Actor and writer Stephen Fry has shown he hasn’t lost his pulling power.

In his latest TV drama for broadcaster ITV, Fry’s starring role in Kingdom saw 8.2 million viewers tuning in and commanding a 34% share of all viewing between 9pm and 10pm last night.

The drama, set in Norfolk, sees Fry playing the role of a solicitor coming to terms with the death of his brother.

Movie mogul Joel Silver admits he’s struggling with bringing Wonder Woman onto the big screen.

The female superhero was last seen on our screens in a TV adaptation in the seventies.

But the Matrix producer is now taking on the challenge of putting the comic book on to the big screen but fears he may fail.

The Broadway version of The Producers has come to an end after more than 2,500 performances at the St James Theatre in New York.

The production has played across the world and won twelve Tony awards and tells the story of two crooked producers who set up a flop Broadway show about Adolf Hitler.

After the final matinee show yesterday, Mel Brooks - who wrote the music and lyrics - took to the stage to address the audience.

Jazz songstress Amy Winehouse has sparked reports her engagement to boyfriend Blake Civil-Fielder was short lived, after she was spotted out in a London pub without her diamond ring.

Winehouse confirmed media speculation on Saturday that she was to wed her on/off lover following his proposal last week, and confessed she had made him wait 24 hours before she gave her answer.

Scarlett Johansson put her title as one of the world’s sexiest women at risk on Saturday when she appeared as an ugly, balding alien living in a comedienne’s stomach on US TV.

The actress was hosting satirical show Saturday Night Live when she dressed down to play a ‘quatto’ who had taken over cast regular Maya Rudolph’s stomach in one sketch.

Hollywood beauty Natalie Portman is unimpressed by the sexy tales Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson openly tell the press.

The Israeli-born Star Wars star prefers to keep quiet when it comes to revealing her own bedroom antics.

She says: “Remember there was that time when Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson were proclaiming their virginity… I was like, ‘Are you kidding?’”

Movie pals George Clooney and Bradd Pitt are to team up in the new Coen Brothers film, Burn After Reading.

Coen Brothers regular Frances McDormand will also star in the movie about a CIA agent who loses the back-up disc of the book he is writing.

Clooney, who starred in the Coens’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty, plays a killer in the black comedy.

Jazz songstress Amy Winehouse is engaged to boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil, after making him wait 24 hours for her answer.

The Rehab star - who was spotted flashing a ring on her engagement finger at a London gig on Thursday - has confirmed she will wed her on/off boyfriend, whom she has been dating for the last month.

Actor Adam Brody is moving on after hit show THE O.C. - by growing a beard.

The actor, 27, admits he was forced to shave while playing pin-up Seth Cohen on the soap and now the show has ended he’s looking forward to having a little hair on his chin.

He says, “I’ve had to shave every day for four years, and I’ve never been more excited to not shave. Granted, it’ll be a pretty pathetic beard, but I’m going to give it my best shot.”

Jazz songstress Amy Winehouse has prompted rumours she is engaged to on-off boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil, after being spotted flashing a ring on her engagement finger.

The Rehab star revealed the clue after being forced to change for a gig in north London at a local pub, after she was locked out of her home nearby.

Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has started contemplating the end of the group - so he can become a father.

The singer insists he has no immediate plans to go solo but can’t see himself fronting the group for much longer.

“I’ll go off and do my thing, whether it’s producing or writing or having a solo record,” he revealed to Complex magazine. “We’re not going to be in a band forever. We’ve been doing this for almost 12 years. I want to have kids and do all the things that people do.”

Alex Rider author Anthony Horowitz has revealed that cheder classes and some fellow female Jews turned him off being more religious.

In an interview with the Jewish Chronicle, Horowitz said: “Being Jewish is a crucial part of my make-up but any chance of being a practising Jew was driven out by well-meaning parents, who dragged me to Sunday school, and cruel, spiteful North London girls in the 1960s.”

Sacha Baron Cohen’s younger brother Erran is set to perform with the Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra - despite his famous sibling offending the country with his portrayal of its people in the Borat movie.

Cohen’s Kazakh reporter Borat Sadiyev in the 2006 hit movie upset Kazakhstani people because they were portrayed as anti-Semitic and sexist, as well other unflattering stereotypes.

