Actress Michelle Dockery has revealed that Downton Abbey viewers can expect a wedding, a funeral and a sex scene in the coming episodes of the hit period drama... more
I have never understood the appeal of private members' clubs. In my rare visits to Pall Mall's oak-panelled bastions of privilege the guests have usually been as stale as the cakes on the pudding tray... more
The advertising industry gave a good send-off to Hamish Pringle, departing director-general of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, with a party at the Royal Horticultural Halls in Westminster last night - complete with tubes of Pringles crisps, of course... more
Miranda Hart, Hugh Bonneville, Al Murray, Stephen Mangan and more than 50 other comedians and actors united to break the Guinness World Record for the largest kazoo ensemble... more
Burke & Hare is an excursion into Ealing comedy territory with a smart cast led by Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as the two hopeless 19th-century grave-robbers... more
The star of ITV’s new hit drama Downton Abbey isn’t Maggie Smith, or Hugh Bonneville, or even Julian Fellowes’s deft script. It’s the house itself... more
British period pieces are regularly mocked as pretty pieces of cinema devoid of real bite. But you couldn't call Stephen Poliakoff's first film for more than a decade, Glorious 39, namby-pamby... more
British hopes at the Cannes Film Festival are resting on a Frenchman. Not just any Frenchman, but a footballing genius who happens to be not bad at acting either... more
Josh Hartnett, Martin Freeman, Dervla Kirwan and Jessica Hynes are four of the stars who will take part in this year's 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala at the Old Vic... more
Ancient relics and a dusty fedora - Bonekickers is a new BBC series in which a very English hero digs up treasure and treachery in Britain's own backyard.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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