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May 2012
David Tennant is mentioned in the headline of an article in the Daily Telegraph today in regards to a What The Butler Saw article. Updated 18/5
David Tennant is briefly mentioned on pages 28 & 29 of the Evening Standard tonight in regards to the What The Butler Saw press night last night (David didn't attend) which is the David Tennant Treat 4 Today. Updated 17/5
Article in The Guardian today about props in the theatre mentions and has a photo of David Tennant from Hamlet. Updated 16/5
Two newspapers today (Independent and Express) have reviews of Believe It! with passing mentions of David Tennant as one of the actors. Updated 13/5
Scans of an interview with David Tennant in the latest issue of the Virgin Media magazine which is available to subscribers. Updated 13/5
It is NOT confirmed (and we stress NOT) but an article in the Derry Journal says that David Tennant will be in a one man play in Derry in 2013. More information can be found here. Updated 9/5
The Telegraph has an interview with Richard Wilson about Believe It! Updated 8/5
The Radio Times have posted their review of the first episode of Believe It! Updated 7/5
The Paisley Daily Express has an article article about David Tennant supporting the Labour Party. Updated 2/5
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April 2012 The Radio Times has posted a preview of Romeo and Juliet (including a photo of David Tennant). Updated 29/4
The game for the David Tennant voiced programme Tree Fu Tom has been nominated for the Best Game in the Broadcast Awards. It's competition includes a Doctor Who game! Updated 27/4
The Guardian have posted another Twelfth Night review. This review includes the phrase "David Tennant's Malvolio was a particular delight in a version of the play that eschewed all gimmickry and instead simply showcased the brilliant language." Updated 26/4
The Stage reviews Twelfth Night and uses the phrase "The play’s humour resides in the sub-plot which was here beefed up by David Tennant’s extraordinary performance as Malvolio. Updated 26/4
The Evening Standard report that Virgin have announced a large increase in the number of their subscribers which is in part due to David Tennant's adverts. Updated 25/4
The Telegraph has reviewed the BBC Radio Three production of Twelfth Night and writes that David Tennant is "astonishingly good." Updated 24/4
Unfortunately David Tennant was not nominated for a BAFTA Television Award for United. However Hugh Bonneville and Olivia Colman were nominated for best Comedy Performances (Male and Female) for Twenty Twelve. Updated 24/4
The Independent has an article about the Richard Wilson / David Tennant radio comedy Believe It! Updated 24/4
The final consolidated viewing figures for The Minor Character are that it received a total of 339,000 viewers which made it the highest viewed programme ever on the Sky Arts channel. Updated 23/4
The Guardian has a great review of the series Twenty Twelve including the phrase "Combined with David Tennant's super-serious narration, it makes Twenty Twelve a perfect Friday night treat." Updated 21/4
Article in The Guardian saying that Virgin have now pulled their first advert with David Tennant. Updated 17/4
Scans of David Tennant's interview about BBC Radio Three's Shakespeare Season in this weeks Radio Times. Updated 17/4
The Independent Liverpool Student Newspaper gives The Minor Character 5 stars and uses the phrase "one that needs to be watched more than once just to catch every nuance of David Tennant’s sparkling delivery and interaction with the rest of this perfect cast." Updated 15/4
The Birmingham Mail have an article saying that The Royal Shakespeare Company are offering the chance to hire David Tennant's crown from Hamlet (and another 30,000 items). The crown costs £20 per week. They also wrote "We had one caller who asked if we were selling unwashed David Tennant socks. The man called three times. He was prepared to spend £50 – we told him ‘no’." Updated 15/4
The Guardian reports that The Minor Character received 99K viewers overnight which was a massive 1,333% increase for the channel compared to their usual audience at that time! Updated 13/4
According to an article on Pyro Mag Postman Pat: The Movie (partly voiced by David Tennant) will be released on Friday 24th May 2013 and will be in CG 3-D. Updated 13/4
The Telegraph gives The Minor Character 3 stars in its review. It includes the phrase "Will’s flatly corrosive tone, beautifully embodied by Tennant." Updated 13/4
A review of The Minor Character by The Arts Desk. Updated 13/4
The Minor Character (starring David Tennant) is Virgin's "Best TV This Week." Updated 12/4
The Minor Character is the Television Pick Of The Day in both the Liverpool Echo and the Metro newspapers. It is also their pick in the Irish Independent and that newspaper includes a new David Tennant photo in character. Updated 12/4
