Television - Downton Abbey. Rosamund Pike. Film - Barney's Version. Theatre - Deathtrap. Film - Never Let Me Go. BBC Radio.

• Downton Abbey
• Dan Stevens posted a twitpic of the poster (via his Twitter, @thatdanstevens) [link]
• The production will be featured in upcoming issues of Tatler and Vogue [link]
  
  
• Rosamund will be featured in the October 2010 issue of Harper's Bazaar (UK) [link]
• Article about Barney's Version from the Wall Street Journal [link]
  
  
• Pictures from Deathtrap 1|2
  
  
• Clip from Never Let Me Go featuring Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Damian Lewis, Greta Scacchi, and Derek Jacobi star in the Drama on 3 Giovanni's Room [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt reads the Book of the Week Story teller: The Life of Roald Dahl [link]
• Celia Imrie and Toby Jones star in the Classic Serial My Family and Other Animals [link]
• Stephen Merchant will be interviewed by Harry Shearer on Chain Reaction [link]

Concerns about the BBC published in the Observer

People such as Hugh Bonneville, Peter Capaldi, Romola Garai, Stephen Mangan, Stephen Merchant, David Tennant, Harriet Walter and Sam West have signed a letter to the Observer regarding their concerns about Tory attitudes towards the BBC (via the Guardian) [link]

Entertainment news

• Production for Happy Feet 2 will take place in Sydney [link]
• Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth are in Vanity Fair's Hollywood Portfolio which is in the March 2010 issue (via ONTD). Carey is also on the cover with people such as Rebecca Hall and Mia Wasikowska (via Just Jared).
  
• Shutter Island and Red Hill will screen at the Berlin International Film Festival [link]
• Damian Lewis, Michael Adams, Rebecca Hall and Toby Schmitz interviews damian|michael|rebecca|toby
• Cemetery Junction poster (via gervsmerchpilk) and trailer poster|trailer
• John Malkovich will star in The Infernal Comedy at the Barbican next year [link]
• Bill Nighy will guest star in the next series of Doctor Who, in an episode written by Richard Curtis (via The Medium is Not Enough) [link]
• Information for BAFTA's David Morrissey on tour from David's official website [link]
• Marion Potts will be the next artistic director of the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne 1|2
• Casting for the miniseries adaptation of Cloudstreet [link]

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

• Clips:
  
• New Moon, featuring Michael Sheen as Aro [link]
• Bright Star, featuring Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider and Abbie Cornish [link]
  
• Colin Firth will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Outstanding Performance Of The Year Award for A Single Man [link]
• Article by Samantha Morton from the Guardian [link]
  
• Noah Taylor and Sally Hawkins have been cast in Submarine, starring Michael Sheen and Paddy Considine [link]
• Steven Soderbergh, John Simm, Jane Campion, Matt Damon and Colin Firth interviews steven|john|jane|matt|colin
  
• Ricky Gervais will host the Golden Globes [link]
• Woody Allen's latest film has a title, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. The film stars Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins and Fenella Woolgar. [link]
• Video of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant promoting the Hollywood Disabilities Forum [link]
  
• Upcoming plays by Laura Wade include Alice (Sheffield) and Posh (Royal Court) 1|2

Entertainment news

• Mad Men has been renewed for a fourth season [link]
  
• Daniel Craig will star in the film Dream House which will be directed by Jim Sheridan [link]
  
• Andrew Buchan, Jon Hamm, Zooey Deschanel, Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant and Joseph Gordon-Levitt interviews andrew|jon|zooey|ricky & stephen|joseph
  
• Boardwalk Empire, starring Steve Buscemi and Kelly Macdonald, has been picked up for 11 episodes. The pilot was directed by Martin Scorsese. [link]
  
• Stephen Frears will direct Tamara Drewe, starring Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper and Tamsin Greig [link]
• Scans from Nylon about Mad Men, Entourage and The Prisoner 1|2
• Quentin Tarantino will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film [link]
• A picture of Michael Sheen as Aro from New Moon [link]
• Coriolanus, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, has been selected for International Financing Forum (IFF) which will take place during the Toronto International Film Festival [link]
• Article about the Australian International Movie Convention from the Australian [link]

Entertainment news

• Article from the Guardian about film noir [link]
• Samantha Morton, Dominic West and Polly Walker have joined the film John Carter of Mars [link]
• Inception teaser trailer (via empireonline) [link]
• Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant introduce The Office retrospective [link]
• Matthew Weiner and Quentin Tarantino interviews matthew|quentin
• In the Loop:
• A deleted scene [link]
• Montage of Malcolm Tucker sweariness [link]
• Mike Nichols will direct and Joe Penhall will write Deep Water, an adaptation of the 1957 Patricia Highsmith novel [link]
• Shutter Island's release has been delayed until February 2010. A trailer for the film is here. [link]
• People who will be attending the Toronto Film Festival include Ben Whishaw, Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan, Clive Owen, Dominic Cooper, Emily Mortimer, Michael Sheen, Romola Garai, Rupert Friend, Samantha Morton and Tilda Swinton. [link]

