The two families will meet in autumn 2014

Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Voices Toshiyuki Amagasa, Shigeru Chiba, 86mins

Dir. Chris Wedge. Voices Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, 102mins

A newspaper tribute to Matt Groening's mother Margaret, who died aged 94, reads like a Who's Who of the cartoonist's famous TV creation

TV's Dermot O'Leary will be gracing Latitude 2013 with his own special A-list charm.

1. The sick man of Europe.

The Book Of Mormon has set a record for the biggest day of sales in West End and Broadway history.

Singing and swearing: from South Park to the West End

It's been flagging a bit recently, but these episodes were made at the height of The Simpsons' scurrilous powers, in the mid-2000s.

While he liked to remain faithful to the source material, he also gave his directors creative freedom

Being the new kid in town proves tough, especially if Eric Cartman decides to take an interest in you.

I finally "got" Wes Anderson the other day. Which is not to say that I hadn't "got" him before – in the sense of liking his work and always being willing to substitute his vision of the world for mine for an hour or two. Though I'm not very fond of fey art-house whimsy (see references to Miranda July passim), there has always been something about.

From Springfield, Ohio, to the city's namesakes in West Virginia, Vermont and Illinois, resounds the exclamation: "Doh!" The creator of The Simpsons has broken his silence and revealed that the real-life inspiration for the animated series is the Springfield in Oregon.

Oregonians delight as Groening finally reveals that of 38 US Springfields, he was thinking of theirs