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
Adaptations of works by Robert E. Howard announced in 2005. Ron Perlman was cast as Conan with Cree Summer as Valeria. Peter Berg was signed up in 2008 as the director of a film based on and titled Bran Mak Morn. "Vultures", based on the novella "The Vultures of Wahpeton" was announced in 2006 and expected to be released in 2011. In 2003, a short film adaptation of Howard's short story "Casonetto's Last Song", directed by Brenda Dau and Derek M. Koch, was featured as an official selection of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival. The first Howard adaptation was not Conan related, although all subsequent examples