Hit musical The Producers will end its Broadway run after six years and more than 2,500 performances in April.

The show, which is based on Mel Brooks’ 1968 film about two producers who scam old ladies out of money to put on a flop Broadway show, has been a massive stage success - winning 12 Tony awards during its run.

“The last six years working on this show have been pure joy for me,” says Brooks.

Sir Alan Sugar’s hit show The Apprentice is about to get the musical treatment, from the people who brought you Jerry Springer: The Opera.

Kombat Opera Presents is bringing their take on six TV shows to the small screen – beginning with their version of The Apprentice, renamed The Applicants.

The show will feature actor John Thomson as a business tycoon who is given the task of rebranding the Church Of England.

Legendary filmmakers Roman Polanski and the Coen Brothers are among 35 film directors who will make short films for the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival.

The three minute films, on the theme of going to the cinema, will be screened at the swanky star-studded event, which takes place from May 16-27. They will be shown on May 20.

Jonathan ‘JR’ Rotem, the music producer once romantically linked to Britney Spears has offered his support as the troubled pop star attempts rehab for the third time in a week.

Spears checked into the Promises treatment centre in Malibu, California late last night after quitting two previous programmes between last Friday and yesterday.

And Rotem, who was spotted kissing and cuddling Spears during a trip to a Hollywood cinema in January is offering the singer his full support.

Sacha Baron Cohen will not be a presenter at Sunday’s Academy Award ceremony, because he could not appear as his famous character Borat Sagdiyev.

Baron Cohen has been reluctant to make appearances as himself, preferring to do interviews as the star of the faux documentary Borat.

Oscar broadcast producer Laura Ziskin tells the Los Angeles Times, “He was asked, but he declined.”