Hayley Atwell, Gemma Arterton. Film - Never Let Me Go. BBC Radio.

• Hayley Atwell and Gemma Arterton portraits by Matt Jones.
  
  
• Unspoilery screencaps of Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough from the Never Let Me Go trailer (click the thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Tom Hollander will be a guest on Start the Week [link]
• On the Hour, produced by Armando Iannucci, stars Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, and Patrick Marber [link]
• Howard Brenton will be interviewed on Front Row and Night Waves
• Diana Quick, Simon McBurney, Olivia Williams, Clemency Burton-Hill, and Mat Fraser will present episodes of The Essay Half Shame, Half Glory - Postcards from the Acting Profession [link]
• Rebecca Hall was interviewed on The Film Programme [link]

Rebecca Hall, Ruth Wilson, Laura Wade. British Academy Television Awards. BBC Radio.

• Interviews with Rebecca Hall (via Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm) and Ruth Wilson from the Guardian rebecca|ruth
  
  
• Laura Wade interview from the Sheffield Telegraph about Alice [link]
  
  
• British Academy Television Awards
• Selected winners: Julie Walters (leading actress, Mo), Matthew Macfadyen (leading actor, Criminal Justice), and Rebecca Hall (supporting actress, Red Riding 1974). The Thick of It received three awards - female performance in a comedy role (Rebecca Front), male performance in a comedy role (Peter Capaldi), and situation comedy.
• Pictures 1|2|3|4|5|6
• Article from Instyle [link]
• Videos from BAFTA, including a red carpet interview with Ruth Wilson, and an interview with the cast and crew of The Thick of It [link]
• Press release from MAC. Their artists did make up for Romola Garai, Ashley Jensen, and Ruth Wilson. [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Roger Allam and Alex Jennings star in The Idiot (via the AJ Diaries) [link]
• Stephen Mangan reads The Dream Travellers for Big Toe Books [link]
• Juliet Stevenson was interviewed on Loose Ends [link]
  

British Academy Television Craft Awards. Ladybird fairytales. BBC Radio.

• Guests at the British Academy Television Craft Awards included Hayley Atwell, Stephen Mangan, Rebecca Front, Armando Iannucci and Karen Gillan.
• Videos of Hayley Atwell and Stephen Mangan from Leicester Square TV hayley|stephen
• Pictures 1|2|3|4
  
  
• Videos of Toby Stephens, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan, Benedict Cumberbatch and Blake Ritson reading Ladybird fairytales [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Dougray Scott and Lesley Sharp will be guests on Loose Ends [link]
• Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in The Lady in the Lake [link]
• Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Blake's 7 "The Dust Run" [link]

BBC Radio

• Nick Frost and Richard Coyle will be guests on Loose Ends [link]
• Toby Jones and Marina Koem star in the Afternoon Play The Line [link]
• Armando Iannucci presents Facts and Fancies {repeat} [link]
• Toby Jones and David Calder star in the Saturday Play An Inspector Calls [link]
• Marcia Warren, Toby Stephens and Emma Fielding star in Time and the Conways {repeat} [link]
• Dominic Cooper reads A Land Without Magic for Big Toe Books {repeat} [link]

BAFTA TV award nominations

BAFTA TV award nominations include (via the British Comedy Guide):
A Short Stay in Switzerland. Actress (Julie Walters), Single drama.
Small Island. Supporting Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), Drama serial.
Gracie! Supporting Actor (Tom Hollander).
Red Riding: 1974. Supporting Actress (Rebecca Hall).
QI. Entertainment performance (Stephen Fry).
The Thick of It. Female performance in a comedy role (Rebecca Front), Male performance in a comedy role (Peter Capaldi), Situation comedy.

London Film Critics' Circle awards. Television - Downton Abbey. BBC Radio.

