ARTS / And what's more . . .

Oscar winner Emma Thompson gives BBC Scotland her all in writer-director Paul Murton's ghost story The Blue Boy - but don't hold your breath; transmission is Christmas 1994 . . . Tired of cloning casts for Lloyd Webber's Joseph, director Steven Pimlott directs Phyllis Nagy's Butterfly Kiss at London's Almeida Theatre . . . Writer Alan Plater (Fortunes of War) has been brought in to streamline the second series of Frank Stubbs Promotes, a critical smash but a ratings flop for ITV . . .