Magician David Blaine has successfully completed his latest endurance challenge. For two days the 33-year-old has been locked into a spinning gyroscope suspended 50 feet in the air above Times Square, and his challenge was to free himself from the restraints holding him.

The event, which promoted value retailers Target’s Thanksgiving event, also saw Target giving 100 needy children a shopping trip, with each child getting a $500 gift card to spend at their stores.

Lucian Freud is the number one artist who other members of the UK artistic community most admire, according to a poll by The Great Art Fair.

Freud, the grandson of psychologist Sigmund Freud, was born in Berlin in 1922 and moved to the UK with his family in 1933 following the Nazi rise to power in Germany.

Legendary music star Bob Dylan, who turned to DJ-ing earlier this year, is to have his Theme Time Radio Hour broadcast on the BBC. The critically acclaimed 60 minute show offers an eclectic mix of 65-year-old Dylan’s favourite tunes, as well as his thoughts and perspectives on music and other subjects.

Since airing on XM Radio in the States in May this year, the weekly show has covered themes including whisky, dance, police and cars.

Funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen is tipped to triumph at next year’s Golden Globe awards.

The event, which hands out gongs for the best in TV and film over the past 12 months, is voted for by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and is seen as an indication of who might get lucky at the even more prestigious Oscars, which are held in February.

After four series, Family Business, a reality show about a porn company run by a Jewish family, appears to have come to an end.

Seymore Butts, aka nice Jewish boy Adam Glasser, has revealed in his Myspace blog that makers Showtime are not looking to commission a fifth series of the popular programme.

According to his blog, the 42-year-old revealed, “Well, it’s almost official…Showtime will not be renewing Family Business for a series five.”