This violent actioner opens with three redneck brothers massacring 13 heavily tattooed chaps in their Alabama home. Turns out they've slaughtered the wrong mob.

Stars of the classic US soap opera Dallas have been reunited in London to mark the arrival of a new series to UK television screens.

News that Jennifer Aniston is to marry Justin Theroux will have sent shockwaves through the celebrity magazine market. After all, who is going to be their "go-to" girl when they want to write about "unhappy", single females? Here are the front-runners:

The American actress Kathryn Joosten was known to millions of television viewers worldwide as Karen McCluskey, the nosy, gossipy neighbour in Desperate Housewives, observing the lives and relationships of the group of women in the fictional Wisteria Lane.

'Desperate Housewives' will end in 2012.

Dallas was bold and brash, the ultimate Eighties soap. But will anyone tune in to the 21st century remake? By Sarah Hughes

A nightclub in Las Vegas owned by Desperate Housewives co-star Eva Longoria is temporarily closing its doors amid financial troubles.

Justin Bieber is set to host the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs).

A histrionic take on the 12th century

There was just enough time in the opening minutes of Jamie Does... Marrakech – a lurid, cacophonous whirl of chained monkeys, hawkers, Sufi dancing and charmed snakes – to recall the last time that primetime television sent a wide boy to the Moroccan city. That was two years ago when, how could we forget, Sir Alan dispatched his hapless apprentices to the heart of the souk to test their bartering skills and buy a kosher chicken, whereupon self-proclaimed "good Jewish boy" Michael collared a butcher, made the sign of the cross a few times and asked him to say "Allah!" over the doomed fowl.

With $8bn spent on designer hotels, restaurants and shops, the gambling capital of the world is re-inventing itself – again. Kate Simon reports

Russia is in the throes of the coldest winter in a long while, and that, by any standard, is cold. Across Moscow, locals scuttle from A to B avoiding the huge phallic icicles which jut into the street from the spouts of drainpipes. At the doors to the metro, babushkas in headcarves and battered furs hunch against the bitter wind, begging for pennies. And, all the while, just a few paces away, Russia's super-rich are proving their impunity to these testing conditions.

Pandora has lost track of Shahid Malik's comings and goings in recent weeks, what with his resigning as a minister over expenses, only to return to the Government a week later and then become the subject of an investigation by John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.

Pedro Almodovar takes his zany Spanish film to the American suburbs – and television