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Catherine Tate returns to our screens over the festive season with Nan’s Christmas Carol. The comedian reveals all about her version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and her plans for 2010, or lack of them.

What was the inspiration behind your Christmas special?

I’ve done a version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The inspiration was I thought ‘Oooh gosh I’ve got to do something, I’ve been off the telly for four minutes’. No I just thought…A Christmas Carol it just lent itself so neatly if we put my nan character as Scrooge.

And it’s something a bit different and it’s a bit magical as she goes back in time and to the future. David Tennant is the ghost of Christmas present. We’ve adhered to the original structure. There’s not a lot of swearing but nan does use colourful langauage.

Who else have you called on to be the ghosts?

Roger Lloyd Pack is the ghost of Christmas future, Ben Miller is ghost of Christmas past, Madness are in it…they are doing some carol singing. And Matthew Horne is playing Jamie, nan’s grandson.

Are you a big fan of Christmas telly?

Yeah it’s all a bit themed and festive and I love it. I do love Christmas, I’m a big supporter.

Do you ever get stressed in the run up?

No I don’t get stressed and I have nothing sorted. So it’s just as well I don’t get stressed. If I’m not ready for Christmas are they going to postpone it? What does being ready mean?

What is your ritual for Christmas Day morning? Are you up at the crack of dawn opening stockings?

No I’m not, luckily my little girl doesn’t get up early. When I was little we used to have advent calendars and I was really excited by it. We got a chocolate one this year for my little girl and last week the dog got hold of it. And it’s really dangerous for dogs to eat chocolate, it’s toxic for their liver, did you know that?

You’re joking?

No, it’s really dangerous. Unfortunately the potential loss of the dog wasn’t as traumatic for my little girl as the fact that she’d lost 16 of her chocolate motives. It was terrible. The dog is called Twinkles and she is alright.

What are your plans for next year? Any new characters bubbling away?

Nothing planned yet. I like it…planning stuff makes me feel claustrophobic and I would find it difficult to know what I was doing a year in advance. Most people would like the security of knowing, but I don’t think of it as security I think of it as prison.

Is there anything you’re obessed with at the moment?

I love love love In the Thick of it – it’s fantastic. I’d like to get my nan character with Peter Capaldi’s Malcolm Tucker character and they can have a swear off.

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“Christmas television was a big deal when I was young. It was the only time of the year that my mum would buy the Radio Times and the TV Times, and I used to love poring over them – I think that’s quite a common British experience.

“So I’m thrilled to have been part of that for the last few years. We’ll have done five Christmas Specials and Doctor Who seems such an obvious fit for Christmas television, doesn’t it?

“This year we’ve done something different again – partly because we’re telling the stories of the end of the Doctor’s time. It is still set at Christmas but it’s perhaps not got quite as much Christmas cheer as before.

“It was a bit sad for me too, filming it. Of course, the way filming is, the last things I actually filmed were weird green-screeny things with me hanging on a bit of wire.

“We’d done all the big emotional stuff way, way before. I think if we’d done my very last scene on my very last day I might have been in a bit of a state.”

Doctor Who is on BBC One on Christmas Day at 6.00pm and on New Year’s Day at 6.40pm

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David Tennant has admitted that he is sad to be leaving Doctor Who.

However, the 38-year-old told The Observer that he almost didn’t take the job because he didn’t want to be typecast.

“It did take me a few weeks to think it through,” he said. “But the only other option is you don’t do the job. I remember waking up one morning thinking, ‘I can’t turn this down. Even if it’s the wrong thing to do’.”

Tennant described the success of the programme as “bewildering” and explained that he managed to cope with leaving the show because the final scene he filmed was for an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

“It couldn’t have been less memorable or less significant,” he said. “It was robbed of any epic quality, but that was probably best. There are a lot of scenes in the final story that are very sad, and were very sad to play. If one of them had coincided with the actual final day, I’d have been a puddle.”

Tennant also suggested that his fame is fleeting, claiming that he was only asked to co-present Comic Relief because of his role on Doctor Who.

“I don’t imagine I’ll be in the frame for things like that anymore,” he said. “I’m sure in two years’ time they’ll want Matt Smith to do Comic Relief. I suspect I’m just passing through, really.”

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Torchwood star Eve Myles is relishing her most demanding role yet – as proud mum to baby daughter Matilda.

