In the air: Google UK has a new chief. Dan Cobley, the former marketing boss, steps up as Matt Brittin takes on a bigger European role after two and a half years in the job... more
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
ITV2's The Only Way Is Essex won the YouTube Audience Award, the only prize chosen by viewers.
Mark Wright, who appears in the reality show, said it felt "incredible" to win... more
What with Donkey Punch, Kick-Ass and True Grit, it seems that young girls, even pre-adolescent, are the new film heroines. Saoirse Ronan's teenage Hanna, however, beats the lot of them ... more
Rebecca Hall highlighted the global standing of the London stage today as she prepared to take her place at the 56th Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more
The end of the weekend has just become bearable again. Into the gap left by Downton Abbey steps TV drama Any Human Heart — starring the original book’s biggest fan... more
Tom Hollander always wanted to be taken seriously — but as he prepares to take the lead in the Old Vic’s Christmas farce, he’s finally made his peace with comedy, he tells Nick Curtis... more
There is always a moment when what little bit of spirit you salvaged in the sun and smuggled back to the real world disintegrates in your hands.
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Former winners Patrick Stewart, Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale will be handing out the honours to new victors at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards next week... more
Vanessa Redgrave is to present the best actress award in memory of her daughter, Natasha Richardson, at this year's London Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more
When heiress Daphne Guinness had a
spring-clean of her wardrobe she filled
more than a few bags for the charity shop.
In fact it is taking more than three hours
to auction the designer pieces she no
longer wants... more
The third instalment of Disney's billion-dollar Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise is just as simple-minded as its two predecessors says Nick Curtis, but longer, louder, bigger and brasher.... more
Joe Penhall's Landscape With Weapon about the moral responsibility of a weapons designer requires far too much suspending of disbelief and doubt-swallowing, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
In Rabbit Fever, women the world over are hooked on the Rampant Rabbit sex toy and as a full-length mockumentary film it isn't long before the vaguely Freudian gag wears pretty thin.... more
A new "mockumentary" Rabbit Fever, featuring the world's most popular sex toy, is set to become the unlikeliest British film smash of the year.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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