THIEVES have stolen the only master tapes for the BBC's new £8 million series on Robin Hood and are demanding a £1 million ransom for their safe return, it was reported yesterday.

A THEATRE company facing shutdown after its funding was axed has secured a partial reprieve.

KELLY Macdonald, the Glaswegian actress who leaped to fame in Trainspotting, has won an Emmy award for her role in The Girl in the Café.

The world premiere of Philip Haas ' " The Situation " will open the 14th annual Hamptons International Film Festival (October 18 - 22), organizers announced today. Haas' "Situation," set for a U.S. release early next year by Shadow Distribution

Sony stops by the GameSpot office to give us a sneak peek at a demo version of its upcoming tactical shooter.

39 Xbox games have been added to the backward compatibility list for a total of around 300. Now I can dig deeper into my local store's discount Xbox game bin for more games. A few that I wouldn't mind playing...

The sound of music is about to go silent at a legendary Chicago jazz club. CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports on a River North favorite that's about to fade away.

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Mickey Spillane just recently died. He epitomizes one of my secret loves, authors who look the part of their writing. Hell, Spillane so embodied a chiseled tough guy, on film, he actually played his titular character Mike Hammer. Likewise, despite

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Latest update pushes number of backward compatible games past 250; 39 games added to list, nine games receive updated support.

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GameJew was in Africa, filming a documentary about an American dance troop heading to Ghana. The clip, he writes, features:A 12 year old boy who had NEVER played a video game, playing NSMB for the first time, within 20 min.,

Could Nintendo be sniggering behind their hands, waiting to spring another shock on its poor, unsuspecting audience? Joystiq reports that Go Nintendo says that French gaming blog ActuJV has a man on the inside. Oh how I love these he-said,