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Lostprophets have called Axl Rose and his band Guns N' Roses "a joke" after they arrived on stage late twice at the Reading and Leeds festival.

The Edinburgh Fringe breaks last year's box office record by selling almost two million tickets, organisers reveal.

Photographs from the Edinburgh International TV festival

Actress and film-maker Isabella Rossellini is to chair the judging panel at next year's Berlin Film Festival, organisers announce.

Four comedians get a lager can portrait

Blink-182 say they're "anxious" to record their first new album since 2003 and are having fun since they reformed last year after a five-year break.

The final episode of long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine draws an audience of 5.4 million viewers, overnight figures reveal.

TV presenter Konnie Huq and writer and TV critic Charlie Brooker marry in a ceremony in Las Vegas, it is confirmed.

The band's lead singer directs a tirade at the organisers of the Reading and Leeds Festival after their set is cut short for a second time.

Little-known Japanese performance art troupe Frank Chickens have won an online poll to find an all-time Comedy God.

She may be an unknown name to some, but others have already dubbed her the 'Queen of Rockabilly'. Imelda May shot to fame after appearing on Later with Jools Holland in 2008.

A new film about slavery in the UK is not set hundreds of years ago but in the present day.

Hit US series Mad Men takes its third award Emmy for best drama series, while British stars face disappointment in Los Angeles.

The series, Mad Men, which is set in the advertising world in a changing 1960s America, was the evening's big winner at the Emmy Awards

The system of digitising actors to create characters in films like Avatar is being used to measure human behaviour in real life.

Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of west London as the Notting Hill Carnival gets under way.

Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of west London as the Notting Hill Carnival gets under way.

Singer Taio Cruz blasts his way to the top of the UK singles chart for the second time with Dynamite.

Crime drama Sherlock is to get a second series, the BBC confirms as part of a raft of new commissions.

Bruce quits the Strictly results show, the X Factor tantrum twosome get a gig and the rest of the showbiz news.