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]

Dan Stevens - Audio - Wolf Hall

Dan narrates the abridged version of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Excerpts can be heard at Audible and Harper Collins.

Hayley Atwell - Television - The Pillars of the Earth. Dan Stevens - Television - The Turn of the Screw. Rory Kinnear - Television - Cranford.

• From an interview with Eddie Redmayne:
  

  "'...This is the biggest project I’ve worked on in terms of the scale of the set. Three-quarters of a 12th-century cathedral has been built in a field in Hungary. It’s incredible. It is an amazing cast to be working with as well, including Hayley Atwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Donald Sutherland and Ian McShane. People who know Pillars from the novel are very passionate about it. The characters kind of get under their skin...'"

• Dan plays Dr Fisher in The Turn of the Screw, which will be broadcast on BBC1 [link]
• Rory plays Lord Septimus in part 1 of the Cranford Christmas special which will be broadcast on BBC1 [link]

Theatre - Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Theatre - Enron. Theatre - A Streetcar Named Desire.

[updated 27 November]

Winners at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards include Rupert Goold (Sydney Edwards award for best director - Enron, Royal Court), Rachel Weisz (Natasha Richardson award for best actress - A Streetcar Named Desire, Donmar Warehouse) and Alia Bano (Charles Wintour award for most promising playwright - Shades, Royal Court).

Guests at the event include Hayley Atwell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Amanda Drew, Rupert Goold, Peter Hall, Tom Hollander, Rory Kinnear, Lucy Prebble, Simon Russell Beale, Laura Wade, Sam West, Ruth Wilson and Fenella Woolgar.

Articles
whatsonstage.com 1|2
Evening Standard [link]
The Stage [link]
The Guardian [link]
The Independent [link]

Pictures
wooller.com [link]
Evening Standard [link]
Rex Features [link]
Wireimage [link]
Getty [link]

Videos
Evening Standard [link]
elizabethtoni 1|2

Dan Stevens - Film - Hilde. Samuel West. Equity - Manifesto for Theatre. Narration - Lines of Flight.

• A Hilde trailer with English subtitles is on germanfilmfestival.co.uk [link]
• Sam will be giving the keynote speech at the Manifesto for Theatre Rally at the Actors' Church in Covent Garden which is happening in about half an hour. Tweets from Sam:
• RT @EquityUK Don't forget! Manifesto for Theatre Rally at the Actors' Church in Covent Garden, London TODAY! 1.30pm http://bit.ly/08sePNK
• Forgot to mention re Equity tweet - I'm giving the keynote speech. Please come if you can
• Blog post by Sal Brown about Lines of Flight's screenings at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival [link]

Dan Stevens - Radio - Guilty Until Proved Innocent. BBC Radio.

• The broadcast date for the Afternoon Play Guilty Until Proved Innocent has been changed to Monday 14 December [link]
• BBC Radio
• The Complete Smiley continues with the Classic Serial Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy starring Simon Russell Beale (as George Smiley), Anna Chancellor and Alex Jennings [link]
• Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff star in Fact to Fiction "Jam Today?" [link]
• Hugh Bonneville narrates the Book at Bedtime Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village [link]
  
• Rory Kinnear and Fenella Woolgar star in the Afternoon Play Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood [link]

Charles Edwards - Theatre - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Charles will play Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Peter Hall at the Rose Theatre Kingston 9 February - 20 March 2010.

Links
whatsonstage.com [link]
Playbill [link]
Rose Theatre Kingston [link]

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 - Murder on the Orient Express

David Suchet returns as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, which has begun filming. The cast includes Hugh Bonneville (Edward Masterman), Toby Jones (Samuel Ratchett), David Morrissey (John Arbuthnot) and Samuel West (Dr Constantine). [link]

Theatre - Reality Bytes

From Anasaskia Elsom:

Television - The Prisoner. Hayley Atwell, Ruth Wilson. Samuel West - Narration - Lines of Flight.

• The Prisoner
• Article from the New York Times [link]
• Excerpt from an interview with Ian McKellen, who plays Two:
  

  "...The actor was also impressed by his Prisoner co-stars, among them Jim Caviezel; Jamie Campbell Bower as Two's introverted son, 11-12; Hayley Atwell as Lucy, a woman from New York City who finds herself attracted to Two, and Ruth Wilson as 13, the Village's doctor. 'Jamie is absolutely adorable,' McKellen said. 'He can be my son any day of the week. He is absolutely delightful and he looks ravishing on screen, as does Ruth Wilson. Hayley Atwell is fantastic as well. It's a very glamorous cast, actually, and Jim Caviezel is an excellent leading man...'"