[updated 27 February]

• Winners at the London Film Critics' Circle awards include Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche (Screenwriter of the year - In the Loop); Colin Firth (British actor of the year - A Single Man) and Carey Mulligan (British actress of the year - An Education) (via the Telegraph) [link]
• The cast of Downton Abbey includes Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Dan Stevens and Michelle Dockery (via Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column) [link]
• BBC Radio
• Toby Jones and Sheila Reid star in The Wire Life on the Edges [link]
• Elli Wantage, James Frain and Simon Russell Beale star in Friday's Child [link]
• Robin Ellis, Hugh Grant and Sian Phillips star in Cover Her Face [link]
• Tessa Nicholson, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Melissa Advani, Rhys Jennings, Kate Layden and Emerald O'Hanrahan star in Ruby Baby [link]

Entertainment news

• Blog posts by David Morrissey about his BAFTA tour (via David Morrissey Online) [link]
• Bill Nighy stars in Richard Curtis' short film about the Robin Hood Tax [link]
• Carey Mulligan, Emily Mortimer and Nicholas Hoult & Matthew Goode interviews carey|emily|nicholas & matthew
• Measure for Measure
• Anna Maxwell Martin interview [link]
• Photo gallery from Broadway World [link]
• Scans from Total Film about Prince of Persia, starring Gemma Arterton and Jake Gyllenhaal [link]
• Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Jim Sturgess will star in The Promised Land directed by Michael Winterbottom [link] 
• Pictures of Ruth Wilson from the whatsonstage.com awards 1|2|3|4|5|6
• Vanessa Redgrave will receive a BAFTA fellowship [link] 
• Rosamund Pike has been photographed for Temperley London's New York installation [link]
• Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick and Bill Nighy wil star in the romantic comedy The Chalet Girl [link]
• In the Loop
• Won Best Screenplay at the Evening Standard Film Awards [link]
• Download of the screenplay (via AIannucci) [link]

Theatre - The Pride. Lucy Prebble - Theatre - Enron. Samuel West - Narration - Murder on the Lake. Film - Oscar nominations.

• Excerpt from an interview with Alexi Kaye Campbell:
  

  "...Ben Wishaw [sic] has an incredible mercurial quality, which is just so perfect for that part of Oliver. Hugh Dancy is brilliant and brings a quiet intensity to the part he plays. I've seen Andrea Riseborough on stage a lot in Britain and she's a wonderful talent and her work as Sylvia is excellent. And Adam James, who completes the cast, is a great actor with a real gift for comedy."

• Lucy will be on Start the Week next Monday [link]
• Sam has narrated Murder on the Lake (via his Twitter) [link]
• Films which have been nominated for Oscars include:
  A Single Man. Actor in a leading role (Colin Firth).
  An Education. Actress in a leading role (Carey Mulligan), Best Picture, Writing (adapted screenplay - Nick Hornby).
  In the Loop. Writing (adapted screenplay - Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche).

Entertainment news

• Two promos for The Ricky Gervais Show [link]
  
• The AFI awards will take place in Sydney from 2011 [link]
• SAG awards winners [link]
• Billie Piper, Alexandra Silber, Colin Firth, Edgar Wright, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai interviews billie|alexandra|colin|edgar|saoirse|romola
• Alfred Hitchcock is mentioned in the Independent's feature "100 years of movies" [link]
• Romola Garai and Matthew Goode announced (via Capturing Romola) the BAFTA film awards nominations, which include:
  An Education. Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Director (Lone Scherfig), Adapted Screenplay (Nick Hornby), Leading Actress (Carey Mulligan), Supporting Actor (Alfred Molina), Costume Design (Odile Dicks-Mireaux), Make Up and Hair (Lizzie Yianni Georgiou).
  In the Loop. Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche).
  A Single Man. Leading Actor (Colin Firth).
• The Australian film Animal Kingdom has won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance [link]
• Ralph Myers will be the next artistic director of Company B Belvoir in Sydney [link]

Entertainment news

• Billie Piper, Simon Russell Beale and Colin Firth & Tom Ford interviews billie|simon|colin & tom
  
• Golden Globes
• Winners [link]
• Martin Scorsese's acceptance speech [link]
  
