14 June 2011 Last updated at 11:35 ET Share this page Misfits was first aired in the UK in 2009 British sci-fi drama Misfits is to be shown in the US for the first time via an online and digital TV service. The hit E4 show, distributed by BBC Worldwide, will be made available later this month on Hula.com and on the Hulu Plus subscription service. The latter can be accessed via various devices including [...]

14 June 2011 last updated at 14:29 ET Share this page Steinberg used diaries and letters to help put together his Bismarck biography A biography about the artist Caravaggio and the story how Bismarck created modern Germany are shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize. Art critic Andrew Graham Dixon's Caravaggio and Jonathan Steinberg's Bismarck: A Life will compete with four other non-fiction books for the award. The winner, who will win £20,000, will be [...]

14 June 2011 last updated at 11:25 ET Share this page Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French were stalwarts of the Comic Strip Satirical Channel 4 show Comic Strip is being revived nearly 30 years after its TV debut, it has been announced. The comedy vehicle is returning as a one-off depicting Tony Blair as a fugitive, starring Stephen Mangan. Robbie Coltrane – an early Comic Strip regular – will also star in the 60 minute [...]

Advertisement Acosta says he would ‘probably have defected’ if the Cuban government hadn’t allowed him to pursue his career overseas by Rosie Waites BBC News Carlos Acosta’s story reads like a fairytale. the son of a truck driver, he grew up in Havana with 10 siblings, and went on to become the star of the Royal Ballet. Now aged 38 and living in London, he feels he has "maybe three more years" before he will [...]

13 June 2011 Last updated at 12:12 ET Share this page Saoirse Ronan played the murdered heroine of The Lovely Bones The board that classifies films for UK distribution received more complaints about The Lovely Bones than any other 2010 movie, it is revealed. The decision to give Peter Jackson's film a 12A rating resulted in the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) receiving 24 objections. The film is about a murdered girl who watches [...]

13 June 2011 Last updated at 20:39 ET Share this page Watch: Nick Higham looks around BBC Television Centre The BBC has announced that Television Centre is up for sale. the West London home of corporation for over 50 years, it has played a central role in the history of the BBC. here stars share their favourite memories of working in the place. The for Sale sign is going up at BBC Television Centre. Shows [...]

10 June 2011 Last updated at 00:31 ET Share this page by Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News Arthur Darvill is making his debut on the open air stage at Shakespeare's Globe Arthur Darvill, best known as Rory in Doctor who, talks about secrecy on the show, his new stage role at Shakespeare's Globe and why he spent his childhood surrounded by puppets. For Arthur Darvill, last Saturday's mid-season climax of Doctor who [...]

13 June 2011 Last updated at 06:50 ET Share this page A member of Spain's Technological Investigation Board displays an Anonymous mask The website of Spain's national police force has been briefly knocked offline by hacker collective Anonymous. The attack on the site was carried out in retaliation for the arrest of three Spanish men the police claimed were 'core' members of the group. The hackers managed to keep www.policia.es offline for about an hour [...]

13 June 2011 last updated at 06:02 ET Share this page Watch highlights from the Tony Awards UK export War Horse has won five prizes including best play at the Tony Awards in New York, while Briton mark Rylance won the top acting award for Jerusalem. War Horse, which opened at the National Theatre and then moved to the West End and Broadway, also earned Tom Morris and Marianne Elliott a directing award. Quoting poetry [...]

10 June 2011 last updated at 04:05 ET Share this page Black Eyed Peas ended up performing backstage to around 80 people A benefit concert in New York's Central Park at which Black Eyed Peas were scheduled to perform was cancelled due to severe thunderstorms. Natasha Bedingfield, LL cool J and Debbie Harry on the event's line-up, expected to have brought 60,000 spectators to the park's great Lawn. It was initially delayed an hour before [...]