‘Spies of Warsaw,’ Starring David Tennant, Has BBC AMERICA Premiere Date By staff | Posted on Thursday, January 24th, 2013 (BBC AMERICA)

David Tennant in ‘Spies of Warsaw’ (Photo: BBC AMERICA)

David Tennant is back on BBC AMERICA!

The channel has announced that its co-production Spies of Warsaw, the World War II-set miniseries which stars the former Doctor Who star, is set to premiere in the Dramaville block over two consecutive Wednesdays, April 3 and April 10, at 9/8c. The news comes on the heels of the announcement that Part 2 of Doctor Who Season 7 would premiere Saturday, March 30.

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National Television Awards 2013: Downton Abbey beats Doctor Who, Sherlock and Merlin to top prize Julian Fellowes' drama was crowned the cream of the year's TV drama at the annual awards ceremony (RADIO TIMES)

Julian Fellowes' period drama beat Merlin to the prize and also made it an award-free night for Sherlock and Doctor Who after their stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt Smith missed out in the Best Drama Performance category to Colin Morgan.

Phyllis Logan, who plays Mrs Hughes in the ITV series, accepted the award, saying "To be in such exhalted company as the other nominees is doubly exhalting". She also praised Fellowes for "capturing the imagination of you all, and everyone around the world".

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Sherlock and Doctor Who go head-to-head in Television Awards 2013 Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt Smith go head to head for male performance and drama awards at tonight's National Television Awards. (TELEGRAPH)

Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt Smith are in direct competition in the 2013 National TV Awards. Photo: Guy Levy/BBC/PA

By Alice Vincent9:58AM GMT 23 Jan 2013


Tonight's National Television Awards will put Stephen Moffat creations Doctor Who and Sherlock head to head for the public vote. Both programmes are nominated for the drama and male drama performance categories, putting Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt Smith in competition.

Doctor Who did well at last year's awards, with Matt Smtih and co-star Karen Gillan picking up awards for most popular performance, male and female respectively. Despite leaving the show in September, Gillan is nominated again for female perfomance.

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David Tennant leads new RSC season as Richard II (GUARDIAN)

Great Dane … David Tennant in the RSC's production of Hamlet. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Five years after his critically acclaimed Hamlet, David Tennant is to return to the ranks of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the title role of Richard II.

On Wednesday the RSC's new artistic director Gregory Doran announced details of his first season since taking over from Michael Boyd, with the return of Tennant and adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell novels among the highlights.

Doran himself will direct Richard II, following on from their Hamlet in 2008–09 – a production that the Guardian's Michael Billington described as "one of the most richly textured, best-acted versions of the play we have seen in years". While it was a much praised production it was not without its difficulties; chief among them Tennant's prolapsed disc that meant he was unable to perform in the London production for about a month.

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David Tennant Is Geek Smash Readers’ Favorite Doctor! (GEEK SMASH)

It really is no surprise that the Tenth Doctor, David Tennant was chosen as the winner of Geek Smash’s “Which Doctor Is Your Favorite?” survey. He received 29% of the votes. Christopher Eccleston, The Ninth Doctor, came in second with 14%. Fourth Doctor Tom Baker followed close with 12% The current, Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, came in with 8%.

Why, though? What makes David Tennant more special than Eccleston? Okay, I personally like the Ninth Doctor. He’s more macho, more of a soldier than his successors (I’m not too familiar with the classic Doctors just yet). Considering the long hiatus through the 90′s, and the fact that David Tennant’s reign as the iconic Time Lord was longer than the other, newer Doctors, I think he is still stuck in everybody’s mind as being THE Doctor.



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NTAs 2013: You’d expect Benedict Cumberbatch to stroll it for best actor...(RADIO TIMES)

"... but if there’s a Doctor in the house the smart money might be on last year’s winner, Matt Smith," says David Butcher ahead of this year's National Television Awards

David Butcher

12:28 PM, 11 January 2013

Television can be a snooty business. When the National Television Awards started in 1995 there were those who muttered that having the public decide on industry prizes was akin to letting the barbarians through the gates and offering them canapés.

After all, what did ordinary punters know? Much better, some thought, to do things in the traditional Bafta style, with juries of the great and the glamorous making decisions behind closed doors. Preferably the closed doors of a plush hotel, with nice goody bags to take home afterwards.

That year, Bafta anointed Between the Lines as its best drama. You may or may not remember it – Neil Pearson, police thriller, dark and moody? No, I thought not. I loved every minute and I can’t remember it, either.

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David Tennant expected to thrill Scottish fans in Broadchurch STV 11 January 2013 17:18 GMT (STV ENTERTAINMENT)

Crime drama Broadchurch is likely to be a huge hit in Scotland this spring, with fans of David Tennant expected to flock to the eight-part series.

The actor, who starred in Doctor Who for five years, was voted into the top five contenders for STV's Greatest Scot in 2009 and has remained popular since.

Audience figures during his time as The Doctor show that he was particularly popular in Scotland, while an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show last weekend doubled the average audience of the programme.

In his latest role, he'll play DI Alec Hardy: a newly promoted detective brought in to investigate when the bloodied body of a boy is found on an idyllic beach.


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'Doctor Who' star David Tennant expecting third child with Georgia Moffett By Carina Adly MacKenzie January 7, 2013 8:18 PM ET (ZAP 2 IT)

The Doctor is getting a new companion! "Doctor Who" star David Tennant and his wife, Georgia Moffett, are expecting a baby. Tennant and Moffett married in December of 2011 and already have one daughter together, Olivia (born April 2011). Tennant also adopted Moffet's 10-year-old son from a previous relationship, Tyler, in March 2012.

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Doctor Who and Sherlock battle for National Television awards BBC1 shows among those nominated for best drama alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt Smith for best actor John Plunkett The Guardian, Monday 7 January 2013 (THE GUARDIAN)

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch will be competing for National Television awards best actor against rival Matt Smith of Doctor Who. Both shows are also up for best drama. Photograph: AP

Sherlock and Doctor Who will go head to head later this month for two of the big prizes at the National Television awards, which will feature a special award to celebrate the success of the Olympics and Paralympics.

The two BBC1 shows are both nominated for best drama, along with ITV1's Downton Abbey and Merlin, which has just been brought to an end by BBC1.

Doctor Who's Matt Smith and Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch are in the running for the best drama actor prize, along with Merlin's Colin Morgan and Daniel Mays, who starred in ITV1's Mrs Biggs.

The nominations bode well for Steven Moffat, the Doctor Who showrunner who is also, along with former League of Gentlemen star Mark Gatiss, co-creator of Sherlock.

There is another Doctor Who nomination for Karen Gillan, who played the doctor's former companion Amy Pond and bowed out of the series last year.

Gillan is nominated in the drama performance female category, along with Miranda Hart of BBC1's Call The Midwife, Suranne Jones of ITV1's Scott & Bailey and Sheridan Smith (Mrs Biggs).

READ MORE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/08/doctor-who-sherlock-national-tv-awards

Ripper Street, Doctor Who, Call the Midwife, Luther.. (BLEEDING COOL).

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/12/28/video-the-bbcs-2013-new-season-trailer-doctor-who-luther-ripper-street-and-more/

Being from the States I have no idea who this woman is from Miranda, but is she mimicking Jennifer Saunder's Edina of ABFAB? Sounds just like her.  Anyway, hope we see half of these shows on PBS or Masterpiece or BBC America!  Are you guys listening at all?