Continuing a mini-look at David Tennant's career during 2011, the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is about his public appearances.
David wasn't on as many television or radio shows this year as he was on previous years (hopefully he will be in 2012!) so the clip I've chosen today is when he introduced Fright Night at one of the screenings in August.
Continuing the theme this week of the David Tennant Treat 4 Today looking at various aspects of David Tennant's career during 2011, today it's the turn of his audio work.
Lots of fans have posted about the vast volume of audio work David has done this year. Of course recording voiceovers for television programmes or radio plays are a very fast turnaround, especially for an actor as experienced as David. For example something like the five Book At Bedtime slots he read for BBC Radio Four in November were broadcast over five nights but he could have easily recorded them all in a morning or less.
With such a choice of audio (especially if you include his radio appearances during the year), it's been difficult to choose just one clip!
Click here for the one I chose. (It's a tough job but someone has to do it!)
Continuing the theme of looking at different aspects of David Tennant's career during 2011 as the David Tennant Treat 4 Today this week, today it's the turn of Fright Night.
Of course David filmed Fright Night during 2010 but it was released during 2011.
The movie probably wasn't quite the success that the movie company hoped it would be but it did recoup its costs quite early on and 99% of the reviews spoke very favourably about David Tennant's portrayal as Peter Vincent. This must have been one of the hardest roles in the movie to attempt as Roddy McDowall made that character so famous in the original movie.
On a personal note, I was lucky enough to be invited to the Press Screening of the movie in Leicester Square a few weeks before it was released either here or in the US. Although it was nice to have seen it before most people, it was quite a flat screening as the people of Her Majesty's Press don't portray much emotion at this type of event. But I did hear several people praise David (and only David) as they left the screening. On the downside I spent about a third of the screening wondering why the soundtrack was so bad in the movie. I then realised that the sound I could hear was all the Press nosily eating the free popcorn we were given!
Here is the clip from Fright Night where Peter Vincent first meets Charlie. The clip is introduced by David Tennant!
For the final days of 2011, the David Tennant Treat 4 Today each day will be a look at various aspects of David Tennant's career during 2011.
For the majority of David's fans, 2011 will be forever remembered as the year he performed in Much Ado About Nothing at the Wyndham's Theatre in London.
He and Catherine Tate announced the run on Saturday 8th January on BBC Breakfast. Tickets immediately went on sale and the massive Delfont Macintosh website immediately crashed! It's no wonder that The Independent recently called it the hottest selling play of the year!
First Night was Monday 16th May with the Press Night being 1st June. They played 112 performances although David only played 110 as he had to miss two during to losing his voice.
Below are some photos from the production. Click each for a larger version.
With the news today that David Tennant's production of Much Ado About Nothing is now available to download via Digital Theatre's website here, the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is the official trailer for the download.
With the great news today that David Tennant is providing the voice-over for the second series of Twenty Twelve, the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a clip from the first series.
And can you name the production this year that David Tennant played in with the actor who plays Barney Lumsden in this clip?
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is an extract from an interview with Arabella Weir which appeared on the Doctor Who Advent Calendar earlier this week. (You can view the whole interview here.)
Arabella will be in the Doctor Who episode which will be broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day but lots of David Tennant fans will know her as he was her lodger for several years. I can understand why David stayed with her for so long because (at the risk of sounding like a name-dropper!) I've swapped a few emails with her and she's a lovely person.
The relevant part of the BBC interview is:
"I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David Tennant wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know...'"
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is the second part of an interview with David Tennant and Peter Davison from Doctor Who Magazine number 389 about making the episode Time Crash.
As usual click each of the images for a larger (readable) version. As Blogger has changed its image hosting, you may need to right click on the image to see the largest version.
Today the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is the first part of an interview with both actors from Doctor Who Magazine number 389 about making that episode.
As usual click each of the images for a larger (readable) version.
The second part of the interview will be added as a David Tennant Treat 4 Today on another day.
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today goes back to 2004 but it’s probably a page that lots of David Tennant fans will have missed.
It’s on the National Theatre website and is about Martin McDonagh’s wonderful play The Pillowman.
If you ever get a chance to see a production of this play (or to watch David’s version at the NT archives) then I’d really recommend it as it’s a fascinating play which is really well written and has a lot of humour in it considering it is such a dark subject.
