On October 24th and 25th 2009 CBBC took The Sarah Jane Adventures cast and crew on the road to the Liverpool ONE Odeon for a special sneak preview of The Wedding of Sarah Jane. In addition to the screen there was face painting, green screen acting, a chance to meet Mr. Smith, K-9 and the Judoon
Tommy Knight, Daniel Anthiny and Anjli Mohindra were also on hand for autographs and pictiures and a Q & A session. All of the events plus the screening were free.
This is a clip from an interview that Tommy and Anjli did talking about working with David - IMHO it's great!
David's also been interviewed by Jo Whiley on BBC Radio One numerous times - you only have to listen to a few minutes of each interview to find out she is a true Doctor Who fan and her son too!
April 13, 2006 - This interview was prior to the launch of Series Two and was all about David as the new Doctor - prior to the interview they played an advert for the new show and they played a recorded bit from Sophia Myles about DW. Jo started the interview with a DW quiz - which he aced - no pun intended! There was also a set of really random questions at the end - 2 of the answers were Whiskey Glasgow and nose hair clippers!
December 25, 2006 - Jo Whiley Meets Doctor Who - a 3 hour special where David co-hosted with Jo to the run up to the Christmas episode.
April 8, 2009 - He was on to promote the DW episode Planet of the Dead and DW filming coming to end. He was asked about his red shoes from Comic Relief! They also played a game called - Name this Job. He brought the bits from his vertebrae for her to see!
November 1, 2009 - This was a recorded clip of David commenting about Matt Smith being the new Doctor.
November 14, 2009 - David was interviewed by Jo's son Jude - who is a big Doctor Who fan.
November 15, 2009 - He participated in a re-occurring segment of hers called Road Trip - where the celebrity gets to pick three songs, a vehicle and a destination - his guest voice as the 'sat-nav' was John Barrowman. David chose to go to Australia in the Beatles Yellow Submarine.
August 15, 2010
- Jo played a recorded clip of David saying: "Hello, this is David Tennant instructing you to put some clothes on, although frankly, come on, leave them off."
October 10, 2010 - She started the interview by wishing him Happy David Tennant Day and she had a box of Cadbury Roses for him. He talked about filming Fright Night and Single Father. They played a game called Learn Your Lines - David had to complete his own lines from various programmes. They played a funny message from Catherine Tate and answered listener questions.
June 21, 2011 -This was a phone interview - he talked about doing Much Ado About Nothing, his dressing room and what music he's listening to.
March 27, 2012 - David called into to Jo's last show for Radio One to wish her well.
David has certainly had his time on the UK airwaves but he has been on some radio shows more than others - some a whole lot more!
Christian O'Connell - Absolute Radio - Sept 28 2008 - present/2006 - Sept 08 - on Virgin Radio
March 21 - Appeared in studio to promote The Pirates! In an adventure with Scientists
August 13 - David took part in the 'Gold' marathon to celebrate the London Olympics - he played a recording of David reading the lyrics of the song
September 2 - David was co-host for the entire 4 hour broadcast - antics include getting slapped in the face with a fish - also each week COC does a podcast of the weeks highlights - David recorded a little bit of extra material for that weeks podcast.
2010
January 21 - David called in to talk about his NTA award, the last episode of DW, his US pilot and Murder in Samarkand
October 7 - David was in the studio to talk about his series Single Father
October 8 - Christian played a regular feature called Are You Smarter Than . . . which featured David answering questions that were recorded the day before.
October 15 - COC played a voicemail that David had left on his answering machine
October 28 - David was the co-host for the whole 4 hour show - featuring a skit about trying to solve the murder that takes place in the Barry Manilow song 'Copacabana"
2009
March 25 - David called into the show - he talked about hosting Comic Relief and the final read through of DW - this call was part of Who's Calling Christian - where each celeb that calls has to answer a question that the last celeb put forward and then give a question for the next celeb that calls.
April 8 - David was in the studio - he played 'who is in the train seat' and also got hooked up to a lie detector and also the last of DW
November 11, 12 and 13 - David was co-host for the whole four hour show all three days - included was an auction of his bed for charity and a play/twittersode of DW involving Anthony Head
2008
January 31 - David called into the show to weigh in on the starship Enterprise v/s the TARDIS and Kirk v/s The Doctor and his new Prius
April 4 - In the studio with Catherine Tate - promoting the new series of DW and they played TV theme tune roulette - also Christian interrupted them on a 'rival' radio show
November 21 - He talked about filming Glorious 39 and Einstein and Eddington and DW
December 19 - David called in to a special called "The Other Halves Show" - all of the radio on air talent had their wives doing there jobs
September 6, 2006 - COC called David's phone number for a feature called Do you have a celebrities phone number intending to leave a message and instead David was awoken from a sound sleep!