The Ystradgynlais actress gave birth to 6lb 1oz Matilda at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales last month and said she and partner Brad Freegard are “completely over the moon.”

Eve, 31, said: “She is absolutely beautiful and we are obviously totally delighted. She is just the loveliest thing ever.

“Her full name is Matilda Myles Freegard. We’ve wanted a baby for a long time and have had names ready for a boy and a girl for the last three years. I just think it’s very pretty and it really suits her.

“She has beautiful deep blue eyes like her daddy and the longest fingers I’ve ever seen. And she has my huge lips. I was looking at her gums and trying to work out whether there is going to be a gap in her teeth, like mine. I hope so.

“We are just completely in love with her. She is totally, totally amazing.”

And Eve said Matilda, who was born on November 10, has already received goodies and well-wishes from Torchwood fans all over the world, as far as Australia.

Eve said: “I can’t believe how kind people have been. It’s unbelievable. We’ve had gifts for the baby and for me, it’s been so emotional. Our dining room is packed with baby-related things, and scripts that have been sent over the last few weeks that I just haven’t got round to reading.

“To be honest, I’m in no rush to think about work. I’m just enjoying her so much. Brad has been amazing. He’s very hands-on. He took the two weeks before her birth off so that he could be around when she arrived and she was almost on cue.

“It was a very long labour and I’m not going to pretend it was easy because it certainly wasn’t. But it was a natural birth and she was definitely worth it.

“The midwives at UHW were absolutely brilliant, I can’t fault them. Brad and I popped in with the baby to say thank you and took them lots of tea, coffee and treats because they were just so brilliant.”

And Matilda, who has yet to meet her mum’s co-star John Barrowman, is also a hit with the couple’s dog Honey.

Eve said: “We’ve obviously been really careful about letting Honey too close to Matilda but every day she will come over, look into the Moses basket, wag her tail and walk off. She’s always been really placid anyway but we’ve been for lovely walks and she seems very happy with the new arrival.”

Eve, who has been with Brad for almost a decade, said she is relishing the life-changing demands of motherhood and will not worry about work for a while.

She said: “I’m just enjoying every minute, even between 10.30pm and 1.30am when she decides to get the screaming ab dabs. Matilda’s already been to Pontcanna Fields and Dyffryn Gardens but, most importantly, she’s also had her first trip to Marks and Spencer. It’s amazing, motherhood is just great.”

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Doctor Who chief writer Russell T Davies has said he is very proud of the final episodes that mark the end of David Tennant’s reign as the Time Lord.

Davies, who masterminded the sci-fi show’s return in 2005, also said he was no longer sad to be leaving as the show’s producer.

“It’s the end for us, but not the end for Doctor Who,” he told the BBC.

He was speaking before a preview screening of episode one of Tennant’s final story, The End of Time.

“All the sad bits I did when I was writing it, so I got that bit out of my system then. So I could then stand back and laugh while everyone else was blubbing their eyes out,” Davies said.

“I’m very proud of these two episodes,” he said. “Now I simply feel happy to be honest, really happy with what we made.

“We’ve got one or two surprises in store before the episode on New Year’s Day – and it might not be quite what you expect.”

Tennant is being replaced by actor Matt Smith, who will appear as the 11th Doctor next year.

Davies said he was keeping in touch with Steven Moffat, who has taken over as Doctor Who’s chief show-runner.

“He does find time to e-mail me every so often saying it’s all a nightmare, and he’s never been happier in his life,” Davies said.

“I’ve read some of the scripts – they are beyond brilliant – I can’t tell you what thrills and darkness and comedy you’ve got to come.”

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The Christmas Day story on BBC One features the return of Bernard Cribbins, Catherine Tate and John Simm as The Master, the Doctor’s evil nemesis.

“He’s even more insane than before,” Simm said. “There was no limit in the script to how insane he should be. It was a lot of fun to do.”

He added: “I don’t think it’s that scary – I don’t think we’re allowed to scare children on Christmas Day. But I’m not an eight-year-old kid!”

The Life on Mars star said it had been a “real honour” to be asked to come back for the 10th Doctor’s final story.

His words were echoed by comedienne Catherine Tate, who returns as Donna Noble.

“I feel so delighted that I was even part of a bit of it, let alone to have been a companion and also in David’s last two episodes – that’s a real honour.”

Tate said her lack of Doctor Who expertise had been a balance to Tennant’s encyclopaedic knowledge on set.

