Friday 31 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Friday 31st December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a clip of a Christmas message from David Tennant for the tweetalong of the Doctor Who 2006 special episode The Runaway Bride in December 2020.

The clip was posted online by Russell T Davies.


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Thursday 30 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Thursday 30th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a series of photos of David Tennant from the eighth and final episode of Broadchurch Series Two.

David Tennant starred in Broadchurch as DI Alec Hardy who was a newly promoted, out-of-town detective investigating the murder of an eleven year old boy in the small town of Broadchurch.













Wednesday 29 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Wednesday 29th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a clip of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor from the Doctor Who 2009 special episode Planet Of The Dead.

In this clip the burglar Lady Christina finds herself sitting in a bus next to The Doctor just before the bus passes through a wormhole.

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Tuesday 28 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Tuesday 28th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a clip of David Tennant from the 1998 movie LA Without A Map.

David Tennant starred as Richard in the movie who was an undertaker and aspiring author who set off from Bradford to try his luck in Hollywood.

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Monday 27 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Monday 27th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a clip of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler from the Doctor Who Series Two episode New Earth.

In this clip the infectious humans are wandering around the hospital but The Doctor has a plan.

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Sunday 26 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Sunday 26th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a MP3 of David Tennant and Catherine Tate from Front Row's interview which was broadcast on BBC Radio Four in May 2011.

David and Catherine were interviewed in David's dressing room at the Wyndham Theatre in London before they were due to go on stage to perform in William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing.

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Saturday 25 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Saturday 25th December 2021


The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is another video of David Tennant (as the Tenth Doctor) wishing us all a Happy Christmas!


This video was one of the idents which was used by the BBC during its shows in December 2009.

All of us at this account would like to wish all our followers a Happy Christmas too!

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Friday 24 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Friday 24th December 2021


The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a video from 2009 of David Tennant (as the Tenth Doctor) wishing us all a Happy Christmas!

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Thursday 23 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Thursday 23rd December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a video from the set of The Voyage Of The Damned which shows David Tennant and Kylie Minogue wishing everyone a Happy Christmas.

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Wednesday 22 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Wednesday 22nd December 2021


The David Tennant Treat 4 Today are some Christmassy photos of David from over the years. 

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Tuesday 21 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Tuesday 21st December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a brief video interview with David Tennant about Christmas.

It was filmed on the set of Nativity Two: Danger In The Manger and David is in costume.

The interview is by Joe Tidy and it was originally shown on NewsRound in December 2011.

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Monday 20 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Monday 20th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a video which was posted online in 2013. It was to raise money for Theater Aid and shows the cast from various musicals and plays in London singing Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?

David Tennant is shown 4 or 5 times in this video and it includes him singing, dancing and wriggling his bum! The first of David's clips starts at 1 minute 30 seconds.

David is shown with the singers from Richard II which he was performing in at the time.








Sunday 19 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Sunday 19th December 2021

Today's David Tennant Treat 4 Today is the interview with David which appeared on the DVD box-set of St Trinian's 2 The Legend of Fritton's Gold.

David played Sir Piers Pomfrey (the leader of secret society AD1) and also Lord Pomfrey who was Sir Piers' ancestor.

The movie was filmed from Monday 6th July to Friday 28th August 2009 (although David Tennant was not needed for all that period). The film also starred Rupert Everett, Colin Firth and Sarah Harding.

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Saturday 18 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Saturday 18th December 2021

This David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a Fox News interview with David Tennant and Anna Gunn talking about Gracepoint.

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Friday 17 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Friday 17th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a clip of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor from the Doctor Who special episode Waters Of Mars.

The clip was shown as part of The Timey-Wimey Of Doctor Who special which was broadcast on BBC America in 2012.

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Thursday 16 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Thursday 16th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a MP3 of David Tennant from the radio play Waiting For The Boatman which was originally broadcast on BBC Radio Four in March 2012.

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Wednesday 15 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Wednesday 15th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a video of David Tennant presenting the People Choice Award to Miranda Hart at the British Comedy Awards in January 2011.

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Tuesday 14 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Tuesday 14th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a video from the National Television Awards in January 2010 when Doctor Who won the Best Drama Award.

In the video David Tennant and Bernard Cribbins (who played Wilfred Mott) went on stage to collect the award.

