David has kindly donated his personal copy of The Sound Of Drums Script to the david-tennant.com ACCORD fundraiser. This highly collectable item has been signed by David and his co stars. The full list of signatures is as follows:

• David Tennant (The Doctor)
• Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones)
• John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness)
• John Simm (Harold Saxon /The Master)
• Alexandra Moen (Lucy Saxon)
• Adjoa Andoh (Francine Jones)
• Trevor Laird (Clive Jones)
• Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Tish Jones)

You could be the proud owner of a piece of Doctor Who history AND even more fabulously you will be helping ACCORD and the fantastic work that they do! Click here to view the lot. You can learn more about ACCORD via their website here.

David Meets Cancer Experts At Cardiff University

David, in his new role as patron of the Association of International Cancer Research (AICR), has learned more about world-leading genetic research at Cardiff University. Whilst there he met one of charity’s newest fellows, Dr Andrew Tee from the School of Medicine Institute of Medical Genetics.

Dr Tee was awarded £750,000 from the charity to develop his research at the Institute. The charity funds many cancer research projects worldwide and aims to support promising young scientists who are ready to form their own research teams. The research goal of Dr Tee’s newly established lab at Cardiff is to uncover new drug targets for the treatment of tuberous sclerosis. “We are carrying out basic research to better understand the complex signals that are involved in the growth of tumours in this serious genetic disease,” he said.

The results of previous laboratory research carried out by Dr Tee, when working as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, led to the initiation of a clinical trial in patients with tuberous sclerosis by researchers at the Institute. The early results look very encouraging. “One year into the trial, we are seeing a marked reduction in the size of the kidney tumours that we are treating in patients with tuberous sclerosis” said Professor Julian Sampson, head of the Institute of Medical Genetics.

The team hope that their combined expertise in genetic and cancer biology will lead to further clinical trials for previously untreatable familial tumours. Dr Tee said: “I was pleased to meet with David Tennant, our progress would not be possible if it where not for the support of independent charities such as AICR.”

David said: “I know only too well that cancer strikes without regard to age or race, country or creed, fame or fortune. I believe AICR’s approach to funding research, wherever in the world it is taking place, is at the forefront of the battle to bring cancer under control and I am proud to have been asked to become a patron.”

The Institute of Medical Genetics is a winner in this year’s Queen’s Anniversary Prizes , which recognise world class levels of excellence in UK Higher Education.

To find out more about AICR visit their website here.

 

  

From 7pm: CiN on BBC One

Lee Meads kicks off CiN 2007 with a nationwide singalong, the cast of Hollyoaks glam up for a Marc Bolan tribute, and The Spice Girls are live in LA.

From 8pm: The Spice Girls & Dr Who

The Spice Girls perform the official CIN single and there are surprises in store for David Tennant in a Doctor Who special scene.

From 9pm: Kylie's CiN Comeback

The cast of EastEnders perform a song and dance extravaganza, the boys from The Bill do a Rat Pack classic and Kylie Minogue performs.

From 10pm: Dirty Dancing

The cast of Dirty Dancing sashay into the studio, some iconic TV characters check in to Hotel Babylon and there's music from The Sugababes.

From 11pm: The Newsroom Hots Up

Fiona Bruce leads the BBC newsreaders as they get steamy in Chicago plus music from Annie Lennox and David Gray.

And later... Giants of the radio go head to head in a Buzzcocks special, Lee Meade performs a pop classic, Denise Van Outen pays tribute to Dusty Springfield and BBC Breakfast News presenters swing to a big band favourite.

 

 

 

 

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Peter Davison and David Tennant compare notes on playing the Doctor in an exclusive joint interview in this month's DWM.

Discussing the Fifth Doctor's return in the forthcoming Children in Need special scene, Time Crash, Peter asks, "I'm wondering, do I know where I've come from? Do I know whether I've left behind Tegan and –"

David interrupts. "Yes, is this post-Adric or not?"

"Oh God, we're questioning the logic of the script now," sniggers Peter. "We're turning into Colin Baker!"

Peter goes on to shock David with revelations about his old costume... "[Pointing at the celery on his jacket] Close up, my one looked like a piece of embroidery."

"Your celery wasn't real?!" gasps David.

"No, it was material."

"I'm devastated!"

Also in this month's issue, the winners of 2007's DWM Awards are finally revealed; the writers of The Sarah Jane Adventures share their secrets about the making of the hit CBBC show; Mickey actor Noel Clarke 'fesses up as he answers questions from Out the TARDIS Tin; Russell T Davies confesses his love of multi-Doctor stories in Production Notes and Destiny of the Daleks is scrutinised in The Fact of Fiction.

DWM 389 is available from Thursday 15 November 2007 priced £3.99.

 

 

 

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1. David Tennant
2. JK Rowling
3. Billie Piper
4. David Beckham
5. Hilary Duff
6. Kylie Minogue
7. Tracey Beaker
8. Sir Richard Branson
9. The Queen
10. The Cast Of High School The Musical

Entertainment Today..er Tomorrow

Don't forget that Richard Arnold will be chatting to David on the set of Learners for Entertainment Today from 08:35am on ITV1 tomorrow.

There are two very different views of actor David Tennant on display in newsagents at the moment. He is back in his familiar time traveller’s garb promoting a special Doctor Who episode for Children in Need (written by Steven Moffat, the segment will see the Tenth Doctor coming face to face with the fifth, played by a returning Peter Davison).

On the cover of this week’s issue of The Stage, though, he’s dressed down substantially, in the guise of a driving instructor for the new one-off BBC1 comedy drama Learners, written by and starring Jessica Hynes — who, of course, guest starred with Tennant in the superb Who episodes Human Nature and The Family of Blood.

In one of his only print interviews, Tennant talks about his forthcoming stage turns as Hamlet and Berowne in Love’s Labours Lost for the RSC, his future in Doctor Who — and why he considers himself “the least sexy man on the planet”.

Of his forthcoming theatrical ventures, Tennant says:

“It doesn’t feel right somehow to know that I’ll be doing a matinee of Hamlet on some afternoon in 18 months’ time,” he ruefully admits. “It’s lovely, but it’s also absurd. Seeing the dates printed in black and white in the RSC schedule makes me feel terrified a whole year in advance. It’s fear on a daily basis.”

And of course, there’s one role for which Tennant is known and respected — a certain time travelling Doctor…

“You could find yourself in the present or hundreds of years in the past – or five billion years in the future. And the standard of the writing and of the stories is extremely high. I might tweak the odd line here or there, but I’d never dream of pointing out to the writers, in that hackneyed phrase, that my character wouldn’t say this or do that. Russell [T Davies] is the best, so why play around with the best?”