BBC spends 29% less on star pay
Armani says Madonna is 'difficult'
Blurred Lines made $16m profit
Genevieve Hassan
Entertainment reporter
It's time for us to shut up shop for the day, so thanks for joining us.
But be sure to return tomorrow, when we'll be bringing you news on the MTV Movie Award nominations and the new commission for the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.
Official Charts Company
Image source, EPAThe BBC's Sound of 2015 winners Years and Years are on track to knock Ellie Goulding off the number one spot with their new single, King.
The track is currently some 32,000 copies ahead of Goulding's sales for Love Me Like You Do.
Image source, PAIt's the final episode of The Great Comic Relief Bake Off tonight, where stars have been putting their baking skills to the test for charity.
Episode four sees Victoria Wood, Alexa Chung, Chris Moyles and Kayvan Novak try to impress Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood with tray bakes, crumpets and selfie cakes.
To get you in the mood, watch a clip of the celebrities struggling with their technical challenge.
And once Bake Off is finished, why not stay tuned for The People's Strictly for Comic Relief, in which three more thoroughly deserving Strictly Come Dancing superfans are thrust into the world of ballroom for charity.
Sky News
Image source, Sky NewsFootage has emerged of a car chase through the streets of Rome, filmed for new James Bond movie Spectre.
The footage shows 007's Aston Martin being pursued through the Italian capital at night by a red Jaguar.
Other footage shows Bond's car racing along the banks of the River Tiber.
You have a baby and she won't stop crying. What do you do?
Apparently, you just have to put on Taylor Swift's number one hit Blank Space and it will solve all your problems. At least, it works for six-month-old Rosie.
Swift has declared it "THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN". She must be serious as she's using capital letters.
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Fans of Radio 4's The Archers will no doubt have been gripped by this week's storyline involving a flood in fictional Ambridge.
The soap's online team have been busy creating a weather warning live page to accompany the drama, which has been giving real-time updates on the latest weather happenings and flood destruction as the story develops on air.
It comes complete with tweets from characters Fallon Rogers and Harrison Burns, as well as the Borsetshire Constabulary.
The best feature, though, is BBC Midlands Today's weather forecast for the Ambridge area.
The Hollywood Reporter
Image source, AFPThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering a return to its former policy of having only five best picture nominees, sources tell the Hollywood Reporter.
The potential move, which is being pushed by a "significant fraction" of the Academy, would be a radical shift for the 6,000-member organisation and a tacit acknowledgement its six-year-old strategy of boosting the number of best picture nominees has failed.
Image source, Getty ImagesIt was reported last week, external funnyman Stephen Merchant had been in a car crash with Captain America star Hayley Atwell.
It seems to be news to the British actress though, who has tweeted, external: "Just been told that I've been in a car crash with Stephen Merchant. I was eating cereal in my pj's when I heard. I hope I'm ok."
Eva emails:
"British TV wins hands down for me every time for me. I find US TV trashy and superficial, can't watch it for more than five minutes.
"I also prefer BBC to all the other UK channels it has the best quality programmes for inquiring intelligent minds. If I sound boring and stuffy I don't care!"
Pauline MacLean tweets, external: "From Canada - I look forward to the British shows I can get. Love the story lines and drama. They are not slow."
A pornographic artwork by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman that caused controversy when it was first shown 20 years ago has gone on display in London.
Bring Me the Head of... features two actresses playing with a severed head that has a phallic nose, but it can only be viewed through a peephole, to prevent under 18s seeing it.
Image source, APNew York's famed Apollo Theatre is planning a number of events to commemorate the centenary of Billie Holiday's birth.
The blues singer performed at the Harlem venue more than 40 times and will be inducted into its Walk of Fame on 6 April.
Grammy-winning jazz singer Cassandra Wilson will also give a special concert in tribute, external to Holiday on 10 April.
