EastEnders 30th anniversary reaches its climax
Stars gear up for the Academy Awards
Ian Youngs
Entertainment reporter
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Image source, Getty ImagesActor Ben Woolf, who has appeared in FX network's American Horror Story, is in a critical condition after being hit by a car in Hollywood last night.
Woolf has played the characters Meep and Infantata in the TV horror drama.
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesman said he was hit by a passing car on Hollywood Boulevard.
"No matter the nominee, external, nor how slight a chance of winning, nor how little it means to them, they still fantasise their name being called."
"Just arrived, just in time, external #Oscars script... direct from writing team. Here we go! Sorry can't share it with anyone."
Image source, TwitterThe Oscar ceremony producer has also been tweeting pictures, external of rehearsals with host Neil Patrick Harris at the Dolby Theatre.
Image source, TwitterNewcastle and Gateshead will be abuzz with good music when BBC radio station 6 Music's second festival kicks off tonight.
Sleater-Kinney, The War on Drugs, Mogwai (above) and Interpol get the event under way in Newcastle before the music moves to the Sage Gateshead on Saturday and Sunday.
As well as being broadcast on 6 Music itself, you can follow the action on their website and the red button.
There's also a good Guardian preview, external looking at whether the region's relative distance from the rest of the British music scene is a good or a bad thing.
USA Today
Image source, APIt's a parent's nightmare - you take your children to the cinema to watch the latest SpongeBob Squarepants early in the morning and the projectionist accidentally puts on Fifty Shades of Grey instead.
That's what happened in Loveland, Colorado (yes, that's the town's real name) earlier this week.
Instead of seeing SpongeBob and his pals try to save a secret hamburger recipe, they had the opening scenes of the erotic R-rated film.
After the mix-up was noticed, the screen went blank and kids' movie trailers started showing until the right film was found.
The Stage
Image source, Generation ZZombies are taking over a London department store - well, there will be an "immersive" theatre production set in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world at least.
The Stage reports Generation of Z: Apocalypse - which was seen in Edinburgh last year - will be staged in the basement of the former Wickhams store in east London from April to July.
Brave audience members will need to "navigate their way" through an "apocalyptic wasteland".
Slate
Image source, Film coThe are 60 films nominated in total across all the categories at this year's Oscars, and one man has watched them all.
For the past two years, New Yorker Joe Reid has set himself the task of watching each and every one - including the documentaries and shorts - and this year he has created a list ranking them all.
See how many of the best picture nominees are in the bottom 10 and which movie he chooses as his top pick on The Slate, external.
A lot of you have got in touch with your reaction to the big EastEnders reveal - and the fact a peak of 11.9 million people tuned in to watch. Almost all of it was negative though.
Lou tweeted, external: "I think it was more to see if they 'stuffed it up' live!"
Mimi, external: "Won't get that many viewers again, stupid ending."
Wayne Briggs, external: "Sorry watched for first time in years, never again."
Glynis Elliot, external: "And what a let down it was. A ten year old lad not strong enough to kill his sister twice his size with a box."
Rather Be Surfing, external: "So that means over 52.4 million had more sense and watched something else!"
Hannah, external: "Apparently it was the most tweeted about soap ever! That's probably because of us."
Kanye West has given another entertaining interview - expounding on subjects from race and class to his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose and his wife Kim Kardashian's naked photoshoots.
In the hour-long appearance on New York hip-hop station Power 105.1 FM, he also explained his recent stage invasion when Beck won album of the year at the Grammys.
Image source, AFP"I was completely hypocritical," he said. "The other day I went to dinner with Taylor Swift and ironically they were playing the Beck album.
"Maybe they did it on purpose so I could finally hear it. I was, like, man, this is kinda good!"
You can watch the full interview, external.
Here's a round-up of some TV news you may have missed:
Image source, Getty ImagesPop heartthrob Ricky Martin is to judge Simon Cowell's new reality TV show La Banda, People reports, external.
