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FROM the Highlands of Scotland to ancient Rome to Seattle Grace hospital, he is the man behind some of the toughest soldiers on screen.

Chinese dumplings are a New Year's tradition that symbolize wealth. Photograph by: Getty Images, Getty Images If your head really hurts on New Year's Day, you could point your finger at the Babylonians who started this new year revelry nonsense.

Original showrunner Jeff Bell was replaced in the summer by Scott Peters , who also wrote the pilot.

Fans of Doctor Who , and David Tennant's incarnation of the good Doctor in particular who live in the US should be pleased to know there will be virtually no delay in seeing his final performances in the role.

CORONATION Street star Lee Boardman was on hand to give tips to local actors at a workshop held in King William's College.

's latest clues for casting of HBO's Game of Thrones pilot briefly, but we'd be remiss not to share the exact text and some of the speculations that have followed.

A couple of more films have trickled out for this year's Lone Star International Film Festival .

German web ProSieben is moving into English-language production with a TV movie starring an all-British cast, led by Eleanor Tomlinson and David Bamber.

Explicit sex scenes are in vogue again on TV, with new series such as True Blood - and this time women are calling the shots When was it that I realised that Percy Filth - as Jack Rosenthal's sitcom The Lovers called sex around the time that television invented it - had made a return to the box? Was it in the early minutes of Rome four years ago ...

Explicit sex scenes are in vogue again on TV, with new series such as True Blood - and this time women are calling the shots Andrew Billen When was it that I realised that Percy Filth - as Jack Rosenthal's sitcom The Lovers called sex around the time that television invented it - had made a return to the box? Was it in the early minutes of Rome ...

Just because Rome fell doesn't mean its legacy cannot live on. The show premiered on HBO back in August of 2005 and was canceled after just two seasons.

Fanny and little sister Toots in "Bright Star." "Bright Star" "Give me a golden pen, and let me lean/ On heap'd up flowers, in regions clear, and far" The golden pen was John Keats, his poem is "On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour." He left at an early hour, dying of tuberculosis at 25.

HE NARROWLY missed out on playing James Bond but now Dougray Scott is set to follow in former 007 agent Sir Roger Moore's footsteps after landing the lead in The Saint, we hear.

Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw perform in a scene from Jane Campion's movie Bright Star.

Paul Giamatti has just been cast as King John in the upcoming medieval action flick "Ironclad".A King John is the villain* and he's throwing down against a "Seven Samurai" led by a formidable Knights Templar played by James Purefoy.A Hit the jump to find out who would win in a fight.

The movie world is upside down. The Hollywood studios are here at the Toronto International Film Festival mostly with small, intimate, indie-type films, and a British independent is here with a $40 million adaptation of Robert E. Howard 's "Solomon Kane," a violent 16th-century "Dirty Harry." The film plays tomorrow night at a Midnight Madness ...

Last updated on Tuesday, Sep. 15, 2009 03:26AM EDT F or students of a dead language, the undergrads in Initiation to Latin are a remarkably lively bunch.

When James Purefoy is good, he is very, very good a ' as he was in the charitably short-lived NBC summer series The Philanthropist.

The indomitable Dame Kiri Te Kanawa won't give up singing any time soon, despite rumours she will retire next year.

Two decades have passed since the publication of Peter Mayle's international bestseller A Year in Provence .