The Christmas Day episode of ITV's Downton Abbey will go head to head with BBC One's EastEnders, television schedules reveal.

British film-maker Steve McQueen is named best director for 12 Years a Slave by the New York Critics Circle, while American Hustle wins best film.

This year's Turner Prize-winning artwork will go on show in the Cumbrian village where it was conceived and created following its award victory.

Production on Fast & Furious 7 is on hold following the death of its star Paul Walker, with DVD proceeds from the latest film in the franchise set to go to his charity.

Thomas Heatherwick, the man behind the London 2012 cauldron and the city's new Routemaster bus, is honoured by critics for his achievements in design.

Novelist Manil Suri has won the 2013 Bad Sex in Fiction prize for his description of an erotic involving three characters.

TV cook and author Nigella Lawson tells a court her ex-husband Charles Saatchi threatened to "destroy" her with "false" allegations of drug use.

Jude Law's performance as Shakespeare's Henry V is crowned as a success by West End critics.