The UK Film Council is handing over its funding responsibilities to the British Film Institute, eight months after it was axed by the government.

Mad Men creator Matt Weiner signs a new contract with producers that could mean a further three series of the award-winning US ad agency drama.

Actor James Franco speaks for the first time about his much-criticised hosting of this year's Oscars ceremony.

The shortlist is announced for the second Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction staged in the Scottish Borders.

A pioneering Lucian Freud painting of his ex-wife Suzy Boyt is expected to fetch up to £4.5m when it is auctioned in London in June.

More than 100 countries have bought the rights to broadcast ITV1's hit period drama Downton Abbey, its backers announce.