Finally, it’s happened: David Tennant and Joanna Page are working together. Will the blog be able to cope? I think it’s having a lie down at the moment.
Anyway, the project in question is Nativity 2, a sequel to – you guessed it – Nativity. In this movie, David Tennant plays not one but two roles – as a teacher, Mr Peterson, and his twin brother – with Joanna Page playing his wife. Being Nativity 2, she’s pregnant, as she is in real life, and for another real-world tie-in, it’s going to be in UK cinemas on November 23, the 49th anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.
Here’s the trailer: you may notice that he’s got his normal Scottish accent in this… I think the blog might have to go and have another lie down.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
Of course, the news is out in all the papers about who the new companion on Doctor Who is (I won’t name names at this point so as to preserve some element of surprise for […]
