And the Zelig prize for most ubiquitous actor goes to ...

Which actor cropped up most often in original material on the telly during Christmas 2009? It's probably a toss up between:

• David Tennant (Doctor Who: The End of Time, Hamlet, The Christmas Bear, QI, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, The Catherine Tate Show: Nan's Christmas Carol, The Graham Norton Show sole guest, the BBC One Christmas 2009 ident); and
  


• Rob Brydon (Would I Lie to You? clippings review of 2009, Gavin and Stacey, The Gruffalo, QI, The One Show, Breakfast Show guest, The Graham Norton Show guest, Big Fat Quiz of the Year, Steve Coogan: The Inside Story).
  

I reckon David Tennant takes it by a long quiff, as Rob Brydon has been a guest on other people's shows more often than not. The BBC seem to have been treating Mr Tennant's departure from Doctor Who like Andrew Flintoff's 2009 farewell tour of English Test grounds during this year's Ashes series.

Mr Tennant has been everywhere, and now apparently he is trying to make it big in the USA, witness a recent pilot show for a legal series Stateside called Rex is Not Your Lawyer, and a general invitation to 'come and hire him' to LA producers.

This may well work, as his legacy playing the good Doctor will go before him. Perhaps he'll be the next Hugh Laurie, and maybe even Woody Allen will give him a starring role.