• Carey Mulligan received the best actress award at the National Board of Review gala (via Just Jared); she has been included in Life magazine's Oscar hopefuls portraits; and she has been nominated for the Orange Rising Star Bafta Award.
• The Pride, starring Hugh Dancy, Ben Whishaw, Andrea Riseborough and Adam James is featured in Broadway Beat [link]
• Article about Mahler by Armando Iannucci (via AIannucci) [link]
  
• Red Riding will have a limited release in New York [link]
• Article about The King's Speech [link]

Entertainment news

• Extract from the book Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies by Michael Adams [link]
  
• Articles about Christmas Cranford 1|2
• London Film Critics' Circle awards
• Nominations [link]
  
• Films which have received nominations include:
  In the Loop. British film of the year, British director of the year (Armando Iannucci), British actor of the year (Peter Capaldi), Screenwriter of the year (Armando Iannucci et al.), Breakthrough British filmmaker (Armando Iannucci).
  An Education. British film of the year, Actress of the year (Carey Mulligan), British actress of the year (Carey Mulligan), British actor in a supporting role (Alfred Molina), British actress in a supporting role (Rosamund Pike), British actress in a supporting role (Olivia Williams), Screenwriter of the year (Nick Hornby).
  A Single Man. British actor of the year (Colin Firth).
  Good. British actor in a supporting role (Jason Isaacs).
  
• John Simm; Kristin Scott Thomas; Gemma Arterton and Carey Mulligan, Vera Farmiga, Mo'Nique, Patricia Clarkson, Robin Wright and Emily Blunt interviews john|kristin|gemma|carey, vera, mo'nique, patricia, robin, emily
  
• A Single Man
• Article about the film from the Independent [link]
• Matthew Goode interview (via ONTD) [link]
  
• Screen Actors Guild award nominees include Colin Firth (A Single Man, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role), Carey Mulligan (An Education, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role), the cast of An Education (Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture), Jon Hamm (Mad Men, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series), Toni Collette (United States of Tara, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series) and the cast of Mad Men (Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series) [link]
• Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Christoph Waltz will star in The Talking Cure directed by David Cronenberg [link]

Entertainment news

• An Education
• Carey Mulligan interviews 1|2
  
• Article about the film's production design [link]
• Carey Mulligan will receive the Chopin Virtuosos award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival [link]
• John Simm will star in Hamlet at the Sheffield Crucible (via SimmSpotting) [link]
  
• Martin Freeman, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Matthew Goode, Damian Lewis and Kelly Reilly interviews martin|colin|jodie|julian|matthew|damian|kelly
• Golden Globe nominations include Colin Firth (A Single Man) for Best actor in a motion picture (drama) and Carey Mulligan (An Education) for Best actress in a motion picture (drama) [link]
• In the Loop
• Won Best Comedy Film at the British Comedy awards [link]
• Peter Capaldi Late Late Show interview 1|2
  
• Shutter Island will be shown at the Berlinale [link]
• Carey Mulligan and Samantha Morton are on Screen Daily's list of new talent of 2009 [link]
• Samantha Morton has become an honorary associate of the London Film School [link]
  
• Julian Fellowes will write the pilot script for The Vanderbilts (via Televisionary) [link]
• Julianne Moore will receive the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival [link]
• A review of Stanley Kubrick: The Film that Never Was [link]
• A Single Man and Mad Men are in the AFI's top ten productions in film and television [link]
• Romola Garai will play Masha in Three Sisters at the Lyric Hammersmith from 25 January to 20 February 2010. Previews are from 15 January. [link]

Ruth Wilson, Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson. British Independent Film Awards. Radio - The Custom of the Country.

[updated 11 December]

• Excerpt from a Ruth interview about her film project with Hayley and Emma:

  "...Wilson has got together a stellar team of women writers, directors and actresses and the idea, cooked up with fellow actress Hayley Atwell, is to produce a feature film made up of shorts by and for women. 'Seven writers and seven directors, all women,' she says, reeling off names. 'Some of the women who are keen to direct are Rachel Weisz, Gillian Anderson, Tara Fitzgerald. Emma Thompson is going to mentor the writers and Susanna White, who directed Jane Eyre, will work with the directors...'"

