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Doctor Who's David Tennant takes a job practicing American law
Posted by Patrick Sauriol on Tuesday, November 3, 2009
David Tennant is America bound. The Scottish-born actor who's played the Tenth Doctor through four seasons of Doctor Who has accepted the lead role in a new hour-long comedy-drama NBC series called Rex is Not Your Lawyer.
In the show Tennant will play Rex Alexander, a Chicago lawyer who's at the top of his game until he begins experiencing panic attacks. Unable to appear in the courtroom now, Rex starts coaching his clients on how to represent themselves in court.
NBC has ordered a pilot for Rex and will wait and see how Tennant and the show plays before committing to any additional episodes.
Tennant has four more hours yet to be broadcast before handing over the TARDIS key to Matt Smith, the Eleventh Doctor. Tennant's second-to-last Doctor Who two-parter, "The Waters of Mars", will be broadcast on BBC on November 15. During the Christmas season the final two-part episode will be aired. Tennant will also star opposite Star Trek's Simon Pegg in Burke and Hare, playing one-half of a pair of grave robbers in 19th century Scotland.
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mckracken
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Posted: 13 weeks 6 days ago
too bad this'll be on NBC, I'm sure they'll order up a few shows... three to be precise, and then promptly cancel it.
looking forward to Burke and Hare