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Rebecca Hall ("Dorian Gray", "Red Riding: In The Year Of Our Lord 1974"), Dominic West ("300", "Hannibal Rising", "Centurion") and Imelda Staunton ("Alice In Wonderland") have joined the cast of "The Awakening" for StudioCanal and BBC Films reports Deadline. Hall plays a paranormal investigator in post-WW1 England who sets out to debunk claims of spiritualism. She soon comes across an actual haunting in a countryside boarding school. Nick Murphy ("Surviving Disaster And Occupation") will direct from a script he co-wrote with Stephen Volk. David Thompson will produce. Filming kicks off in the UK in late June....

Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton have been set to star in the supernatural thriller The Awakening which marks the feature directorial debut of celebrated UK TV director Nick Murphy. Shooting will begin in June. Set in post-World War I England in 1921, the film follows a skeptical woman who travels to a countryside boarding school to investigate rumours of an apparent haunting. Just when she thinks she has debunked the ghost theory, she has a chilling spectral encounter which defies all her rational beliefs. Murphy co-wrote the film with Stephen Volk; Murphys TV credits include Surviving Disaster and Occupation.

Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton have joined the cast of "The Awakening" for StudioCanal and BBC Films reports Deadline.

Hall plays a paranormal investigator in post-WW1 England who sets out to debunk claims of spiritualism. She soon comes across an actual haunting in a countryside boarding school.

Nick Murphy ("Surviving Disaster and Occupation") will direct from a script he co-wrote with Stephen Volk. David Thompson will produce.

Filming kicks off in the UK in late June.

The winners of the 36th Annual Broadcasting Press Guild Awards were announced recently at a ceremony at the Theatre Royal in London and saw wins for Northern Ireland drama series 'Occupation' and Terry Wogan. 'Occupation', a Kudos Film production for BBC One came away from the awards ceremony with the title of Best Drama Series. Written by Peter Bowker (Flesh And Blood, Canterbury Tales) and directed by Nick Murphy (Surviving Disaster, Heroes & Villains), 'Occupation' traces the lives of three British soldiers and spans the five years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Their fates – and the destiny of Iraq itself – become inextricably linked and, united in war, the three men, and their friendships, are torn apart during the peace that follows.

'Occupation', the BBC war drama filmed in Northern Ireland, has won the Prix Europa 2009 for Best Episode of a Television Fiction Series or Serial of the Year 2009. The Prix Europa awards ceremony was held in Berlin on Saturday, October 24th, and saw the Nick Murphy (Surviving Disaster) directed war drama 'Occupation' scoop the special Prix Europa award. Written by Peter Bowker (Canterbury Tales) and starring James Nesbitt (Cherrybomb), 'Occupation' traces the lives of three British soldiers and spans the five years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, it was filmed in Northern Ireland and Iraq.

'Occupation', a new three part drama serial begins on BBC One Tuesday 9th of June. Shot on location in Northern Ireland and Iraq in 2008, the drama stars Ni actor James Nesbitt (Five Minutes of Heaven, Bloody Sunday), Stephen Graham (The Damned United, This is England) and Warren Brown (Hollyoaks, Shameless). Written by Peter Bowker (Flesh And Blood, Canterbury Tales) and directed by Nick Murphy (Surviving Disaster, Heroes & Villains), 'Occupation' races the lives of three British soldiers and spans the five years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

CANNES -- BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, licensed more than 170 hours of programming to Dutch broadcasters NOS, RTL, SBS and Talpa, it was announced here Monday. National broadcaster NOS has picked up series including the new season of Ricky Gervais starrer Extras and anarchic comedy Little Britain, as well as the second season of police drama Life on Mars and family drama Doctor Who. NOS also has acquired Stephen Poliakoff's widely acclaimed new projects Gideon's Daughter and Friends and Crocodiles. In its largest deal to date with BBC Worldwide, John de Mol's Talpa channel has acquired 26 hours of factual programming including such shows as Surviving Disaster, The Rise and Fall of Rome and One Life. In addition, Worldwide has sold Hotel Babylon to commercial network SBS and presold the science docudrama Superstorm to RTL. BBC Worldwide's territory manager for the region, Claudia Danser, said the deals extend its "successful and important relationship" with Dutch audiences.