... FRI, AUG 18 Edinburgh Comedy BBC Scotland comedy series for BBC2 (11.20 12 midnight) Presenter: Jayne Middlemiss. Executive producer: May Miller. Series producer: Andrew Lockyer. Comedy producer: Sandie Kirk. M0N, AUG 21 Heaven Eye* BBC Radio 4 five-part reading (3.30 3.45pm) Writer: David Almond. Narrator: Erin Law. Reader: Felicity Finch. Producer: Bruce Young. The Season Ticket BBC Radio 4 ...

... ABERDEEN Hit Majesty's Scottish Ballet Lemon Tree Making Room for Camille BAGNOR WatermlH Travels with My Aunt BANGOR Theatr Gwynedd Badfinger (7-8) BARNSTAPLE Queen's Adonais Ballet Company (10-11) BASINGSTOKE Haymarket The Rivals BATH Theatre Royal Some Explicit Polaroids BELFAST Grand Opera House The All New Adventures of Noddy Lyric Dealer's Choice BIRMINGHAM Alexandra Theatre Les Liaisons ...

... SNAPS k Fiona Shaw returns to the West End next month to take the title role in Medea at the Queen's Theatre. The play transfers to London for a limited 12- week run, follow ing its acclaimed premiere at Dublin's Abbey Theatre this summer. The Abbey Theatre and Fitzroy co-production runs from January 30. Kelly Brook will appear at the Riverside Studios for an extra three nights, following a ...

... THURS, DEC 7 Kerr-Blattl! BBC Radio 4 series on cartoon music (11. 30am 12pm) Presenter: David Stafford. Producer: David Prest. SAT, DEC 9 Lennon't Legacy BBC Radio 2 three-part music series (8 9pm) Production company: Howlett Media Productions. Presenter: Robert Lindsay. Producer: Kevin Howlett. SUN, DEC 10 Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) BBC Radio drama serial (3 4pm) ...

... Aim Bryson has been announced as co-star to Les Dennis in Misery at the Okjham Coliseum from February 8. Treshousse by Elizabeth Kuti has its British premiere in March as part of the new season at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter. Other highlights include Arms and the Man a co-production with Mercury Theatre. Colchester from February 8-24. The Agatha Christie Theatre Festival takes place at the ...

... SNAPS t Blind Ambition, Yorkshire Television's two-hour drama about sightless athlete Richard Thomas, will begin filming in Australia at the end of this month. The programme, which stars Robson Green and Imogen Stubbs, will also be shot in Newcastle and Leeds. Its transmission on ITV is expected to tie in with the Sydney 2000 Olympics. BBC Drama has announced the cast for the film of the ...

... NEW SERIES THURS, FEB 17 High Performance HTV Wales arts and entertainment series, regional only (5.30 6pm) Presenter and producer: Nicola Heywood-Thomas. FRI, FEB 18 Just Up Your Street BBC1 Wales talent show, regional only (10.25pm) Presenter: Owen Money. Friday Night's All Wright London Weekend chat show for ITV network (10.30 and 11.30pm) Presenter: Ian Wright. Cfoma S4C Digital arts show ...

... National Theatre news includes: Alexander Hanson and Clive Rowe are cast as Macheath and Mr Big respectively in the final production of the current NT Ensemble season, The Villains' Opera, a new music theatre piece by Nick Dear and Stephen Warbeck after John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (Olivier Theatre. opens April 11). Continuing the National's commitment to showcasing the best of regional work ...

... SNAPS Ray Winstono suffered a serious eye injury during a matinee performance of Sam Mendes' hit To the Green Fields Beyond at the Donmar Warehouse, Covent Garden, resulting in the cancellation of the evening performance. Theatregoers were turned away one minute before the curtain went up after doctors refused to let the actor go on. Donmar management is now looking into an extra performance ...

... SNAPS Actor Richard Wilson joins ITV this winter with High Stakes, a comedy about international banking. Other highlights of the season include the two 19th century adaptations. Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Charles Dickens' Nicho las Nickleby, as well as new dramas by Paula Milne and Lucy Gannon. Equity has negotiated a three per cent increase in the rates for actors on all BBC ...

... Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust, adapted by Harold Pinter. Cottesloe Theatre, South Bank SE1 to January 2, in rep. Management: NT Ensemble. Cast includes: Duncan Bell. Judy Campbell. Janine Duvitski, Sebastian Harcombe. Julie Legrand, Bohdan Poraj, David Rmtoul. Indira Varma. Director: Di Trevis. Designer: Alison Chitty. Lighting: Ben Ormerod. Music: Dominic Muldowney. Press: ...

... Nicholas Payne and Paul Daniel will direct English National Opera's new production of Verdi's II Trovatore. which opens on April 9. as part of the spring 2001 season at the London Coliseum. Paul Daniel will also conduct the produc tion which stars Julian Gavin, Sandra Ford. Sally Burgess, David Kempster and Clive Bayley. ENO's new season also sees the world premiere of From Morning to Midnight ...