Michael Sheen is, frankly, pretty faint praise". He won a RTS Award for Best Actor, and received his second BAFTA nomination of 2006, for Best Television Actor. Sheen starred in two other BBC television productions in 2006, playing H. G. Wells in "" and Nero in "". From 2006 to 2007, Sheen starred as the television broadcaster David Frost in "Frost/Nixon" at both the Donmar Warehouse and Gielgud Theatre in London and at the Jacobs Theatre on Broadway. The play, written by Peter Morgan, directed by Michael Grandage and co-starring Frank Langella, was a critical and commercial success but Sheen initially accepted
Pip Broughton and Polly Stenham; and writers Frank McGuinness, Eve Ensler, Mark Ravenhill, Jeremy Brock, Paul O’Grady, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Sandi Toksvig. In 2014, Broughton directed an adaptation of Under Milk Wood for the BBC, starring Michael Sheen, Tom Jones, and Jonathan Pryce . The same year, Broughton founded Vox Pictures with producer Adrian Bate. Its first production, Craig Roberts' directorial debut Just Jim, was released in 2015 and premiered at the SXSW Festival. In 2016, Broughton directed , a film poem released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster. The film, which starred Michael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips,