Cop drama pulled after shootings

20 September 2012 Last updated at 09:02 ET The BBC has shelved the final episode of drama Good Cop following the deaths of two police officers. The episode, due to be screened on Thursday, features a violent attack on a female police officer. PCs Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, died in a gun and grenade attack in Greater Manchester on Tuesday. "In light of news events, BBC...

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British Museum to show Roman life

20 September 2012 Last updated at 07:38 ET More than 250 archaeological remains from the lives of people in the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum will feature in a new exhibition at the British Museum next year. The two cities on Italy's southern coast were buried following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. The exhibition will include casts of some of the volcano's victims....

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BBC comedy producer Hurll dies

20 September 2012 Last updated at 06:31 ET Michael Hurll, who produced The Two Ronnies and established the British Comedy Awards, has died aged 75. The TV executive was also responsible for Top Of The Pops from 1980 to 1987 and worked on The Eurovision Song Contest and The Royal Variety Show. He died peacefully on Tuesday morning, his son said in a statement. TV presenter Mike Smith...

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'Lost' Hopper prints go on show

20 September 2012 Last updated at 05:30 ET More than 400 "lost" prints by Easy Rider star Dennis Hopper have gone on display in Europe for the first time. The photos, which include images of James Brown and Peter Fonda, were found in storage boxes when Hopper's house was cleared after his death in 2010. The exhibition, Dennis Hopper - The Lost Album, also includes photos of the US...

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Gallery seeks early Hockney art

20 September 2012 Last updated at 05:40 ET A gallery in David Hockney's home town of Bradford is asking people who met him at the start of his career to dig out works of art or pieces of memorabilia for a new exhibition. The show at the Cartwright Hall gallery will focus on his early life and work. Hockney was born in Bradford in 1937. As a teenager, he would use a pram loaded with...

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Film-makers want improved TV use

20 September 2012 Last updated at 00:06 A campaign backed by moviemakers has been launched to make sure films are watched "as the director intended". The plea comes in response to a poll which found more than half of consumers do not use the most suitable settings on their equipment. One expert said poorly set-up TVs made images look "more like a soap opera rather than a Hollywood...

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Sky 'fit and proper', says Ofcom

20 September 2012 Last updated at 02:29 ET Media regulator Ofcom has decided Sky is a "fit and proper" company to hold a broadcasting licence. Ofcom was investigating the satellite broadcaster in the wake of the phone hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media empire. News Corp owns 39% of BSkyB, and James Murdoch, Rupert's son, was chairman until he stepped down...

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Chitty sequel up for funny prize

20 September 2012 Last updated at 00:37 ET A follow-up to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, written by the man who scripted the London 2012 opening ceremony, is up for a top children's comedy writing award. Frank Cottrell Boyce has been nominated for a Roald Dahl Funny Prize for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, a sequel to Ian Fleming's 1964 original. Comedian turned author David Walliams...

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Music in post-Olympic sales boost

19 September 2012 Last updated at 21:05 ET The music featured in the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics has sparked a big surge in sales. According to industry figures, the events boosted downloads and sales by a retail value of £2.2m. There were nearly 250,000 extra album sales after the two showcases for British music, and just under 500,000 additional music...

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Dam Busters composer songs emerge

19 September 2012 Last updated at 13:16 ET Three songs by the composer of the Dam Busters theme, Eric Coates, are to be heard for the first time. Coates, a prolific songwriter and composer, is best known for his stirring music for the 1955 film. The handwritten pieces were donated to the Eric Coates Society by a woman whose mother had acquired them with other sheet music. The songs...

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King's Shining sequel due in 2013

19 September 2012 Last updated at 12:46 ET Stephen King's sequel to his horror novel The Shining is to be released on 24 September 2013, 36 years after the original was published. Doctor Sleep will follow Danny Torrance, the young boy who survived the horrific events of The Shining. According to King's official website, Dan meets a "very special 12-year-old girl" who he must "save...

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Gregory's Girl school 'to close'

19 September 2012 Last updated at 06:21 ET The secondary school immortalised in Scottish film Gregory's Girl could be closed under cost-cutting plans. North Lanarkshire Council has informed parents that it wants to shut Abronhill High School, in Cumbernauld, from August 2013. Exterior scenes for Bill Forsyth's 1981 romantic coming-of-age comedy were filmed at Abronhill. The much-loved...

