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Don't forget that you can download a copy of Romeo And Juliet, starring David Tennant as Prince Escalus, from BBC Radio 3 here.
Shakespeare's quick witted summer tragedy, recorded with the same company as Twelfth Night, his melancholic winter comedy, which was the first in this Drama on 3 Shakespeare and Love season. In a town full of hatred, where the streets ring with the Capulet Montague feud, and swords are too easily drawn, Romeo and Juliet find each other, and love, and never let go.
The second of Drama on 3's season, featuring new productions of Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest, the first plays aired in the pan-BBC Shakespeare Unlocked celebration. The first two plays, which reflect upon Shakespeare and Love are performed by a single company of actors including David Tennant and Rosie Cavaliero both of whom won best actor and best actress at the recent Audio Drama Awards.

Cast
Romeo ..... Trystan Gravelle
Juliet ..... Vanessa Kirby
Nurse ..... Rosie…

The first photos of David Tennant filming for his new drama, The Spies Of Warsaw, in Poland have been released. A news site based in the central Polish town of Lowicz has posted an article about filming and included the photos of David on horseback.

A translation of the accompanying text reads:
"Yesterday photography was completed in the Palace of the Radziwill in Nieborow on the spy drama entitled Spies Of Warsaw whose screenplay was based on a novel by Alan Furst.
The film is the first joint production between TVP and the BBC and, as declared by the film producers, the largest international co-production in the history of Polish television. The series writers are Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais who created, among others, the screenplay for ‘The Commitments’ by Alan Parker. The director of ‘Spies’ is Coky Giedroyc, maker of TV series ‘Holmes’ and ‘Oliver Twist’.
Filming of ‘The Spies Of Warsaw started of 11th April and is all taking place in Poland, mainly in Warsaw, but also i…

Romeo and Juliet, the second of the BBC's Shakespeare and Love plays, will air tonight on BBC Radio 3 at 8.30pm. David Tennant takes on the role of Prince Escalus.
The BBC are making a podcast of the play available to download after transmission. Click here to sign up to recieve the podcasts.
The BBC Radio 3 blog also has a look at the making of the season which you can read here.

Shakespeare's quick witted summer tragedy, recorded with the same company as Twelfth Night, his melancholic winter comedy, which was the first in this Drama on 3 Shakespeare and Love season. In a town full of hatred, where the streets ring with the Capulet Montague feud, and swords are too easily drawn, Romeo and Juliet find each other, and love, and never let go.

Cast
Romeo ..... Trystan Gravelle
Juliet ..... Vanessa Kirby
Nurse ..... Rosie Cavaliero
Friar Laurence ..... Ron Cook
Prince Escalus ..... David Tennant
Mercutio ..... Paul Ready
Benvolio ..... Adam James
Tybalt ..... Carl Prekopp
Paris ..... John…

David Tennant's latest film project, The Pirates! Band Of Misfits opens in cinemas across the USA and Canada today!
To get theatre and show times please visit the film's official site here.
David Tennant voices the character of the young Charles Darwin.


 Directed by British animation legend and Aardman co-founder Peter Lord and based on Gideon Defoe’s cult novel series, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists is a delirious high-seas romp starring Hugh Grant as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain, who navigates his salty crew on a perilous mission to Victorian London to aid a young Charles Darwin voiced by David Tennant.

David Tennant says: "What a joy to be part of that. You feel a little bit of a cheat to take any credit for it, but really the stars of this film are the animators. What they can make a piece of plasticine is quite remarkable.""The other day I did my last session on the film and they brought the little model of [my character] Da…

There have been a number of complimentary reviews of BBC Radio 3's Twelfth Night, which starred David Tennant as Malvolio. Download an MP3 of the play here.

The Stage says:
"The play’s humour resides in the sub-plot which was here beefed up by David Tennant’s extraordinary performance as Malvolio, the punctilious servant who dreams of marriage to his employer, Olivia, which would make him a Count, hanging around in velvet lounge wear. This Malvolio was scarily sharp-tongued until, in a cruel joke, he received the letter purporting to be from Olivia, encouraging him to behave like a jackass, at which point his rasp turned into a squeak of astonishment and his simpering and smiling could be heard in his performance, all self-conscious sunshine and smirks."

The Guardian said:
"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."

The Telegraph says:
"D…

The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists has been scheduled for a DVD release on 24th September 2012.
The animated adventure will be released as a region 2 DVD, a standard Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray.

Directed by British animation legend and Aardman co-founder Peter Lord and based on Gideon Defoe’s cult novel series, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists is a delirious high-seas romp starring Hugh Grant as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain, who navigates his salty crew on a perilous mission to Victorian London to aid a young Charles Darwin voiced by David Tennant.

David Tennant has stated that he has been involved with recording dialogue for some animated extras for the DVD release. Full details of extras is likely to follow shortly.

In the mean time you can pre order the film from our shop at the links below:
DVD
Standard Blue-ray
3D Blu-ray

The Decoy Bride is now available for pre order in Australia. It's Region 4 release is on 11th July 2012. It can be pre ordered here.

