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Julie Walters nominated for an Emmy Award

04.10.11
Julie Walters has been nominated for an International Emmy award for her portrayal of former cabinet minister Mo Mowlam... more

TV to talk about this autumn

08.09.11
A Peter Morgan drama, a Philip Glenister series, dressing up and down in Downton Abbey and another Killing: Steve Morrissey looks at the highlights of the new season... more

Harry Potter will premiere at Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square

01.03.11
Harry Potter will bow out with the first red carpet premiere in Trafalgar Square... more

Screen star Pete Postlethwaite dies aged 64

04.01.11
Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite has died aged 64 after a long fight with cancer... more

Lifetime Achievement award for Sheila Hancock

03.12.10
Sheila Hancock is being given an awarded marking her lengthy career in film and television... more

Ant and Dec bag first TV Bafta while Simon Cowell is honoured with Special Award

07.06.10
Ant and Dec scooped their first Bafta - with their sixth nomination - after a 20-year career on the small screen.... more

Britain’s Got Talent earns nomination for BAFTA

10.05.10
Simon Cowell's hugely successful series Britain’s Got Talent has been nominated for a Bafta television award.... more

Glorious return for Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita

09.04.10
Welcome back onstage, Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita, you’ve been lost to the cinema for too long.... more

Soap stars let their hair down at TV Awards as Simon Cowell is snubbed

17.03.10
Video: Simon Cowell's ratings winners The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent were snubbed at the Royal Television Society Awards.... more

It's official, Arlene Phillips is 'a lady'

15.02.10
Dance guru Arlene Phillips joined artist Tracey Emin, Barbara Windsor, and the Queen on a list honouring the "ladies of today". ... more

Passion runs cold in Fool For Love

29.01.10
The play is a sort of modern western, a vicious wrangle in a motel room in the Mojave desert. ... more

Rising British star Ben Whishaw crowned best actor at Emmy awards

24.11.09
Video: Rising star Ben Whishaw has been crowned best actor at the International Emmy awards, which were dominated by Britons.... more

Talent is a seventies send-up

24.09.09
You'd have thought Talent would have been in with a fighting chance but this is no talent show winner.... more

The magic of Bonnie Wright

26.06.09
Bonnie Wright has gone from Voldemort's accomplice to Harry Potter's leading lady. Lydia Slater is enchanted by Ginny Weasley... more

Just a Mo as Walters signs up for lead in C4 drama

25.03.09
Julie Walters is to play Mo Mowlam in a new one-off drama for Channel 4... more

I've become a waste avenger

16.03.09
This week sees the launch of the commendable Recycle Now campaign. The heartening news is that our recycling rates have risen from 17 per cent to an impressive 34 per cent in the past five years; not enough but getting better every day... more

Obama shortlisted for two book prizes

10.03.09
President Barack Obama appears twice on this year's Galaxy British Book Awards shortlist... more

Julie calls for more women’s roles on TV

27.02.09
Top performers led by Julie Walters, Simon Callow, Charles Dance and David Soul are calling for more roles for women on television... more

Super Thursday sees bookshops start Christmas countdown

02.10.08
The race for the top 10 Christmas books begins with more than 800 titles in the running... more

Thank you for the music, the magic - and Meryl

11.07.08
Some of the film critics - outside our own life-enhancing Standard cast - have given Mamma Mia! a rather stingy clutch of ratings on its release this week: "Pulped to Hollywood blancmange," gripes one... more

My, my, how can you resist Mamma Mia?

10.07.08
It's loud, deliriously camp and unsubtle but the screen version of the abba musical Mamma Mia! is as feelgood as it gets.... more

They all said I was crazy, that Abba was so passe - Mamma made Mia fortune

04.07.08
The smash musical has hit the big screen. But for producer Judy Craymer, it has been an epic 13-year labour of love. ... more

Mama Mia! Scarlet woman Meryl Streep turns the blue carpet red at film premiere

30.06.08
She may be nearing 60 but Meryl Streep showed that she still had that extra something as she arrived for the the UK premiere of her new movie Mamma Mia.... more

Summer Blockbusters for the thinking fan

20.06.08
Prince Caspian gets the blockbuster season rolling - there are lots more big movies to look forward to. This year the emphasis is on brains as well as brawn.... more

My mother was a snob, says Mary Whitehouse's son

27.05.08
On the eve of a drama about Mary Whitehouse the zealot clean-up TV campaigner, her youngest son launches an astonishing attack on the mother he didn't talk to for 15 years. ... more

Julie Walters: I thought Mary Whitehouse was just a busybody who spoiled all our fun - until I played her on TV

11.05.08
It is an uncanny and slightly terrifying likeness. From the winged glasses and stiffly coiffured hair to the leather gloves and crocodile hide handbag, Julie Walters is the very image of morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse... more

Julie Walters receives CBE as Charles reveals he loves the Harry Potter films

28.02.08
Julie Walters has described her excitement at being made a CBE as she revealed the Prince of Wales is a Harry Potter fan. The award-winning star famed for her parts on stage, screen and television said Charles told her he 'loved' the movies featuring the boy wizard... more

On the road to nowhere

07.09.06
Was there ever a more mishandled British film than Driving Lessons? This woeful effort starring Rupert Grint makes less and less sense as it plods on.... more

Potter star in the driving seat

05.09.06
Rupert Grint is having driving lessons in real life and in the movies. He stars in Driving Lessons opposite Julie Walters, which had its premiere in Mayfair last night.... more

Helena lands Potter role

02.08.06
Film news: Helena Bonham Carter has won the role of evil Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange in the next Harry Potter film. The 40-year-old star will play one of Lord Voldemort's followers in the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.... more


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