JULIE HALE ANTHONY BOWERS SHONAGH PRICE HIMMELBLÅ SAMANTHA SHIELDS NEIL LEIPER DAVE ANDERSON SCOTT HOATSON	TV News Donald Sutherland, Ian McShane, and Rufus Sewell star in The Pillars of the Earth, an adaptation of the historical novel that will play as a Thornbirds-style miniseries event in 2010, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The eight-hour series based on Ken Follett's bestseller is set during 12th Century England's civil war and is directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (Heroes, Saving Grace). Ian McShane plays Waleran, Donald Sutherland is Bartholomew and Rufus Sewell plays Tom Builder. Others signed up for the shoot include our own KATE DICKIE as Agnes, Matthew Macfadyen (Frost-Nixon/ Pride and Prejudice) as Prior Philip, Sarah Parish (Cutting It/The Holiday) as Regan, Hayley Atwell (Brideshead Revisited) as Aliena, Eddie Redmayne (The Other Boleyn Girl) as Jack and Gordon Pinsent (Away from Her) as the Archbishop. Filming in Budapest, Kate is traveling back and forth through the summer for other forthcoming engagements ~ Shed Media (Scotland) and 20-20 TV's costume drama series about the London law courts of the 18^th century - GARROWS LAW – wraps mid-July. This series has another cream cast with KATE DICKIE guesting in an episode about politics and sedition and JULIE HALE (My Left Foot) guests as an outspoken philanthropist and ANTHONY BOWERS plays the regular role of the Clerk of the Court in each episode ~ SHONAGH PRICE joins the cast of the final series of BLUE SKY BLUE (Himmelblå), the Norwegian TV drama series that is attracting an all-time audience record. A remake of the BBC hit '2000 Acres of Sky', Shonagh plays a Shetlander who captures the heart of one of the show's leading men On Screen: RIVER CITY regulars GORDON MCCORKELL and EILEEN MCCALLUM are joined on screen this month by returning original cast member WILLIAM RUANE revisiting the role of Brian for a one off special appearance ~ HOPE SPRINGS completes it's run on BBC1, at 8pm on Sundays, with baby-faced killer TONY MCGEEVER a regular in the colourful ensemble cast and NICK FARR notching up yet another appearance as a hardnosed copper in the last episode ~ Being PHENOMENAL is SAMANTHA SHIELDS in the TV campaign for Irn Bru – she's the test-tube playing high school girl leaping around all over STV and plastered on the side of buses in Scottish cities before she graduates the RSAMD musical course in September ~ FEATURE FILMS Last word first: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009 closed with RUNNING IN TRAFFIC's BRYAN LARKIN receiving his EIFF TRAILBLAZER 2009 award from Sir Sean Connery. It's a tangible acknowledgement for Bryan's multiple roles with Dabhand Films. Co-starring Anna Kerth, ANNE DOWNIE and Kenneth Cranham, the debut feature caught universally fine reviews for its performances – 'one of the real talent spotting find . . . stand-out performance from Bryan Larkin . . . uncanny ability' (Sunday Herald) ~ Meanwhile WASTED starring NEIL LEIPER and KATE DICKIE, David Hayman and Emma Hartley Miller premiered with 'outstandingly credible improvised perfs, fluid handheld lensing and assured helming . . . the thesps so inhabit their smack-ravaged personas that even the better known actors, such as Dickie and Hayman, are nearly unrecognizable. Dialogue sounds so naturalistic, the pic could almost pass for a documentary' (Variety). Away from the red carpet, the David Puttnam keynote address and his remarks at the Skillset / Scottish Screen brunch were a highlight of the festival, encouraging all of us working in the independent film sector in Scotland to continue producing and facilitating new work with new talent as 'the creative media industries in Scotland make a significant contribution to the UK economy - an impressive £4billion' (www.skillset.org/uk/scotland) – let alone the artistic achievements of our indigenous talent ~ Long May We Punch Above Our Weight! Talking of which: Brand new producer Amanda Verlaque is off and running with guerilla style filming of original rom-com FAST ROMANCE starring WILLIAM RUANE and featuring JULIET CADZOW and DAVE ANDERSON ~ Principal photography begins for long awaited THE WICKER TREE (sequel to The Wicker Man) with KEITH WARWICK in a leading role and featuring JULIET CADZOW, SCOTT HOATSON and AILIDH MACKAY ~ MHAIRI ANDERSON and GORDON BROWN are on set for Peter Mullan in his new feature NEDS – As The Herald reports: Fantastic that the old Govan Town Hall is now used by film producers – (but) - Passers-by take a second look at the sign outside stating: "Neds. This way." General news: GORDON BROWN and ANDREW FLANAGAN's Mads Mikkelsen and Gary Lewis Viking adventure VALHALLA RISING has a new reported release date in March 2010 – more release news on features starring MARTIN COMPSTON, KATE DICKIE et al next month ~								KATE to play AGNES GORDON MCCORKELL EILEEN MCCALLUM WILLIAM RUANE TONY MCGEEVER NICK FARR BRYAN LARKIN ANNE DOWNIE Courtesy of EIFF