After lovelorn Katie (Kelly MacDonald) is dumped at the altar, she returns home to her windswept Scottish island, thinking she will never walk down the aisle. Little does she know that Hollywood superstar Lara (Alice Eve) has chosen the island as the secret venue for her marriage to her gorgeous boyfriend James (Dr Who’s David Tennant).
But with the paparazzi hard on her tail, Lara needs to throw them off the scent. Katie agrees to dress in white and walk down the aisle as Lara’s ‘decoy bride’.
Wedding bells ring, love blooms, but who ends up happily ever after?

Take a look at the brand new ad from Virgin Media featuring David Tennant - and it's one that won't be seen on TV. In the internet-only ad, David promotes the Catch Up service that is available through Virgin's TiVo box as part of their new Collections bundles.

Watch the new clip here:




For more information about Virgin Media Collections, visit their website here

Thanks @vmkeepup for keeping us up to date

Don't forget that you can download a copy of Twelfth Night, starring David Tennant as Malvolio, from BBC Radio 3 here.

About the play:
A comedy of misrule and a trenchant attack on puritanism as disguise and deceit leads to misadventure, madness and mistaken love in one of Shakespeare's happiest plays. Orsino loves Olivia but she loves Cesario who really does love Orsino for Cesario is actually Viola. But Malvolio believes his mistress Olivia loves him as he is a victim of a trick played on him by those who would make him mad. Shakespeare unravels a comic knot and fashions a masterpiece.

Today is the anniversary of what would have been William Shakespeare's 448th birthday, strangely it's also the anniversary of his death, 396 years ago.
Shakespeare has been responsible for some of David Tennant's finest performances, not only on stage, but in audio plays and on film too.
David made his Shakspeare debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company back in 1996 when he appeared in As You Like It as Touchstone.


A run in King Lear, as Edgar, followed at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 1999 as well as a reading of Edward III at Shakespeare's Globe.
In 2000 David returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play the title role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and  Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy Of Errors.
2001 saw a one night only performance as Lysander / Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Barbican.
In 2008 David made his highly anticipated return to the stage with his critically acclaimed run of Hamlet in Stratford Upon Avon and London. The Guardia…

The Royal Shakespeare Company launches the World Shakespeare Festival today with a new sonnet specially commissioned from internationally-renowned playwright and RSC Writer in Residence Mark Ravenhill

The Royal Shakespeare Company launches the World Shakespeare Festival today with a new sonnet from Mark Ravenhill to mark Shakespeare's 448th birthday and celebrate his role as the world's playwright.
The World Shakespeare Festival is produced by the RSC for London 2012 Festival. It is the biggest Shakespeare festival ever staged and involves over 70 partners coming together to celebrate Shakespeare as the world's playwright, with more than 70 productions, plus events, exhibitions and broadcasts. One million tickets are available and the festival runs from today, 23 April, to November 2012.
Michael Boyd, Artistic Director, RSC said:
“We asked Mark to write a sonnet to mark this unprecedented collaboration. The RSC produced this Festival to celebrate Shakespeare as the world&…

Twelfth Night, the first of the BBC's Shakespeare and Love plays, will air tonight on BBC Radio 3 at 8.30pm. David Tennant takes on the role on Malvolio.
The BBC are making a podcast of the play available to download after transmission. Click here to sign up to recieve the podcasts.
The BBC Radio 3 blog also has a look at the making of the season which you can read here and David Tennant spoke to the Radio Times whilst recording Twelfth Night which you can read here.

A comedy of misrule and a trenchant attack on puritanism as disguise and deceit leads to misadventure, madness and mistaken love in one of Shakespeare's happiest plays. Orsino loves Olivia but she loves Cesario who really does love Orsino for Cesario is actually Viola. But Malvolio believes his mistress Olivia loves him as he is a victim of a trick played on him by those who would make him mad. Shakespeare unravels a comic knot and fashions a masterpiece.
Drama on 3 is featuring new productions of Twelfth Night, …

David Tennant will be co starring in a new BBC Radio 4 comedy series, Believe It!, alongside Richard Wilson and Arabella Weir.
The four part series will begin on 9th May 2012 at 11.30-12.00pm

The BBC Media Centre issued the following press release:
Based on glimmers of truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing and, most importantly, untrue celebrity radiography of Richard Wilson. Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has always said he'd never write one. Richard, however, narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his fictional life story.
He plays a heavily exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester United - all true.
He’s a confidant of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, charity work, secret work for governments and fierce rivalry…

Featuring the tenth incarnation of the time travelling adventurer (as played by David Tennant on TV) Time Leech is a compilation of a three-part web comic originating on the www.Kasterborous.com Doctor Who news and reviews website.

Conceived and scripted by Christian Cawley and Brian Terranova with artwork by Justin Abbot, Rick Lundeen and Martin MacIntosh, Time Leech throws the Doctor together with a new companion, Ruth as he uncovers a terrible Dalek plot to overthrow humanity.