The Guardian lists David Tennant in The Minor Character as one of its TV Highlights for tomorrow. Updated 11/4
The Sun reports that David Tennant's image is used in a comic book written by Jonathan Ross which is published tomorrow. Updated 10/4
More press about The Minor Character today includes The Observer "A moving if bleak piece," The Sunday Times "Good to see drama led by the script and the idea," The Times "David Tennant is excellent," and The Guardian "The Minor Character is co-produced by the UK's coolest film production company Warp Films." Updated 8/4
There is a photo of David Tennant on the cover of the TV & Radio section of the Sunday Times today as The Minor Character is their Pick Of The Week. Updated 8/4
Article in Mail On Sunday says the BBC are "furious" at the mention of Doctor Who and use of its logo in David Tennant's first Virgin television advertisement. Updated 8/4
WalesOnLine has a review of David Tennant in The Minor Character which concludes with the phrase "Tennant’s turn makes for compulsive viewing." Updated 7/4
The Weekend Magazine from the Daily Mail has an article about Tree Fu Tom and The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists. They obviously haven't interviewed David Tennant and the title is totally misleading as that is not something he has said in any interview. Updated 7/4
David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride is mentioned briefly in The Guardian regarding it being available on demand almost as soon as it was showing in select cinemas. Updated 5/4
As well as the Evening Standard magazine tonight having the David Tennant / Will Self article, on page three of the actual newspaper there was an article about Jamie Oliver's television prodution company co-producing The Spies Of Warsaw. This article says that The Spies Of Warsaw has already started filming in Poland although Polish websites appeared to think it will start next week. Updated 5/4
The Radio Times has posted a review of David Tenannt in The Minor Character. Updated 5/4
The Evening Standard in the London area today has an article about David Tennant and Will Self's first meeting. Although the pair have spoken a couple of times, the Evening Standard have posted an article / interview about arranging their first actual meeting. Updated 5/4
The Radio Times Extras magazine (for subscribers only) has a photo of David Tennant on a one page article about the forthcoming BBC Radio Shakespeare season. The article also promises a future, larger article too. Click here to view a scan of the article. Updated 4/4
The David Tennant voiced Tree Fu Tom is CBeebies No. 1 show of the year so far according to the latest figures published in Animation Magazine. Updated 3/4
An interview with David Tennant about The Pirates! movie is The Big Interview in this week's Children's newspaper First News. Updated 2/4
David Tennant included in The Guardian's story about the "We're All Eating This Together" campaign. Updated 1/4
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March 2012 At the screening of True Love in Margate tonight it was announced that the transmission of the series is confirmed for June. Also David Tennant will be on the cover of the Radio Times for True Love nearer the transmission date. Updated 29/3
It seems to be a day of sexy charts as David Tennant as The Doctor is also number thirteen in SFX Magazine's Top 200 Sexiest Characters In Sci-Fi (100 women and 100 men). Updated 27/3
David Tennant as The Doctor is listed as one of the 20 Sexiest Men On TV in an article in The Telegraph. Click number 7 to see his page. Updated 27/3
The Telegraph has a review of the Earthflight DVD which was released today. Updated 26/3
Daily Mail has a photo of David Tennant in an article about the Sport Relief Mile. Updated 25/3
Today David Tennant ran the Sport Relief Mile and was interviewed on television both before and after the run. Updated 25/3
The Scottish Sun has a trashy article from a joke David made on Radio One. You can hear what David actually said here. Updated 25/3
Guardian has an article about Laurence Clark and the documentary We Won't Drop The Baby which very briefly mentions David. Updated 25/3
An article in The Independent about Joanne Froggatt says that True Love (starring David Tennant) will start airing in June. Previously it was believed to be in May or even April. The article also includes a couple of photos of Joanne from True Love. Updated 24/3
David Tennant is mentioned several times in an article in The Guardian about Greg Doran's appointment. The Guardian says that it would like David to return to the RSC. Updated 22/3
The Telegraph website has a video from the premiere of The Pirates! movie with a brief David Tennant interview. Updated 22/3
The Evening Standard uses David's name in its headline about Gregoray Doran's appointment as Artistic Director of the RSC: "New RSC chief is Tennant’s director. " Updated 22/3
Article in Metro newspaper has headline "John Boyega: David Tennant is a better Doctor than Matt Smith." Updated 22/3
