Jules O'Dwyer and her dog Matisse win Britain's Got Talent beating magician Jamie Raven and choir Cor Glanaethwy.

Hollywood's ageist attitude to women is "antiquated, backward and discriminatory", Jurassic World actress Bryce Dallas Howard says.

Earthquake disaster movie San Andreas, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has topped the US box office with $53.2m over the weekend, allaying fears that audiences in quake-prone regions would be put off seeing it.

Critics have praised Bradley Cooper's portrayal of Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man, while some express reservations about the production itself.

Monty Python star Michael Palin says narrating the new series of The Clangers is "Zen-like".

Serial, a 12-part podcast about a 1999 murder in Baltimore, wins a prestigious Peabody award for journalism.

Nearly 24,000 people sign a petition aimed at stopping the BBC from broadcasting Britain's Hardest Grafter, where low-paid workers vie for £15,500.

Author EL James announces that she has written a new version of her erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey - told from the point of view of its title character.