There has also been an announcement from BBC Press Office that Einstein And Eddington will air between 22nd November – 28th November. They also have an interview with David about the show and his charcter, Sir Arthur Eddington. I have added it to the Articles page. The interview can be found here.

And in last news, David Tennant will take to the BBC Breakfast sofa this Monday, 3rd November 2008.

The interview will take place shortly after 8.30am. Tune in to hear him discuss his decision to move on from Doctor Who which he announced on Wednesday night.

Source: here.

Stephen Poliakoff’s feature film 1939, featuring stellar line-up of UK’s finest acting talent, starts shooting

principal photography begins on Monday (3 November) on BAFTA-nominated Stephen Poliakoff’s (Capturing Mary, Joe’s Palace, Gideon’s Daughter, The Lost Prince) Second World War thriller 1939.

The feature film will shoot on location in Norfolk and London for six-and-a-half weeks and is a talkbackTHAMES production in association with Magic Light Pictures, funded by BBC Films, the UK Film Council and Screen East.

Award-winning British actress Romola Garai (Atonement) takes the lead as Anne, alongside BAFTA-winning actor Bill Nighy (Notes On A Scandal, Love Actually), who plays her father Alexander.

They are joined by Oscar-winning actress Julie Christie (Away From Her, Finding Neverland) who plays the formidable Aunt Elizabeth, Eddie Redmayne (The Other Boleyn Girl) as Anne’s brother Ralph and Juno Temple (Wild Child) as their younger sister Celia.

David Tennant (Doctor Who) plays family friend Hector, Charlie Cox (Stardust) stars as Anne’s lover Lawrence, Jeremy Northam (Gosford Park) as the shady government operative Balcombe and the legendary Christopher Lee (Lord Of The Rings, Golden Compass) as Walter.

1939 is set between present-day London and the idyllic Norfolk countryside in the lead up to the Second World War.

At a time of uncertainty and high tension, the story is centred around the formidable Keyes family, who are keen to uphold and preserve their very traditional, English way of life.

The eldest sibling Anne (Romola Garai) is a budding young actress who is head-over-heels in love with Foreign Office official Lawrence (Charlie Cox).

Anne’s seemingly perfect life begins to dramatically unravel when she stumbles across secret recordings of the anti-appeasement movement.

While trying to uncover the origin of these recordings, a tangled web of dark secrets begins to unfurl, culminating in the mysterious death of a dear friend.

As war breaks out Anne discovers the truth and escapes to London to try to confirm her suspicions, but she is caught and imprisoned and only then does she finally begin to discover the true extent to which she has been betrayed.

1939 is writer/director Stephen Poliakoff’s return to the cinema after an absence of a decade since his previous feature films which included the critically acclaimed and multi-award winning Close My Eyes starring Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves and Alan Rickman.

Since then Stephen has directed a plethora of BBC television dramas, most recently the BAFTA-winning Capturing Mary, BAFTA-nominated Joe’s Palace, the Emmy Award-winning The Lost Prince and Gideon’s Daughter which won Golden Globes for actors Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt.

Stephen Poliakoff comments: “I’m very excited to be making this film about a period that has always fascinated me, the extraordinary machinations that went on in British society on the eve of war.

“It is truly thrilling to be making it with such a tremendous cast which combines some of the most exciting young talent in the country including Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple, Charlie Cox and David Tennant with such great names of the British film industry as Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, and Christopher Lee.”

The film is produced by Emmy winner Barney Reisz (Elizabeth I) and Martin Pope (Lawless Heart, The Heart Of Me); and the Executive Producer is Lorraine Heggessey, CEO, talkbackTHAMES.

The behind-the-scenes team includes BAFTA-nominated Production Designer Mark Leese (Capturing Mary), Director of Photography Danny Cohen (The Boat That Rocked, Joe’s Palace), Oscar-winning Hair and Make-up designer Jenny Shircore (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), BAFTA-nominated Costume Designer Annie Symons (Doctor Zhivago) and Line Producer Julie Clark (Whitechapel).

Source: Here

Timelord David Tennant Quits the Tardis after Five Years

David Tennant is to quit as Doctor Who at the end of next year.

Tennant took up the role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in 2005, and will end his tenure after filming five final episodes, the last of which will be shown early in 2010.

The actor made the announcement just before he won the Outstanding Drama Performance award at the National Television Awards tonight. He was up against his Doctor Who sidekick Catherine Tate for their respective roles as the Timelord and his assistant Donna Noble. The series also won the Most Popular Drama award, beating Desperate Housewives, Shameless and The Bill.

Tennant has been widely hailed as one of the most popular Doctors in the history of the show, which began in November 1963 with William Hartnell in the role.