David Tennant is mentioned in several newspapers today in regards to his comments on Absolute Radio. Updated 22/3
Daily Mail has some good photos of David Tennant at the premiere of The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists movie in London tonight. Updated 21/3
The Washington Post has an article and photo of Hugh Grant and David Tennant at the premiere of The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists movie in London tonight. Updated 21/3
Today was a day of press interviews for David Tennant. Updated 21/3
The Daily Mail has the story about David being a double-dad which includes some photos of him at Absolute Radio. Updated 21/3
It's not confirmed but a reliable source tweeted that David Tennant was being interviewed at around noon today for Movie Juice. The next episode airs on Frday at 8pm on STV. Updated 21/3
Today the Guardian has an offer for a free copy of The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists book. Updated 17/3
Across The Arts has a collection of comments by critics about David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride. Updated 16/3
The Radio Times have chosen Waiting For The Boatman as their radio pick of the week. Updated 16/3
An article in The Independent today compares The Decoy Bride to movies of earlier eras (but again barely mentions David Tennant). Updated 16/3
The LA Times reviews The Decoy Bride (but barely mentions David Tennant). The movie is being screened at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex, Santa Monica, CA. Updated 16/3
There are two photos of David Tennant in the Evening Standard tonight in the London area. (One of the photos is the semi naked one of him in the play What The Butler Saw.) The article is in regards to Georgia Moffett appearing in a production this summer of the same play. Updated 15/3
David Tennant’s production of Much Ado About Nothing has been nominated for the Best Revival Of A Play Award in the Olivier Awards which were announced at lunchtime today. Updated 15/3
Radio Times have posted their review of Waiting For The Boatman. Their comment is that David Tennant enlivens it. Updated 14/3
Today there was a press screening of True Love. Several reporters had some great things to say about it. Updated 13/3
The Express has an article of Kelly Macdonald talking about David Tennant and The Decoy Bride. Updated 12/3
The Independent reviews The Decoy Bride very briefly but the review can be summed up in its final sentence "It's as short of laughs as it is of logic." Of greater interest in that article is that it reviews five movies which The Guardian describes as "five low-budget British films out this week, none of them worthy of a cinema release." Lots of David Tennant's fans have expressed dismay at The Decoy Bride not receiving more promotion but, compared to the other four releases, it has done quite well with Sally Philips appearing on several television programmes over the past few weeks. Updated 11/3
The Guardian today reviews Love Virtually and includes the phrase "I listened reluctantly: my entire life is lived through emails, texts and Twitter. But the play proved compelling." However the review also includes a spoiler if you have not listened to Love Virtually yet. Updated 11/3
Article in Dumfries and Galloway Standard says that the Dumfries evening screenings of David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride are sold out. Unfortunately the cinema only has 2 screenings and 69 seats. Updated 9/3
3 more reviews of The Decoy Bride have been posted online overnight:
The Guardian has reviewed Love Virtually. Updated 8/3
TV Choice magazine tweeted today that they had interviewed David Tennant, Ashley Walters, Lacey Turner and Dominic Savage about their drama True Love. TV Choice said that "It was challenging for the actors because the drama's largely improvised." Updated 8/3
The Daily Express only gives David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride 2 out of 5 stars in its review. Updated 8/3
David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride is Stylist magazine's Movie Of The Week this week. Updated 8/3
David Tennant’s interview by Lauren Laverne is published in Red magazine today. Click here to see a scan of the interview. It says that True Love will be broadcast in April whereas previously May had been announced. Updated 7/3
Scotland On Sunday have a review of David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride. Updated 7/3
The online version of the Radio Times has its review of David Tennant's radio play Love Virtually which was published in the magazine last week. Updated 6/3
Page 140 of the Radio Times (which was published today) has a photo of David Tennant because Waiting For The Boatman is one of the Radio Choices Of The Day for Friday 16th March. Updated 6/3
The Guardian mentions David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride in an article about box office takings being up this year compared to 2011. Updated 6/3
