Heat director Michael Mann will lead the jury at this years Venice Film Festival, organisers announce.
Radio 2s Chris Evans misses his breakfast show as his wife goes into labour with the couples second child.
Madonna kicks off her MDNA world tour in Tel Aviv, Israel, wishing peace in the Middle East.
Critics praise Christopher Ecclestons "charismatic" and "intense" portrayal of Creon in the National Theatres new production of Sophocles Antigone.
Competition for an Emmy Award is to become fiercer among performers following a decision by US organisers to combine leading and supporting acting categories
The author of The Devil Wears Prada has confirmed she is writing a sequel to the best-selling book, to be released next year.
Entertainment venue Hammersmith Apollo which has held concerts by bands from The Beatles to Queen, is sold by its owner HMV.
David Cameron will not order an inquiry into whether Jeremy Hunt broke the ministerial code after the culture secretarys grilling at the Leveson Inquiry.
Life on Mars Philip Glenister is to make his National Theatre debut opposite Phil Daniels in This House, a new play about two real-life Labour whips.
Jeremy Hunt sent a "congrats" text to News Corps James Murdoch hours before the minister was asked to oversee its BSkyB bid, the Leveson Inquiry hears.
Leading arts figures welcome the governments decision to drop plans to limit tax relief on charitable giving.
UK digital music revenue overtakes sales of physical formats such as CDs and records for the first time.
Chancellor George Osborne drops plans to limit tax relief on charitable donations after protests from charities.
A record number of shows are to be staged at this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe, despite a clash with the London Olympics.
Italian architect Renzo Piano, who is behind Londons Shard skyscraper, will co-design the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
A private funeral for the late Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb will take place next week, with a public memorial service planned for later in the year.
Sir Elton John helps his musical version of Billy Elliot celebrate seven years in the West End, a week on from being treated for pneumonia.
Two of sculptor Antony Gormleys iron men on Crosby beach in Merseyside are given a multi-coloured cover-up by a guerrilla knitwear artist.
US author Madeline Miller has won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Song of Achilles.
A series of world and European premieres are announced for the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival.
A former finance director at the Royal Academy of Music is sentenced to 20 months in prison after admitting she defrauded the institution of £236,000.
American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe hits back at claims from US TV network Fox that the show should have made more changes to prevent falling ratings this series.
Former punk Adam Ant supports bands involved in the Queens Jubilee concert and is glad the stigma of being a royalist has gone.
The Turner prize will be held in Northern Ireland for the first time next year as part of Londonderrys year as UK City of Culture.
TV producer Jim Paratore, who helped create shows like The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Rosie ODonnell Show and launched the TMZ website, dies.
TV and radio news could give politicians more time to convey ideas rather than soundbites, the BBCs political editor Nick Robinson suggests.
The editors of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror are made redundant as the two newspapers merge into one title, says publisher Trinity Mirror.
An MP complains to the BBC and the Equalities and Human Rights Commission regarding a joke about the Cornish on TV satire show Have I Got News for You.
Azerbaijan says it has arrested 40 people suspected of having plotted a "terrorist" attack on the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku.
A South African art gallery agrees not to display a painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed after reaching a deal with the ANC.
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