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Tom Cruise visits daughter Suri after Katie Holmes split
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Tom Cruise visited his daughter Suri in New York City on Tuesday for the first time since his high-profile divorce from her mother, actress Katie Holmes, People magazine reported.
All-time high for theatre receipts revealed
Thursday 05 July 2012
London theatregoers are paying an average of £37.97 for their tickets, according to research.
Kathy comes home
Thursday 21 June 2012
Kathy Burke has written a sitcom about her childhood, but most shows about young women make her puke, she tells James Rampton
Actor Anthony Bate dies aged 84
Tuesday 19 June 2012
Actor Anthony Bate, best known for his role in the BBC's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and a familiar face of TV drama during his five decade career, has died at the age of 84.
The Week In Radio: Lots to celebrate as passions run high in poet's corner
Thursday 07 June 2012
There are occasions when only Gary Barlow, Grace Jones and a hula hoop will do. Fortunately, those occasions only come round every 60 years, so it's important to have something else to listen to in the meantime. And while BBC Radio 2 lined up a seamless flotilla of Jubilee programmes – Sixty Amazing Years segueing into We Are Sixty and then a 60 years-themed Sunday Half-Hour with music from the choir of the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy on Sunday alone, there were odd pockets of airtime that offered a more leftfield perspective on the damp pyrotechnics of the long weekend, if not ever managing to ignore them entirely.
West on West hailed at TV Bafta awards
Monday 28 May 2012
A gritty drama about serial killer Fred West won three television Baftas last night.
Deborah Ross: Dear Johnnie Boden, this is why I'm returning your catalogue
Tuesday 08 May 2012
If you ask me: My husband wouldn't recognise moleskin if the mole was skinned right under his nose
DVD: Clone
Sunday 06 May 2012
After the death of Eva Green's boyfriend, Matt Smith, she gives birth to his clone.
Observations: All change for Doctor Who as he whizzes into the Wild West
Saturday 05 May 2012
I am sitting opposite the biggest name in British television at the Doctor Who Convention in Cardiff.
Howard Jacobson: Men – once you run out of fingers to count your sexual conquests, it's time to stop
Friday 04 May 2012
What happens in the dark is not for gossiping or bragging about in the light
EastEnders star Jo Joyner leads nominations at this evening's British Soap Awards
Saturday 28 April 2012
The soap world's "Oscars" take place tonight, as Coronation Street, EastEnders, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and Doctors battle it out for gongs.
DVD: Twice Round the Daffodils (PG)
Saturday 28 April 2012
This cloying 1962 comedy is reminiscent of the dire 1980s sitcom Only When I Laugh, but without James Bolam's comic timing.
Scientists make 'sonic screwdriver'
Thursday 19 April 2012
A team of scientists has taken inspiration from Doctor Who and created their own "sonic screwdriver" that could be used in complex surgeries.
Shareholder revolt causes Cairn to drop bonus plan
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Cairn Energy has confirmed that it will not be paying a controversial £2.5m bonus to its former chief executive, Sir Bill Gammell, nor make a £1m gift to charities he supports, after a huge shareholder revolt.
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- 4 Eyewitness gives extraordinary account of her confrontation with Woolwich attackers
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL might have a sinister plan as a soldier is murdered in suspected Islamic terrorist attack
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