Time Out only gives The Decoy Bride two stars in its review. Updated 6/3
The Hertfordshire Mercury reports that there is a new Doctor Who charity book about stars' memories of the series (including David Tennant's era) called Behind the Sofa. Updated 5/3
The April issue of Red Magazine (which will be published in the next few days) contains the David Tennant interview by Lauren Laverne. Updated 5/3
The Daily Mail briefly mentions David Tennant in an article about Let's Dance For Sport Relief. Updated 4/3
The Guardian has a review of The Decoy Bride. Updated 3/3
There's a nice quote about David Tennant by the How To Train Your Dragon series author Cressida Cowell in an interview on MadeForMums.com. Updated 1/3
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February 2012 It was announced today that United has been short-listed for a Royal Television Society Award in the Single Drama category. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Tuesday 20th March at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Updated 28/2
The Love Virtually preview in the Radio Times which was published today (3rd to 9th March issue) has the comment "David Tennant's Scottish vowels give spiky academic Leo an appropriately laconic air." Updated 28/2
Page 35 of the Radio Times which was published today has an interview and photo of David Tennant which was taken from the BBC press pack about Tree Fu Tom. Updated 28/2
The Guardian reports that David Tennant will star in a one-off drama called The Minor Character for Sky Arts which has been written by Will Self. Updated 23/2
David Tennant's animated series Tree Fu Tom will broadcast at 5.25pm on CBeebies (it starts on 5th March) according to a BBC press release. It also has the details of episodes 6 to 10 which will be broadcast the week commencing Monday 12th March. Updated 23/2
The BBC have released a press pack about its Disability Season and reported that the David Tennant voiced documentary about comedian Lawrence Clark will be broadcast on Wednesday 21st March on BBC One at 10.35pm. The name of the documentary has changed again. It is now called We Won't Drop The Baby. Updated 23/2
The Den Of Geek website has a celebration of David Tennant in Doctor Who article. However several of David's fans have not considered the article a celebration. Updated 23/2
Press reactions to the multimedia screening last night of David Tennant's movie The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists. Updated 23/2
The Scotsman has quite a negative review of The Decoy Bride. Updated 23/2
The Sydney Morning Herald believe that David Tennant should have narrated the Australian broadcast of Earthflight. Updated 22/2
The List has a review of The Decoy Bride. Updated 22/2
It is NOT confirmed (and may just be hype) but the Daily Record says that David Tennant is one of the actors who MAY appear in the musical An Appointment With The Wicker Man during the Edinburgh Fringe in August at the Assembly Rooms. Updated 21/2
Radio Times has an article about the Simon Annand exhibtion (which includes a photo of David Tennant) that opens on Friday at the Idea Generation Gallery in London. Updated 21/2
David Tennant Treat 4 Today - a preview of the book Love Virtually. Updated 21/2
Two David Tennant movies (The Decoy Bride and Nativity 2) appear in Movie Reviews list of 27 UK indie films to look out for in 2012. Updated 20/2
Radio Times has a piece on David Tennant and Sophie Aldred pairing up for the new series Tree Fu Tom. Updated 20/2
Unfortunately David Tennant lost to James Corden for Best Actor In A Play Award at the What's On Stage Awards tonight. (Lots of fans were surprised by the result and especially the amount that the percentages changed.) However his production of Much Ado About Nothing won the Best Shakespearean Production Award and David Tennant and Catherine Tate reuniting on stage in Much Ado About Nothing won the Theatre Event of the Year Award. Updated 19/2
Herald Scotland has another article about David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride. Updated 19/2
Tonight the What's On Stage Awards are announced at the Prince of Wales theatre in London. David Tennant has been nominated for the Best Actor In A Play Award for his portrayal of Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. His production of the play was also nominated for Best Shakespearean Production, plus David Tennant and Catherine Tate reuniting on stage in Much Ado About Nothing was also nominated for the Theatre Event of the Year Award. Updated 19/2
The Scotsman reports from the set last year of The Decoy Bride and includes an interview with David Tennant. Updated 17/2
The BBC have issued a media pack for Tree Fu Tom which includes an interview with David Tennant. Updated 17/2
The next Doctor Who Magazine will have an article on David Tennant's episode School Reunion. DWMTweets have asked for fans to submit their comments. Updated 17/2
