Andrea Arnold has forged an audacious version of the Emily Brontë classic which is pitch black, spare of dialogue and presenting a rustic world from which there is no escape... more
Whether a fan of the Danish cop series, The Killing, or obsessed with Professor Brian Cox on Sunday nights, this season's television tribes
all think their series is the best. Nick Curtis classifies each species... more
Shameless actor Elliott Tittensor was punched in the stomach as he left court after being fined £850 for a driving incident which left a teenager with a serious eye injury... more
Drugged-up, sexed-up Skins may seem like the last place to look for role models - but it also has one of the most positive portrayal of teenage girls on TV... more
Carey Mulligan, who was born in Westminster and lives in Covent Garden, is one of five young actors in the running for the only Bafta voted for by the British public... more
Channel 4 has had its problems but for younger audiences it is in a league of its own, as the success of series such as Skins and the Inbetweeners proves... more
A 12-year-old Londoner who used timelapse photography to film the bustle of the South Bank has won a film competition to capture London in Motion... more
The eight Oscars for British movie hit Slumdog Millionaire, the rags-to-riches tale set in Mumbai, caps an unstoppable run through award ceremonies this year... more
The 18-year-old award-winning star of Slumdog Millionaire told how he is still nagged by his mother despite being in one of the films of the year... more
Comedian Harry Enfield has lived up to one of his early catchphrases and made 'loadsamoney' from selling his Notting Hill house for about £12m.
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