Entertainment

• Cheryl Cole cancels work commitments on doctors' orders
• 06th July 2010
  Cheryl Cole has cancelled all work commitments this week on the advice of doctors, it has been confirmed. The X Factor star is currently judging auditions for the ITV1 show, and toured with the Black Eyed Peas recently. Her busy schedule is thought to h...

• X Factor's Olly Murs to release debut single
• 30th June 2010
  Olly Murs has confirmed details of his first single release. The X Factor runner-up has co-written a track called Please Don't Let Me Go to be released on 29 August. In a video message to fans posted on his website Murs said: "It's a summery song -...

• Pretty Woman producer dies at 58
• 09th June 2010
  Pretty Woman producer Steve Reuther has died from cancer at the age of 58. His family said he passed away at his home in Santa Monica, California, on Saturday. He began his career as the post boy at the William Morris talent agency in the late 1970s and...

• Boxer Boss is Cannes' top canine
• 22nd May 2010
  A boxer called Boss has won the Palm Dog prize for best cinematic canine at the Cannes Film Festival. The dog, who appeared in Tamara Drewe and sparked off a deadly stampede of cows, was called a "complete superstar" by the award organiser. ...

• New funds for Scots film talent
• 20th May 2010
  More than £1. 3m funding has been announced to develop home-grown talent in Scottish cinema. The money will finance apprenticeships and advisors and help short film makers progress onto feature-length films. The scheme is funded by Scottish Screen ...

• Incredibles' Bird to direct fourth Mission: Impossible
• 08th May 2010
  Brad Bird, director of Pixar hit The Incredibles, is to helm the fourth Mission: Impossible film, its star Tom Cruise has confirmed. "Everything's signed. . . Brad is doing it," the actor told Empire magazine, calling Bird "enormously talen...

• Toy Story 3 gets international premier in Edinburgh
• 29th April 2010
  The Edinburgh International Film Festival will host the international premiere of Toy Story 3 the day after it is first screened in the US. The film festival, now in its 64th year, will show the film on Saturday 19 June, a full month before it goes on gen...

• Rick Astley supports Peter Kay as tour opens
• 28th April 2010
  1980s pop star Rick Astley was a surprise guest at the Manchester MEN Arena on the first night of Peter Kay's sold-out tour. Astley, 44, played hits including Never Gonna Give You Up as well as a medley of songs by Manchester bands, including The Smiths. ...

• Poker woman from Sittingbourne plays for
• 26th April 2010
  A Kent woman who learnt to play poker four years ago is going into battle in Monte Carlo to try to win £2. 2m. Liv Boeree, 25, from Milstead, near Sittingbourne, won £1. 1m earlier this week in a preliminary round in the European Poker Tournam...

• Cirque du Soleil plan Michael Jackson show
• 22nd April 2010
  Acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil are to stage a live touring show featuring the songs of the late Michael Jackson. "Our family is thrilled that Cirque du Soleil will pay tribute to my son in such an important way," said Jackson's mother Kat...

• Ben Shephard to leave GMTV sofa
• 22nd April 2010
  GMTV presenter Ben Shephard has announced he is leaving the ITV breakfast show after 10 years. The 35-year-old began presenting the entertainment section in 2000, but was later promoted to the sofa in 2005. A spokesman for the star said he had tol...

• James Bond film suspended amid MGM uncertainty
• 20th April 2010
  The production of the next James Bond film has been suspended "indefinitely" because of uncertainty over the future of film company MGM, producers say. Producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said they did not know when work on the 23rd Bo...

• Cannes row leads to press boycott
• 16th April 2010
  One of the film calendar's most important events is being snubbed by the world's biggest news agencies. The press conference announcing the line-up for The Cannes Film Festival is being boycotted because of a row over red carpet access. Agence France-Pre...

• Ice dance win for Emmerdale star
• 29th March 2010
  Former Emmerdale actress Hayley Tamaddon has been crowned the winner of ITV's Dancing on Ice. Three of the original 14 contestants made it through to the final, with actors Gary Lucy and Kieron Richardson making up the finalists. Tamaddon, 33, had been f...

• Sport Relief charity event raises millions
• 23rd March 2010
  More than £29m has been raised for global causes by celebrities and the public taking part in the BBC's Sport Relief charity event. The telethon, from 1900 GMT on Friday to after 0100 on Saturday, featured special editions of Masterchef, Ashes to As...

• Sky launches 3D channel in pubs
• 28th January 2010
  Sky is kicking off the UK's first 3D channel with a live Premier League football match to be broadcast from nine pubs around the UK this weekend. The match between Arsenal and Manchester United will be viewable in 3D in pubs in London, Manchester, Car...

• Movie made by chimpanzees to be broadcast on television
• 26th January 2010
  The world's first film shot entirely by chimpanzees is to be broadcast by the BBC as part of a natural history documentary. The apes created the movie using a specially designed chimp-proof camera given to them by primatologists. The film-making exercise...

• Tesco signs film-making joint venture
• 25th January 2010
  Tesco has formed a joint venture to make films of books by best-selling authors, starting with Jackie Collins. The supermarket group has joined forces with US media firm Amber Productions to produce straight-to-DVD movies that it will initially sell e...

• Jedward to release debut single
• 23rd January 2010
  X Factor finalists John and Edward Grimes - otherwise known as Jedward - have signed a record deal with Sony Music, it has been announced. The 18-year-old twins will release Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby), the single which they performed at the Nationa...

• Director John Landis 'returns to filmmaking'
• 22nd January 2010
  Director John Landis, best known for films like An American Werewolf in London and Trading Places, is returning to filmmaking after more than 10 years. Andy Serkis will star opposite Simon Pegg in horror comedy Burke and Hare, according to the Hollywood R...