Joe Wright, who made the film versions of Atonement and Anna Karenina, will direct Chiwetel Ejiofor on stage at Young Vic next year.

A fictional feature film is shot in Antarctica for the first time, using British Antarctic Survey staff as the cast and crew.

The Two and a Half Men actor gets $24m (£14.8) per year for his role, making him the highest earning actor on American television.

An average of 9.2 million viewers watched Emmerdale's live episode, to mark the ITV soap's 40th anniversary, with one critic describing it as "flawless".

DC Comics will continue to own copyrights to Superman after a judge ruled that the heirs of one of the superhero's co-creators gave up their claim on the character 20 years ago.

Broadcaster Mike Harding is to leave Radio 2's folk show after 15 years, but tells fans he did not go "of my own volition".

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel who starred in the 1974 erotic French film Emmanuelle, dies aged 60.

Clybourne Park playwright Bruce Norris refuses permission to a Berlin theatre company to perform the play after learning that a lead character would appear blacked up.