Ricky Gervais has been given his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And at the ceremony he joked that it was a ‘genuine thrill’ to be honoured alongside other icons, citing ‘Michael Jackson, Bill ...

A warrant has been issued for Reginald D Hunter to attend court over a private prosecution brought by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in almost 250 episodes of M*A*S*H has died at the age of 87. Her death in New York – believed to be from natural causes – was announced by ...

Dame Penelope Keith is to host a two-hour retrospective about The Good Life to mark 50 years of the classic sitcom. The show ...

Edinburgh Fringe performers Linus Karp and Joseph Martin are to get legally married on stage during this year’s festival. The pair behind shows such as Gwyneth Goes Skiing will tie the knot on the ...

Anyway, Choin is a very loose dramatisation of Sedda’s real story of coming to London to make it as an actor – hence all that training – and takes its title from the call pig farmers use back home in ...

Skits fit together seamlessly, bound by the setting and just enough through-lines to drive their gloriously melodramatic narrative, involving harvest dances (I’m imagining something involving a Wicker ...

Russell Brand is due in court again today to enter pleas to sex offence charges including rape and indecent assault. The 49-year-old appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier this month, ...

Here’s a new trailer for indie British comedy Chicken Town, starring John Shuttleworth creator Graham Fellows as an unlikely drug dealer, as its cinematic release as been announced. The film – which ...

• Jordan Gray : Is That a C*ck in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Here to Kill Me? is at Soho Theatre until Saturday then plays ...

Russell Brand has pleaded not guilty to five ex offence charges including rape and indecent assault. The 49-year-old formally entered his plea at Southwark Crown Court this morning, and he will now ...

• House of Life is at Soho Theatre until Saturday; Brixton House from July 2 to 4; Wilton’s Music Hall on July 10 and Park Theatre on July 18 to 19, all in London, followed by dates in New York.