This compilation is being released as a non-profit project, with all proceeds being split 50-50 between the annual Children in Need event and the Association for International Cancer Research (AICR), of which David Tennant is patron.

Wednesday, 18 April 2012 – Time Leech is the umbrella title for a series of comic strips from the Kasterborous.com website, collected here for the first time in print and ebook format for a limited time only to raise funds for Children in Need and AICR.

Created by Christian Cawle…

Twenty Twelve, the spoof documentary comedy series from the BBC, narrated by David Tennant, is to be shown on BBC America from June.

The series stars Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Olivia Colman and centres on the efforts of the Olympic Deliverence Committee to keep the London 2012 Olympic Games on budget and on track. More information on the series can be found on the BBC website (video clips may not play outside the UK)

There have been two series of Twenty Twelve so far, although the final three episodes of the second series have still to be filmed. It is expected that BBC America will show all thirteen 30-minute episodes.

The series premieres on BBC America from Saturday 30th June as part of the Ministry Of Laughs comedy block

David Tennant's romantic comedy The Decoy Bride will be available on Region 1 DVD and on Blu-ray in the USA and Canada from Tuesday 26th June. The film had a limited cinema release in the UK and UK in March and  has been available as a Region 2 DVD since March 12th.

Film details



When the wedding of internationally famous film star Lara (Alice Eve, Men In Black III, Sex and the City 2) to English author James (David Tennant, Doctor Who) is sabotaged by a paparazzo, they decide to relocate the event to the remote Scottish island of Hegg. But the press will not be so easily shaken, and the couple has to take more drastic measures to ensure their privacy. Enter local girl Katie (Kelly MacDonald (Boardwalk Empire, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2), who's selected as a decoy bride to lure the press off the trail. But when Katie meets James, sparks fly, dresses get ruined and suddenly love gets complicated. Featuring an all-star cast, DECOY BRIDE is a charming romantic com…

The final episode of the current series of the David Tennant narrated spoof documentary Twenty Twelve airs on BBC Two tonight at 10pm.
In this episode Siobhan's team design a major sexual health campaign, complete with a rap song Get it On, which may upset the Catholic competitors.
You can watch a preview clip of the episode below:

The BBC are giving you a chance to test your knowledge of David Tennant in his time as Doctor Who in a new David-themed special version of their Game Of Rassilon.

Test yourself in fifteen questions against the clock in this fast-paced quiz!

To have a go, visit the Game Of Rassilon David Tennant Special on the BBC Doctor Who website

Good Luck!

The BBC are making David Tennant's recordings of two new productions of Shakespeare plays available to podcast.

David has recorded versions of Twelfth Night and Romeo And Juliet with a cast that includes Adam James, Rosie Cavaliero, Ron Cook and Vanessa Kirby. The two explorations of love form part of the Shakespeare Season that is a strand of the Cultural Olympiad on the BBC. David plays Malvolio in Twelfth Night and takes on the role of Prince Escalus in Romeo And Juliet. The plays will be available to download shortly after broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Sign up to receive the podcasts for free here

Twelfth Night will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 22nd April at 8.30pm. Read more here

Romeo And Juliet can be heard on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 29th April at 8.30pm. Read more here

The season also includes a production of The Tempest starring David Warner, Don Warrington and Rose Leslie and broadcast on May 6th. Read more here

A very, very Happy Birthday to the very talented and very lovely Mr David Tennant who is 41 years young this very day!

The son of a Presbyterian minister, David Tennant was brought up in Bathgate, the post-industrial town between Edinburgh and Glasgow immortalised in a song by his favorite band, The Proclaimers. He decided to be an actor at a very young age (3 or 4) and was appearing on screen before he was even out of school. He was first talent-spotted by Scottish TV at a Saturday youth theatre club, an offshoot of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where he later trained.
After graduating, Tennant auditioned for the groundbreaking political Scottish Theatre Group 7:84 and landed the role of Giri the Hitman in their touring production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Uiith — his first professional part. His second job, as King Arthur in an Edinburgh production, got such a bad review it made him cry. However, things began to look up when he landed a part in the a…

We have a collection of screen caps featuring David Tennant in his recent Sky Arts drama The Minor Character. Click here to view the photos...

About The Minor Character: David Tennant stars as Will, an artist who observes life in minute detail. His dry commentary ranges from witty engagement to a casual erosive critique of his social set: the urban-suburban, middle-class landscape of his middle-aged friends.

Over a series of dinners, drinks and parties, we witness the shifting sands of friendship, marriage, love and lust, and the complexity and corruptness of London circles through Will's eyes. All the while, he entertains us with his reportage and offers us the privilege not only of his profound, inner thoughts, but also of an impartial, outward look into this microcosm of debauchery and selfishness.

As the clock cycles on, dreams are broken, relationships are ruined, misfortune strikes, and we, the spectators, are overwhelmed by the randomness and absurdity of life.
But h…