Movie veteran Kirk Douglas admits to playing the “movie star card” in an attempt to meet the “right people”, including former Yugoslavian president Josip Tito.

The Spartacus actor, 90, even beat the British Ambassador to meet the president during a trip to the country - now named Serbia and Montenegro.

The O.C. star Adam Brody has vowed never to ask a girl out on a date around his father again, after never forgetting the time his dad embarrassed him at an audition.

Brody insists he won’t be making the mistake of broadening his romantic horizons near his father in future.

Poirot actor David Suchet is to play controversial media tycoon Robert Maxwell in an upcoming TV movie.

The publishing baron drowned while yachting off Tenerife in the Canary Islands in 1991. It was later discovered he’d propped up his newspaper empire by embezzling millions of pounds from pension funds.

But British star Suchet insists the controversial figure was a fascinating man.

Sacha Baron Cohen’s actress fiancee Isla Fisher is losing touch with her Australian roots, because her family have all moved away from the country.

The Wedding Crashers beauty - who converted to Judaism - and Cohen have homes in Los Angeles and London, and Fisher admits she hasn’t been Down Under for a long time.

Bob Dylan’s stint as a radio DJ has earned the rocker another season as the host of a themed XM Satellite Radio series.

The first season of Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour concluded yesterday with a show dedicated to spring cleaning but a second series will begin in September.

For each show, the Lay Lady Lay hitmaker chooses songs related to a theme. Recent shows have paid tribute to baseball and the weather.

Porn star Ron Jeremy is delighted US TV drama Entourage is shooting in his Los Angeles apartment - they have cleaned up five years’ worth of bird droppings from his balcony.

Jeremy is also pleased he is being paid $500 each day while filming continues, reports TMZ.com.

“They are using both of my balconies,” he says. “They invited me to come and watch several tapings, and they even fed me. They even babysit my pet tortoise, Cherry.”

Screen legend Kirk Douglas is urging his actor son Michael and daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones to write their autobiographies now so they can gain perspective on their lives.

The Spartacus actor, 90, has written three autobiographical books already and has just released his fourth, entitled Let’s Face It: 90 Years Of Living, Loving, And Learning.

British-born New York-based producer Mark Ronson is determined he will never work with The Pussycat Dolls, labelling the six-piece as “not genuine”.

The New York producer has worked with everyone from Robbie Williams and Amy Winehouse to Christina Aguilera and Lily Allen.

So far he hasn’t refused to work with anyone, but he insists he has standards.

THE O.C. star Adam Brody has been in “mourning” since the teen drama was axed over poor viewing figures, but hopes to front a spin-off series.

The actor, who played Seth Cohen in the show, loved his “geeky” character and wants to resurrect him in a new show.

“I’m still waiting for the spin-off. He needs one,” Brody says.

Former Friends star Lisa Kudrow has revealed to “stealing” the acting style of her idol Diane Keaton.

Kudrow, 43, based her Friends character Phoebe Buffay on the “ditzy” on-screen persona that Keaton is known for, including her Oscar winning role in Annie Hall.

“She is a very strong influence on me, I lean on everything she says or does; I just steal it, I do,” Kudrow says. 

Aussie actress and recent Jewish convert Isla Fisher says she fancies her fiance’s Sacha Baron Cohen alter ego Borat.

The Wedding Crashers star, who is reportedly expecting a baby with Cohen, says she finds his character a real turn-on.

“There’s nothing sexier than a big handlebar moustache. Call me crazy,” she reveals.

New-Yorked based British uber producer Mark Ronson has laughed off rumours of a romance with fellow Semite and jazz songstress Amy Winehouse, dubbing them “hysterical”.

British newspapers claimed the two were dating after working together on Winehouse’s latest album Back To Black.

But the music producer, who’s previously worked with Robbie Williams and Christina Aguilera, tells British magazine Star: “It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.”

Legendary English playwright Harold Pinter has received a honorary doctorate from Leeds University.

The 76-year-old writer, author and actor became a Doctor of Letters at a ceremony in Leeds, Yorkshire.

Pinter’s honour coincided with a three day conference discussing his huge body of work.

University Chancellor Melvyn Bragg said: “It is a great occasion. Harold is a great writer, known all over the world. Leeds University has put together these workshops and it’s terrific that I can give him an honorary degree.”