Entertainment news

• Hilarious Cemetery Junction teaser featuring Ralph Fiennes, Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais [link]
  
• Old films need a new marketing makeover [link]
  
• BBC4 will have tribute nights for Harold Pinter and Simon Gray this weekend [link]
  
• Rich Sommer, Audrey Tautou, Ang Lee, Quentin Tarantino and Bill Nighy interviews rich|audrey|ang|quentin|bill
  
• Matt Smith has started filming his episodes of Doctor Who [link]
  
• Season 6 of Entourage
• A couple of videos 1|2
• Matt Damon will have a cameo [link]
• Bright Star trailer [link]
• Article about the upcoming Star Trek DVD release [link]
• Emmy nominations [link]

Entertainment news

• Terry Gilliam is going to have another go at bringing Don Quixote to the big screen [link]
• Another cast and director change for the film adaptation of Wuthering Heights - Ed Westwick and Gemma Arterton will star as Heathcliff and Cathy, and Peter Webber will direct [link]
• Martin Scorsese will direct a Frank Sinatra biopic [link]
• David Tennant will be the new host of Masterpiece Contemporary [link]
• Info about the three upcoming Torchwood radio plays [link]
• Tilda Swinton, January Jones, Matt Smith, Samantha Morton and Peter Hall interviews tilda|january|matt|samantha|peter
• Mary and Max won the AniMovie section at the 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film [link]
• Articles about Martin Scorsese and The Red Shoes 1|2
  
• Matthew Goode will star in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's film Cemetery Junction [link]
• Monica Bleibtreu (Hilde, 4 Minutes) has died of cancer [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Robert Redford will receive Promax/BDA's Lifetime Achievement Award [link]
• Andrew Garfield, Richard Armitage and Hermione Norris will be presenting at the BAFTA TV awards. Nominees include Andrea Riseborough and Jason Isaacs. [link]
  
• Ruined by Lynn Nottage won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama [link]
• Toby Kebbell has joined the cast of The Sorcerer's Apprentice as Drake Stone, a celebrity illusionist [link]
• Boardwalk Empire (starring Steve Buscemi and Kelly Macdonald) and Legally Mad (starring Hugh Bonneville and Charity Wakefield) are mentioned in an article about upcoming pilots (via ONTD) [link]
• Kevin Smith is going to perform at the Carnegie Hall in June [link]
• Felicity Jones will star in Ricky Gervais' film The Men at the Pru. Gervais is writing, directing and producing with Stephen Merchant. [link]
• Pictures of Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan on the set of Never Let Me Go [link]
• Mary and Max has recorded the highest second weekend for an Australian film for 2009 [link]
• In the Loop
• The film had a solid opening weekend at the UK box office [link]
• Positive review from the Independent [link]
• Will be screened at Tribeca [link]
  
• Matthew Macfadyen will play the sheriff of Nottingham in the new Robin Hood movie [link]
• The EMD cinema, in north-east London, which Alfred Hitchcock frequented when he was a child, is facing closure [link]
• Charlie Kaufman interview [link]
• Article about la nouvelle vague [link]
• Bond 23 update from producer Michael G. Wilson [link]
• Joseph Morgan and Stephen Campbell Moore will star in a miniseries adaptation of Ben Hur [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Daniel Evans will be artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, which will be reopening later this year [link]
• In the Loop
• Peter Capaldi interview from The Daily Mayo podcast (9 April) [link]
• Webisodes from Empire [link]
  
• Article from the Guardian [link]
• Clips from the Independent 1|2|3|4
  
• The film will be reviewed on Front Row 14 April [link]
• Leighton Meester, Dylan Moran, Emily Mortimer, Jason Isaacs and Amy Adams interviews leighton|dylan|emily|jason|amy
• Ralph Fiennes has joined the cast of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's new comedy The Men At The Pru [link]
  
• BFI Southbank's James Bond season is featured on this week's Film Weekly podcast [link]
• Skellig
• John Simm interviews 1|2
• Kelly Macdonald interviews 1|2
  
• Tim Roth interviews 1|2
  
• Public Enemies, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Cherrybomb trailers public enemies|hbp|cherrybomb
• The Australian film Beneath Hill 60 will receive funding from Screen Australia (via transmission) [link]
• Article from the Guardian about the brilliantly underrated Buster Keaton [link]
  

Film & TV news

• Interviews with Emily Mortimer 1|2
• Episode 5 of Simon Pegg's video blog from the Guardian [link]
• United Artists is having financial problems [link]
• Interview with Ben Whishaw [link]
• Interview with Rob Shearman, Paul Cornell and James Moran (via the pen is mightier than the spork) [link]
• Stephen Merchant being fabulous on Kimmel [link]
• Article by Catherine Tate from the Guardian (via ONTD) [link]
• Interview with Tilda Swinton (via ONTD) [link]
• Interview with Ricky Gervais [link]
  

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