Over the years David Tennant has appeared in numerous television programmes both as an actor and as himself.
This section of the website looks at his most recent appearances.
It was 18 years ago today David Tennant appeared in his first full episode of Doctor Who (The Christmas Invasion).
In the first 24 hours after we tweeted that, the tweet had received almost 30K views! Updated 25/12
A clip has been posted online of David Tennant from the forthcoming documentary Imagine... Russell T Davies: The Doctor And Me.
David is one of the people who will be interviewed during the one hour fourteen minute show which will premiere on Monday (18th December) at 10.40pm on BBC One. Updated 16/12
David Tennant, Good Omens and Staged win at the 2023 I Talk Telly Awards.
David Tennant won the Best Dramatic Performance Award for Litvinenko at this year's I Talk Telly Awards.
A video of David Tennant thanking people for voting for him for the award has been posted online.
Good Omens won the Best Returning Drama Award.
Staged won the Best Returning Comedy Award plus David Tennant and Michael Sheen won the Best Comedy Partnership Award at this year's I Talk Telly Awards.
A video is attached to the link above but does not include Michael. Updated 10/12
David Tennant voices the character Pa MacWheldon in The Simpsons episode AE Bonny Romance which premieres today.
Please check local listings for how/when to watch the episode. Updated 3/12
November 2023
David Tennant is listed to voice the character Pa MacWheldon in The Simpsons episode AE Bonny Romance which premieres on Sunday (3rd December).
The synopsis of the episode is:
'When Groundskeeper Willie is kidnapped to Scotland, Bart and the Simpsons follow only to be faced with Homer's worst nightmare.'
Please check local listings for how/when to watch the episode. Updated 29/11
Link to watch the Doctor Who in-vision commentary of The Star Beast with David Tennant, Phil Collinson and Vicki Delow on BBC iPlayer (UK only). Updated 25/11
Doctor Who episode The Star Beast premieres at 6.30pm on BBC One today.
The 57 minute episode will also premiere on Disney+ in the remainder of the world at the same time (1.30pm ET).
The first episode of Doctor Who: Unleashed will follow The Star Beast on BBC Three in the UK at 7.30pm. Updated 25/11
David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor to read a CBeebies Bedtime Story tomorrow.
David will read The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers.
David (as himself, not a character) previously read five Bedtimes Stories in December 2009.
This episode premieres on CBeebies Bedtime Story at 6.50pm on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer.
The link includes a clip and some promo photos. Updated 23/11
Russell T Davies and David Tennant will be guests on The One Show tonight to discuss the three upcoming episodes of Doctor Who. Updated 20/11
David Tennant stars as the Fourteenth Doctor in a special scene of Doctor Who for Children In Need which will premiere tonight.
Children In Need will broadcast from 7pm tonight on BBC One. The exact time the Doctor Who scene will premiere has not been announced.
Also tonight an episode of Doctor Who: Unleashed will be made available on BBC iPlayer which will look at the way the scene was filmed. Updated 17/11
A new promo photo of David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor from the Children In Need episode (which premieres on Friday) has been posted online. Updated 13/11
David Tennant, Good Omens and Staged nominated for the 2023 I Talk Telly Awards.
David Tennant is nominated for the Best Dramatic Performance Award for Litvinenko.
David Tennant and Michael Sheen are nominated for the Best Comedy Partnership for Staged.
Good Omens is nominated for the Best Returning Drama Award.
Staged is nominated for the Best Returning Comedy award.
Voting will close at 10pm on Friday 24th November.
The winners will be announced online at 10am on Sunday 10th December. Updated 11/11
It was previously announced that the Doctor Who episode The Star Beast will premiere on Saturday 25th November and now the BBC has announced it will air at 6.30pm that day. Updated 10/11
A clip (which should play worldwide) from the programme David Tennant Remembers...Hamlet about using a real skull in the play has been posted to YouTube. Updated 7/11
David Tennant is short listed for Best Actor Award in TV Choice Awards.
This is for his role in the ITV drama Litvinenko.
Also Good Omens has made the short list for the Best Comedy Award.
