Samuel West - Television - New Tricks. Ruth Wilson. Television - Small Island. Theatre - A Streetcar Named Desire. Hayley Atwell.

• Sam guest stars in "Fresh Starts," episode 3 of series 6 of New Tricks. It will be broadcast Thursday 30 July on BBC1 at 9pm [link]
  
• The BBC press office has released some clips for BBC1 Autumn 2009. Here are screencaps of Ruth from the Small Island teaser (click thumbnails for full size):
  
• A Ruth interview from the Spectator is here. It's mostly about A Streetcar Named Desire but there is a mention of the film festival she's working on with Hayley Atwell and Emma Thompson:
  
  

  "'...We started talking about it last year and formulated the idea of commissioning a series of short films written by women and directed by women. It's not that we want to ostracise men — we love them — but we want to celebrate women and what they can achieve. There still aren't enough good roles for women, especially when you get beyond a certain age, and there certainly aren't enough women writers and directors. It's the writing we're really keen on, concentrating on that, making sure they're good scripts. We're looking for people through the Script Factory and the Royal Court, and the plan is to have six shorts, each about 15 to 20 minutes long, that are connected by a single theme and can be distributed as one film.'
  Does she intend to take part in any of these films herself? 'Devising and producing is already a huge undertaking but I wouldn’t mind performing in one...'"

Tags: Samuel West, TV, Ruth Wilson, Hayley Atwell, theatre, film, television, Sam West, New Tricks, BBC1, Small Island, Benedict Cumberbatch, A Streetcar Named Desire, Emma Thompson, Script Factory, Royal Court

Andrea Riseborough - Film - Brighton Rock. Television - Small Island. Ruth Wilson - Television - The Prisoner. Theatre - Enron.

• Brighton Rock is featured in Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column [link]
  
• Small Island will be broadcast Sunday 6 December on BBC1 [link]
• Ruth interview from from interviewmagazine.com, and a Q&A from The Prisoner's official site interviewmagazine|AMC
• Enron will be featured in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair. Tweets from Sam West, Tom Goodman-Hill and photographer Jason Bell are below.
  @exitthelemming:

  With @tgoodmanh at Enron Vanity Fair photoshoot. Or in Enron's case Vanity, Unfair.

  @tgoodmanh:

  On my way to #Enron Vanity Fair photoshoot. I think that means I'm officially a slut.
  
  Re; #Enron Vanity Fair photoshoot. Leg's gone to sleep. Also brain.
  
  #Enron photoshoot for Vanity Fair a great experience in the brilliant hands of @jasonbellphoto Dead legs aside that was full-on rock'n'roll.

  
  @jasonbellphoto:

  Interesting Twitter conundrum. Would love to talk about the Vanity Fair shoot I did today but before publication I guess I am not meant to
  
  But interesting coz those I shot are already tweeting about it. I will say Tom was lovely and yes Tom I know you're reading this....

Television - Small Island. Women in Film and Television Awards. Hayley Atwell - Theatre - A View From the Bridge. Theatre - Arcadia.

• Articles about Small Island telegraph|independent
• Guests at the Women in Film and Television Awards included Romola Garai, Hayley Atwell and Toby Stephens [link]
• Nominees for the whatsonstage.com Awards include Hayley Atwell for Best Supporting Actress in a Play (A View From the Bridge) and the cast of Arcadia for The Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Award for Best Ensemble Performance [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]

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

Ruth Wilson - Television - Small Island. Rosamund Pike - Film - Barney's Version. Andrea Riseborough - Film - Brighton Rock. BBC Radio.

Ruth Wilson attended the International Emmy Awards on 22 November (via Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm). Winners included Small Island (TV movie/mini-series) and Helena Bonham Carter (Enid; Best Performance by an Actress). Pictures: the Telegraph, Rex Features, Getty (press room and arrivals) and WireImage.

Screencaps of Rosamund Pike from the Barney's Version trailer (click thumbnails for full size):



Interviews with Andrea Riseborough from askmen.com and Movieline, and screencaps of her from the Brighton Rock trailer (click thumbnails for full size):



BBC Radio

• Sam West reads the Oscar Wilde poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" {repeat}
• Juliet Stevenson and David Haig star in the Afternoon Play The End of the Alphabet {repeat}
• Bill Nighy stars in A Charles Paris Mystery: Murder in the Title
• Harry Lloyd reads the Afternoon Reading story "Window Washer"
• Tom Goodman-Hill, Derek Jacobi and Harriet Walter star in the Classic Serial I, Claudius 
• Ricky Gervais will be interviewed on Front Row
• John Sessions and Alex Jennings star in series 2 of Electric Ink

Television - Small Island

The Small Island press pack is here at the BBC Press Office, and includes interviews with Ruth Wilson, Benedict Cumberbatch and author Andrea Levy.

Ruth Wilson - Television - Small Island

From Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column:

"Watch out for...

David Oyelowo, Naomie Harris, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ruth Wilson, who lead the TV drama based on Andrea Levy's novel Small Island.

The drama has a series of intertwining tales about Jamaican Gilbert Joseph, who joins the RAF and fights for Britain during WWII. Later, his wife Hortense joins him in the UK.

'Gilbert tries to settle in Britain after the war and it's like: "Oh, are you still here?" That's the sense he gets from the Brits, even though he was in the war,' Mr Oyelowo told me during a break from rehearsals.

Filming begins next week on locations in Belfast and London."

Ruth Wilson - Television - Small Island. Theatre - Chekhov celebration. Theatre - Guardian article.

[updated 3 December]

• Ruth interview from TV Choice [link]
• Simon Russell Beale and Rosamund Pike will take part in the Chekhov celebration at the Hampstead Theatre (via officiallondontheatre) [link]
• A Guardian article about theatre this year includes quotes from Sam West, Rupert Goold, Amanda Drew, Simon Russell Beale, Lucy Prebble, Rory Kinnear and Hayley Atwell. Simon Russell Beale, Lucy Prebble, and Hayley Atwell are also featured in a related video article|video

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.

Film - An Education. Rosamund Pike - Theatre - Hedda Gabler. Ruth Wilson. Samuel West - Narration - Jubilee Poetry. BBC Radio.

• An article about An Education from Newsday [link]
• Hedda Gabler is featured in Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column [link]
• A nice mention of Ruth Wilson from the Guardian:

  We have had a major eyebrow crush since seeing her as Stella in the Donmar's Streetcar and will therefore be glued to the BBC's Small Island

• BBC Radio
  
• Samuel West, Juliet Stevenson and Samantha Bond narrate Jubilee Poetry, an anthology of poetry written by the Poets Laureate presented by a former Laureate, Andrew Motion [link]
• Toby Stephens and David Morrissey star in the Drama on 3 Becket or The Honour of God [link]
• Chris New and Rob Hastie star in the Classic Serial Beau Geste [link]
• Jemima Rooper, Andrew Scott and Lizzy Watts star in the Afternoon Play Audio Recordings of Human Traffic [link]