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Emma Saunders
Arts and entertainment reporter
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Image source, PAChristopher Eccleston has said a return to Our Friends in the North is one of his great hopes.
The former Doctor Who told BBC Radio 5 live that screenwriter Peter Flannery has plans to return to the 1990s popular drama.
"I'm very hopeful, I know that Peter Flannery has some plans for to revisit Our Friends in the North either by going earlier to the story of Peter Bourne's character or Felix or a little later and it's one of my great hopes... that we can do something about that because Peter's vision was extraordinary."
The interview can be heard on 5 live's Afternoon Edition today.
We're sure that many people of a certain age would love to see this drama back on the small screen but what are the chances of seeing James Bond star Daniel Craig reprising his breakthrough role as Geordie? Not high, we'd wager.
West End musical, Gypsy, which stars Imelda Staunton, has announced a four-month extension.
The show, at the Savoy Theatre, had been booking until 18 July but will now run until 28 November.
It originally opened at Chichester Festival Theatre in October 2014. Peter Davison, Lara Pulver and Gemma Sutton also star but only Staunton has been confirmed for the entire run so far.
So if you want to catch Imelda as Mama Rose, the ultimate pushy mother, now's your chance.
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Here's a question for you, courtesy of Radio 4 on Twitter - what do Sean Bean, @JeromeFlynn, Robbie Coltrane, @petshopboys & The Smiths @Johnny_Marr have in common?
We won't give the game away but click here if you want to find out the answer.
Radio Times
Think you've got a steady hand? Take a look at this Doctor Who fan who has created this domino spectacular using 34,000 dominos.
Youtube user jojodrummer96, specialises in elaborate domino set-pieces. In the video, you can see the blocks tumble to reveal images such as David Tennant as the Doctor and the show's famous logo.
The large structures like the Doctor's 3D glasses and the Tardis were built using 3D dominos.
Image source, APIt was a record-breaking night at the Hong Kong Film Awards, with the director of The Golden Era, Ann Hui, landing her fifth best director prize.
The film, a biography of Chinese novelist Xiao Hong, also won for cinematography, costume, make-up and art direction.
Hui's previous wins were for A Simple Life, The Way We Are, Summer Snow and Boat People.
The 67-year-old director thanked her leading lady Tang Wei.
"I'm very thankful to Tang Wei because she's got a tough job. I wasn't really sure how to tell this story. It was hard. I think all the actors were struggling."
So what about the Oscars taking a leaf out of Hong Kong's book? There's only been one female best director winner ever - Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2009. Come on Hollywood, wake up!
Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has cleared This Morning over an item about bondage equipment and sex toys.
The segment, broadcast on 3 February, saw hosts Philip Schofield and Christine Bleakley discuss the products with a sex expert and demonstrations provided by scantily clad models.
Ofcom received more than 120 complaints over the item.
But the media watchdog decided ITV didn't need a rap over the knuckles (or anywhere else for that matter).
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Golden Globe winner Ian McShane - star of Deadwood, Hercules, Snow White and the Huntsman, and most important of all, Lovejoy - has been cast as the baddie again, this time in an animated feature film.
He'll be voicing the role of a greedy and power-hungry merchant in Bilal, produced by Dubai-based animation and visual effects studio Barajoun Entertainment.
The movie is inspired by the story of the real life African hero Bilal Ibn Rabah, one of the Prophet Muhammad's most trusted companions, who was born into slavery in the 6th century.
The British star has come a long way since his days as dodgy antiques dealer Lovejoy, not to mention his turn in Dallas as ladies' man Dan Lockwood.
Ian, we salute you.
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Image source, PAJeremy Paxman and David Mitchell are to host Channel 4's election night coverage, which will also include special episodes of Gogglebox and The Last Leg.
The Alternative Election Night will also feature Pointless co-host Richard Osman offering his interpretation of events while Channel 4 News journalists Cathy Newman and Gary Gibbon will provide commentary.
Updates from key constituent battlegrounds around the country will also be provided by the Channel 4 News reporting team.
Paxman said he "hopes there'll be room for both insight and laughter".
More 4 will also cover election night in the form of a live play titled The Vote, written by James Graham and set it a polling station. It will be broadcast live from London's Donmar Theatre using fixed-rig cameras.
Image source, SkyFungus fans, your time has come.
Timothy Spall and Victoria Wood are to star in a four-part Christmas drama Fungus the Bogeyman on Sky 1.
Spall will play Fungus while Wood is Eve, an earthy, eccentric "Drycleaner" who lives above ground, as opposed to the somewhat more slimy Fungus and his family.
Inspired by the children's classic book by Raymond Briggs, it will also star Joanna Scanlan as Bogeywife Mildrew and Paul Kaye as the Bogeyhunter.
Andy Serkis will play the Narrator and Keeley Hawes and Marc Warren also star.
Spall said: "Fungus has brought joy to generations of children and I am so thrilled to be playing such a beloved character."
The drama will feature both live action and animated elements.