January 30, 2006 - David called in (to XFM) as part of Bounty Hunter - the first Who's Calling Christian
April, 2006 - He helped Christian in the first episode of At Home with Mr T and talked about being the new Doctor and working with Billie Piper
December 21, 2006 - Played Buttons in the Virgin Radio Christmas panto - Cinderella - he was also interview by COC before about hiring his costume from the National Theatre and having to pay to rent a costume that was actually made for him when he was in What the Butler Saw!
Christian O'Connell - Radio 5 Live
January 29, 2011 - The broadcast was also available to view Live via Red Button service in the UK - David discussed his trip to Uganda and Red Nose Day, his upcoming play Much Ado About Nothing and his films Decoy Bride and United.
September 6, 2009 - David appeared on the first episode of The Christian O'Connell Solution - a show the BBC described as "topical comedy show, which seeks to solve some of the week's big news issues."
David has excellent musical taste - IMHO - here are a few lists of sonsg he has chosen on different radio shows!
Desert Island Discs:
The Proclaimers - Over and Done With
Elvis Costello - Oliver’s Army
Deacon Blue - Dignity
(Eddie Izzard The Starship Enterprise Comedy Routine)
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Tim Minchin - White Wine in the Sun
Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette
Colin Murray - In the Company of:
The Wombats - 'Backfire At The Disco'
The Proclaimers - 'Blood On Your Hands'
The Housemartins - 'Me And The Farmer'
Avril Lavigne - 'Sk8ter Boi'
The Kaiser Chiefs - 'Ruby'
Vampire Weekend - 'Oxford Comma'
Death Cab for Cutie - 'I Will Possess Your Heart'
AC/DC - 'You Shook Me All Night Long'
Jo Whiley's Road Trip:
Madonna - Like a Virgin
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Owl City - Fireflies
Company magazine ran an article in 1997 called "Boys on Top" about the top Celtic pin-ups!
Here is an excerpt: ". . .invites us to turn our attentions to the new breed of Celtic actor pin-up material. Top of the list, and certainly looking very fetching in his kilt (extra-long; we suspect he may not have top-class legs, the poor wee mite) is Joe McFadden. Lesser known are Dugald Bruce-Lockhart, Cal Macaninch, and David Tennant, who have all done a bit of this and that, mostly on telly."
DAVID TENNANT, 26, Scot
Credits: TV: Rab C. Nesbitt, Takin' Over The Asylum, Strathblair.
Next up: TV: Duck Patrol.
David is a cop in new series Duck Patrol, with Richard Wilson. He says: "My character is in love with Samantha Beckinsale's, but she isn't in love with him."
We all enjoy watching David on the big and little screens but it's even better when we get to peak behind the scenes! What did we do before DVD extras! These are some featurette's that David has - well featured in!
The Quatermass Experiment - "Bring Something Back - The Making of The Quatermass Experiment"
Glorious 39 - "On the Edge of War: Uncovering Glourious 39"
Hamlet - The Making of Hamlet"
United - "Preparing to be United"
The Decoy Bride - "Behind the Scenes"
Fright Night - "Peter Vincent:Swim Inside My Mind" and "Live in Las Vegas: An Interview with Peter Vincent" and "How to Make a Funny Vampire Movie"
The Pirates!Band of Misfits - "So You Want to be a Pirate?" (features David's voice)
Not only has David been in the press many, many times - 516 times in December 2009 alone! He has also appeared on TV news and talk shows many times as well!
BBC Breakfast - filmed at Studio N6 and Studio 7 at BBC Television Centre in White City, West London. Since April 2012 Breakfast is broadcast from Salford.
December 21, 2005 - his first live interview as The Doctor
March 30, 2006- with Billie Piper talking about the launch of Series Two of Doctor Who
July 21, 2006 - interviewed on the set of Recovery - not in the studio
December 19, 2006 - With Catherine Tate on the set of Runaway Bride - not in studio
March 22, 2007 - interviewed at the Season Three Doctor Who press launch - not in studio
December 19, 2007 - interviewed at the Voyage of the Damned press launch - not in studio
April 4, 2008 - interviewed at the Season Four Doctor Who press launch - not in studio
October 30, 2008 - the morning after the announcement that he was leaving Doctor Who - BBC entertainment coorespondant Lizo Mzimba was the only person to interview David about the announcement at that time and they played a clip from the interview and looked back at DT's time as The Doctor and speculated as to who would take over
November 3, 2008 - talking about the announcement that he was leaving Doctor Who after 2009
April 11, 2009 - talking about Planet of the Dead
December 31, 2009 - interviewed about his final Doctor Who episode
October 8, 2010 - interviewed about the TV series Single Father
January 8, 2011 - appeared with Catherine Tate to announce the West End Production of Much Ado About Nothing
April 21, 2011 - interviewed about the film United and the passing of Elisabeth Sladen
August 30, 2011 - scheduled but did not appear because he had lost his voice