The BBC confirmed that Tennant would complete the filming of four special episodes to be shown this year and early in 2010, as well as a Christmas special in 2009. There is no series scheduled for next year because of Tennant’s commitments with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

He said: “I’ve had the most brilliant, bewildering and life-changing time working on Doctor Who. I have loved every day of it. It would be very easy to cling on to the Tardis console for ever and I fear that if I don’t take a deep breath and make the decision to move on now, then I simply never will. “You would be prising the Tardis key out of my cold dead hand. This show has been so special to me, but I don’t want to outstay my welcome.”

Born David McDonald, the actor changed his name to Tennant because rules of the actors’ union Equity do not allow two actors to be listed with identical names.

He took over from Christopher Eccleston in 2005, after the show had been off screens for nine years since Paul McGann’s Doctor took off in the Tardis for the last time in 1996.

The primetime sci-fi drama has long been famous for its psychedelic opening sequence and theme tune, and the ability of the Timelord to regenerate and change appearance as he nears death (or as the actor playing him looks for a new challenge). When he took the role, Tennant said that he was fulfilling a childhood dream. “Who wouldn’t want to be the Doctor? I’ve even got my own Tardis,” he said.

In 2006 readers of Doctor Who Magazine voted Tennant Best Doctor ahead of the traditional favourite Tom Baker, and in 2007 Tennant’s Doctor was voted the “coolest character” on TV in a Radio Times survey.

Tennant directed the Doctor Who Confidential episode “Do You Remember The First Time?”, which was shown last year. Also that year he appeared alongside the fifth Doctor, Peter Davidson, in a Doctor Who special for Children in Need.

Tate suggested on Jonathan Ross’s Radio 2 show last year that Tennant may step down after the next series, although Tennant was quick to deny the rumours and said: “Catherine Tate stitched me up good and proper. She goes on Jonathan Ross and makes up a load of old nonsense.”

He said last night: “I feel very privileged to have been part of this incredible phenomenon, and whilst I’m looking forward to new challenges I know I’ll always be very proud to be the tenth Doctor.”

Russell T. Davies, the programme’s executive producer, said: “I’ve been lucky and honoured to work with David over the past few years, and it’s not over yet. The tenth Doctor still has five spectacular hours left, after which I might drop an anvil on his head. Or maybe a piano. A radioactive piano.

“But we’re planning the most enormous and spectacular ending, so keep watching.”

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Edit: we now have the video in our Video Archives: View here

Hello! I come with lots of fun stuff. See, I told you I’d update!

first off, as usual, our gallery is constantly growing, especially with HQ images!

We’ve got….17 HQ images of Pioneer British Academy Television Awards,3 new HQ images of Blackpool Illumination,5 new HQ BAFTA press room images, 9 HQ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire After Party-with my favorite Audrey Hepburn T-shirt! oops, sidetrack- 15 new HQ images of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Premiere, and some new Doctor Who Magazine scans. I waited a bit on scanning these in, because I had to special order issue #400, so I apologize for the delay.
We’ve got 10 scans of Issue #399 and 10 scans from Special Edition DWM #400. This last one i mentioned has an interview with David you should check out.

I’m about to make a ton of videos I’m about to upload as well, which will take a while, but will be fun.

Thanks!

A two-minute teaser clip from this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special is to be shown during the BBC’s Children in Need charity evening next month.

Viewers will see the opening moments of The Next Doctor, which again features David Tennant in the title role, alongside guest star David Morrissey.

The snippet will be broadcast on BBC One on Friday, 14 November.

The festive schedule has yet to be confirmed but the Doctor Who special is usually screened on Christmas Day.

Last year’s edition – featuring singer Kylie Minogue – was seen by 13.3m people.

This made it the second-highest audience of the year, behind the EastEnders Christmas episode.

Further guests and plot teasers are likely to be revealed in the run-up to the festive season.

Source found here.

As busy as David has been, so have I! But just for the record, just because I forget to update does not mean I forget about my site. I still have plenty of updates for you all, and sincerely thank those of you who still regularly check the site!

First of all, before I update with news and fun, I’d like to give a big, warm, sincere THANK YOU to Deryn for these generous updates! Thanks to Deryn, we have reviews of numerous shows, tons of article scans, and indescribable report. You deserve your worthy mention!

First big update is our lovely Reviews page which can be found under our media page. There you will find reviews from Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Hamlet Post show, and a Friday Night Project review all by Deryn.

Also, you will find several new article scans from everything from The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, & the Daily Express , again, all generously given by Deryn. I could post you the links, but I’m so eager to get this post made, You can easily find all the links on the Hamlet review pages or the Love’s Labour’s Lost review pages depending on which one you’re looking for

Also, we have 835 lovely screencaps of Forest of the Dead

Andddd 3 lovely HQ stills of Love’s Labour’s Lost

I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but I downloaded Recovery and Learners and will be completely redoing the filmography page soon. I’ll get screencaps and media of course. I feel obligated to inform you all of my plans, so I can be held accountable. And so you can trust me

Thanks for checking back! I guarantee this won’t happen again.