David Tennant Conquers Christmas, Attempts to Conquer the US

[chloris]

Well, now we know what David Tennant was doing in the US for three weeks! A tv pilot! (BBC news, Hollywood Reporter) Woohoo!

From Backstage:
Rex is Not Your Lawyer (Drama). A successful, high-powered attorney begins having debilitating panic attacks in court that close up his throat and prevent him from speaking. Instead of giving up his practice

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[10_point_5]

I do have to wonder what the Hamlet people were thinking choosing Christmas day for their air date. This. I was worrying about this even before Who clashed. Christmas Day is a family time, it'll be really hard to say 'Everyone shush for the next three hours!'. Who has family appeal and is only on for an hour, so they don't really have to worry about that. Unless they recon Hamlet'll make more money from DVD sales anyway and aren't too bothered when it airs? Still, I would've thought a nice Sunday evening in January would've been perfect. Mind you, this way, DT can double up on all his plugging in Christmastime interviews, talking up Who and Hamlet at the same time!

The lawyer thing, hmmmm. I feel good and bad about it. Good that he has something in the States and he clearly wanted that, but bad because I can't think he planned to give up Who to do more serial TV so it looks like it might not be going to plan. Comedy, though, he'll be great at that :) Who knows, it may be a big hit and get syndicated and all that :) I hope he gets time to do other projects, though.

[chloris]

Hamlet is going to air later in the evening so the kids will be in bed but there will still be older relatives who might want to chat. A nice Sunday evening would have worked for me! Or New Year's Day. That's a pretty quiet day around here.

Hmmm. It might be going to plan if he wanted to break into US tv/movies. He's trying at a high point in his career where he even has some level of popularity here. Think of his Masterpiece hosting gig, Hamlet filming and showing in the US, his reign as Ten getting press here. This may be what he wants; at least to try since there are no guarantees of a pick-up.

[morgaine_nicely]

thing is, it says drama, not comedy, so i'm thinking they're maybe looking at the anxiety bit as more drama ish stuf, like house....