“He knows a lot and I know nothing, and we meet in the middle happily,” she said.

“I turn up on the day and say: ‘I don’t actually understand what’s happening in this scene,’ and he’ll go: ‘well, it’s a meta-crisis and there’s been some sort of transformation,’ and it means nothing to me.

“But at least I’ve learnt my lines.”

Tate added that she was keen to attend a Doctor Who convention for the first time.

“I hear they’re very exciting and so I would love to go to one. I guess it’s exciting… and a little bit scary. Let’s face it, I’m going to be the person in the room that knows the least.”

The End of Time: Part 1 is on BBC One at 1800 GMT with Part 2 on New Year’s Day at 1840 GMT.

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The Doctor is on his way out.

Oh, there’ll be another one along soon, because that’s the tradition of “Doctor Who.” The world’s longest-running science fiction TV series, it’s featured 10 actors in the title role since 1963.

But for David Tennant, his four-year tenure as a wisecracking 900-year-old “Time Lord” who travels time and space in a 1950s London police call box known as the TARDIS is drawing to a close. His long goodbye continues Saturday as BBC America airs “The Waters of Mars,” the second of his final four “Doctor Who” specials.

“It’s hard, because I’ve genuinely loved doing it,” Tennant said in an interview last summer.

“I’m really proud of what we’ve done. It’s difficult to step away from that. But at the same time, well, better to whilst I’m still loving it, better to leave them wanting more,” he said, “and the show’s in very rude health, so it’s nice to be able to hand that on, to know that we’ve acquitted ourselves well.”

For Americans who may have missed both the original “Doctor Who,” which aired in Britain from 1963-89, or the somewhat slicker revival writer Russell T. Davies has overseen since 2005, it can be difficult to grasp just how important the series has been to generations of Britons, or how popular it’s made Tennant, a 38-year-old Scotsman probably best known in the U.S. for playing Barty Crouch Jr. in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”

“You all are much easier than the British press,” he said after we’d wrapped up our interview, one of a series he was doing that day.

The remark briefly stung — reporters never like to hear they’re easy — until I remembered how closely his personal life gets tracked in Britain, where on vacation a few weeks later, I saw photographs and caricatures of him in the windows of half the souvenir shops I passed.

“Back home … it’s kind of the No. 1 drama,” Tennant said. “It’s nice to feel that we’ve done our job, and we haven’t messed it up.”

It’s also a luxury for an actor looking to move on — Tennant’s reportedly starring in an NBC pilot for a comedy about a Chicago attorney with panic attacks called, “Rex Is Not Your Lawyer.” So other than himself, who’s Tennant’s favorite Doctor?

“It’s a bit like a chick hatching from an egg, isn’t it?” he said. “I think the one you first experience, if you fall in love with the show, you fall in love with that Doctor. So that would’ve been Tom Baker (1974-81) for me, as it would be for many. I mean, he did it for seven years, so he has a certain place in the history of the show. And then Peter Davison (1981-84), I suppose — the two of them were the two” he watched.

Davison also made a brief appearance in Tennant’s “Doctor Who.”

“Peter came and did a little sequence with us, which was fantastic. And that was very odd, for someone who’d grown up watching him, to then be in my TARDIS with him, visiting, in the costume. That was a very peculiar, very exciting moment for me.”

The 11th Doctor, played by 27-year-old Matt Smith, will debut in “Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part Two,” which premieres on BBC America Jan. 2.

He may find Tennant a tough act to follow.

Tennant demurred when asked about a 2006 readers poll in Doctor Who magazine that named him the “best Doctor,” but after four years in the role, the actor, who succeeded Christopher Eccleston in 2005, has clearly left his mark on the character, whose stay in Tennant’s body has been marked by humor, manic energy and a certain sadness.

“I think what Russell has done … with the Doctor, he’s examined what it would mean to be 900-odd years old and what it would mean to be the last of your people. You really feel the genuine effect of that,” Tennant said.

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ITV2 has announced that Billie Piper will feature in a Call Girl special next year.

The one-off sees Piper meet real-life call girl Dr Brooke Magnanti, who wrote the Belle Du Jour story detailing her exploits as a working prostitute in London.

Magnanti said of the special: “This show will be the last word on what it was like to be Belle: how my sexuality was formed, how I came to the work, what it’s like to be portrayed on TV.

“Viewers will get an exclusive look at the real woman who lived as Belle, actually becoming her one final time.”