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Radio 4's Robin Lustig steps down

19 September 2012 Last updated at 09:32 ET Robin Lustig, presenter of Radio 4's flagship evening news show The World Tonight and Newshour on the BBC World Service, has announced he will step down at the end of the year. Lustig, who has presented both programmes since 1989, called it an "immensely difficult" decision. During that time Lustig has interviewed such world leaders as Nelson...

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The Sweeney raids UK box office

19 September 2012 Last updated at 08:39 ET Director Nick Love's remake of the detective drama, The Sweeney has knocked Dredd off the top of the UK and Ireland box office in its first week. Starring Ray Winstone, the film version of the 1970s TV classic earned £1.5m, boosted by 398 preview screenings. The 3D comedy horror animation, ParaNorman earned £1.4m to enter the chart in second...

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Hamlisch remembered at memorial

19 September 2012 Last updated at 06:05 ET Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli have performed songs by Marvin Hamlisch at a memorial service for the late composer. Streisand, a friend of Hamlisch for 45 years, sang The Way We Were, one of his best-known songs. Minnelli performed If You Really Knew Me from the musical They're Playing My Song, while Franklin sang James...

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Oscar nominations brought forward

19 September 2012 Last updated at 05:05 ET The nominations for next year's Academy Awards will be revealed two weeks earlier than this year's were. The 2013 nominees will be unveiled on 10 January - five days earlier than normal and three days ahead of the Golden Globes. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) said it would "provide members and the public a longer...

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Amos musical 'to open next year'

19 September 2012 Last updated at 04:01 ET By Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Tori Amos: "Making a musical is a glorious nightmare" Singer Tori Amos has revealed that she hopes her long-awaited stage musical The Light Princess will premiere at the National Theatre next year....

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Bestival fund after fatal crash

18 September 2012 Last updated at 11:11 ET The music festival Bestival plans to set up a fund for those affected by a coach crash in which three people died. The vehicle was returning to Merseyside from the event on the Isle of Wight when it came off the A3 at Hindhead in Surrey, on Monday 10 September. Confirming the plans on Twitter, event promoter Robert Gorham - better known...

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Pop group devastated by thefts

18 September 2012 Last updated at 09:21 ET US pop group The Drifters have had thousands of pounds worth of equipment stolen from their minibus in Nottingham. The band, which had a hit with Under the Boardwalk, had stopped for a meal at Wilford Farm Inn, in Clifton Lane, Wilford, at 20:00 BST on Monday. Laptops and ipads containing family pictures were also taken. Lead singer Michael...

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US poet Louis Simpson dies at 89

18 September 2012 Last updated at 10:52 ET Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work often explored the darker side of life in the US suburbs, has died at his New York home aged 89. Born in Jamaica in March 1923, Simpson - the son of a Russian mother and a lawyer of Scottish descent - moved to the US at the age of 17. The Columbia University graduate published more than...

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Digital book sales soar in the UK

18 September 2012 Last updated at 00:49 A "huge increase" in the value of digital book sales in the UK has been announced by trade organisation the Publishers Association. The value of digital fiction sales in the first half of 2012 was up 188% on the same period in 2011. Physical book sales saw a drop in value, dipping 0.4% year on year. Industry experts said that while the figures...

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Humphrey to present BT football

BBC presenter Jake Humphrey has announced he is to leave the corporation to host BT Vision's Premier League coverage. BT will launch a new channel after acquiring the rights to £738m worth of Premier League football, starting from the 2013-14 season. The 33-year-old, best known for hosting the BBC's Formula 1 coverage, will anchor the new channel's live football coverage from next season which...

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Barlow stars on War of Worlds CD

18 September 2012 Last updated at 06:47 ET Gary Barlow is to sing on a revamped version of the hugely successful The War of the Worlds musical album. The Take That star and X Factor judge is performing two of the hit production's most famous songs. He is singing Forever Autumn and The Eve of the War, which includes the famous line: "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a...

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Entwistle reveals plans for BBC

18 September 2012 Last updated at 06:43 ET The BBC's new Director-General George Entwistle has said he will put programme makers and delivering "outstanding creative originality" at the heart of the organisation. In his first speech to staff since starting in the post on Monday he said he felt "privileged" to lead the broadcaster. But Entwistle acknowledged criticism of the BBC...

