![]() An oblique reference to his casting, however, had already been made in the live broadcast of The Quatermass Experiment on 2 April, in which Tennant appeared as Dr Briscoe. With Eccleston's announcement on 30 March that he would not be returning for a second series, the BBC confirmed Tennant as his replacement in a press release on 16 April. He got a chance to have a peripheral connection to the series when he narrated a prelude episode of Doctor Who Confidential that aired prior to the broadcast of Rose. Tennant's name was suggested by tabloid newspapers as a possible candidate to take on the role of the Ninth Doctor for the new series that began in March 2005, though he was never considered for or auditioned for the role itself, and the role went to Christopher Eccleston. ![]() He also played the title role in Big Finish's adaptation of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2005). Not originally cast in the production, Tennant happened to be recording a radio play in a neighbouring studio and, when he discovered what was being recorded next door, managed to convince the director to give him a small role. ![]() He was also a minor participant to the first "official" Ninth Doctor story, the BBC animated webcast Scream of the Shalka. He later played two versions of Ross Brimmicombe-Wood in Sympathy for the Devil and the UNIT story The Wasting, Daft Jamie in Medicinal Purposes, a Time Lord in Exile and Galanar in the third series of Dalek Empire. His first story was Colditz (also guest starring Tracey Childs, who later appeared in The Fires of Pompeii), where he played the German officer Kurtz. He has lent his voice to several supporting characters in Big Finish audio plays based on the 1963 version of Doctor Who. One of his earliest big screen roles was in Jude (1996), in which he shared a scene with his Doctor Who predecessor Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect. In film, he has appeared in Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things, and as Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, alongside Roger Lloyd Pack who played John Lumic in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, and Michael Gambon. He has appeared in several high-profile dramas for the BBC, including Takin' Over the Asylum, (1994) a six-part BBC Scotland serial in which he played a manic depressive named Campbell, He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005) and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). Tennant began his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company for which he specialised in comic roles such as Touchstone in As You Like It, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. He appeared as a guest in her spoof television series Posh Nosh. Moving to London in the early 1990s, Tennant lodged with comic actress and writer Arabella Weir, with whom he became close friends and later godfather to one of her children. He adopted the professional name "Tennant" - inspired by Neil Tennant, the lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys - because the actors' union Equity already had a David McDonald on their books. Although such an aspiration might have been common for a Scottish child of the 1970s, Tennant says he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing his goal. At the age of three, David told his parents that he wanted to become an actor, largely because of his early enjoyment of Doctor Who. 3.1 Big Finish Doctor Who audio storiesÄavid grew up in Ralston, Renfrewshire, where his father, Sandy McDonald, was the local minister, and later Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.2 List of appearances as the Tenth Doctor.
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