http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment_and_arts/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa The latest stories from the Entertainment & Arts section of the BBC News web site. en-gb Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:17:35 GMT Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/rss/4498287.stm for terms and conditions of reuse. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/nol/shared/img/bbc_news_120x60.gif http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment_and_arts/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa 120 60 15 Director Kathryn Bigelow defends the depiction of torture in her latest film Zero Dark Thirty, a dramatisation of the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, insisting it is "part of the story". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21043531#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21043531 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:13:51 GMT Radio 2's Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs breached BBC guidelines after it invited listeners to submit dedications for the programme despite it being pre-recorded, the BBC Trust rules. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21048482#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21048482 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:12:07 GMT DVD rental firm Blockbuster becomes the latest UK High Street firm to go into administration after struggling to compete against internet-based rivals. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21047652#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21047652 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:51:12 GMT The revival of classic 1980s comedy Yes, Prime Minister is met with criticism from reviewers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028777#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028777 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:02:29 GMT The film version of Les Miserables had box office tills singing a happy tune over the weekend, recording three-day takings of £8.13 million in the UK and Ireland. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21043528#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21043528 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:53:02 GMT Legendary punk rocker Joe Strummer is to have a city square named after him in Spain following a Facebook campaign. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21041591#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21041591 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:36:29 GMT Die Hard director John McTiernan loses his appeal to have a one-year prison sentence overturned for lying in a wiretapping case. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028776#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028776 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:31:36 GMT The BBC generated more than £8bn for the UK economy in 2011-12 - almost twice its licence fee spend - according to a new report by the Corporation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21041587#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21041587 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:26:12 GMT Brussels asks the Bulgarian government for an explanation after it awards an EU grant of 1m euros to a broadcaster of sexually-charged pop music. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21047522#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21047522 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:40:55 GMT A sculpture by Henry Moore is taken off its plinth outside Leeds Art Gallery to be loaned to a gallery in Amsterdam http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-21034026#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-21034026 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:27:32 GMT British playwright and screenwriter Sir Tom Stoppard is to be honoured by the Writers Guild of America at its awards ceremony in Los Angeles next month. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21040546#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21040546 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:34:28 GMT A film about the file-sharing service Napster is to have its world premiere at the South by Southwest festival, held in Austin, Texas in March. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21040544#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21040544 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:55:22 GMT Pop star Sir Elton John confirms he has become a father for the second time, after having a baby boy via a surrogate mother. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21044890#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21044890 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:14:09 GMT Graham Norton is to host a seven-hour chat show marathon to raise money for Comic Relief. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21042424#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21042424 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:59:35 GMT Adrian Lester is named best actor by top theatre critics, two weeks after being made an OBE, while Hattie Morahan wins the best actress prize. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21012198#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21012198 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:34:40 GMT Dan Brown, bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, is to release a new book in May called Inferno. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028802#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028802 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:31:21 GMT The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London is to give children under 12 years of age free entry to all its exhibitions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028768#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028768 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:09:28 GMT Daniel Day-Lewis receives another best actor nomination for his performance in Lincoln in this year's Evening Standard film awards. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21025124#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21025124 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:24:27 GMT Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima, best-known for his sexually explicit film In The Realm of the Senses, dies at the age of 80. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21030965#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21030965 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:32:02 GMT Aids film How to Survive a Plague has been nominated for the documentary prize at the Directors Guild of America awards. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21025676#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21025676 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:26:08 GMT Elbow's Guy Garvey talks about writing for a new big-budget musical of King Kong alongside Massive Attack, Justice and The Avalanches. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21032715#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21032715 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:43:10 GMT The boss of HMV says he is confident of finding a solution to the embattled retailer's troubles as the music and DVD retailer goes into administration. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21023016#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21023016 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:48:20 GMT Glastonbury Festival launches its annual emerging talent competition to win a slot on the main stage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/21033988#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/21033988 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:43:59 GMT Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine and newsreader Sophie Raworth will host editions of the Andrew Marr Show as the BBC presenter recovers from a stroke. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21024407#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21024407 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:38:54 GMT Beloved children's TV star Bernard Cribbins to return to children's TV with his first regular role in 20 years on CBeebies, the BBC announces. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028844#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028844 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:03:09 GMT US fans of Downton Abbey who hold iTunes season passes will be able to catch this season's final three episodes before they are broadcast. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21025118#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21025118 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:24:00 GMT A Dutch artist is generating a storm of attention with his art - Berndnaut Smilde creates clouds indoors. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21034217#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21034217 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:01:42 GMT Students from Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut have recorded a version of Over the Rainbow a month after the school's shooting tragedy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21040912#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21040912 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:12:04 GMT Les Miserables tops the UK and Ireland box office and Jennifer Lopez talks about her ex-fiance Ben Affleck plus the rest of the day's entertainment news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10317943#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10317943 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:09:18 GMT Director Kathryn Bigelow has defended the depiction of torture in her latest film Zero Dark Thirty, a dramatisation of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21052184#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21052184 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:35:19 GMT In the past, playing computer games was a male dominated hobby, but it is thought that the majority of gamers could be women by the end of 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21039062#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21039062 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:50:29 GMT Talk show host Oprah Winfrey says Lance Armstrong 'did not come clean in the way I had expected him to' during their TV interview, due to be aired on Thursday., http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21031177#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21031177 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:24:15 GMT Actress Anna Sophia Robb talks about her role in a new television show called The Carrie Diaries, based on a young version of Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21027133#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21027133 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:56:05 GMT Francesca Martinez talks to BBC Breakfast about doing stand up and why she loves making people laugh. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21027134#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21027134 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:57:53 GMT Juno Temple reflects on her three film festival premieres http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20936747#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20936747 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:08:45 GMT The controversial new dark comedy Way To Go http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20983699#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20983699 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:17:45 GMT How unrealistic is Midsomer Murders? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20910859#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20910859 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:15:26 GMT An insider's view of HMV's troubles http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028803#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21028803 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:01:55 GMT Is this poem too sweary to be broadcast? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21024372#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21024372 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:42:14 GMT The music industry reacts to HMV's financial troubles http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21030442#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21030442 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:34:03 GMT Ballet dancer Carlos Acosta wins praise for his debut novel http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21010241#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21010241 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:10:37 GMT Design of the Year award 2013 nominees http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21015299#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21015299 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:35:04 GMT