The Full Monty News

Tesco has thrown down the gauntlet to upmarket rivals after the supermarket giant slashed prices on its luxury Finest range in a bid to tap into a trend for shoppers to trade up over Christmas.

Tesco will go head-to-head against Marks & Spencer and Waitrose this week by offering heavy discounts on its Finest range of foods and introducing new luxury items in the run-up to Christmas.

BRIT HIT: The Full Monty, starring Carlyle, was once countrya TMs top-earning film.

By Craig Brown SCOTS Hollywood star Robert Carlyle has called on UK cinemas to help the British film industry by reserving screens for home-made productions.

Six unemployed Yorkshire factory workers band together to perform a striptease act in this great 1997 comedy.

Whether in Yankee Stadium or the Land of Oz, getting home is an all-consuming mission.

Based on Peter Cattaneo's 1997 film which starred Robert Carlyle, the musical version has a book by Terrence McNally and score by David Yazbek and is relocated to the American city of Buffalo.

A new production of David Yazbeck and Terrence McNally's Broadway stage musical version of The Full Monty , based on the 1997 British film comedy of the same name, is to be staged at the Broadway Studio in Catford, south east London, before transferring to the West End's New Players Theatre.

Watch a slide show of pictures from Jamie Oliver's visit to Hebden Bridge, as the town is given a Christmas makeover.

ROBERT CARLYLE has revealed how he turned down a milliondollar offer to repeat his Full Monty striptease for a TV advert.

Ming-Na and Robert Carlyle are shown in a scene from Stargate Universe. Robert Carlyle was hesitant when he was offered a role in the shot-in-Vancouver TV series Stargate Universe.

Those who've been following the development of "Stargate," ever since the concept was introduced in the 1994 movie by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, will have a chance to explore new worlds aboard the starship Destiny with the premiere episode of the new series "SGU: Stargate Universe" on Syfy starting Friday, October 2. Following on the heels of ...

Stargate's universe is worlds removed from his hometown of Glasgow, Scotland. For a drama graduate of Glasgow Arts Centre who was inspired to act after reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Stargate, with its alternate realities and flights of sci-fi fantasy, must have seemed utterly alien to Carlyle.

The standard for an unedited, steadicam shot has always been Goodfellas -- the scene where Henry Hill and his wife-to-be Karen walk through the back of the Copacabana on the way to their table at the front of the club.

Shamed singer CHRIS BROWN is struggling with life without his ex-girlfriend RIHANNA, taking to the internet to speak of his heartbreak now they're apart.

ROBERT Carlyle has threatened to quit acting many times. In 1998, a year after The Full Monty came out, when he was firmly established as Scotland's No1 gruff and grizzled bad boy on screen, he said he would give it another five years.

THE FULL MONTY star ROBERT CARLYLE has vowed to venture away from British cinema - because audiences aren't interested in his movies.

ACTOR Robert Carlyle has turned his back on the British film industry after two of his movies flopped.

FORMER Coronation Street star Bruce Jones is set to appear in court on driving charges.

The Slumdog Millionaire director has long been rumoured to be working on taking Porno to the big screen - 13 years after Trainspotting made the cast household names.