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Monday 13 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Monday 13th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a clip of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler from the Doctor Who Series Two episode Tooth And Claw.

In this clip The Doctor spends time with Queen Victoria in the Torchwood House and discovers that the story about the werewolf is true.

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Sunday 12 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Sunday 12th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is an interview with David Tennant which was published in Doctor Who magazine by Benjamin Cook in 2011.

In the interview David Tennant discussed Comic Relief Red Nose Day, his journey to Uganda to record a film about the work Comic Relief was doing there, as well discussing Doctor Who and Much Ado About Nothing.

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Saturday 11 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Saturday 11th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a clip of David Tennant from Act 2 Scene 2 of Hamlet. This scene is known as the Coward Soliloquy.

David Tennant starred as Hamlet in The Royal Shakespeare Company production of William Shakespeare's play during 2008 and early 2009.

A televised version of the play was filmed during summer 2009 and was broadcast on Boxing Day 2009.

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Friday 10 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Friday 10th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is part of an interview/article about David Tennant which was published on Sunday 23rd July 2000 in the newspaper Scotland On Sunday when David was at The RSC in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

'One of theatre's big discoveries, Tennant arrived at Stratford in January to start rehearsing his lead role in The Rivals. At the same time he rehearsed another starring part, that of the twin Antipholus in The Comedy of Errors. Both have opened to rave reviews and Tennant has won much praise for his performances. As Boyd, former artistic director of Glasgow's Tron theatre, describes, "He has a tremendous ability to communicate with an audience - he's like an open book. He has such an open face and an open spirit."

In The Rivals, one critic wrote that he "is blessed with the most eloquent left eyebrow since Roger Moore's". Another said of him in The Comedy of Errors: "Tennant's ingenuity and understated comedy are the production's making. His face speaks volumes and is as changeable as a weather-vane." And a third: "The best performance comes from David Tennant... rapidly establishing himself as one of the most endearing comic actors in the business."

Not that you dare quote any of these to "the skinny Scot frae Paisley". There is no time for reading reviews, he says, as we race down the stairs behind the scenes at the theatre and rush across to the Union Club, the RSC's version of the Groucho Club-on-Avon for company members, to dive into steak and kidney pie and coffee cake. He will read all his notices at the end of the season, when he will have played 97 performances as Jack Absolute, slid down the banisters as Antipholus 72 times and fallen in doomed love with Juliet 45 times. There have been two matinees every week, as well as six evening shows since The Rivals started previewing in March. "I don't want to know the total number," he says, as I prepare to quote the statistics. "I haven't dared count them. It's too terrifying, although once Romeo and Juliet opens I'll just be doing eight shows a week and getting days off, because I won't be rehearsing."

Tennant reckons he gets his first Monday off in August. "But to make up for it, we then do three matinees. I get a very short break in September, I think. It's quite full on, but it's that or you don't do the parts.

"He is perfect casting for Romeo, because of the intensity he brings to his work," Michael Boyd says. While Tennant's great friend and former landlady, the comic performer and author of Does My Bum Look Big in This?, Arabella Weir, says: "He's astonishingly focused for his age and amazingly straightforward and honest. He's trustworthy and he's honourable." Tennant lodged with her for five years when he "very trepidatiously" moved to London. Weir, whom he met on Takin' Over the Asylum, led him astray, he jokes. "She would shock me with the things she would say, but she finds it harder to shock me now. She probably corrupted me, but I probably needed corrupting a little bit. It sounds like we were lovers or something. We weren't. It was more she led me into the murky world of London. I think I was quite green when I left Scotland - I was blessed with a very good upbringing, because my parents are very moral, Christian people, but without all the brimstone and thunder nonsense."

There is still something uncynical and unspoilt about him, though. He confesses that being with the RSC can be scary. "Not only because you are in the home of 'world class classical theatre' (as all the brochures tell you), but these big Shakespearean roles come with a lot of historical baggage attached. People tell you how romantic Ian McKellen was as Romeo, or how masculine Sean Bean was, or how marvellous Laurence Olivier was. You feel the weight of all those ghosts, those performances that have taken on a mystical resonance. And because it's Shakespeare, you feel it's hard to make it believable, because it is so beautiful. "With this play, everyone has so many ideas about it, that you almost want to play against the beauty. We did the balcony scene the other day and I was doing: 'But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!' And I was going: 'How can I say that?' It is beyond parody, but all you can do is be personal with it and make it your own, if that doesn't sound too pretentious. I know that's how Alex [who plays Juliet] feels about famous lines like, 'Parting is such sweet sorrow'."

