
Scans of The Independent interview with David Tennant and Gregory Doran have been added to Tumblr.
A Gregory Doran and John Wyver Q&A has been added to the Shakespeare Birthday Trust Film Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon screening of The RSC 2008 Hamlet on Wednesday 23rd October.
Richard II director Greg Doran is the guest on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions at midday today.
The Doctor Who 2014 50th Anniversary Calendar is published today. A photo of David Tennant is on the October page.
David Tennant Daily News Digest for Saturday 5th October.
Saturday 5th October 2013
David Tennant Treat 4 Today.
The David Tennant Daily Photo.
The Independent interview with David Tennant and Gregorary Doran about Richard II in tomorrow's paper has been posted online (early!)
The RSC Onscreen website now lists cinemas in 9 countries to screen David Tennant in Richard II.
More will be added later but currently the list is UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Malta, Russia, Sweden and Germany.
Best Daily reports that Olivia Colman has congratulated David Tennant on his role in US version of Broadchurch and confirms that she will not be in that version.
Current radio adverts for Touch 102FM (in the Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloustershire areas) mention David Tennant as one of the highlights for 'Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon!'
The Guardian has a sweet article about a father introducing his children to loving Doctor Who (including meeting David Tennant).
Today Fox in Germany start showing David Tennant episodes of Doctor Who with The Runaway Bride (dubbed) at 1.45pm followed by 4 more episodes.
David Tennant Daily News Digest for Friday 4th October.
Friday 4th October 2013
This evening at about 6.15pm Sam Marks tweeted '6 weeks of rehearsals for #richardii done. Can't wait to open next Thursday in Stratford. It's gonna be a cracker!'
Soon afterwards Youssef Kerkour tweeted 'Final run through a huge success! Now Stratford bound and the madness begins.'
David Tennant Treat 4 Today.
The David Tennant Daily Photo.
There will be a Gregory Doran and David Tennant interview in this Sunday's Independent about Richard II.
This week's Richard II production diary (behind the scenes in the costume department) has been posted to YouTube.
Metro has a great article titled 'From Doctor Who to Broadchurch: What makes David Tennant so popular?'
The Royal Shakespeare Company have the Richard II Music and Speeches CD available to pre-order in The RSC Online Shop. It will be released on Friday 18th October and includes speeches by David Tennant and others.
The American paper Variety looks at the British marketing of Broadchurch.
Today John Wyver of Illuminations (and others) will see a run-through of Richard II.
David Tennant Daily News Digest for Thursday 3rd October.
Thursday 3rd October 2013
The David Tennant Daily Photo.
David Tennant Treat 4 Today.
Radio Times reports that Steven Moffat will appear at a Doctor Who 50th Anniversary / Sherlock session at Cheltenham Literary Festival on Sunday 13th October.
The online petition to turn the Empire State Building TARDIS blue on 23rd November has reached its 10,000 signatures goal but now it appears to want 25,000 people to sign it.
A Tenth Doctor official 50th Anniversary limited edition Bernard Cribbins signed First Day Stamp Cover is now available on Amazon.
The Belgian channel Vitaya starts showing Broadchurch with the first two episodes screened tonight.
Doctor Who: Destiny Of The Doctor (Tenth Doctor) audiobook (called Death's Deal), read by Catherine Tate, is released today.
David Tennant Daily News Digest for Wednesday 2nd October.
Wednesday 2nd October 2013
The RSC Tech Director has tweeted two photos of getting the theatre ready for Richard II next week here and here.
David Tennant Treat 4 Today.
Gareth Malone is leading a choir singing the Broadchurch So Close theme tonight at the Classical Brits.
Chris Chibnall tweeted about the news that David Tennant will be in the US version of Broadchurch.
Radio Times has the news about David being cast in the Fox remake of Broadchurch. The article includes a clip of Rex Is Not Your Lawyer.
The David Tennant Daily Photo.
David Tennant will reprise his role as Detective Inspector Alec Hardy in the American remake of Broadchurch.
The eight part series is being made for the station Fox and will film from January with an expected broadcast date of late 2014 or 2015.
Both Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide were the first to break the news.
It is still not known whether David will be in the Second Series of the UK version of Broadchurch but, as filming is not expected to start until May, in theory it is possible.
The Royal Shakespeare Company website has a new blog post by Elliot Barnes-Worrel about Richard II rehearsals in which he says some lovely things about David Tennant.
Winged Planet (which was called Earthflight when it was broadcast in the UK) won the Outstanding Cinematograhy Emmy. Unfortunately it was not with David Tennant's narration as it was dubbed by an America actor.