Click here to read David Tennant’s reviews and follow the links on the right side of that page for more details (and photos) of the play.
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today has been suggested by Gail.
It's a transcript of an interview with Hamlet director Gregory Doran about David Tennant playing the role. The interview is dated April 2008 so it was before he started actually rehearsing the play.
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a video which we have used before as a Treat but it shows David at his most excited so is always fun to watch again!
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is one of his radio plays from 2002.
It's called Island and it co-starred Kate Ashfield. She also starred with David Tennant in Secret Smile so the pictures on this video are from that production.
To the delight of lots of David's fans, he uses a Scottish accent in this radio play!
As the repeat of David Tennant introducing Framed on Masterpiece Contemporary is repeated in the US on PBS on Sunday (thanks Carmela!), the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is an interview he gave about the programme a couple of years ago.
With the news tonight that there will be another Doctor Who auction on 15th December and some of the lots are David Tennant's costume as John Smith in Human Nature and Family Of Blood, the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a video of some of the deleted scenes from those episodes which are available on the DVD box-set.
As David Tennant is co-hosting the Children In Need concert tonight in Manchester, the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a video appeal by him for the charity from 2009.
Today the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is the third and final part of the Doctor Who Confidential from Series One which was narrated by David Tennant before he became The Doctor.
As David Tennant's drama United is currently in a poll for Best One-off drama in 2011 by CultBox TV (and is doing quite well), the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is an interview with David Tennant and an item about the drama on the television programme Football Focus.
As it was four years ago today that David Tennant and Freema Agyeman made an appearance to promote the release of the Doctor Who Series Three box-set, the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a short video from that event.
The video includes a little bit of David singing or humming along to the Doctor Who theme at the end!
As the Galaxy Book Awards are announced tonight and David Tennant reading My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece is nominated for the Audiobook Award, the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a 5 minute clip from the book.
Click the link underneath the graphic on this page.
The audio of the whole book lasts just under 6 hours!
You may remember that on Friday 28th October the David Tennant Treat 4 Today was the first part of a Doctor Who Confidential from Series One.
This was before David Tennant was The Doctor but the reason that the video was chosen as the David Tennant Treat 4 Today was because he narrated the programme.
Today the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is the second part of the Doctor Who Confidential.
After posting the 500 Miles video yesterday, what else could be the David Tennant Treat 4 Today but the fabulous Ballad Of Russell And Julie from the Doctor Who Wrap Party?
Thanks again to everybody who emailed to suggest this as the David Tennant Treat 4 Today.
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is the now famous video of the Doctor Who cast and crew performing to The Proclaimers' I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles).
Thanks to everyone who has suggested it as a David Tennant Treat 4 Today!
The answer to the question we posted on Sunday was that the photo came from Single Father and the significance of yesterday was that it was a year since the final episode aired on BBC One.
Regular followers of our website will know that the David Tennant Quiz has been on a 2 month vacation. The good news is that it returns next Sunday at 6pm.
Today the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a question. From which production is the following photo from?
For an extra point, can you name the significance about tomorrow in relation to the photo?
The answers will be posted on Tuesday (not tomorrow).
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a Doctor Who Confidential from Series One.
This was before David Tennant was The Doctor but the reason that this video has been chosen as the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is because he narrated the programme!
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is an uplifting blog post about one fan’s various encounters with David Tennant this summer. The post includes some photos of him too.
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is described as a meeting between Benedick and Benedick!
It's a video (and transcript) of when David Tennant met Matt Holden at the autograph session on 2nd October at Earls Court. Matt was dressed as David had been after the gulling scene in Much Ado About Nothing.
On the day that David Tennant's tribute to Elisabeth Sladen is published in the Doctor Who Magazine, the David Tennant Treat 4 Today is his tribute to Nicholas Courtney which was printed in issue 436 of the magazine a few months ago.
As usual, click on the graphic for a larger and readable version.
It clearly states that it is a spoof account (although that doesn't stop some people thinking it is really David's account!) and it raises money for Comic Relief although it hasn't been updated recently.
If you read back on some of the tweets from the account, they are very amusing.
When we first joined Twitter in early 2009, THEDavidTennant account was the David Tennant account with the most followers, until we overtook that title and never looked back!