Unfortunately neither Inside Man and Litvinenko got through to this final round for the Best New Drama Award. Nor did Spy In The Ocean (which is narrated by David) for the Best Factual Show Award or Ahsoka for the Best Family Drama Award.
Voting for the winners is now open and all votes must be cast by midnight on Tuesday 14th November. Updated 3/11
A clip of probably the best part of Talking Doctor Who (as David Tennant shows his delight as he watches how the regeneration from Tom Baker to Peter Davison was filmed) has been posted online.
The video should play worldwide. Updated 2/11
Air dates announced for David Tennant's three episodes as Fourteenth Doctor in Doctor Who.
The episodes will premiere on BBC One and iPlayer on Saturday 25th November with the episode The Star Beast. The following Saturday (2nd December) will air Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle will premiere on Saturday 9th December.
The first episode of Doctor Who: Unleashed will follow The Star Beast on Saturday 25th November.
Disney+ will broadcast Doctor Who on the same days in the rest of the world. Updated 25/10
In Doctor Who Magazine issue 596 came the news that none of the three specials will actually air on the 60th anniversary. This is probably because 23rd November is a Thursday.
The BBC will announce the actual air dates soon. As previously announced they will all be broadcast in November.
Gregory Doran Remembers... Shakespeare Live! premieres on BBC Four tonight at 7pm.
It will be followed by Shakespeare Live! which was shown on 23rd April 2016 and was hosted by David Tennant and Catherine Tate (including the hilarious To Be Or Not To Be sketch). Updated 8/10
Gregory Doran Remembers... Shakespeare Live! premieres on BBC Four on Sunday at 7pm.
It will be followed by Shakespeare Live! which was shown on 23rd April 2016 and was hosted by David Tennant and Catherine Tate (including the hilarious To Be Or Not To Be sketch). Updated 6/10
The eighth and final episode of Ahsoka is released on Disney+ today. Updated 4/10
September 2023
A photo of David Tennant from the programme David Tennant Remembers... Hamlet has been posted online. Updated 30/9
A new photo of David Tennant has been released to promote Doctor Who: Unleashed programme.
The 30 minute show will premiere on BBC Three after each of David's episodes of Doctor Who in November.
The show will be a Doctor Who Confidential type show. Updated 27/9
A new programme David Tennant Remembers... Hamlet to premiere this weekend.
The fourteen minute programme titled David Tennant Remembers... Hamlet will premiere on BBC Four at 7pm on Sunday (1st October).
This programme will be shown immediately before the station broadcasts the filmed version of Hamlet at 7.15pm. Updated 27/9
The seventh episode of Ahsoka is released on Disney+ today. Updated 27/9
The sixth episode of Ahsoka is released on Disney+ today. Updated 20/9
The fifth episode of Ahsoka is released on Disney+ today. Updated 13/9
The fourth episode of Ahsoka is released today on Disney+. Updated 6/9
August 2023
The third episode of Ahsoka is released today on Disney+. Updated 30/8
British Comedy Guide reports David Tennant will be interviewed on the one-off show Lenny Henry: One Of A Kind which will premiere on ITV1 in the autumn. Updated 11/8
Litvinenko starts being broadcast tonight on ITV1 in the UK.
The remaining three episodes will be shown on Tuesday to Thursday evenings this week at 9pm on ITV with a documentary titled Litvinenko: The Mayfair Poisoning on Friday evening (23rd) on ITV1 at 9pm. Updated 19/6
Staged Series Three has its BBC television premiere at 10.40pm tonight on BBC One. Updated 14/6
Radio Times has reported the four part drama Litvinenko will air on ITV1 on consecutive nights starting on Monday 19th June at 9pm.
A documentary titled Litvinenko: The Mayfair Poisoning will following at the same time on Friday 23rd June. Updated 8/6
A clip from There She Goes was shown on BBC Breakfast this morning when David was briefly interviewed about the special episode.
David announced the one hour long special episode will premiere on Wednesday 21st June (on BBC Two). Updated 6/6
The third series of Staged will have its BBC television premiere on Wednesday 14th June at 10.40pm on BBC One.
