Losing weight isn’t rocket science, writes Prof Michael Gibney. Follow the right advice and you will shed those excess pounds

Here’s a round up of some of the best festival line-up’s country-wide, from Ailin Quinlan.

Even with Penny Dreadful back and in the golden age of television, horror’s reign of terror remains firmly on the big screen writes Ed Power

Journalist Lynn Barber tells Richard Fitzpatrick why interviewers shouldn’t be afraid to look stupid and how she asked Jimmy Savile ‘that question’

THE Late Late Show is upon us again. On Friday, it will begin its 52nd season. Surely, the show is on its last legs. It is dispiriting. It lost its fire as a forum for national debate long ago, but what really irks are its inane celebrity interviews.

More than 200 celebrities and public figures have urged Scotland to vote No in the referendum on whether the country should leave the UK.

Swimming champion Ian Thorpe has thanked supporters, after he announced he is gay.

Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe has announced in a television interview that he is gay.

As the great and the good in Irish film and television gather together to be honoured at this year’s IFTAs tonight, Rachel Borrill asks some of our best-known faces for advice and tips on how to break into the business.

The Prince of Wales was among more than 2,000 people who paid tribute to the late broadcaster David Frost at a service in Westminster Abbey.

Piers Morgan’s prime time talk show on US TV network CNN is set to end.

Billy Connolly will continue to perform on stage and screen despite undergoing surgery for prostate cancer and being treated for the “initial symptoms” of Parkinson’s disease.

Billy Connolly will continue to perform on stage and screen despite undergoing surgery for prostate cancer and being treated for the “initial symptoms” of Parkinson’s Disease.

Comic and actor Billy Connolly has undergone surgery for prostate cancer and is being treated for the “initial symptoms” of Parkinson’s Disease.

Tributes have been pouring in for “peerless broadcaster” David Frost who died after suffering a heart attack at the age of 74.

Chat show host Michael Parkinson has revealed he has cancer.

AUTHOR and ex-Fair City star Claudia Carroll could barely see during her Leaving Cert because the area around her eyes was so covered with psoriasis.

Chat show host Michael Parkinson has said the BBC made “mistakes” over the Jimmy Savile abuse case, but the real question was why the DJ was given access to schools and hospitals.

TV star Graham Norton has hit back following Michael Parkinson’s criticism of the current generation of chat show hosts, and bemoaned the rise of “goody goody” dramas.

TV star Graham Norton has hit back at Michael Parkinson’s criticism of the current generation of chat show hosts, and bemoaned the rise of “goody goody” dramas.

Suzanne Harrington reads Richard Burton’s just published diaries — and reveals what they expose about one of Hollywood’s most notorious marriages.

The veteran broadcaster Michael Parkinson made a warm impression at the Maritime Hotel in Bantry, West Cork, last night.

AN interview with Michael Parkinson is as difficult to get as dress circle seats at Covent Garden.

WE’RE bang in the middle of the summer festival season, and July shows no signs of letting up. Practically every weekend is cram-packed with music and/or arts festivities all around the country, ranging from Kinsale Arts Week to the Galway Film Fleadh to a national scarecrow festival. So get planning.

ICONIC violinist Nigel Kennedy will join the Cork Symphony Orchestra to perform one of his favourite concertos on Friday.

The grandmaster of the TV chat show, Michael Parkinson, is to headline the West Cork Literary Festival this summer.

Michael Parkinson is returning to TV.

The showbusiness world was today celebrating the life of comic “legend” Frank Carson following his death at the age of 85.

ON Your Farts, Get Set, Go! by Mitchell Symons (Doubleday; €9.50) is the latest in this popular series — a light-hearted look at sport.

I ALWAYS thought I’d like to be a pilot — the uniform, the glamour, the air hostesses.

CELEBRITIES can now post online corrections to what they consider misinformation and slurs about their character.

Michael Parkinson has blasted Russell Brand as “pointless”.

TV veteran Michael Parkinson has criticised the "foolish ambition" of celebrities who try their hand at fronting talk shows.

Comedian Billy Connolly said he was “completely blown away” to be given the Freedom of Glasgow today.

Comedian Billy Connolly will be honoured by his home city today.

Hollywood star Russell Crowe walked out on a BBC Radio 4 interview after being riled by accusations that he had made Robin Hood sound Irish.

Jonathan Ross is to be presented with a Music Industry Trusts’ award, it was announced today.

Michael Parkinson today hit out at the television output of property programmes and police chases in the wake of the announcement that the 'South Bank Show' is to be axed.

CANCER victim Jade Goody came to represent “all that’s paltry and wretched about Britain”, Michael Parkinson has said.

TRIBUTES poured in from across the world of show business yesterday to actress Natasha Richardson, who died on Wednesday after an accident during a skiing lesson.

Tributes poured in today to actress Natasha Richardson who has died after an accident during a skiing lesson.

Piers Morgan has launched an attack against Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton and Alan Carr, saying entertainer interviewers “wouldn’t know a good journalistic question if it bit them on their backsides”.