The BBC paid a total of £229 million to its presenters, actors and other talent in the year up till March 2009, the broadcaster has revealed.
Product placement is to be permitted on UK television programmes, the government has confirmed after a three-month consultation.
ITV has been forced to pay a fine in Australia after contestants on the reality TV show I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! killed and ate a rat.
Gordon Brown is to give an hour-long interview to Piers Morgan, the former editor of the Daily Mirror and current Britain's Got Talent judge.
Hollywood star Mel Gibson has been caught calling a reporter an asshole at the end of a TV interview.
Katie Price and Alex Reid have married in a "simple ceremony" in Las Vegas, their spokesman has confirmed.
Emmy-winning actor Rip Torn has been bailed after allegedly breaking into a bank with a loaded weapon while drunk.
The likes of Melvyn Bragg and David Lodge could receive a retrospective Booker Prize after a longlist of 22 books was unveiled for a new one-off award.
The wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has become the latest celebrity to be voted off the new series of Dancing On Ice.
Cage fighter Alex Reid has been crowned the winner of the final series of Celebrity Big Brother, with singer Dane Bowers finishing second.
Matt Robinson on the end of Celebrity Big Brother and returns for Skins and Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
Its characters are impossibly cool and its storylines designed to outrage Middle England but the return of Bafta-winning Skins only improves the TV schedules.
Matt Robinson on a new comedy with huge potential, another fine outing for Glee and a different venture for Gordon Ramsay.
Click here for a full rundown of the winners and losers at the 2010 Golden Globes ceremony, hosted by Ricky Gervais in Los Angeles.
Matt Robinson on the all -singing Glee, BBC's new fashionista drama and the return of ITV's Law & Order UK.
US actor Charlie Sheen has been charged with assaulting his wife Brooke Mueller in an incident on Christmas Day.
Anne-Marie Duff and Andy Serkis have won the top acting prizes at this year's Evening Standard film awards.
Paul Weller will receive the Godlike Genius prize at this year's NME Awards, the music magazine has confirmed.