An actor in one of the biggest comedies on US television, Two and a Half Men, describes the show as "filth" and urges viewers not to watch it.

Actors Matt Damon and Marion Cotillard receive career tributes at the 22nd annual Gotham Awards in New York, where Wes Anderson's comedy Moonrise Kingdom is named best feature.

Singer Ricky Martin is to leave the hit Broadway revival of Evita in January after nine months in the role of Che.

Home stars Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen are both booed at a Canadian football final in Toronto.

The singer says she wishes she could have given more time to fans and journalists after criticism of her promotional tour.

Dallas star Larry Hagman is remembered this week with two private memorial services in Dallas and Los Angeles.

The chairman of the BBC Trust tells MPs there was no choice but to give a £450,000 pay-off to the director general when he resigned in the wake of the Newsnight row.

The new indoor theatre to be built at Shakespeare's Globe in London is to be named The Sam Wanamaker Theatre, after the organisation's founder.