David Tennant, Catherine Tate ‘looking for projects together’

HYPABLE
Selina Wilken 7:08 am, November 28, 2014

Doctor Who actors David Tennant and Catherine Tate are looking for new projects to star in together – and we’ve got some suggestions!

Doctor-Donna fans, rejoice: former Time Lord David Tennant and his companion Catherine Tate want to find ways to keep working together.

“Working with David is the best,” Tate says in a webchat on The Guardian. “We get on so well and it’s just always so much fun.”

And Doctor Who isn’t their only joint venture so far: Tennant made several appearances on Tate’s The Catherine Tate Show, and the pair starred as the romantic leads in a 2011 stage production of Much Ado About Nothing.

Apparently, the pair like working together so much, Tate says they’re now “looking for future projects together.”

Tennant currently stars in Gracepoint, the Fox miniseries which may or may not be getting a second season.

In the webchat, Tate also puts another nail in the Donna Noble coffin, stating that it’s unlikely the character would be able to return following her tragic fate.

“Unfortunately I think Donna’s storyline would prevent her from coming back, because any memory of the Doctor, of her time travelling with him, and the adventures she embarked on, would kill her,” Tate writes. “So I can’t see a storyline being able to bring her back.”

But let’s talk about happier things: like what kind of joint ventures Tate and Tennant could embark on next!

Other than a joint comedy sketch series (or just a weekly fireside chat where they talk about life), here are some great buddy comedies just crying for a remake, and a few more timely suggestions:

1. ‘Bonnie and Clyde’
Tate and Tennant have played romantic leads before, so why not put a comedy spin on the classic tale of love and law-breaking? Sure, there was a miniseries in 2013, but that’s never stopped Hollywood before.

2. ‘Some Like It Hot’
If anyone could pull off a remake of this classic, it’s Tate as Marilyn Monroe, and Tennant dressed as a woman. Now we’d just need to find a third Doctor Who star to make up the trio… hmmm.

3. ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’
Make one of them a woman, and there you go. Cowboy era train robbery fun, but British. What could go wrong? (…Actually, probably everything. This is a terrible idea.)

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David Tennant, Anna Gunn interview on making 'Gracepoint'

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
By James Hibberd on Sep 15, 2014 at 3:46PM   @james_hibberd



Imagine if a Time Lord and Skyler White teamed to solve a young boy’s murder in a small Northern California town? That’s what it’s like for fans of Doctor Who and Breaking Bad approaching Fox’s Gracepoint, which takes David Tennant and Anna Gunn, beloved for playing for iconic cable TV roles, and puts them into a big broadcast prime-time crime series. For Tennant, the role means embracing the unusual, perhaps unprecedented, step of reprising the same character he played in Broadchuch, the U.K. version of the show (though Fox has added a different ending for Gracepoint). For Gunn, it means leaving behind an Emmy-winning performance of a tightly-wound character that was both career-making and fan-divisive. Below the actors take our questions about Gracepoint, which debuts on Fox on Oct. 2.

EW: Let’s start before Broadchurch. What was each of your all-time favorite mystery show?

ANNA GUNN: We always said Cagney & Lacey was our inspiration. That was something that made us laugh nonstop, not because this is like Cagney & Lacey, though we could be a team like that—

DAVID TENNANT: And I’m playing Tyne Daly.

GUNN: Yeah, I’m the blonde and you’re the brunette. So that’s my ridiculous answer.

TENNANT: I’d go with Murder One. That was such a novelty because it was one story told over a number of episodes, like Gracepoint.

GUNN: That was great.

Is there anything you see actors doing in detective shows that you tried to avoid?
GUNN: I interviewed a couple different people and went on a ride-along. They pointed out clichéd things on TV shows, and I think the major thing for me was that so much of being a good detective is watching and listening very carefully and less about putting overt pressure on a suspect. It’s not really the way that’s done in the real world. So much of it was really about watching and listening and being an observer rather than cliché about the hard-boiled detective strong-arming anybody.

TENNANT: Because the story is as much an emotional story as it is a procedural story, and as much about people as murder, hopefully you avoid cliché by being true to that emotional life.

Anna, had you seen the original before you started on Gracepoint?