• Stills gallery from tv.com [link]
• Hayley and Ruth attended the Gate Theatre 30th anniversary gala [link]
• A portrait of Hayley taken by Peter Schiazza [link]
• Lines of Flight, a film narrated by Sam, will be screened at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival [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 - Enron - Evening Standard Theatre Awards shortlist

The Royal Court production of Enron has been included in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards shortlist for Best Actor (Samuel West), Best Play (Lucy Prebble) and Best Director (Rupert Goold). The longlist was announced last week. [link]

Samuel West. Theatre - Eastside Educational Trust West End Showcase. Narration - The Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece.

• The Eastside Educational Trust West End Showcase was on Saturday. I asked Sam a question about the Showcase (thanks to him for replying!):
  
• A tweet from Sam:
  

  "Doing VO on Botticelli's Mystic Nativity; with a spare hour, went to National Gallery to see it. Defend free entry to museums and galleries!"

  
  The voiceover is for The Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece, which will be broadcast on BBC2 at Christmas [link]

Ruth Wilson - Television - Luther. Romola Garai. Audio drama.

• Ruth plays Alice Morgan in Luther, a six-part series starring Idris Elba [link]
• Romola will be interviewed on Woman's Hour this Thursday [link]
• Audio drama:
• Urban Scrawl "Hounslow East" by Laura Wade stars Katherine Parkinson [link]
• Alex Jennings, Lizzy Watts and Patrick Kennedy star in the Woman's Hour Drama Our Mutual Friend [link]
• Patti Love, John Hannah and David Morrissey star in Mary Barnes [link]
  
• Sam Dale and Lydia Leonard star in the Afternoon Play The Railway Siding [link]
• Toby Stephens stars in Birdsong [link]
  
• Bill Paterson, Stephen Mangan and Damian Lewis star in the Afternoon Play Number 10 [link]

Television - The Prisoner. Dan Stevens - Film - The Winter Queen.

• The Prisoner
  
• Screencaps of Hayley Atwell and Ruth Wilson from this clip (click thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
• The official website has been updated. Unfortunately most of the videos are region-locked. [link]
• The Winter Queen, starring Milla Jovovich and Dan Stevens, is in pre-production. Intandem will be negotiating finance and sales for the film at AFM. [link]

Samuel West - Narration - Broadcasting House

[updated 9 November]

Sam read excerpts from a letter by Cyrus Thatcher on last week's episode of Broadcasting House, which is available on iPlayer and podcast until 8 November.

An audio clip of the letter is here.

Samuel West - Narration - Horizon. Dan Stevens - Radio - Guilty Until Proved Innocent. Ruth Wilson - Television - The Prisoner.

[updated 6 November]

• Sam narrates the Horizon episode "Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole?" (via his Twitter, @exitthelemming) [link]
• Dan stars in the Afternoon Play Guilty Until Proved Innocent which will be broadcast 25 November [link]
• Ruth attended a screening of The Prisoner in New York 1|2

Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Television - The Thick of It. Theatre - Evening Standard Theatre Awards longlist.

• 24 Hour Plays
• Article and video from the Independent [link]
• 2 part recap from ThisStage 1|2
• Pictures from the after party. As well as performers such as Jason Isaacs, Romola Garai, Stephen Mangan, Ruth Wilson, Hattie Morahan and Anna Maxwell Martin, guests included Damian Lewis, Imogen Lloyd Webber, Blake Ritson and Jessica deRothschild. [link]
  
• The Thick of It
  
• Review of series 3 episode 2 from the Guardian [link]
• Rebecca Front was on Broadcasting House [link]
• In addition to Enron, productions such as The Winter's Tale (Best Actor - Simon Russell Beale; The Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress - Rebecca Hall; Best Director - Sam Mendes) and Hamlet (Best Actor - David Tennant) are also on the Evening Standard Theatre Awards longlist [link]

Theatre - Enron - Evening Standard Theatre Awards longlist

The Royal Court production of Enron has been included in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards longlist for Best Actor (Samuel West), Best Play (Lucy Prebble) and Best Director (Rupert Goold) [link]

Samuel West - Film - Albert Schweitzer

• Stills from the film 1|2
• The film's official website has been updated [link]
  

Theatre - Enron - TMA awards

[updated 3 November]



The Chichester production of Enron by Lucy Prebble won the award for Best New Play at the TMA Theatre Awards.

From whatsonstage.com:

"...Lucy Prebble, who won Best New Play for Enron, was unable to attend due to flu. Her acceptance speech, in which she acknowledged the 'Enron-sized debt' she owes to the cast and director Rupert Goold, was delivered by principal cast member Samuel West..."

Pictures
Sam West and Rupert Goold (photos: wooller.com) 1|2|3|4

Links
The Stage [link]
whatsonstage.com [link]

Theatre - Eastside Educational Trust West End Showcase

The Eastside Educational Trust West End Showcase will be hosted by patrons Sam West and Samantha Bond. It will be at the Criterion Theatre, Saturday 7 November, 11.30am. Booking details are here.

Links

Eastside's celebrity patrons - biographies and endorsements [link]
Eastside's celebrity patrons - their favourite books [link]