BBC News: Entertainment
- Fifty anthems for the African continent
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 07:30 AMFifty chart-toppers that have kept Africa beating
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Teen Choice nominations revealed
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 07:57 AMTaylor Swift, Twilight and Justin Bieber are all nominated in this year's Teen Choice Awards.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: Tate Liverpool celebrates 25 years
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 06:08 PMIt is 25 years since the opening of Tate Liverpool - the first Tate gallery established outside London.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - BBC abandons £100m digital project
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 06:05 AMThe BBC is to close its Digital Media Initiative, with director general Tony Hall saying it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Titanic violin real, scan suggests
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 08:32 AMA violin thought to be the one played by the band leader of the Titanic as it sank is proved to be genuine following CT scans at a hospital, an auctioneer says.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - BBC shows off 'script-changing' radio
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 12:24 PMA radio that has the ability to alter scripts and other content depending on its location and other factors is being developed by the BBC.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: Bradley Cooper's final Hangover
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 01:44 AMThe stars of the The Hangover III talk about the final instalment and why they are so grateful to their fans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pussy Riot member denied parole
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 03:04 PMA Russian court denies parole to a hunger-striking member of punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, despite calls for her to be freed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: S Africa celebrates Sekoto legacy
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 10:36 AMSouth Africa is celebrating 100 years since Gerard Sekoto's birth with the exhibition "Song for Sekoto" in Johannesburg.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Paris Hilton to release second album
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 06:43 AMThe hotel heiress signs with Cash Money Records to release her new record, which is being produced by Afrojack.
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- VIDEO: Meet the Author: Simon Thurley
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 09:27 AMThis week's Meet the Author is with Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, about his new book The Men from the Ministry.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Amazon reveals fan fiction platform
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 07:41 AMFan fiction authors will be able to publish and sell some titles in the US via new e-book platform Kindle Worlds.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sinn Fein challenge 'SF/IRA' label
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 06:32 AMSinn Fein complains to the BBC after a Question Time floor plan refers to Northern Ireland's education minister John O'Dowd as "Sinn Fein/IRA!"
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - British hopefuls up for US TV awards
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 05:34 AMDamian Lewis and Sienna Miller are among the British stars nominated for the annual US Critics' Choice Awards.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police confident about Big Weekend
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 02:51 AMOfficers in Londonderry admit the Radio 1 event is their biggest police operation this year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New jewel theft hits Cannes festival
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 03:41 PMA necklace reportedly worth 1.9m euros (£1.6m) is stolen during the Cannes film festival, the second such theft to hit this year's event.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Thousands at author Achebe's funeral
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 05:32 PMThousands of mourners attend the funeral of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in his home town of Ogidi in Anambra state.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AUDIO: Gervais: You cannot pander to everyone
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 12:37 PMComedian Ricky Gervais has confirmed that Derek is back for a second series and viewers in the US will see the first on Netflix.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - J-Lo to create Latino mobile shops
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 06:34 AMA chain of mobile phone stores aimed specifically at the Latino market is to be opened by singer and actress Jennifer Lopez
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Shameless star to play Tommy Cooper
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 07:27 AMShameless star David Threlfall is to play comedian Tommy Cooper in a new drama commissioned by ITV.
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- VIDEO: Excitement builds for Big Weekend
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 10:16 AMNewsbeat takes a tour backstage as Londonderry prepares to play host to Radio 1's Big Weekend.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: BBC abandons £100m digital project
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 07:34 AMThe BBC is to close its Digital Media Initiative, with director general Tony Hall saying it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lesbian drama tipped for Cannes win
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 08:01 AMAn intimate love story between two young women receives rave reviews in Cannes as the film festival draws to a close.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Leibovitz wins top Spanish award
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 04:31 AMUS photographer Annie Leibovitz wins the 50,000 euro (£40,000) Prince of Asturias award for communication and humanities.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: Africa Beats: Afrikaans rapper Jaak
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 07:37 PMSouth African rapper determined to prove Afrikaans is "cool"
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: The book clubs that find bestsellers
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 09:24 PMThe book group that can crush an author's hopes or find a bestseller
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Award for Greenham Common artwork
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 01:42 AMArtist Margaret Harrison, 72, wins the £16,500 Northern Art Prize for a recreation of the perimeter fence from the Greenham Common airbase at the time of the women's peace camp in the 1980s.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: US showman's unbelievable oddballs
Wednesday - 05/22/2013 - 07:03 PMNeal Thompson, the author of a book about Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley, tells the BBC how the connoisseur of the strange and wonderful influenced modern life
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Redford impresses Cannes critics
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 10:43 AMRobert Redford receives a standing ovation for his performance in his survival-at-sea epic All Is Lost at a Cannes Film Festival screening.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Franklin postpones June concerts
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 07:46 AMAretha Franklin has postponed three concerts in June, a week after health issues forced her to cancel two shows in May.
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