The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Gosford Park has scripted a TV miniseries about the last hours of the passengers of the Titanic.

Former television game show host Bob Barker is offering $100,000 to the City of Edmonton if it will allow experts to examine Lucy, the lone elephant at the Edmonton Valley Zoo.

Canada’s Justin Bieber and Irish rock band U2 are among artists who will contribute songs to a digital album to raise funds for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

Morgan Spurlock’s new film that exposes the pervasiveness of product placement on the big and small screen is to open the Hot Docs International Film Festival.

Pinetop Perkins, who was the oldest Grammy winner this year, has died at his home of cardiac arrest at age 97.

An audience watching an Irish production of Hamlet was shocked to see the prince exit the stage too soon – when a sword
fight really wounded the star.