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TONIGHT.........................DAVID TENNANT....................WHO IS HE?.....WHERE DID HE COME FROM?.....

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RTKangaMummy · 27/09/2006 13:45

TONIGHT

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RTKangaMummy · 27/09/2006 13:46

WEDNESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER

Documentary

Who Do You Think You Are?

9:00pm - 10:00pm

BBC1 London & South East

VIDEO Plus+: 1843
Subtitles, audio description, widescreen

4/8 - David Tennant

It's the little moments that make Who Do You Think You Are? such a pleasure. Take David Tennant's delightful mum, and her good-natured disapproval of his stage name (taken from the Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant by the then 16-year-old David McDonald). She'd much rather he'd chosen a family name, such as David McLeod, or David Blair. David Blair? Doesn't have quite the right ring for a future Doctor Who, does it? This exchange comes at the very start of a journey that takes Tennant - a charming and articulate guide - back to his native Scotland ("I'm intensely proud of Scotland, it's a purely emotional thing.... somehow it's locked into my DNA") and to a rainy Isle of Mull. But as he digs deeper, Tennant becomes uncomfortable with certain aspects of his family history. The discovery of strongly Protestant forebears takes him to Londonderry, Northern Ireland, where he is forced to confront the spectre of sectarianism and a side to his family's story he finds it hard to face up to.

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TambaTheDragonSlayer · 27/09/2006 13:46

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

TambaTheDragonSlayer · 27/09/2006 13:47

and I'll say it again cause hes worth it... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

RTKangaMummy · 27/09/2006 13:51

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DumbledoresGirl · 27/09/2006 13:51

David Tennant - "charming and articulate" - are you reading this Expat? That is what I see in him. Looks ain't everything y'know!

bea · 27/09/2006 14:13

deffo... the one to watch tonight!!!.... hmmmm that lovely scottish accent to boot!

Tawny75 · 27/09/2006 14:13

mmmmm I would not kick him out for eating crisps in bed

RTKangaMummy · 27/09/2006 15:27

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RTKangaMummy · 27/09/2006 17:10

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Clary · 27/09/2006 17:23

ohhh kanga trust you! what a star

I thought this morning, hearing a trail for this on the radio, oh must post a thread about it.

sadly he has a dodgy beard but I guess I could live with that.
as tamba says mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Pruni · 27/09/2006 17:25

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aitch71 · 27/09/2006 17:41

does anyone remember 'takin over the asylum' with ken stott. i'm not pulling rank, here, but i've loved david tennant since then...

Tutter · 27/09/2006 17:54

love this series

can't say i'm a david tennant fan but am still looking forward to it

DumbledoresGirl · 27/09/2006 18:13

Clary, no the dodgy beard must go! he is gorgeous but not that gorgeous.

LiliLaTigresse · 27/09/2006 18:32

aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

RTKangaMummy · 27/09/2006 19:10

You're welcome

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RTKangaMummy · 27/09/2006 20:49

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DumbledoresGirl · 27/09/2006 20:50

EXPAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BET YOU WATCH THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RTKangaMummy · 27/09/2006 20:59

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Imafairy · 27/09/2006 21:01

Before it starts, I want to go on record as saying UUUUGGGGGHHHH! Find him rather insipid TBH - opening sequence is running, will report back later!

Pruni · 27/09/2006 21:01

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expatinscotland · 27/09/2006 21:03

Oh gawd! Who CARES?

EEEWWWWWWWWWWW.

When's 'Afterlife' on again?

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Imafairy · 27/09/2006 21:11

He is slowly (actually quickly) making himself even less-appealling: he just essentially desecrated a grave (or am I over-reacting???)

tissy · 27/09/2006 21:16

you're over-reacting, imafairy- he picked up someones heid, then put it down, hardly desecration- anyway if the kirk didn't want it touched, why leave it wide open...

beard not dodgy, gorgeous

expatinscotland · 27/09/2006 21:16

Tissy
You canny be serious!

He is a total MINGER!

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