• The British Independent Film Awards
  
• Links about Rosamund Pike's outfit and makeup 1|2|3
• elizabethtoni's arrival's videos (featuring Hayley Atwell, Gemma Arterton; Jason Isaacs, Carey Mulligan, Armando Iannucci; Peter Capaldi, David Morrissey; and Rosamund Pike) 1|2|3|4
• Some videos from t5m jason isaacs|rosamund pike
• Article from the Independent [link]
  
• Dan Stevens and Tom Hollander star in The Custom of the Country, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 3 January [link]

British Independent Film Awards winners. Film - An Education. Film - In the Loop. Theatre - Darker Shores. BBC Radio.

[updated 9 December]

• The British Independent Film Awards
• Winners include Armando Iannucci et al for Best Screenplay (In the Loop) and Carey Mulligan for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film (An Education). The full list of winners is here.
• Pictures - guests included Peter Capaldi, Carey Mulligan, Gemma Arterton, Andrew Buchan, David Morrissey, Armando Iannucci, Rosamund Pike, Hayley Atwell and Jason Isaacs 1|2|3|4|5
  
• Tom Goodman-Hill has replaced Mark Gatiss in Darker Shores at the Hampstead Theatre. The play also stars Julian Rhind-Tutt, Vinette Robinson and Pamela Miles [link]
• BBC Radio
• Jason Isaacs narrates "Exchange Rates" by Lionel Shriver [link]
  
• Bill Nighy stars in The Entertainer [link]
• Romola Garai and Tim McMullan are the readers for Words and Music "Hope and Despair" [link]
• Katherine Parkinson, Ciaran McMenamin and Jemma Redgrave narrate the Afternoon Reading Defining Moments [link]
• Nicholas Le Prevost, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Peter Serafinowicz star in In the Red [link]

Television - Lennon Naked. Andrea Riseborough. Ruth Wilson - Television - Small Island. BBC Radio.

• Christopher Eccleston, Naoko Mori, Claudie Blakley, Rory Kinnear and Andrew Scott will star in the BBC4 one-off drama Lennon Naked [link]
• Andrea organised some performances at a Stepney pub for the launch of an arts charity [link]
• BBC Radio
• Ruth will promote Small Island on Loose Ends [link]
• Peter Capaldi and Emily Bruni will be doing Words and Music [link]
• Afternoon Plays
• Stephen Mangan and Rebecca Front star in Grey Expectations [link]
• Timothy Spall and Amanda Root star in A Dangerous Thing [link]
  
• Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front and David Schneider star in Knowing Me, Knowing You produced by Armando Iannucci [link]
  
• Stephen Fry and John Bird star in Absolute Power [link]

Entertainment news

• An unseen Charlie Chaplin film was bought for a bargain on eBay [link]
  
• David Tennant will star in the NBC pilot Rex is Not Your Lawyer [link]
• In the Loop won three Scottish BAFTAs - best director (Armando Iannucci), best writing (Armando Ianucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell) and best actor (Peter Capaldi) [link]
• Gerard Butler will star in Ralph Fiennes' contemporary reworking of Coriolanus [link]
  
• Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Emily Mortimer attended a screening of The Red Shoes in New York [link]
  
• Sally Hawkins, Juno Temple and William H. Macy will star in Abe Sylvia's feature directorial debut Dirty Girl [link]
• Glorious 39
• Article about the London Film Festival premiere's afterparty [link]
  
• Walsingham Abbey is one of the locations in the film [link]
• Ben Whishaw, Stephen Fry, Tom Sturridge, Charles Dance and Dominic Cooper interviews ben|stephen|tom|charles|dominic
• Wonderful blog post from Shadowplay about Vertigo (via Self-Styled Siren) [link]
• Michael Fassbender and Forest Whitaker will star in A Single Shot, a thriller directed by David Jacobson [link]
  
• Romola Garai's "My Week" from the Guardian [link]
• Georgia, starring Rupert Friend, Richard Coyle and Emmanuelle Chriqui, has begun filming [link]
  
• Martin Scorsese believes Blu-Ray is good [link]
• Dominic Cooper will star in The Devil's Double [link]

Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Television - The Thick of It. BBC Radio.

