Physician Who’s David Tennant Confirms Surprising Mission

Former Physician Who star David Tennant has confirmed an surprising new undertaking. Tennant has signed on to host the 2025 EE BAFTA Movie Awards.

The BAFTA group introduced on Monday (December 9) that Tennant shall be returning for the second 12 months operating to host Britain’s equal of the Academy Awards from Royal Pageant Corridor in London. BAFTA C.E.O. Jane Millichip introduced the information: “We couldn’t be happier that David Tennant is returning to host the EE BAFTA Movie Awards in 2025,” Millichip stated. “He’s an absolute pleasure to work with, and his efficiency this 12 months was merely excellent – heat, witty, whip-smart, and with a pleasant contact of mischief. It’s a privilege to share Britain’s largest celebration of movie with TV audiences worldwide, and to acknowledge the extraordinary creativity of those that energy the British and world movie trade.”

David Tennant By no means Anticipated to Return as BAFTA Movie Awards Host

Physician Who actor David Tennant admits internet hosting Britain’s model of the Oscars is “not one thing [he’d] ever imagined” doing

David Tennant later informed The Hollywood Reporter that it’s “fairly curious” that he’d conform to host the BAFTA Movie Awards once more as a result of the job is outdoors his wheelhouse. “It’s not one thing I’d ever imagined I’d be requested to do, or notably aspired to do — it was a kind of issues that got here out the blue. And also you assume I most likely can’t say no to this, as a result of it’s such a novel factor to be part of. Once they requested me again, I assumed, ‘Actually, are you positive?’ However, you realize, why not?”

Tennant has acquired 5 nominations from BAFTA all through his profession, in addition to three wins from regional branches of the group. His most up-to-date BAFTA TV Award nomination got here earlier in 2024 when he acquired a Finest Male Comedy Efficiency nod for enjoying the demon Crowley in Good Omens, however Mawaan Rizwan in the end gained for the BBC Three sequence Juice. Tennant is subsequent set to reprise his function as Crowley in Good Omens for one last 90-minute episode. A one-off particular changed the deliberate last season attributable to Good Omens creator Neil Gaiman exiting the undertaking following sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.

David Tennant Has Gained A number of BAFTA Awards

Tennant’s earlier TV internet hosting expertise has included fronting the BBC’s semi-annual charity telethon Comedian Reduction since 2019 in addition to the fly-on-the-wall documentary sequence Physician Who Confidential. The actor’s jam-packed 12 months included starring in a contemporary restaging of Shakespeare’s Macbeth on the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West Finish. He has extra just lately had a featured function as ruthless TV firm supervisor Lord Baddingham in Disney+ sequence Rivals, which has been tailored from Dame Jilly Cooper’s in style novel of the identical identify. Tennant starred alongside The Hobbit’s Aidan Turner and His Darkish Supplies’ Alex Hassell in a fictionalized model of the cutthroat world of British unbiased tv manufacturing within the Nineteen Eighties.

Tennant additionally made an surprising return to Star Wars earlier in 2024 with a cameo in Star Wars: Younger Jedi Journey. Tennant initially voiced the lightsaber-making droid Huyang in each Star Wars: The Clone Warfare and Star Wars: Ahsoka, the place it was revealed that the droid had helped prepare generations of aspiring Jedi over hundreds of years. In Professor Huyang’s most up-to-date look, he got here to the help of Grasp Yoda’s younglings in Star Wars: Younger Jedi Journey once they found the ruins of a Jedi temple.

The BAFTA Movie Awards Originated Practically 80 Years In the past

15 Issues About Physician Who That Make No Sense

Physician Who has seen its titular Time Lord face off in opposition to the Daleks and Cybermen throughout time and house, however it’s not with out some inconsistencies.

• The primary-ever BAFTA Movie Awards ceremony was held in Could 1949, however there was no host for the preliminary ceremony.
• The late Prince Philip was the primary solo recurring host of the BAFTA Movie Awards when he introduced the ceremony three time within the Sixties.
• Stephen Fry has hosted the BAFTA Movie Awards 12 instances since 2001, with different recurring hosts together with UK chat present presenter Jonathan Ross and legendary actress Joanna Lumley.

The 2025 EE BAFTA Movie Awards will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer on Sunday, February 16, 2025 within the UK. The ceremony airs on Britbox within the US and Australia.

Supply: BAFTA

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physician who

Launch Date

March 26, 2005

Creator(s)

Donald Wilson
, Sydney Newman

Forged

Jodie Whittaker
, Christopher Eccleston
, David Tennant
, Matt Smith
, Peter Capaldi
, Billie Piper
, Karen Gillan
, Catherine Tate
, Jenna Coleman
, Alex Kingston
, John Barrowman
, Tosin Cole
, Arthur Darvill

Seasons

13

Writers

Steven Moffat
, Russell T. Davies

Community

BBC

Administrators

Graeme Harper
, Euros Lyn
, Douglas Mackinnon
, Jamie Magnus Stone
, Charles Palmer
, Rachel Talalay
, Joe Ahearne
, James Sturdy
, Jamie Childs
, Saul Metzstein
, Toby Haynes
, Wayne Che Yip
, Nick Hurran
, Richard Clark
, James Hawes
, Daniel Nettheim
, Colin Teague
, Keith Boak
, Azhur Saleem
, Adam Smith
, Andrew Gunn
, Nida Manzoor
, Lawrence Gough
, Paul Murphy

Producers

Steven Moffat
, Peter Bennett
, Nikki Wilson
, Russell T Davies
, Julie Gardner
, Phil Collinson
, Chris Chibnall
, Caroline Skinner
, Denise Paul
, Piers Wenger
, Marcus Wilson
, Beth Willis
, Brian Minchin
, Matt Strevens
, Tracie Simpson
, Mal Younger
, Derek Ritchie
, Patrick Schweitzer
, Sanne Wohlenberg
, Susie Liggat
, Paul Frift

Character(s)

The Physician

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