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It's been a rollercoaster of bad faith, bad decisions, and really bad behavior on the parts of David Tennant and Michael Sheen, or at least their fictional avatars The fight over the casting of the US network remake of the show is over David and Michael were never going to be cast if everyone else[...]

It's a new dawn in Staged – David Tennant and Michael Sheen are getting along again The air between them has cleared after their extended therapy sessions with the actors who were reading to play them in the US network remake of the show David is buoyed by his TV job being on again The[...]

If Staged was a movie, we've come to the latter part of Act 2 where our heroes David Tennant and Michael Sheen have hit rock bottom in their foundering friendship They've stopped talking to each other, but they left their zoom calls on to show each other how mad they are at each other and[...]

David Tennant is lying on his couch and boring the crap out of Michael Sheen in an unofficial therapy season These two are the last guys who should ever act as therapists for each other We get to see why before the opening credits are even over "At least they have each other?" Lucy (Lucy[...]

Previously on Staged, David Tennant and Michael Sheen subtly sabotaged Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's audition to play them in the US network remake of the show Simon and Nick tortured David by declaring they would much rather play Michael with his more proactive bouts of madness with the birds in the first episode of[...]

In the show itself, Staged is getting a US network remake, and the network doesn't want David Tennant or Michael Sheen in the leads despite them being the stars of the UK original that made it a hit in the first place It's a common indignity that British actors suffer when their hit shows are[...]

In fact, the original supporting cast would be back, except for David Tennant and Michael Sheen. Still from "Staged Series 2" Episode 2, BBC Or rather, "David Tennant" and "Michael Sheen" The meta hall of mirrors continues to rotate furiously in the second season of the show This is an alternate universe in which the first season[...]

The 10th Doctor (David Tennant) and 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) appeared in the show to tie it to canon if not continuity This show lasted 5 seasons before it ended due to  Elizabeth Sladen's passing. "Class", BBC Studios Class This was an odd, derivative spinoff that nobody really asked for A Buffy-esque series about high school students fighting[...]

The whole science fiction world is so creative and so money-making right now, I think your wildest dreams can come true," Davies explained. Didn't have space for this in my interview (also: bit niche) but here's Russell T Davies' vision of an MCU-style future for #DoctorWho, complete with David Tennant/Matt Smith team-up and – the petition[...]

Big Finish has been producing Doctor Who audios since 1999, starring Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Tennant, and John Hurt Now they're kicking off 2021 by celebrating their newest audio drama producers – all of them female – and their forthcoming work on the Doctor Who and Torchwood audio[...]

The 21st Century Doctors were even more modern archetypes: Christopher Eccleston was the Doctor as a no-nonsense Northerner; David Tennant was the sexy geek smart-aleck; Matt Smith as the geek with an old man's soul; Peter Capaldi as cranky woke granddad Think of the different archetypes and personality types there are out there for a[...]

David Tennant and Michael Sheen play gonzo versions of themselves while their respective spouses Georgia Tennant and Anna Lundberg play patient and saintly versions of themselves trying to keep their men grounded and sane Show creator, writer, and director Simon Davis plays a nervous, disastrous, stressed-out version of himself The show is a meta hall[...]

David Tennant and Michael Sheen are back as shambolic, bitchy, petty, and insecure versions of themselves in the second series of Staged, mere months after the first season run Staged is probably the most successful TV show to be based in the lockdown, written, shot, and broadcast very quickly during the first lockdown in the[...]

It was David Tennant's first season as The Doctor and Billie Piper's second and last It was the season that caught fire in the US and turned the show from a decades-long cult to a massive global pop culture phenomenon Teenage and 20something women discovered the show and fell in love with Tennant as their[...]

With production back underway after a COVID-related pause to production, David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) offered viewers an update on the upcoming adaptation of Jules Verne's classic Around the World in 80 Days Accepting the Digital Spy Reader Awards 2020 award for "Best Actor (Male)" for his portrayal of real-life serial killer Dennis Nilsen in ITV's[...]

A series that found a way to reflect our current pandemic times while still giving viewers a moment to smile was Simon Evans and Phin Glynn's Staged. Premiering on BBC One in June 2020, the series used video-conferencing technology to offer viewers "meta fictionalized" versions of Michael Sheen (Prodigal Son) and David Tennant (Doctor Who) as they[...]

Russell T. Davies joined a tweet-a-long of 2006's Doctor Who Christmas Special “The Runaway Bride” and shared bits from his first script.

With Monday "Dalek Day" and "Revolution of the Daleks" debuting in less than two weeks, Doctor Who looks back on the Doctor's sworn enemy.

Davies and starring David Tennant as the Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, the special took place between Series 2 and 3 (with Noble joining the TARDIS as a full-time companion starting with Series 4)- and for us, it was memorable for being one of the earliest times we were clued in on just[...]

Davies was still showrunner and the show was just starting to hit the peak of its popularity with David Tennant in the lead role Davies commissioned Moffat to write an episode that featured Madame de Pompadour and Moffat took Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time-Traveler's Wife as his inspiration for the Doctor's first real love story[...]

Its premise is simple: it follows actors David Tennant and Michael Sheen in lockdown as they bicker and fail to get on with rehearsing a play through zoom It's the kind of show only the BBC would make and do well. Staged was shot on zoom, featuring Tennant and Sheen stuck at home playing games, hazing[...]

David Tennant released an episode of David Tennant Does a Podcast with… this week where h talked to his former Doctor Who co-star and buddy Billie Piper The show made the two of them huge stars, though Piper had already spent her teenage years as the biggest pop star in Britain during the 1990s[...]

In the Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned", he even had the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) lifted into the air by robot angels. Davies was also the one who found the religious imagery in regeneration In the old show, the Doctor usually just lay down or fell down Davies turned regeneration into a combination of crucifixion[...]

Don't you just love these polls? The results show that David Tennant comes out on top of the most popular Doctor, with Jodie Whittaker polling second with a total of fewer than 100 votes' difference. David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker talk "Doctor Who" on The Late Show, NBC So there you have it: the 10th and 13th[...]

In the modern incarnation of The Doctor, there's a definite fan consensus around the love for David Tennant and Matt Smith, with Jodie Whittaker gaining a larger and growing fanbase And Christopher Eccleston has his fans, too– he was, after all, the first in this reboot Don't get me wrong: I love all of them[...]

It resurfaced and actually got made in late 2009, with a renewed buzz – mainly because David Tennant (fresh of Doctor Who) was cast in the main role It was expected to shoot the whole season after winter break, but that never happened No official word aside from Tennant being quoted as saying it's "truly[...]

Let's just say we all cannot wait to get back to work and annoy the hell out of him with that." Not to be left out, Star Trek tweeted the good admiral Jean-Luc Picard their birthday wishes as well. Happy 80th Birthday @SirPatStew! Check out this video from his birthday celebration on the set of #StarTrekPicard[...]

While Christopher Eccleston will always be my "first" Doctor, Matt Smith will forever be my favorite Doctor (so far)- and here's why.

American fans only really discovered the show from David Tennant's run partly because Series 1 was underrepresented in the US Russell T Davies had to reintroduce Doctor Who and the show's mythos in a way that was accessible to kids and people who never saw the show before. Christopher Eccleston as the 9th Doctor in "Doctor[...]

To promote the show, HBO Max had IGN content director Terri Schwartz interview David Tennant, Matt Smith, and Whittaker on a zoom chat This marked the first time the three modern Doctors were brought together onscreen Call it "The Unofficial Three Doctors Crossover" Schwartz asked the three actors the usual questions about what it's like[...]