dramatis personae

Vicky Cristina Barcelona', which starred Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, and Javier Bardem, shared the award with 'Synecdoche, New York', which has a cast-list including Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener, reports the Daily Star.

Also starring Helen Hunt, Shelley Long, Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler, the cast-list is classy, but I didn't care enough about Dr T to have any sympathy with his stale predicament whatsoever.

There are still spaces for pre-meeting trials next week, with Cleenas Lady the latest big name to be added to the cast-list for Tuesday's session at which Charlie Lister, winner of the competition in four of the past five years, is due to send his team round.

cast-list like this before and there is a real buzz among everyone involved," said a BBC source.

No film to be made entirely in the north has ever seen a cast-list like this before and there is a real buzz among everyone involved," said a source from the BBC producers.