{"id":36423,"date":"2022-09-26T12:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/?p=36423"},"modified":"2022-09-26T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:02:21","slug":"david-tennant-says-steven-moffats-inside-man-is-not-really-like-anything-else-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2022\/09\/26\/david-tennant-says-steven-moffats-inside-man-is-not-really-like-anything-else-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"David Tennant Say&#8217;s Steven Moffat&#8217;s Inside Man Is &#8220;Not Really Like Anything Else&#8221; on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div>\n<p>Steven Moffat&#8217;s new drama, <em>Inside Man<\/em>, starts tonight (26th September 2022), and you&#8217;ll probably want to know what it&#8217;s actually about. So how would lead man, David Tennant, describe it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, he&#8217;s not terribly helpful&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tennant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/david-tennant-inside-man-exclusive-newsupdate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m allowed to tell you. It\u2019s very hard to describe \u2013 I know that much. It\u2019s not really like anything else I\u2019ve seen, and yet it\u2019s very recognisably Steven. But \u2013 it\u2019s really hard to describe! There are all these very disparate elements that he brings together in his usual brilliant, entirely unexpected way.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, the dialogue in the trailer &#8212; like &#8220;Everyone\u2019s a murderer \u2013 you just need a good reason and a bad day&#8221; &#8212; feels very Moffat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside Man | Brand New Trailer \ud83d\udd25 BBC\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cj_qFctViCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Inside Man<\/em> features Tennant as Harry Watling, a vicar whose life intertwines with that of Jefferson Grieff, a prisoner on death row, played by Stanley Tucci; of journalist, Beth Davenport (<em>It&#8217;s a Sin<\/em>&#8216;s Lydia West); and of Janice Fife, a maths teacher (Dolly Wells), trapped in a cellar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, Moffat has worked with Tennant before on <em>Doctor Who<\/em> and Wells on <em>Dracula<\/em>, while West was rumoured to be playing the Fourteenth Doctor, a role that instead went to Ncuti Gatwa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tennant went on to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;I just read the script and wanted to be part of it, it\u2019s very particular to Steven Moffat\u2019s brain. When you read that first episode it\u2019s hugely intriguing. These two very distinct storylines are both entirely plausible, textured and fascinating in themselves and they are running side by side. It\u2019s very difficult I think to immediately imagine how they will ever come together on different sides of the world, for these characters living entirely separate existence, they couldn\u2019t seem to be more different.<\/p><p>&#8220;Yet as an audience we assume there must be some link but really we\u2019re quite far into the story before those links start to appear. It\u2019s part of the set- up of the sort of puzzle of that along with the almost breath-taking awfulness of what occurs, the incremental steps to doom that Harry takes, the unravelling of normality. Steven described it as a sitcom that goes terribly wrong.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Inside Man<\/em> begins tonight (26th September 2022) on BBC1 at 9pm, and continues tomorrow night; it will then be available in iPlayer, and on Netflix for international viewers at a later date.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drama, written by Steven Moffat, begins tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"David Tennant Say's Steven Moffat's #InsideMan Is \"Not Really Like Anything Else\" on TV","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[205],"tags":[44,5205,6880,6283,6640,4092,101,49],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/David-Tennant-Inside-Man.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35179,"url":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2022\/06\/04\/steven-moffat-teases-upcoming-shows-with-peter-capaldi-and-david-tennant\/","url_meta":{"origin":36423,"position":0},"title":"Steven Moffat Teases Upcoming Shows with Peter Capaldi and David Tennant","author":"Jonathan Appleton","date":"4 June 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Listen to your nightmares...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Steven-Moffat.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Steven-Moffat.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Steven-Moffat.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Steven-Moffat.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Steven-Moffat.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14109,"url":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2018\/01\/18\/steven-moffat-reveals-his-plan-for-doctor-who-if-david-tennant-had-stayed-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":36423,"position":1},"title":"Steven Moffat Reveals His Plan For Doctor Who If David Tennant Had Stayed On","author":"Andrew Reynolds","date":"18 January 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In the second of three exclusive interviews with Doctor Who: The Fan Show, Steven Moffat has given us a tantalising glimpse of what his first series as showrunner might have been like if he had managed to persuade David Tennant to stay on as the Doctor. 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