Piper added: “I am really looking forward to catching up with Belle again.”

Billie and the Call Girl Bare All is expected to air on ITV2 in 2010.

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Actor David Tennant is starring in the new film, St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold, alongside Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding and actor Gemma Arterton. The star reveals he plays the bad guy Lord Pomfrey in the film and he admits he shed a few tears when Doctor Who came to an end.

How did you come to be in St Trinian’s the sequel?

They just asked me really. I didn’t know a great deal about it, but I watched the first one and I thought it was a great deal of fun. In Britain it made enough money for them to go for a sequel, that’s quite something.

That is – but the critics didn’t exactly love it…

Did they not – oh that’s very unfair…it’s just really good fun. It knows exactly what it is and what it’s trying to do. I think it’s great. My nieces when I told them I was doing this shrieked so loud…for girls of a certain age it’s a real hit.

Why do you think that is?

You don’t often see girls being the heroes… the girl’s are very empowered and they look great and really strong. It’s also just really good fun.

You’ve got grey hair for this film?

I think they wanted it to be George Clooney, but its a bit more Phillip Schofield.

So what does your character have to do?

I’m the head of a secret organisation that doesn’t like women – very misogynist and very old school. So it means I’m at odds with…St Trinian’s School. But for complicated plot reasons I won’t go into St Trinian’s and I are set at odds because Miss Fritton the headmistress, played by Rupert Everett, and I have a bit of a family history. I have a secret I can’t allow the girls to find out. Basically I’m the villain – that’s all you need to know.

Do you have any stunts?

I do have to come down on a wire at some point. It’s always good fun…with Doctor Who I got to do a lot of hanging off things and getting blown up. It’s like being in a playground isn’t it?

Where you mates with Rupert Everett?

No I met him for the first time…and Colin Firth as well…and they’re great. Rupert’s quite intimidating as he’s a very tall man in a dress, which draws the eye, but he’s good fun. And Colin’s the most charming man you could hope to meet.

And Doctor Who – have you finished and did you cry?

It was an emotional finish and the final story is very emotional there was crying on and off screen. Until they broadcast, it will still feel like mine.

Are you quite reflective about it?

I didn’t know how I’d feel when they started filming again. There were photos of Matt was in costume and that was the first realisation that it is going on without me. But it was actually quite exciting, I can’t wait to see it.

Will you be watching it at Christmas?

Well I will still be in it, so I will be sitting round with three or four hundred of my closest friends forcing them to watch me on television. That’s what happens on Christmas day.

St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold is in cinemas from December 18.

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Pupils at a London school had a real star to follow in their nativity play – when a former pupil who went on to star in Doctor Who dropped in as the director.

Noel Clarke, who played Mickey Smith in the sci-fi show, returned to St Clement and St James CE School in London, to give the young actors some tips ahead of their big performance.

Pupils aged between seven and 10 watched with wonder as the actor and Kidulthood director led them through acting warm-ups, helped them project their voices and even sat on the floor to join the shepherds and the sheep act out a song.

Clarke, who won the Bafta Rising Star Award earlier this year, said it was at school that he decided he wanted to be an actor – although he couldn’t remember who he played in his own nativity play.

The 34-year-old, who is taking part in a project for the Sky Movies Christmas Channel, which will broadcast the school nativity on Christmas Eve, said: “It’s great to be back, although it’s quite weird obviously. There are kids here that I went to school with their mums, dads and uncles, and there are teaching assistants still here that looked after me when I was five or six.”

Clarke said he was hoping to inspire children who might already be thinking about going into the performing arts.

“When I was that age I wanted to do it and I didn’t even know what it was. I didn’t have anyone to come back and make it fun. Hopefully it will inspire them even if they don’t know how or when.

“Not even just the kids who want to be an actor, maybe there’s a power hungry kid in there that wants to be a director and who was wondering, ‘how did he make everyone shout and jump? I want to do that!’ If I can help inspire them then all good in the hood.”

On his own school days’ acting experience, he said: “I was in a nativity but I don’t remember it at all … I was in Oliver Twist too. I wasn’t Artful Dodger or Oliver or anyone, I was an urchin, but I made sure I stole the show. I remember thinking I didn’t look urchiny enough and tearing my shirt up to make sure I looked a bit poorer.”

The Sky Movies Nativity will be shown on Christmas Eve at 6pm on Sky Movies Christmas Channel.

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