Westworld has had a pretty interesting time getting to the small screen, with numerous delays and behind the scenes controversy, as well as a total production shut down while massive script issues were resolved.

BRITISH TV channels have been quick off the mark in revealing some of their big shows for the autumn season. Here’s a selection:

A new trailer for Westworld debuted last night, and HBO will be hoping this is their new Game of Thrones.

It’s time to visit Westworld - a fantasy realm which gives you the chance to be whoever you want to be alongside a team of subservient robots

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God’s Pocket (15A) is a hardscrabble, blue-collar neighbourhood infested with grifters and thieves.

Your guide on what to look out for on the box this evening.

Based on an outlandish true crime, comedy caper ‘Pain & Gain’ seems a snug fit for director Michael Bay.

In the cinematic desert that is the January-February movie-release schedule, one gains a greater appreciation for mere competence.

Matthew Fox is in talks to join Brad Pitt in 'World War Z'.

In Soviet-occupied Poland, officer Janusz (Jim Sturgess) is falsely incriminated as a foreign spy and sent to a Russian gulag in Siberia surrounded by miles of snow.

Tom Hanks has signed on to 'Cloud Atlas'.

Ed Harris has signed up to play Senator John McCain in 'Game Change'.

The story behind this film is as interesting and intriguing as the film itself in that it is based on what purports to be the ‘true’ account of a remarkable WW2 escape.

CALL of Duty: Black Ops has blasted entertainment records by raking in $360 million in its first 24 hours on sale, a dramatic and lucrative indication that video games have cemented their place as mainstream entertainment on a par with movies, books and music.

The revival in good, old-fashioned Westerns continues with this conventional but entertaining shoot ‘em up yarn about the taking on of a town bully and the subsequent cleaning up of said town, the 'Appaloosa' of the title.

When a little girl vanishes from her bedroom in one of Boston’s poorest neighbourhoods, her distraught mother (Amy Ryan) makes a television appeal for her safe return.

Affleck’s stunning directing debut (which he also co-wrote) – about the search for a missing baby, left alone by her partying mother – finally comes to our screens after he delayed its release because of the on-going search for little Maddy McCann.

Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren hopes to become known as an action hero after doing her own stunts for her latest big-budget film.

This drama covering the last months of the life of the great composer – played, well against the odds, by Harris – is something of a throwback to the time when Hollywood churned out bios of other great composers with decidedly mixed results.

Jessica Lange picked up an Oscar nomination for her role as country music legend Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams (Momentum, €21.99).

THE proud mother of Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys-Meyers said yesterday that she knew her son would be a star from an early age but she never imagined the heights he would reach as an actor.

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers said today that getting a Golden Globe was like winning the FA Cup.

Hollywood star Ed Harris is to tread the boards of Cork's Everyman Palace theatre.

One of the classiest thrillers of the year, with a couple of potential Oscar nominations in Mortensen and the always-reliable Harris.

The Cannes Film Festival is back in the hands of comfy old friends with a line-up that includes such familiar filmmakers as Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and Atom Egoyan.

Smelly socks worn by Ed Harris during the filming of Empire Falls were among the treasures snatched up by fans during a weekend sale of props and costumes from the HBO movie.

Pollock star Ed Harris is to make his debut as a Broadway, New York, director next year when he takes charge of pal Sam Shepard's Fool For Love.

A sterling cast of quality talent ... wasted in this dire story - another true one - of a mentally-retarded radio enthusiast (Gooding), who was mentored by a college football coach in South Carolina in the l970s.

Aidan Quinn has joins the HBO production of Empire Falls, a drama set in a blue-collar Maine mill town.

Buffralo Soldiers stars Joaquin Phoenix as Ray Elwood, a drug-dealing thief who keeps his fellow soldiers at a US army base in Germany supplied with the bare essentials.

It's hard to believe, in this screen adaptation of the Philip Roth novel, that so many otherwise excellent actors could be so miscast and out of their depth.

The Magdalene Sisters, the film which depicted life in the laundries run by the Magdalene nuns, has earned four nominations in this year’s London Film Critics’ Circle Awards.

The Berlin Wall is about to come down (the story is set circa l989) and we meet a group of US soldiers bored and behaving badly.

Hollywood was gearing up for the Oscars today but war with Iraq means the ceremony will be a strangely muted affair.

Seldom has such a fine ensemble of Hollywood ladies come together for such a powerfully moving and wonderfully crafted gem of a film.

IRISH actor Daniel Day-Lewis and U2 are among the nominees for this year’s Oscars.

Chicago received a leading eight Golden Globe nominations today, including best musical or comedy and best actress for stars Catherine Zeta Jones and Renee Zellweger.

Two-time Oscar nominee Debra Winger is set to star in the sports drama Radio, her first studio film since Forget Paris in 1995.

Russell Crowe gets an A for his portrayal of John Forbes Nash Jr in A Beautiful Mind.