30 August 2006
Bill Nighy – Whitey, albino ex-lab rat in Flushed Away
Movieweb has several new movie stills from the upcoming Flushed Away. Bill Nighy does the voice of Whitey, a not too bright white albino ex-lab rat. But hey, he gets to wear a suit, and you got to love his chain.
Other voice actors in this [...]
28 August 2006
It has been a succesful evening for the The Girl In The Cafe yesterday, at the yearly Emmy Awards. The film featuring Bill Nighy and Kelly MacDonald won 3 prizes :
Best TV Movie
Best Writing, mini-series/TV movie
Best Supporting actress in mini-series/TV movie (Kelly MacDonald)
All prices are absolutely deserved, Richard Curtis wrote a fantastic script, and Kelly [...]
21 August 2006
BBC4 has broadcasted the program CP Cafavy : Reaching Ithaka.
In this evocative portrait, Bill Nighy reads some of Greek Poet Cavafy’s best known works, including his most famous poem, Ithaka.
(From bbc4)
You can hear the program on Listen Again here.. The program will be repeated on the radio on the 26th of August, 23.30-0.00 on BBC [...]
19 August 2006
Bill Nighy – Alan Blunt, and “Mrs. Jones” in Stormbreaker
Pinewood studio’s had made a very nice featurette (about 4 minutes) about filming Stormbreaker. And it is “very very cool” indeed that there is quite a lot of Bill Nighy in it. There is a very short interview, several short clips of Bill Nighy as [...]
15 August 2006
Bill Nighy is doing a brand new billicious radio play on BBC Radio 4, and will return as alcoholic actor-cum-amateur sleuth Charles Paris, from the series of hit novels by Simon Brett.
Charles is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation – especially in the form of women and alcohol. [...]
5 August 2006
The Telegraph has a short interview with Bill Nighy about the joy and horror of holidays.
And while there are predictable answers (what does he take with him ? His ipod with Stones and Dylan of course) there are some interesting ones too. Did you know Bill’s spiritual home is the Coco Chanel suite of the [...]
2 August 2006
For all those people who have been asking about Meerkat Manor being released on DVD – it is going to happen. Series 1 is going to be released in the beginning of September.
You can preorder it at play.com, but it is likely that it will be available on other online DVD sites.
The version released here [...]