AILIDH MACKAY	MHAIRI ANDERSON	ANDREW FLANAGAN				GORDON BROWN		KEITH WARWICK	JULIET CADZOW
MARTIN DOCHERTY DOUGAL LEE ANGELA HARDIE SAMANTHA SHIELDS	THEATRE NEWS MARTIN DOCHERTY is COOKING WITH ELVIS at the Tron in Glasgow, opening on July 10^th running until July 25^th – Then Martin joins THE ELIXIR OF LIFE for Scottish Opera in the comic signature role of The Servant, rehearsing in August for an opening in September and joining the Scottish opera repertoire on tour until November, weekly performances only DAVID FITZGERALD and CLARE WAUGH feature as lead artistes in the "event" called Aisling's Children THE GATHERING 2009 – a pageant being presented on the Edinburgh Castle Esplanade July 25th ~ GREG POWRIE and DOUGAL LEE are at the heart of the company of the Pitlochry Festival season 2009 in the smash hit "WHISKY GALORE a Musical"; DOUGAL plays nearly all of his 19 musical instruments in productions this season as well as taking the lead romantic role of Teddy Lloyd in THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, David in Liz Lochead's GOOD THINGS and appears in THE SERVANT O' TWA MAISTERS as will GREG who is excellent as stuffy Gordon Lowther in JEAN BRODIE and also takes on WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS as James ANGELA HARDIE leads out our graduate clients by joining Dundee Rep's Ensemble on their graduate scheme, her first professional theatre gig being THE CHERRY ORCHARD (can't do better than that!) as Dunyasha ~ BEN WINGER is in the company for Bard In The Botanics in Glasgow this summer in The Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth ~ SAMANTHA SHIELDS is in Jerry Springer: the Opera and FIRST LADY SUITE at Musical Theatre @ George Square on the Edinburgh Fringe 2009 ~ And confirmed for Panto already are JORDAN YOUNG (Aberdeen), DAVID ELLIOT (Musselburgh), MICHELLE GALLAGHER (Stirling), CLARE WAUGH (Inverness) and BRYAN LOWE (King's Glasgow) HAPPY HOLIDAYS!								DAVID FITZGERALD CLARE WAUGH GREG POWRIE BEN WINGER
	JORDAN YOUNG		DAVID ELLIOT		MICHELLE GALLAGHER		BRYAN LOWE
MARTIN COMPSTON SEAN KELLY SHABANA BAKHSH KATHLEEN MCDERMOTT	Recent films and TV available on DVD –RED MIST (Martin Compston), SOMERS TOWN (Kate Dickie), DEAD SET (Kathleen McDermott), SUMMER (Sean Kelly, Matthew Workman, Kate Dickie), WATERLOO ROAD (Shabana Bakhsh), THE RETURN OF RAB C NESBITT (Jordan Young, Kathleen McDermott), STONE OF DESTINY (Juliet Cadzow, Bryan Lowe, Danielle Stewart), DEAR GREEN PLACE (Martin Docherty), TRUE NORTH (Martin Compston), DOOMSDAY (Martin Compston), WEDDING BELLES (Kathleen McDermott), RED ROAD (Kate Dickie, Martin Compston), A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS (Martin Compston), THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY (William Ruane), AE FOND KISS (Shabana Bakhsh, John Yule), TICKETS (William Ruane, Martin Compston), BALAMORY (Juliet Cadzow), WILD COUNTRY (Samantha Shields, Martin Compston), MORVERN CALLAR (Kathleen McDermott), SWEET SIXTEEN (Martin Compston, William Ruane, Matt Costello), plus TAGGART, REBUS, MONARCH OF THE GLEN and STILL GAME box sets feature many of our clients over the years								MATTHEW WORKMAN DANIELLE STEWART JOHN YULE MATT COSTELLO

AND FINALLY. . .

HUNWICK HUGHES LTD was commended for the Arts & Business Scotland Small Business Award 2008 in recognition of our sole sponsorship of the Royal National Theatre Connections Summer showcase in Scotland in 2007 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, involving performances by eight youth theatre groups from Scotland, Ireland and Norway, and for supporting "opportunities for 1400 young people to participate in the Lyceum's Education programme and extend membership of the successful Lyceum Youth Theatre".

Continuing our support for LYT, HUNWICK HUGHES LTD is establishing the Lyceum Youth Theatre Development Fund in 2009 as the founding donors.