Heroines and female villains outnumber heroes and male baddies in a literary poll of memorable children's novel characters, to mark World Book Day.

Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and a revival of the musical Gypsy share the spoils at the WhatsOnStage theatre awards.

The world's most extensive retrospective of artist David Hockney will open at Tate Britain next year, the gallery announces.

Ukraine picks a song about Josef Stalin's enforced wartime deportation of the Tatar people as its entry to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Hollywood has an "epidemic of invisibility" for women, minorities and LGBT people that runs across the industry, a study suggests.

The writer behind The Spice Girls' biggest hits has teamed up with Leona Lewis to create a song they hope will be this year's UK Eurovision entry.

Five members of the Friends cast come together in a much-anticipated Friends reunion on TV in the US.

A TV show in which illusionist Derren Brown suffocated himself as part of a trick should not have been shown before the watershed, Ofcom says.