CULVER CITY, Calif., May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hugh Grant will voice the lead role alongside an all-star cast in The Pirates! Band of Misfits, the new stop-motion, 3D, animated film produced by Aardman Animations for Sony Pictures Animation.

Ashley Jensen's agent has confirmed the British actress is pregnant with her first child. Jensen, 39, is best known for her work on TV's Extras and Ugly Betty. The BBC reported she is due to give birth this fall to her first child with her husband of two years, actor-writer Terence Beesley.

By FRAZIER MOORE By Frazier Moore The Associated Press NEW YORK MANY VIEWERS were first acquainted with Ashley Jensen when she played Maggie, the dowdy, dim-bulb sidekick to Ricky Gervais on his show-biz spoof "Extras." Then she landed a plum supporting role on ABC's "Ugly Betty" as Christina, the worldly-wise wardrobe mistress for a high-fashion magazine.

By Chris Green Tom Wilkinson and Dame Eileen Atkins were the only two British prize-winners at the 60th annual Emmy awards, held in Los Angeles late on Sunday night.

"THEY say never work with children or animals and I am working with 100 children, camels, a donkey, pig, sheep ... and Alan Carr," laughs Debbie Isitt. The Coventry-based writer and director has been heading all over Coventry and Warwickshire with a film crew in tow for her latest movie Nativity.