Here are some comments on David's performance as Reverend Gibson in He Knew He was Right:
". . .and the wonderfully expressive David
Tennant
, who is the most delightfully appalling clergyman ever to steal the show in a Trollope adaptation."
- The Daily Telegraph - Sydney - June 16, 2004 - Eleanor Sprawson
"The gloriously poignant yet poisonous love triangle between Mr Gibson and the French sisters (a performance of collective
brilliance by David
Tennant
, Fenella Woolgar and Claudie Blakley) . . . " - The Observer - May 16, 2004 - Kathryn Flett
"David
Tennant
was hilarious as the clergyman, Mr Gibson, who found himself in an impossible position after playing fast and loose
with the affections of unmarried sisters Arabella and Camilla French, finally plumping reluctantly for Arabella to avoid ruin
and disgrace.
In an outrageous act of larceny, the quartet of
Tennant
, Claudie Blakley and Fenella Woolgar, as the sisters, and Barbara Flynn, as their mother, made off with whole chunks
of
He Knew He Was Right
with their story within a story." - Daily Mail - May 10, 2004 - Peter Paterson
"David
Tennant
's hilarious Rev Gibson and Anna Massey's brilliant Miss Stanbury were the highlights of this episode, as they were
in episode two." - The Mail on Sunday - May 9, 2004 - Jaci Stephen
"David
Tennant
- currently wowing audiences as a money-grubbing young clergyman in the television version of Anthony Trollope's
He Knew He Was Right" . . .
- The Scotsman - May 8, 2004 - Joyce McMillan
"Newcomer (at least, I've never seen him before) David
Tennant
as Mr Gibson is very funny, too." - Leicester Mercury - May 3, 2004 - ED NOTE - people in Leicester should get out more - David was a very well know stage actor by 2004 and had been on TV many times!
Perhaps whoever wrote that article should have read Elisabeth Mahoney's article on David in The Guardian on January 1st that year which included this subtitle:
"On stage or screen, David
Tennant
is a favourite with writers because of his ability to go from nerdy cop to handsome lover 'in just one moment'"