Previously it was only available in the UK on Britbox. Updated 2/6
May 2023 Spy In The Ocean (narrated by David Tennant) will premiere on BBC One at 7pm on Sunday 4th June. Updated 24/5
Ahsoka (featuring David Tennant as the voice of Huyang) will premiere on Disney+ on Thursday 31st August. Updated 17/5
David Tennant and Catherine Tate's funny comments before presenting the Feature Award at the BAFTAs today has been posted to YouTube. Updated 14/5
The first photo of David Tennant at the BAFTAs today has been posted online. Updated 14/5
David Tennant is one of the BAFTA award presenters at the Royal Festival Hall in London tonight.
It will be televised on BBC One from 7pm to 9pm this evening. Updated 14/5
Daily Mail reports David Tennant will be one of the BAFTA award presenters on Sunday evening (14th May) from London's Royal Festival Hall.
The show will be televised on BBC One from 7pm to 9pm that evening.
Good Omens Series Two will premiere on Prime Video on Friday 28th July in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
A poster to accompany the announcement was posted online. Updated 9/5
The Mirror reports David Tennant has narrated another series for John Downer Productions.
The four episodes of Spy In The Ocean will be shown later this year. Updated 9/5
David Tennant is reprising his role from Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Huyang for Disney+'s upcoming Star Wars series Ahsoka.
His character makes an appearance at 1 minute 37 seconds in the trailer. Updated 8/4
David Tennant to host Have I Got News For You for an eighth time.
The episode will premiere on Friday 21st April at 9pm on BBC One.
The team captains in this episode will be Ian Hislop and Paul Merton as usual. Richard Osman and Lucy Beaumont will be the guest panelists. Updated 5/4
March 2023
It was announced at a panel at WonderCon yesterday that David Tennant will be a guest star in the upcoming revival of the animated adult comedy of HBO Max's Clone High. Updated 25/3
David Tennant to star in Rivals series for Disney+.
Photos of David Tennant filming the eight part series in Gloucestershire today appeared online.
The Rivals series is based on the Jilly Cooper novel of the same name which is part of the book series The Rutshire Chronicles.
David is believed to have been cast in the role of Tony Baddingham who is the controller of the independent television franchise Corinium Television. Updated 20/3
The video from Comic Relief of Lenny Henry regenerating into David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor has been posted to YouTube. Updated 17/3
David Tennant and Zoe Ball held a brief TikTok session today about Comic Relief.
A fun photo from the session was posted online. Updated 17/3
Metro reports Richard Curtis says David Tennant re-wrote all his links for Comic Relief tonight.
David is quoted as saying:
"This isn't passionate enough. I want to really convince people that their money's going to change lives." Updated 17/3
A new photo of David Tennant wearing a red nose for Comic Relief has been posted online. Updated 17/3
TellyVisions reports that Staged Seasons One and Two will be released on BritBox on Wednesday 1st March with Season Three set to premiere on Tuesday 28th March. Updated 23/2
David Tennant to be the guest announcer on Saturday Night Takeaway on Saturday 25th February.
As well as David Tennant the guests on that show will include Alison Hammond (who will star in an Undercover), singer Tom Grennan will appear in the End Of The Show Show and Stephen Mulhern will return for another Ant Versus Dec challenge.
Saturday Night Takeaway is on ITV from 7pm to 8.30pm and repeated on ITV + 1 from 8pm to 9.30pm. Updated 17/2
A video of David Tennant sending a fan a good luck message on ITV's Ant and Dec's Limitless Win last night has been posted to YouTube. Updated 5/2
David Tennant to co-host Comic Relief in March.
David Tennant will be one of the presenters who will co-host the special televised live show on Comic Relief's Red Nose Day 2023 on Friday 17th March. The show will be broadcast at 7pm on BBC One from MediaCityUK in Salford.
As well as David, the live television extravaganza will be co-hosted by AJ Odudu, Joel Dommett, Zoe Ball, Paddy McGuinness and a range of other presenters.
The evening will also feature Kylie Minogue in a one-off special of BBC sitcom Ghosts, plus a parody of Love Island with an unexpected contestant looking for love. Updated 1/2
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