The soap world's "Oscars" take place tonight, as Coronation Street, EastEnders, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and Doctors battle it out for gongs.

Actor Sir Derek Jacobi has joined the list of illustrious names to have appeared in ITV’s long-running soap opera, Coronation Street.

The horrific details of how Daniel Bartlam murdered his mother with a claw hammer must have been music to the ears of the anti-video-games lobby. It seemed that the teenager's homicidal onslaught can be held up as proof – at last! – that the depiction of violence leads to acts of violence.

I was amused to see a credit for an Etiquette Consultant in the programme for the National Theatre's new She Stoops to Conquer.

EastEnders won its head-to-head battle with Downton Abbey as BBC1 kept with tradition by coming out on top in the Christmas Day ratings.

There’s nothing to stop them having a bunch of Hassidim propping up the barat the Rovers Return

They will be digging up and transporting the cobbles when Britain's longest-running soap opera, Coronation Street, moves to a new home in 2012. The Street, which has had a special place in the national culture since the cameras first panned across Weatherfield's rooftops half a century ago, is moving to the glittering, glass new media complex.

7,486 episodes, 39 births, 114 deaths – life in Weatherfield is never dull. Brian Viner wishes our most enduring soap a happy 50th

Rovers Return landlady Beverley Callard is to leave Coronation Street next year, it was announced today.

Coronation Street landed a pair of world records today as it prepares to mark its 50th birthday.

These spies are still licensed to thrill

Viewers will not be made to pay for Coronation Street as ITV seeks new ways of making money, chief executive Adam Crozier insisted today.

Another children's adventure from Suzie Pugh - Ideal for bedtime listening

Former Coronation Street star Denise Welch revealed today she snorted cocaine in between filming scenes for the soap.