Rehearsals carry on into the evening, although Tennant has to dash off to a warm-up, then strut his stuff in The Rivals. The last "Bravo!" is still echoing in his ears as he flies out of the stage door, clutching his shopping. "The milk and the orange juice will be curdled. They have been in my dressing-room all day," he says gloomily. There is not even time for a post-show pint in the actors' local, the Dirty Duck. He has, he notes, only been there twice since January. "I'll make up for it once Romeo's up and running," he promises.

After the show, which finishes at 10.30pm, he drives the mile-and-a-bit to his flat, watches TV for half an hour to unwind, and then goes to bed with the Arden edition of "the greatest love story ever told". Then, the next morning, he's up at 8am, eats a bowl of Honey Nut Shredded Wheat - "my only concession to healthy living" - and drives back to the theatre, where he showers, goes shopping at Marks and Spencer for lunch, then starts rehearsals again at 10am. "I'm marrying Juliet this morning," he says. "Knowing Michael, it'll be something unusual and different. Swinging from the chandeliers? Probably."

The intensity of the rollercoaster he is on is overwhelming. Stratford is a gruelling, sometimes stifling, hothouse. Rehearsal followed by show, followed by rehearsal, in one long punishing schedule. After one-and-a-half hours in the rehearsal room, there is just time for a snack before voice warm-ups for the matinee of The Rivals. There, Tennant's rapier-thin young blade gets involved in sword fights and various cunning derring-do disguises, then he is off again for lunch. And back on again, for The Comedy of Errors. A short show, but a physical one, as Tennant slides down those banisters, executes pratfalls and turns in a brilliantly funny double act with Ian Hughes, who plays his manservant, Dromio. He also does the neatly witty trick of lighting two post-coital cigarettes after seducing his long lost twin's wife and then buries his head in Nina Conti's cleavage.

Later Tennant is in his dressing-room, stripped to the waist, slapping Simple moisturiser onto his face, swigging pints of mineral water, and packing up his make-up box, an old-fashioned leather bowling case. As we leave, we trip up over a bloody but unbowed Hotspur, about to go on stage and die in Henry IV, Part 1. Falstaff is plumped in the corner and wishes us a courteous good night, while various make-up girls daub elderly knights. "It's like this every night at this time," says Tennant. "You can't move for men in armour and there's blood everywhere."

There is still no time for one quick drink in the Union Club. "I've got to get those lines fixed," he says, as he climbs into his car. He pushes a taped version of Romeo and Juliet - in which he plays Mercutio and Joseph Fiennes is Romeo - into the recorder. "It'll help me with learning my lines and, hopefully, Joe might have come up with something new that I can nick for my performance." And he drives off into the Warwickshire night.'






Thursday 9 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Thursday 9th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a fun video of David Tennant and Catherine Tate's comedy sketch from the 2009 Comic Relief Red Nose Day.

David Tennant played Mr Logan who was a new English teacher clashing with student Laureen Cooper (played by Catherine Tate) while attempting to introduce her class to William Shakespeare and his sonnets.

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Wednesday 8 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Wednesday 8th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a clip of David Tennant from the 2007 comedy television movie Learners.

David Tennant starred in Learners as Chris who was a devout Christian and a very patient driving instructor who fell in love with his boss Fiona.

Meanwhile his student Beverly (played by Jessica Hynes) started developing a crush on him.

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Tuesday 7 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Tuesday 7th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a fun trailer David Tennant filmed to promote Sport Relief which was broadcast in 2012.

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Monday 6 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Monday 6th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a MP3 from when David Tennant was on the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show in October 2010.

This clip is titled "I'm a movie, I'm a movie - which movie am I?"

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Sunday 5 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Sunday 5th December 2021

The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a funny video where David Tennant tries the Hawaii Chair whilst at BBC Radio One.

David described it as the 'scariest two seconds of my life!"


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Saturday 4 December 2021

David Tennant Treat 4 Today for Saturday 4th December 2021

Today's David Tennant Treat 4 Today is a clip from the BBC television drama Single Father in which David Tennant played the role of Dave Tyler.
 
This was broadcast originally in 2010 over four consecutive Sundays.

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