• Hattie Morahan joins the previously announced Ruth Wilson and Anna Maxwell-Martin in the 24 Hour Plays [link]
• The Thick of It
• Rebecca Front and Billy Sneddon interviews rebecca|billy
• Positive reviews of series 3 episode 1 1|2
• Armando Iannucci's "My Week" from the Guardian [link]
  
• BBC Radio
• Lia Williams, Hugh Bonneville and Katherine Parkinson star in the Drama on 3 The Lady From the Sea [link]
  
• Khalid Abdalla, Stephen Campbell Moore and Michael Pennington narrate the Afternoon Reading Tales From the Low Countries [link]
• The Richest Man in Britain is a sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith starring Mark Williams and Russell Tovey. Rosamund Pike is in the last episode of the series. [link]
• Penny Downie, Claudie Blakley and Daniela Denby-Ashe star in Ring Around the Bath [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt narrates Bulldog Drummond [link]
• Rory Kinnear, Louise Brealey and Tom Goodman-Hill star in Fair Stood The Wind For France [link]
• Simon Russell Beale narrates, and David Haig, Hugh Bonneville and Joanna Scanlon star in Leaving [link]

British Independent Film Awards nominations. Television - The First Men In The Moon. Hattie Morahan, Ruth Wilson, Samuel West.

• British Independent Film Awards
  
• Nominations [link]
• Jasons Isaacs and Solomon discussed the nominations on Film Weekly [link]
  
• Films which have received nominations include:
  In the Loop. Best British Independent Film, Best Director of a British Independent Film (Armando Iannucci), The Douglas Hickox Award (Armando Iannucci), Best Screenplay (Armando Iannucci et al), Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film (Peter Capaldi), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Hollander).
  An Education. Best British Independent Film, Best Director of a British Independent Film (Lone Scherfig), Best Screenplay (Nick Hornby), Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film (Carey Mulligan), Best Supporting Actress (Rosamund Pike), Best Supporting Actor (Alfred Molina).
  
• Mark Gatiss and Rory Kinnear will star in the BBC4 one-off drama The First Men In The Moon [link]
• Guests at the Mrs Klein afterparty include Hattie Morahan, Blake Ritson, Bill Paterson and Lisa Dillon [link]
• Mention of Ruth from an interview with Small Island co-star Naomie Harris:
  

  "What was the last play you saw in London?
  A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse. My mate Ruth Wilson, who is in Small Island with me, was phenomenal. It moved me so much that I was crying like a baby."

• A tweet from Dan Wooller about Sam and Enron co-star Tom Goodman-Hill:
  

  @saturngirl thought it was fab, follow @exitthelemming and @tgoodmanh who are in the cast and jolly nice #enron

Television - The Thick of It. BBC Radio.

• The Thick of It
• Articles from the Independent (via AIannucci) and the Times independent|times
• Peter Capaldi interview from the Guardian [link]
  
• Rebecca Front Woman's Hour and GQ interviews woman's hour|gq
• Armando Iannucci interview from the Telegraph [link]
  
• Screencaps from the trailer (click thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Jason Isaacs and Lou Hirsch star in the Saturday Play Bullitt [link]
  
• Ruth Wilson, Harry Lloyd and Russell Tovey star in the Drama on 3 The Promise [link]

Entertainment news

• Mao's Last Dancer took AUS$4.3 million in its opening week to become the highest-grossing Australian film so far this year [link]
  
• Christina Hendricks and Michael Sheen interviews christina|michael
• Colin Firth will receive the BAFTA/LA humanitarian award [link]
• Damian Lewis, Tara Fitzgerald, Keira Knightley and Dominic Rowan will star in a modern day version of The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre 7 December - 13 March 1|2
  
• Pictures from the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus UK premiere 1|2|3
• The Thick of It
• A picture (via AIannucci) [link]
• Screencaps of Peter Capaldi and Rory Kinnear from the teaser (click thumbnails for full size):