Mind games: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi and David Cross

The cult TV sitcom returns to our screens this week after seven years away but will it be as good as the much-loved original episodes, asks Sarah Hughes, and will that longed-for movie ever happen?

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Biomen shampoo used footage of a Hitler speech in its TV advert

Turkey gets into a lather over 'disgusting' shampoo advert featuring Adolf Hitler

A men's shampoo brand in Turkey has caused outrage by using Adolf Hitler to promote its product.

DVD: Wuthering Heights

Andrea Arnold's bleak interpretation of Wuthering Heights is certainly a bold one.

A night to remember

Expectations are high for ITV's new drama 'Titanic'. Gerard Gilbert talks to Julian Fellowes and the cast
All aboard...

Titanic: A night to remember

Expectations are high for ITV's new drama, Titanic. Gerard Gilbert talks to writer Julian Fellowes and the cast

Reining champion: Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell in 'Steptoe and Son'

At long last, the tale of Steptoe and daughter

Susannah Corbett has written a revealing biography of her father

No party for Iranian director who won Oscar

Authorities in Tehran cancelled a ceremony due to be held yesterday in honour of an Iranian Oscar-winning director, even though the government had hailed his win as a triumph over a competitor from Israel.

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Syrian film festival is the reel deal

Can a film and cultural festival be exiled? It can if it's called Reel Syria, and usually takes place in March in the cities of Homs, Damascus and Tartous. Civil war has driven Reel Syria, and the DOX BOX documentary film festival, to London at a critical moment. We have seen what Syrian government forces have done to Homs. But now, in very different imagery, we can see how life under the Assad regime is viewed by longstanding Syrian critics.

Cineworld eyes boost from 4D

The UK's largest cinema operator today warned Euro 2012 and the London Olympics would present challenges this year, but said a strong line up of sequels and new "4D" seats should offer support to the business.

Simon Kelner: Nothing much can remain a secret in this viral age

If you haven't seen The Artist yet, does the fact that it has won five Oscars make you more, or less, likely to go and see it? Seduced by its success, or put off by the hype?

Ciaran Hinds in ‘The Shore’, which centres on the Troubles

Northern Irish leaders unite in praise of Oscar-winner

An Oscar for a Belfast film-maker whose work concentrates on the violence of the Troubles was yesterday welcomed across the political and religious divide in Northern Ireland.

Uggie the Dog is chewing over the bitterness of being not invited to the Oscars

Not invited? You're not alone. Neither is Uggie the Dog

Even the best get overlooked and humiliated at times. So, join the snub club

Robert Pattinson and Philip Glenister star in Bel Ami

Heads Up: Bel Ami

Fangs away but love still has bite for raunchy R-Pattz

Spurlock says: 'At 41, I finally see a man that's handsome'

My Secret Life: Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker, 41

My parents were... incredibly supportive in spite of my shortcomings.

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A meeting of global power brokers in a Hertfordshire hotel is exciting conspiracy theorists, but what are they really about?
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'The ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system'

Microsoft finally unveils its Xbox ONE console
Plenty of Fish dating site founder pulls 'Intimate Encounters' option to ward off sleazy men

Plenty of sleaze

Dating website pulls intimate 'hook-up' section to curb harassment
Inferno author Dan Brown 'honoured' to be invited to join the Freemasons

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Nick Buckles survived the Olympics débâcle and a £5bn bid fiasco but a profit warning finally triggered his downfall
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How to say ‘I’m a sellout’

Tumblr’s David Karp’s message of reassurance to his staff sounded very familiar
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Why clubs are keen to take a stand

There's a real desire around the grounds for safe standing. But will the authorities listen?
In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

Disillusion with a siege mentality and negative playing style made change inevitable
James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

British driver was fascinating man whose epic duel with Niki Lauda in 1976 was typical of an era of glamour and glory – but also the ever-present threat of death
Stuart Hogg: Ready to climb his own Everest

Stuart Hogg: Ready to climb his own Everest

Lions' cub, 20, joins long line of players from Scottish borders club Hawick given opportunity to make his mark at highest level
Carl Froch handed rare chance of revenge with dream rematch

Steve Bunce on Boxing

Carl Froch handed rare chance of revenge with dream rematch against Mikel Kessler
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Masculinity in crisis?

'There is a battle going on inside us that is never discussed'
Have US shock jocks gone too far?

Have US shock jocks gone too far?

An incendiary remark from Rush Limbaugh may be the beginning of the end for outspoken right-wing US broadcasters
The ‘Beverly Hills’ of Surrey pays more income tax than big cities of the North

The ‘Beverly Hills’ of Surrey

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Heavenly Bodies

Heavenly Bodies

Michael Landy's artistic marriage made in heaven... and hell