Image source, Getty ImagesKanye West fans will be yawning today thanks to a "secret" gig in London last night that did not kick off until 01:20 GMT.
The US rapper left a crowd including Radio 1's Clara Amfo and 1Xtra's Mistajam gasping with a high-energy set the latter said would "go down in history, external".
It must have been refreshing to see Kanye own a stage rather than invade one, as he has been wont to do at awards shows of late.
Madonna, with whom he worked recently on her new album Rebel Heart, has suggested West "takes things too seriously" in this area and has advised him to take the occasional chill pill.
"Don't go to awards shows looking for justice," she told Rolling Stone, external. "That's like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
"I never got too engaged with who wins awards or not, because I don't honestly think it's that important. So that part of him I can't relate to."
The Guardian
Image source, Getty ImagesStar Trek actor Zachary Quinto has paid a moving tribute to the late Leonard Nimoy, who created the iconic Mr Spock character that Quinto has since inherited.
He said Nimoy was a wise yet serious man who "inspired and influenced an entire generation" and who lived his life "beautifully and with such grace".
Image source, SlinkachuA new exhibition of works by Slinkachu - the artist best known for making miniature street installations with one inch-high (2.5cm) figures that are photographed and then "abandoned" - is to open at London's Andipa Gallery, external from 13 March.
Miniaturesque will include 17 new images and a sculptural piece featuring more than 200 miniature figures in a recreation of the River Thames.
Image source, Getty ImagesAs the Marvin Gaye/Blurred Lines copyright row rumbles on, it's been revealed Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams made more than $5m (£3.26m) each from the hit song.
The pair, along with rapper TI, are being sued for copyright infringement by Gaye's family, over similarities to his track Got to Give It Up.
On Tuesday we brought you the first picture of Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone's upcoming film about the NSA intelligence leaker.
Now the actor has followed it up with a tweet he's labelled "Oliver Stone's first selfie, external."
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BBC Breakfast
Poldark, the BBC's adaptation of Winston Graham's historical novels about life in 18th Century Cornwall, was a huge hit with audiences in the 1970s.
Some might say it would be tempting fate to try and recreate that cultural milestone. But that has not stopped the BBC producing a new version of Graham's romantic saga that begins on Sunday on BBC One.
The Hobbit's Aidan Turner (pictured above with Eleanor Tomlinson) plays the brooding Ross Poldark in the lavish eight-parter, which also features the late Warren Clarke as his uncle Charles.
Tim Muffett paid a visit to the set last year, during which he spoke to Poldark actors old and new.
Image source, PAMadonna's infamous fall at the Brit Awards continues to make headlines.
Giorgio Armani - who designed the cape the singer wore during her performance - has now waded in on the issue.
Madonna said the cape had been fastened too tightly, which caused her to tumble when a dancer failed to pull it away.
But the designer said: "The cape had a hook and she wanted a tie, and she wasn't able to open it with her hands.
"That's all there is to it. Madonna, as we all know, is very difficult."
Ouch. Read more on this story.
Billboard
Billboard has been celebrating girl groups this week. It kicked off on Monday with its list of the Top 40 highest-charting, external girl group hits.
Now it has published its Top 20 most underrated girl band songs "of all time".
British acts Little Mix and the Spice Girls appear in the countdown, though it is Girls Aloud who end up topping it.
Image source, Getty ImagesWe've had lots of responses from you on Celia Imrie's comments in Glamour magazine that British TV is boring compared to its US rivals.
Rebekah tweets, external: "Totally."
Evonne, external: "Both are just as rubbish."
Katri, external: "No! There is nothing like British TV."
Carol, external: "UK for factual and wildlife, US for escapism."
Keith King, external: "I would go mad having to suffer the amount of commercial breaks witnessed on US TV."
Tuula, external: "I watch less and less US TV. British TV is the only thing."
Jussi Tossavainen, external: "British TV saves many evenings in Finland too. Even ITV is SOO much better than Finnish MTV3."
Keep them coming!
