Doctor Who dynasty backs Labour re-election

Doctor Who dynasty backs Labour re-election (Image credit: PA)

Former Doctor Who star David Tennant and actor Sean Pertwee are the face and voice of a new Labour Party election commercial. Sean, son of the late Jon Pertwee, also a former Doctor Who, walks along a country road exhorting voters not to leave the road to recovery from recession the Government has undertaken. In a voiceover, Tennant echoes Labour's pledge to 'build a Britain that's fair for all of us'. Watch the commercial:

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.