The Guardian has an article about the Simon Annand exhibition which opens on 24th February. David Tennant's photo is the fourth one in the article. Updated 17/2
The Daily Star has a brief review of the Fright Night DVD which is released on Monday, with some good things to say about David Tennant in particular. Updated 17/2
This week's Radio Times contains a photo of David Tennant in its section about walks around Doctor Who locations in Cardiff. (When we tweeted that it was our 10,000th tweet!) Updated 16/2
The BBC have announced that the David Tennant voiced Tree Fu Tom will start broadcasting on CBeebies on Monday 5th March. The time of the broadcast is not yet confirmed but that link has details about the first five episodes of the 26 part series. Updated 16/2
The Scotsman lists The Decoy Bride as one of the highlights of the Glasgow Film Festival which started today. Updated 15/2
Radio Times reports that David Tennant came second in their Valentine Day poll yesterday. They say that, as Benedict Cumberbatch won, it was Sherlock versus Doctor Who. (They appear to have forgotten that David stopped being The Doctor in 2010.) The poll was only a fun one but was flawed as it appeared to allow people to vote multiple times. Updated 15/2
Herald Scotland has a short article about The Decoy Bride and a quiz about Scottish movies. Updated 14/2
Radio Times has a fun Valentine Day poll whch David Tennant is currently winning with over 35%. Updated 14/2
Televisual has more details about the David Tennant and Sophie Aldred voiced Tree Fu Tom. Updated 14/2
Scotland.com has a review of the Hot Scots exhibition (which includes a photo of David Tennant) at Scotland's National Portrait Gallery. Updated 12/2
The Oxford Student has an analysis of live theatre versus filmed productions and mentions David Tennant's Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing (although it does not make it clear that the latter is not yet confirmed for a DVD release). Updated 10/2
The Guardian has a review of the David Tennant voiced Wild About Pandas. Updated 10/2
David Tennant voiced Wild About Pandas (9pm BBC2) is a Top TV pick in tonight's Evening Standard.
Herald Scotland have a competition to win tickets to the screening of The Decoy Bride and a chance to walk the red carpet at the Glasgow Film Festival. Updated 10/2
Telegraph article recommends two David Tennant read audiobooks to help dyslexic children become interested in books. Updated 10/2
Daily Express chooses David Tennant voiced doccumentary Wild About Pandas as one of its Television Picks Of The Day. Updated 10/2
David Tennant Treat 4 Today - the Much Ado About Nothing download advert from tonight's Evening Standard. Updated 9/2
On page 11 of tonight's Evening Standard in the London area there is an advert by Digital Theatre for the download of David Tennant's production of Much Ado About Nothing. Updated 9/2
The David Tennant voiced documentary about Laurence Clark will air in March and has the new title Jokes, Nappies and Wheelchairs. Updated 9/2
ScreenDaily reports that clips from Nativity 2 will be shown to buyers at the European Film Market which started today in Berlin and continues until 17th February. ScreenDaily also says that Emotional Rescue is in pre-production and continues to link David Tennant's name with the movie. Updated 9/2
Doctor Who Magazine 444 (with William Hartnell on the front cover) is published today which includes an article on David Tennant's episode Tooth & Claw. Updated 9/2
Tom Baker briefly mentions David Tennant in an interview on TheFanCan. Updated 9/2
Brides Magazine have a competition to win tickets to the screening on Tuesday 21st February of David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride at the Glasgow Film Festival. Updated 8/2
Celebrity-Gossip has a short article about David Tennant's The Pirates! movie which includes a new US poster which shows its revised release date of 27th April. Updated 8/2
The Scottish Daily Record has a short article about David Tennant's movie The Decoy Bride. Updated 8/2
An article about Dominic Savage in The Stage says that Love Life will be broadcast in May. (Previously only Spring had been announced.) Updated 7/2
On page 38 of today's Metro newspaper in the London area was an advert for Digital Theatre's download of Much Ado About Nothing. Updated 7/2
Based on an article which was originally posted on The Times website (behind their paywall) The Guardian lists David Tennant as a POSSIBLE actor to play Worzel Gummidge in a RUMOURED movie. Updated 7/2
The Sydney Morning Herald has a review of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's concert of Docto Who music last night. The final paragraph says "While enthusiasm was general and persistent, the concert's biggest cheers went to the appearance of David Tennant, No.10 in a round-up of all the Doctor's incarnations, and the original theme tune by Ron Grainer." Updated 5/2 | |||||||