GUNN: I saw the original and was just head over heels for it. It was brilliant. I know that some of the actors did not watch it because they didn’t necessarily want to be influenced, and was a little worried about having somebody else’s brilliant performance hanging in your head. But in this case [Broadchurch co-star] Olivia Colman and I are so different from each other and I thought it would serve me to watch it. Plus I was just intrigued and I’m really glad I did watch it because its a good show and just watching the choices she made was very helpful for me. It informed a lot of the things I ended up doing.


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'Gracepoint' Fox: David Tennant Questions Killer's Identity In New Featurette [VIDEO]

ENSTARS
By Vanessa Frith, EnStars
on Sep 01, 2014 06:39 AM EDT

The American reimagining of ITV's Broadchurch will feature Tennant as Detective Emmet Carver, an out-of-towner whose new job takes him to a small California coastal town and pairs him up with Detective Ellie Miller (Anna Gunn). Together, the two must solve the mystery of a young boy's death while the entire town falls suspect.

"Gracepoint is, more than anything else, a whodunit," explained executive producer Dan Futterman in a new featurette. "You learn who everybody is in the town and how they're related to each other. You find out somebody's died and you know, all those people we just met, it's probably one of them that's responsible for this."

The American reimagining of ITV's Broadchurch will feature Tennant as Detective Emmet Carver, an out-of-towner whose new job takes him to a small California coastal town and pairs him up with Detective Ellie Miller (Anna Gunn). Together, the two must solve the mystery of a young boy's death while the entire town falls suspect.

"Gracepoint is, more than anything else, a whodunit," explained executive producer Dan Futterman in a new featurette. "You learn who everybody is in the town and how they're related to each other. You find out somebody's died and you know, all those people we just met, it's probably one of them that's responsible for this."

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David Tennant and Olivia Colman confirmed for second series of Broadchurch

EXPRESS
By: Kelby McNallyPublished: Mon, May 12, 2014



The pair - who played DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller - will be be back for a new instalment of the ITV murder mystery, following the success of last year's series, which garnered more than nine million viewers.

The crime-solving duo will be joined by Jodie Whittaker and Andrew Buchan, who starred as the parents of murdered schoolboy Danny Latimer, and Arthur Darvill who will reprise his role at Reverend Paul Coates.

The second series, which is set to begin filming in Dorset, has been penned by Chris Chibnall, who both created and wrote the first series.


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David Tennant, Olivia Colman back to Broadchurch

THE LIST
Source: Bang Showbiz
Date: 18 March 2014



David Tennant and Olivia Colman will return for the second series of 'Broadchurch', according to actress Jodie Whittaker, but the rest of the cast are being kept in the dark about their future.

David Tennant and Olivia Colman will return to 'Broadchurch'.

Jodie Whittaker, who played grieving mother Beth Latimer in the first series of the murder mystery drama, says the two lead stars will both be back for the ITV show's second series - but the rest of the cast have been left in the dark about their future.

She exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "David and Olivia will obviously be in season two. It doesn't shoot for a few months, I think - middle of the summer sometime.

"None of us know if we're in it, or if we're not in it. It was exciting and wonderful to be a part of, I really enjoyed it, so there's no part of me that wouldn't do it if I was asked."

The 32-year-old actress has also defended the upcoming US remake of the drama - titled 'Gracepoint' - which will see David reprise his role as TV detective Alec Hardy.

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David Tennant describes working on Broadchurch remake Gracepoint as "a very peculiar experience"

DAILY MIRROR
Feb 22, 2014 15:34 By JJ Nattrass

David Tennant and Anna Gunn in US Broadchurch remake

David Tennant has described working on the Broadchurch US remake Gracepoint as "a very peculiar experience".

The Scottish actor, who has also taken on the mantel of Doctor Who in his career, was being interviewed by Entertainment Weekly about his experience of fronting the ITV crime drama as well as playing the lead in its Stateside version.

Dave said: "There is no precedent for this. It's so familiar, yet completely new.

"It's a very peculiar experience."

Fox boss Kevin Reilly has previously revealed that Gracepoint will not be a straight remake of its UK predecessor.

David elaborated: "Certainly the pilot episode sticks very closely to the original, [but] as the story goes on it eases out a bit, there's extra twists and turns, some characters are more developed."

It looks like he's finding his feet on set and seems to be getting on famously with co-star Anna Gunn, labelling the Breaking Bad actress as "very sparky".



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