Tom Hanks will be the first guest when British comedian James Corden takes over The Late Late Show on on CBS on 23 March. From Twitter, external.
A disco-era trailer has been released for the final season of Mad Men. Watch on Watch on Time., external
HBO has ordered a pilot of a new period drama from Orange Is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan and Good Will Hunting director Gus Van Sant, Variety reports, external.
Leo Zlotoff, who created 1980s series MacGyver, has given his backing to a competition to find ideas for a remake with a female engineer as the lead character. See TheNextMacGyver.com, external.
Who will walk away with the golden statuettes in Hollywood this weekend?
Image source, AFPWell, these particular Oscars (above) are made of chocolate and will be given to all the guests at Sunday's ceremony.
The BBC's LA correspondent Alastair Leithead has been speaking to the official Oscars chef - as well as taking a look at who might get their hands on the real trophies.
The Daily Telegraph
A Scottish historian has unearthed a "lost" Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (below) in his attic, according to the Daily Telegraph, external.
Image source, Getty ImagesConan Doyle wrote the short story for a charity pamphlet to help raise funds for a new bridge in Selkirk, Scotland, in 1904, after the previous bridge was washed away in a flood, according to the paper.
The story is titled Sherlock Holmes: Discovering the Border Burghs and, by deduction, the Brig Bazaar.
Sandy Nairne leaves his role as director of the National Portrait Gallery today after a 12-year tenure that saw its annual attendance rise by more than 500,000 to two million.
The London gallery tweeted, external: "Sandy will be much missed by all our staff and supporters and we wish him the very best of luck for the future."
Nicholas Cullinan - who started his career as a visitors' assistant at the National Portrait Gallery - will take over.
Image source, NAtional Portait Gallery
Slashfilm
Image source, PresserArnie fans are in for a treat when Terminator Genisys is released on 1 July - the film is to be given the Imax treatment.
Not only will you be able to see the action in jumbo size, it'll be 3D too.
An Arnie fansite has also posted two script reviews - both of which are positive, which will delight hardcore fans of the franchise.
BBC Arts
Glibly dubbed "Mr Manchester", Factory Records founder and Granada TV personality Tony Wilson defied easy summary.
On what would have been Wilson's 65th birthday, Paul Morley attempts to distil what it was to be Anthony H Wilson.
BBC Newsbeat
Radio 1 and 1Xtra
Image source, AP/DisneyPolice in Kentucky have issued a (tongue-in-cheek) arrest warrant for Elsa from Frozen on suspicion of spreading her icy powers across the state.
"As you can see by the weather she is very dangerous," they tweeted. "Do not attempt to apprehend her alone."
Fans of TV comedy Two and a Half Men have seen the show's finale in the US after 12 series. Spoiler warning - stop reading if you don't want to know what happened.
Image source, Getty ImagesFour years after wild-living actor Charlie Sheen (above right) was fired from the show, fans speculated on whether he would come back for one last appearance.
"For the record, he was offered a role," the show's creator Chuck Lorre (above left) has revealed on his website, external.
But Sheen declined. Instead, producers found a body double and dropped a grand piano on him. Then a grand piano dropped on Lorre himself.
What a way to go out.
Image source, PADermot O'Leary has been limbering up ahead of his 24-hour dance marathon for Comic Relief on 12 March.
The presenter might be having second thoughts about his feat though: "When I came up with the idea for this event I was in the middle of the dancefloor on holiday, where you never want the dancing to end.
"Now I'm back in the freezing cold UK with a few less disco lights and a lot more bruises - and it doesn't seem quite as appealing! I'm going to need all the support I can get from the public to keep me going!"
London Fashion Week has kicked off, and last night Naomi Campbell staged a star-studded catwalk show titled Fashion for Relief to raise money for the fight against Ebola.
Here are some of the famous faces who graced the runway.
Image source, APNaomi Campbell
Image source, PAThe Duchess of York
Image source, PAKatie Price
Image source, PAPixie Lott
Image source, ReutersDame Vivienne Westwood
