Sir Kenneth Branagh is to appear in his first Shakespeare play for a decade, to be staged in an old church at next year's Manchester International Festival.

Dame Janet Smith, who is conducting an inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile, has launched an appeal for witnesses.

A one-off Olympic episode of the TV show Superstars is to form part of BBC One's Christmas schedule.

Christie's auction sets a post-war contemporary sales record, with a Jeff Koons sculpture one of the stars of the show

Sherlock creator Steven Moffat is presented with a special award for outstanding writing at the Writers' Guild Awards, with Appropriate Adult and We Need to Talk About Kevin among the winners.

A "grand trail" of 60 Gromit statues are to grace the streets of Bristol next summer to raise cash for the children's hospital

Metropolitan Police detectives arrest a man in his 60s as part of the police investigation set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

ITV says it has taken "appropriate disciplinary action" over the incident where This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield confronted David Cameron on air with a list of alleged paedophiles.