Doctor Who News have a competition to win a copy of the audiobook Destiny Of The Doctor: Death's Deal read by Catherine Tate.
David Tennant Daily News Digest for Tuesday 1st October.
Tuesday 1st October 2013
Cultbox have the list of the 75 countries (so far) to sign up to show The Day Of The Doctor simulcast on 23rd November.
BBC America have announced that they will dedicate a whole week to Doctor Who (including The Day Of The Doctor simulcast).
David Tennant Treat 4 Today.
The David Tennant Daily Photo.
WalesOnline reports that so far 75 countries will show the Doctor Who 50th Special (The Day Of The Doctor) and that it will be shown in 200 cinemas in the UK.
The Escape Artist is listed by Esquire magazine as one of their TV Highlights for October.
MP3 of the David Tennant and Greg Doran interview on Front Row on BBC Radio Four about Richard II.
In the 10 minute Front Row interview on BBC Radio Four:
David Tennant said that he will not use his Scottish accent in Richard II.
David Tennant refused to say whether he is in Broadchurch Series Two or not (or even if he is keeping that time free) but that he hopes he will be.
David Tennant was very supportive of Doctor Who fans in the interview and remarked on how intelligent they are!
Wow! We have over 220,000 followers on Twitter!
The Front Row Twitter account has added a photo of David Tennant and Greg Doran with Mark Lawson from their interview.
Brush Up Your Shakespeare (read in an American accent by David Tennant), as broadcast on the Mike Read Show today on BBC Radio Berkshire has been posted to Tumblr.
On Wednesday 23rd October the Shakespeare Birthday Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon will screen The RSC Hamlet (starring David Tennant) at their Film Festival.
Richard II director Greg Doran will be a guest on BBC Radio 3?s Private Passions this coming Sunday at midday.
The latest update from John Wyver of Illuminations about Richard II has been added in which he writes about the Front Row interview tonight and says that they move to Stratford-upon-Avon next week for the final rehearsals before First Night on Thursday.
The author of the Tenth Doctor ebook is Derek Landy.
The Guardian reports on David Tennant's fun comment at the BFI Tenth Doctor screening on Sunday about Peter Capaldi's accent.
Anneke Wills has tweeted a photo of herself with David Tennant at the BFI Tenth Doctor screening on Sunday.
Forbidden Planet are calling October TENTH DOCTOR month so have lots of related merchandise available.
The Independent has a review of The Fires of Pompeii.
Doctor Who News says that David Tennant, Freema Agyeman and Steven Moffat will be interviewed for The Doctors Revisited: The Tenth Doctor.
On BBC America they will show the episodes The Stolen Earth and Journey's End after The Doctors Revisited.
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited 5 - 8 DVD is released in the US today.
The author of Tenth Doctor 50th Anniversary eBook will be announced today. The book will be called The Mystery Of The Haunted Cottage.
David Tennant and Greg Doran will be interviewed on Front Row tonight on BBC Radio Four about Richard II at 7.15pm.
David Tennant Daily News Digest for Monday 30th September.
Even Older David Tennant News:
For September 2013 click here (349 updates)
For August 2013 click here (394 updates)
For July 2013 click here (271 updates)
For June 2013 click here (198 updates)
For May 2013 click here (295 updates)
For April 2013 click here (546 updates)
For March 2013 click here (478 updates)
For February 2013 click here (303 updates)
For January 2013 click here (366 updates)
For December 2012 click here (257 updates)
For November 2012 click here (330 updates)
For October 2012 click here (217 updates)
For September 2012 click here (224 updates)
For August 2012 click here (175 updates)
For July 2012 click here (170 updates)
For June 2012 click here (162 updates)
For May 2012 click here (124 updates)
For April 2012 click here (161 updates)
For March 2012 click here (316 updates)
For February 2012 click here (197 updates)
For January 2012 click here (152 updates)
For December 2011 click here (130 updates)
For November 2011 click here (130 updates)
For October 2011 click here (112 updates)
For September 2011 click here (144 updates)
For August 2011 click here (185 updates)
For July 2011 click here (162 updates)
For June 2011 click here (118 updates)
For May 2011 click here (170 updates)
For April 2011 click here (167 updates)
For March 2011 click here (137 updates)
For February 2011 click here (97 updates)
For January 2011 click here (141 updates)
For December 2010 click here (95 updates)
For November 2010 click here (122 updates)
For October 2010 click here (176 updates)
For September 2010 click here (92 updates)
The main aim of David_Tennant@Twitter is to post information about the actor David Tennant. If you repeat the information online it would be appreciated if you could post that you read it first on DavidTennantOnTwitter.com, just as we are always careful to give full credit.