Beyond the TARDIS

A round-up of what the cast and crew of Doctor Who have been up to away from the series…

COMPILED BY DOMINIC MAY

DAVID’S PROJECTS

■ David Tennant has now completed playing Cale Erendreich in Oregon-set movie Bad Samaritan. David stars in the RD Laing biopic Mad to Be Normal, which will be screened at the Glasgow Film Festival’s red carpet Closing Gala on 26 February. He also narrated BBC One’s Spy in the Wild until 9 February and featured on C4’s The Last Leg on 27 January. He’ll be promoting his Don Juan in Soho West End return from 17 March and Chris Chibnall’s third and final Broadchurch series, expected to begin on ITV from 27 February, in which he plays DI Alec Hardy with Arthur Darvill as Reverend Paul Coates. Chibnall’s play Worst Wedding Ever tours until 1 April.

Billie Piper in City of Tiny Lights.

SHERLOCK AVERSION

■ For a second successive year Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ Sherlock was most-watched programme over the festive season, with a consolidated rating of 11.33 million. Mark, who replied in verse to a Guardian critic’s review (tinyurl.com/MarkPoem), played the Prince Regent in BBC One’s Taboo. An appearance by Steven on Moscow’s Channel One was postponed by BBC Worldwide after the Sherlock finale, The Final Problem, leaked onto the internet in Russia a day before its UK broadcast.