David Tennant has been talking to STV's
Moviejuice about his starring roles in the new seasonal film
Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger! in which he plays twins Donald and Roderick Peterson. Not only was the film improvised in its entirety, it was also shot in sequence, and Tennant said of the improvisational nature of the film:
"It was terrifying. But that's why you do certain things, isn't it? 'I've never done that before, that'll be utterly terrifying – so I'll have a go.'" The film also stars
Jessica Hynes as Angel Matthews,
Ian McNeice as Mr Peterson senior, and
Jason Watkins as Mr Shakespeare.
[STV Entertainment, 26 Nov 2012]Katy Manning will be on tour in the
Agatha Christie murder-mystery
A Murder Is Announced early next year. Performances are as follows:
Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th January:
Capitol Theatre, Horsham;
Tuesday 22nd to Saturday 26th January:
Buxton Opera House;
Tuesday 29th January to Saturday 2nd February:
The Derby Theatre;
Monday 4th to Saturday 9th February: Lincoln Theatre Royal;
Tuesday 12th to Saturday 16th February:
The Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage;
Wednesday 27th February to Saturday 2nd March:
Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke;
Tuesday 5th to Saturday 9th March:
Lyceum Theatre, Crewe.
Meanwhile,
Colin Baker will be in the touring production of the Wilkie Collins thriller
The Woman In White, starting at
The Lighthouse Theatre, Poole, from
Tuesday 22nd to Saturday 26th January. From
Monday 28th to Thursday 31st January it will be at
The Grand Theatre, Blackpool;
Thursday 14th to Saturday 23rd February,
Lincoln Theatre Royal;
Tuesday 26th February to Saturday 2nd March,
Garrick Theatre, Lichfield, finishing its run at the
Theatre Royal, Windsor, from
Monday 4th to Saturday 9th March.
Baker was voted off
I'm A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here! earlier this week. He was the fourth contestant to go.
As previously reported, he joined the ITV1 reality show, based in a jungle in Australia, earlier this month.
Bernard Cribbins narrates the CBeebies panto
Jack And The Beanstalk, which airs as a simulcast on the CBeebies channel and BBC One on
Friday 21st December at 4.30pm. Featuring all the CBeebies presenters, it was performed at The Palace Theatre in Manchester.
[BBC Media Centre, 27 Nov 2012]Sheila Hancock will be among the new celebrity contestants on this year's
Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Day special on BBC One, with previous contestant
Ann Widdecombe making a guest appearance.
[BBC Media Centre, 28 Nov 2012]David Morrissey has begun filming the second series of BBC Scotland's crime drama
Field Of Blood in Glasgow. He plays editor Murray Devlin. Filming will continue until late December, with the thriller to be shown next year.
[BBC Media Centre, 29 Nov 2012]Director
Farren Blackburn has his first feature film released in the UK and USA next spring.
Hammer Of The Gods, which stars
Charlie Bewley and
James Cosmo, is set in Britain of 871AD and tells the story of a young Viking warrior sent by his father, the king, on a quest to find his estranged brother, who was banished from the kingdom years earlier.
[Bleeding Cool, 27 Nov 2012]A six-part spy thriller by
Toby Whithouse has been commissioned by BBC Cymru Wales for BBC One. Set in the world of 1970s espionage,
The Game will tell the story of the invisible war fought by MI5 to protect the nation from the threats of the Cold War. The drama is to be executive-produced by Whithouse,
Brian Minchin, and
Faith Penhale (head of drama at BBC Cymru Wales).
[BBC Media Centre, 30 Nov 2012]Adam Simmonds, the newly-elected police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, wants to see police boxes back on the county's streets. He said:
"I would like to bring a focal point back into villages. It's all about putting the police back on to the streets and I would love to be able to put Tardises back in every community." He added that he hoped to work with Northampton-born
Matt Smith to launch his Blue Box Initiative.
[Northampton Chronicle & Echo, 25 Nov 2012] In Memoriam:
The actor
Roger Hammond has died at the age of 76. A contemporary of
Waris Hussein,
Derek Jacobi, and
Clive Swift at Cambridge University, he trained at RADA and had a varied and accomplished career on the stage and TV as well as in film and on radio. Hammond appeared in three episodes of Doctor Who, firstly as the Elizabethan philosopher, statesman, scientist, author, and jurist
Francis Bacon in
The Executioners (episode 1 of
The Chase) in 1965 and then as
Doctor Runciman - the resident physician at Brendon School - in the
first and
final parts of
Mawdryn Undead in 1983.
[The Stage obituary by Martin Jarvis, 23 Nov 2012]With Thanks To Paula Bentham
After the success of their Christmas decorations last year, the BBC have once again released some festive figures to hang on your Christmas tree!
The actress 
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