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Snowman producer John Coates dies

18 September 2012 Last updated at 06:05 ET John Coates, the producer of the classic animation film The Snowman, has died of cancer. He was in his eighties. Coates, recently finished work on a follow-up to the 1982 film to celebrate its 30th anniversary, died on Sunday at his home in Kent. A spokeswoman for Lupus Films, the production company behind the sequel, said: "It's very sad...

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Usher and Shakira join Voice US

Usher and Shakira have signed up as mentors for the next series of The Voice in America. Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green are taking a break from the NBC show, which is currently airing its third season. The fourth series will also feature original coaches Adam Levine from Maroon 5 and Blake Shelton. Cee Lo Green is developing new music and a sitcom based on his life for NBC, while Christina...

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Irish Daily Star editor suspended

17 September 2012 Last updated at 15:17 ET The editor of the Irish Daily Star, Michael O'Kane, has been suspended over its publication of topless photographs of the Duchess Of Cambridge. The Irishpaper's co-owners, Independent News and Media, confirmed that Mr O'Kane is suspended. This is while an investigation into the use of the photos takes place. The Irish Daily Star published...

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Most valuable artwork put on show

18 September 2012 Last updated at 03:20 ET A version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, which became the most expensive artwork sold at auction earlier this year, is to go on display in New York. The 1895 pastel, bought by an anonymous bidder in May for $120m (£74m), will go on view at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for six months from 24 October. MoMA director Glenn D Lowry told the New...

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Putin book for non-fiction prize

17 September 2012 Last updated at 22:12 ET A book about Russian leader Vladimir Putin, a history of feathers and the memoirs of Salman Rushdie are all nominated for this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Masha Gessen's The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin is one of 14 books in the running for the £20,000 prize. Rushdie's latest book is named Joseph...

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Mobo 2012 nominations announced

By Nesta McGregorNewsbeat entertainment reporter Emile Sandé received five nominations Emile Sandé and Plan B are the most nominated artists for this year's Music of Black Origin (Mobo) Awards. The pair received five nominations each although neither attended the launch event in central London. The 25-year-old Scottish singer has been recognized in the Best Female, Best Song and Best Video...

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Hirst tops Tate Modern solo shows

17 September 2012 Last updated at 12:12 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Damien Hirst: "What I try and do is not take the nice things too seriously and then you can avoid the bad things." Tate Modern's Damien Hirst retrospective was the most visited solo show and second-most visited exhibition in the gallery's history, it has revealed....

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Matthew Kelly cast in The Seagull

17 September 2012 Last updated at 11:33 ET Matthew Kelly is to appear in a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull by Anya Reiss. The play will run at the Southwark Playhouse in London from 8 November to 1 December. Reiss 's debut play Spur of the Moment, written when she was 17, opened at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010. She went on to win the most promising playwright award...

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UK film 'worth £4.6bn in 2011'

17 September 2012 Last updated at 10:49 ET The UK film industry contributed more than £4.6bn towards the UK GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in 2011, according to an independent report. It said the industry has "grown significantly" in the last 20 years. The number of UK films has grown from an average of 43 in the 1980s to 136 in the 2000s, according to report author Oxford Economics,...

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Rihanna leads MTV EMA nominations

Rihanna and Taylor Swift have picked up the most nominations for this year's MTV Europe Music Awards. The pair are up for six and five awards respectively, and go against each other in the Best Female, Best Pop and Best Look categories. Justin Bieber and Katy Perry are in the running for four awards each, while Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj are among those up for three. The MTV EMAs take place...

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Uganda frees man over gay play

17 September 2012 Last updated at 07:09 ET British theatre producer David Cecil has been released on bail in Uganda, where he was charged over a play about the condition of gay people. He was arrested last Thursday, accused of "disobeying lawful orders", because the play The River and the Mountain was performed without authorisation. Mr Cecil faces two years in jail if convicted....

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Nine million see Downton return

17 September 2012 Last updated at 07:09 ET The return of hit costume drama Downton Abbey was watched by an average of nine million people. The extended opening episode of the third series attracted a 36% share of the total Sunday night audience. Featuring the arrival of Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine as the Downton ladies' American grandmother, figures for the ITV1 programme peaked...

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