David Suchet, known for two decades as detective Poirot, is taking on another literary figure of the law by joining the cast of Dickens’s 'Great Expectations'.

GRAEME McDOWELL, 31, from Portrush in Co Antrim, is awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List today after a sensational golfing year.

Husband and wife Lee Mead and Denise Van Outen will go head to head in a battle for theatrical honours after they were both nominated in the same category at an awards event.

British talent monopolised the International Emmys in New York today, picking up seven of the 10 awards on offer.

Hollywood star Jason Statham said tonight he was poised to break his tough guy mould and do a romantic comedy.

THEATRE legend David Suchet might face just a handful of people when he brings a British box-office smash hit to Cork.

ITV has poached veteran sleuth Miss Marple from the BBC in a landmark deal which will also see the return of Poirot, it was announced today.

Johnny Vegas has been named Best Newcomer at the British Royal Television Society programme awards.

The list of nominations for the British Academy Television Awards has been announced.