It is co-produced by Imaginarium Studios, a motion capture studio and production company founded by Jonathan Cavendish and Serkis, famed for playing motion capture characters including Lord of the Rings' Gollum.
Image source, APBobby Brown told concert-goers on Saturday night that his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown is awake nearly three months after she was found unresponsive in a bath at her Georgia home.
In a video, Brown told the crowd during at the Verizon Theatre in Dallas, Texas, that "Bobbi is awake". He added "she is watching me".
Following the incident at the end of January, Brown's relatives said she was "fighting for her life".
Bobbi Christina was moved from hospital to a rehabilitation centre in Atlanta last month.
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Image source, APKiss star Gene Simmons has no qualms in revealing one of his great motivators - it's the moolah.
The 65-year-old rocker is worth more than $300m (£200m) but says he will never stop wanting to make more.
"I'll never stop hunting more money, I'll never have enough...I live to make more money. People who say that money is the root of all evil are morons, a lack of money is the root of all evil."
Couldn't lend us a tenner, could you Gene?
BBC Arts
Writer and director Carol Morley has followed up her critically-acclaimed film Dreams of a Life with The Falling, about a mysterious outbreak of mass fainting at an all-girls' school in 1969.
It stars Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams and newcomer Florence Pugh.
On the night of its Scottish premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival, Rachel Allison took Morley back to school to find out more about the fascinating true-life cases that inspired the movie.
Image source, Film presser - BBC ArtsSo you already knew that Glastonbury was a sell-out, right?
Well now the resale tickets have also sold out - in a record 11 minutes.
Organiser Emily Eavis revealed the news on Twitter.
Image source, Twitter/Emily EavisDid you try to get tickets? Did you get lucky? Let us know. Tweet @BBCNewsEnts or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.
Image source, Getty ImagesMore news on Radio 1's Big Weekend - Foo Fighters and Muse will top the bill in Norwich in May.
Scott Mills announced the news on BBC Radio 1's Breakfast Show, where he was filling in for Nick Grimshaw who has lost his voice.
5 Seconds of Summer, Sam Smith, Snoop Dogg, Fall Out Boy, Hozier and Rita Ora are also on the line-up, along with David Guetta, Charli XCX and Olly Murs.
Jess Glynne has been confirmed for the In New Music We Trust stage on Saturday 23 May.
Taylor Swift, Florence and the Machine and Years & Years have already been confirmed for the line-up.
What do you think of the line-up? Get in touch and let us know. Tweet @BBCNewsEnts or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.
David Tennant is hosting a live show broadcast from Stratford-upon-Avon's Royal Shakespeare Theatre next year, to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
Unsurprisingly, it will be a star-studded affair, celebrating the Bard's influence on all the performing art forms from opera to jazz, from ballet to musicals.
So far the big names other than Tennant - who has played Hamlet and Richard II to great acclaim - have yet to be revealed, but rest assured you'll read it here when the news is out.
The event will be screened live on BBC Two on Saturday, 23 April 2016.
Image source, PAYou won't spot any Beatles in this reworking of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover - but if you want Daleks then you're in luck.
The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular is going on tour around the UK and this image features stars and monsters from the iconic BBC One series. It includes former Doctor Peter Davidson, who is hosting the tour, as well as the musicians taking part.
It is visiting six cities from 23 May during school half-term week.
Image source, Getty ImagesArtist David Hockney is having a purple patch, with a new exhibition coming up featuring 3D-style photographs.
"Everything in the photographs is taken very close," the artist, 77, explains.
"Each photograph has a vanishing point, so instead of just one I get many vanishing points. It is this that I think gives them an almost 3D effect without the glasses. I think this opens up photography into something new."
You can catch the exhibition at the Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery, external in London from 15 May to 27 June.
Image source, AFPThe life and career of French singer Edith Piaf, famed for crooning Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, has been celebrated in an exhibition in Paris marking 100 years since her birth.
It features 400 items including posters, letters, manuscripts, photographs, film clips and even her signature black dress. Piaf sang about love, men and, of course, Paris.
"I really wanted to see this exhibition, which is very well done," said Michele Lillo, who used to live on the same street as Piaf. "It portrays her life exactly as it was."
The items are on display at the National Library of France.
Image source, APFrom Fiddler on the Roof to Flash Gordon - it could only be Topol.
Hailed for roles including Tevye the milkman and Dr Alexis Zarkov as well as extensive theatre work, the actor is being given Israel's most prestigious honour, the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement.
Chaim Topol, who also played James Bond's wingman in For Your Eyes Only, is now 79 and is still involved in stage work.
He still lives in the Tel Aviv childhood home of his wife of 60 years, and said: "I wasn't brought up in Hollywood. I was brought up in a kibbutz here and I started to work at the age of 14 in a printing house."
He reckons he has played Tevye, who sang If I Were a Rich Man, more than 3,500 times on stage, most recently in 2009. The actor still gets requests to play it.
Luckily he doesn't mind. "How many people are known for one part? How many people in my profession are known worldwide? So I am not complaining."
