Tonight's top telly…

The story behind the suffragette movie comes into the spotlight in a new movie starring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep

Your daily spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

Your daily spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

Highlights include Colin Stafford Johnson's new series on the Shannon, and highly-rated new spy drama The Americans.

James McAvoy thinks he has a "wonky face".

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Acclaimed actress Anne-Marie Duff is to make a return to Channel 4’s 'Shameless' for the show’s last episode.

Shameless is to end next year.

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James McAvoy never gets noticed in the street.

James McAvoy thinks he would be "daft" to move to America for his career.

IF YOU are going to watch the pilot episode of the US version of Shameless (Thursday, RTÉ Two, 9.55pm), you’ll need to put all thoughts of the Manchester version out of your head.

‘Inglourious Basterds’ and ‘Avatar’ lead this year’s 15th annual Jameson Empire Film Award nominations.

A star-studded cast and two Oscar nods – for Plummer and Mirren – in this, obviously, literate story concerning the last year in the life of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.

James McAvoy is not a leading man.

No stone, if you’ll pardon the pun, has been left unturned in the search for stories about The Beatles, so no surprise then that we have another … the story of the early years of the Fab Four and of the curious relationship between Lennon and his mother and aunt.

Is Anybody There? (Cert 12, 90 mins, Drama/Comedy,)

James McAvoy could soon be a father - he and his actress wife Anne-Marie Duff are hoping to start a family.

A strange film with a somewhat morbid theme, that of a 10-year-old boy obsessed with taping the old folk in the home run by his parents in order to find out what happens when they die who forms an off-centre friendship with a newly-arrived old man.

Michael Caine has revealed that he plans to retire from acting if he is not offered any more good films.

Kristin Scott Thomas and James McAvoy's actress wife Anne-marie Duff will star as John Lennon's aunt and mother in a story of the late Beatle's early life.

After appearing in Wanted with Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy now aims to be the next big action hero.

The movie world hit the red carpet tonight for the biggest event in the British film calendar.

Atonement, the Arctic Monkeys, and Turner Prize-winner Mark Wallinger have been nominated for the 12th annual South Bank Show awards.

Hollywood star Cate Blanchett is to attend the premiere of hotly-anticipated new film 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' in London's Leicester Square.

A gentle, well-made Irish drama about friendship and coming of age that has a lot of heart and emotional maturity.

Keira Knightley is being tipped for an Oscar nomination after critics saw the world premiere of her latest film, 'Atonement', at the Venice Film Festival last night.

COMEDIAN Pat Shortt, who elevated the jumbo breakfast roll to the dizzying heights of a number one single last year, was yesterday the toast of Cannes Film Festival.

Casualty trounced its soap rivals on a night of surprises at the TV Baftas tonight.

'Life On Mars', 'Extras' and a drama about Lord Longford's campaign to free Moors Murderer Myra Hindley are front-runners at the TV Baftas in England tonight.

Irish film 'Garage' has been selected for the prestigious Directors' Fortnight at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

The smash-hit series 'Life On Mars' has been nominated for two TV Baftas today.

Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams have signed a three-year 'golden handcuffs' deal with the BBC, it was announced today.

GAY cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain was the big winner at last night's Baftas ceremony, taking four awards.

The Virgin Queen (Warner Vision) presents a spicier and livier historical drama as Anne-Marie Duff (star of Shameless) plays a sprightly Elizabeth I.

The British Academy Television Awards were taking place today – with Little Britain up for a double award.

THE Magdalene Sisters takes us back to the ’60s, to a time when Ireland was more or less ruled by the Catholic Church.

The award-winning story of cruelty finally comes to the screen.