BBC News - Entertainment & Arts

• Rock anthems vanishing from chart
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:36:02 GMT)

The number of rock hits appearing in the UK singles chart drops 18% this year, according to figures from the Official Charts Company. ... Read

• Carey heads up Booker shortlist
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:47:14 GMT)

Australian author Peter Carey, who has already won the Man Booker prize twice, has made the shortlist for this year's prize. ... Read

• Fry slams BBC 'culture of fear'
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:01:49 GMT)

Stephen Fry criticises a culture of fear at the BBC which is creating "incredibly bland" programmes ... Read

• Emmerdale in TV Choice hat-trick
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:53:09 GMT)

Emmerdale wins three prizes at the TV Choice Awards, with EastEnders taking the prize for best soap in its 25th anniversary year. ... Read

• Gilliam loses Don Quixote backers
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:45:52 GMT)

Terry Gilliam says his latest attempt to make a film about Don Quixote has stalled again after his financial backers pulled out. ... Read

• Shrek returns for US TV special
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:50:13 GMT)

New TV versions of hit animation movies Shrek and Kung Fu will premiere on US TV later this year. ... Read

• Saatchi gallery deal hits setback
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:18:10 GMT)

Charles Saatchi's plan to donate his gallery to the British public hits a stumbling block after talks with Arts Council England break down. ... Read

• Ringo Starr club fire tackled
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:04:22 GMT)

Firefighters spend the night tackling a fire at a disused nightclub where drummer Ringo Starr made his Beatles debut. ... Read

• Forsyth quits dance results show
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:14:04 GMT)

Bruce Forsyth quits Strictly Come Dancing's Sunday results show and is replaced by Claudia Winkleman. ... Read

• Hall works tipped to fetch £1.5m
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:48:08 GMT)

Contemporary artwork owned by model Jerry Hall are expected to fetch more than £1.5 million when they are sold in October at Sotheby's in London. ... Read

• Travolta extortion case dismissed
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:30:31 GMT)

Charges against two people accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta, following the death of his son in the Bahamas, are dropped. ... Read

• Bookie cuts Weller Mercury odds
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:43:09 GMT)

The odds of Paul Weller winning the Mercury Prize are slashed after a bookmaker takes an "unprecedented" rush of bets backing him. ... Read

• Hitman Clooney slays box office rivals
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:45:39 GMT)

George Clooney's The American is top film at the North American box office over a lacklustre Labour Day weekend. ... Read

• Yoko marks Lennon's birthday with Liverpool trip
(Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:42:51 GMT)

Yoko Ono makes an "emotional" visit to John Lennon's former school and childhood home in Liverpool. ... Read

• Blair cancels London book signing
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:05:10 GMT)

Tony Blair cancels a planned book signing in London on Wednesday to prevent causing the police "a lot of hassle". ... Read

• Conductor Ozawa stages comeback
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:37:48 GMT)

Acclaimed Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa opens a festival in his native country following a nine-month battle with throat cancer. ... Read

• Warhol's pivotal years
(Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:57:16 GMT)

A major new exhibition of works by Andy Warhol focuses on a four-year period pivotal to his development as an artist. ... Read

• American Pie star gets probation
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:04:05 GMT)

American Pie actor Chris Klein pleads no contest to drink-driving and will serve four years' probation. ... Read

• Gone With The Wind actress dies
(Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:53:08 GMT)

Gone With The Wind actress Cammie King Conlon, who played the daughter of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, dies aged 76. ... Read

• Hogan given leave to return to US
(Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:26:33 GMT)

Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan reaches an agreement with tax authorities in Australia allowing him to return to his home in the US. ... Read

• Girls Aloud star launches label
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:29:44 GMT)

Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle founds a new record label and will release her debut solo album, Insatiable, through Tesco. ... Read

• Brit Awards to move to O2 Arena
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:12:54 GMT)

The Brit Awards are to move to the O2 Arena in east London from Earl's Court in the west of the city. ... Read

• ELO cellist killed by bale of hay
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:51:52 GMT)

Former member of British rock group ELO, Mike Edwards, is killed in a freak accident when a hay bale rolls on to a Devon road and crushes his van. ... Read

• New Daybreak show debuts on ITV
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:00:12 GMT)

The replacement for GMTV, hosted by former BBC presenters Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley, debuts on television. ... Read

• Kara DioGuardi leaves Idol panel
(Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:31:21 GMT)

Songwriter Kara DioGuardi becomes the latest judge on American Idol to quit this year. ... Read

• US comedian Robert Schimmel dies
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:28:00 GMT)

Stand-up comic Robert Schimmel, a regular guest on Conan O'Brian's show, has died following a car accident. ... Read

• Andrea Bocelli concerts to mark 9/11
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:35:20 GMT)

Andrea Bocelli is inviting survivors of the attacks on 11 September 2001 in New York to concerts on the Amalfi coast. ... Read

• New face for Here Come The Girls
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:43:46 GMT)

Heather Small is joining Lula and Anastacia in this year's Here Come The Girls tour, after a hugely successful run for the show last year. ... Read

• Hugh Quarshie - the African chief
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:23:05 GMT)

Hugh Quarshie discovers his ancestory gives him the right to sit as a village chief in Ghana ... Read

• Post-9/11 musical courts controversy
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:30:49 GMT)

An independent filmmaker has sparked controversy by making a musical about New Yorkers coming to terms with the September 11 attacks. ... Read

• Phoenix film 'no hoax'
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:10:49 GMT)

The director Casey Affleck told the Venice Film Festival that his fly-on-the-wall documentary of the actor Joaquin Phoenix is not a hoax. ... Read

• X Factor tantrum and more showbiz
(Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:53:54 GMT)

Bruce quits the Strictly results show, the X Factor tantrum twosome get a gig and the rest of the showbiz news. ... Read

• The magical world of Merlin returns
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:54:19 GMT)

Actors Bradley James and Anthony Head talk to BBC Breakfast about saving Camelot from peril in the new series of Merlin. ... Read

• Sadie Frost on her autobiography
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:00:52 GMT)

Sadie Frost talks to BBC Breakfast about writing her autobiography, her relationship with her artist father, and being whisked away at an early age to a life of acting and modelling. ... Read

• 'A filthy version of The Archers'
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:21:19 GMT)

Tamara Drewe explores the dark side of the British countryside ... Read

• Music for dinner parties?
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:25:46 GMT)

What Mercury Prize winners tell us about British music ... Read

• Back to England
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:33:56 GMT)

Bafta-winning This Is England gets four-part TV sequel ... Read

• Family on film
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:08:11 GMT)

Director Sofia Coppola returns with her new movie Somewhere ... Read

• Musical mates
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:42:48 GMT)

Mercury prize-winner Guy Garvey talks to nominees I Am Kloot ... Read

• Unswung 60s
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:35:37 GMT)

What does Mad Men tell us about this most mythologised decade? ... Read