Bill Nighy in Dr. Who and new Charles Paris radio play

Bill Nighy will guest star in an episode of the new series of Doctor Who.
Bill will play the curator of a Vincent van Gogh exhibition, apparantly dressed in the same fashion as The Doctor in an episode written by Richard Curtis (of Love Actually, The Boat That Rocked and The Girl in the Cafe fame).
The [...]

Bill Nighy on your radio [BBC7]

BBC7 is repeating six episodes of Baldi, the Franciscan priest and amateur detective.
Bill will star in episode 3 which will air today at 11.15am, 9.15pm and 2.15am. And you will be able to catch it on Listen Again up until a week after broadcast.
Ser 3. 2/6: The Bookcase (by Simon Brett) – Several rare books [...]

New G-Force trailer and Bill on your radio

The new Jerry Bruckheimer (think Pirates of the Carribean) production is the Disney Digital 3D (!) G-Force. G-Force is a combination of animation and live action, Bill will play evil Leonard Saber, one of the live action characters. You can see him briefly in the new trailer:

The film revolves around a team of trained secret [...]

Bill Nighy – the healthy man and more

Lovely 10 minute podcast interview with Bill Nighy about being healthy, and of course also about The Boat that Rocked.

Read the related interview on the Telegraph.
There is more Nighy candy for your ear on BBC7 if you like the voice, which of course you do:
Vongole
Michael Butt’s saucy comedy of a middle-aged professor who uses the [...]

Charles Paris, Rocking Boat, The Entertainer, Underworld

If you happened to have bought the Mama Mia DVD you might be in for a treat, as the Boat that Rocked Trailer seems to be included on the DVD.
It is at the moment available here, note that this is not the official trailer yet, but watch Bill dance.
If you like Bill’s voice, and who [...]

Bill Nighy lends voice to Fable and more radio

BBC7 broadcasts another radioplay with Bill Nighy:
No Commitments, Series 7
Victoria and Anna talk about a lack of contact from Charlotte. Meanwhile, Roger has lost his libido.
Rosemary Leach, Celia Imrie, Angela Thorne and Bill Nighy (as Roger) star in Simon Brett’s sitcom.
It was first broadcast on Radio 4 in January 2001.
This is the first episode of [...]

Cigarettes and Chocolate radioplay with Bill Nighy

If you previously missed Anthony Minghella’s award winning radio play with Bill Nighy it is now repeated.
Gemma’s unexplained silence is the catalyst for a reaction amongst her friends and lovers both unfaithful and unrequited, which starts as mild irritation but becomes increasingly uncontrolled as her passive but forceful refusal to speak drives them to [...]

Bill Nighy in I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse – radio

No new films with Bill Nighy in the cinema this year does not mean that we don’t get a fair deal of Billiciousness anyway.
BBC4 will broadcast a brand new romantic comedy radio play, it is called I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse and if you want to hear it, you have [...]

Radio: Bill Nighy reads Animal Farm – BBC7

BBC7 is repeating Bill reading Animal Farm from Monday.
Animal Farm
Bill Nighy reads from George Orwell’s satirical fable of a revolution which went wrong.
Monday 9th of June – Friday 13th of June at 1pm on BBC7
And on listen again, up until 7 days after the day of broadcasting.
Enjoy!

Radio: Bill Nighy in Killing Maestros

BBC7 is repeating one of Bill’s radioplays on Thursday:
Killing Maestros
Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde is the ‘Scottish Play’ of the opera world – jinxed with mysterious deaths. Conductor Sergei Bodanov (Bill Nighy) is convinced he will be the next to suffer. A starry cast of Bill Nighy, Henry Goodman, Lorelei King and Sylvestra La Touzel [...]

Bill Nighy – Strangers on a train (audio – 1994)

Here is a nice little Bill goody for your ears to indulge:
M Radio has a very nice older radio play with Bill Nighy for you to download:
Strangers On A Train By Patricia Highsmith
Adapted from the classic 1950 novel and the 1951 Hitchcock film.
With Anton Lesser, Michael Sheen, Saskia Reeves and Bill Nighy
Directed by Andy Jordan
Originally [...]

Enquiry radioplay with Bill Nighy on BBC7

Something to listen to in these quiet Nighy times
BBC7 sends Enquiry (1989) a radioplay with Bill Nighy
Saturday the 2nd of February from 12:00-13:30, and on Listen Again up until a week after.

Bill Nighy supports RSPCA’s firework campaign

Bill supports the RSPCA’s firework campaign that should make people aware of the distress fireworks causes to animals. With Bonfire Night coming up in the UK this weekend this seems an important issue.
In a new radio ad, David Schneider is trying to put earplugs in his cat’s ears to protect it from firework noise. Bill [...]

Reminder: Bill Nighy in Charles Paris from today

As the Times puts it:
“Typical – you wait ages for a Bill Nighy, and then . . . as well as reading from Eric Clapton’s autobiography, the great thesp returns as Simon Brett’s Charles Paris, the failed actor, much more successful amateur detective and Olympic-standard drunken womaniser. He is brilliant at it, so much a [...]

Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris: Murder Unprompted

BBC Radio 4 will broadcast a brand new Charles Paris Mystery with Bill Nighy as Charles Paris.
Here is the info from BBC about Murder Unprompted:
As ever, seedy, middle-aged actor Charles is his own worst enemy: a lush who can resist anything except temptation – especially in the form of women and alcohol. His intentions may [...]