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Gemma Atkinson dazzles in a backless white gown at NTAs

Emmerdale picked up the gong for Best Serial Drama at the National Television Awards for the first time in the ceremony's 22 year history.

   

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The show, a huge coup for the NT, will be directed by John Tiffany, whose stage hits include Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, and will open in the National's Lyttelton auditorium in December.

After playing four of the biggest female leads in musical theatre, Alexia Khadime has been cast as Rita Marley - wife of reggae legend Bob - in One Love: The Bob Marley Musical.

It seems that there is no look-at-me ruse Gwyneth has attempted that Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden hasn't then had a go at herself, including a white tuxedo and shorts combination.

Billie Piper is in early discussions about making her New York theatrical debut in the transfer of Yerma, the controversial Young Vic production in which she gave an award-winning performance as a woman unable to have children.

The all-singing, all-dancing film, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, won a record seven awards at the Golden Globes on Sunday night and a clean sweep is predicted at the Oscars,

Pablo Larrain's film (the accomplished Chilean director's first in the English language) attempts to exploit our never-ending fascination with the events of JFK's assassination.

Split, a psychological thriller heavier on psychology than thrills, is middling Shyamalan, nothing like as gripping as The Sixth Sense, but a sight better than many of his more recent offerings.

You don't need to have adopted a child, or to have been adopted yourself (although I was, as it happens), to find Lion immensely moving. All you need is a heart, writes Brian Viner.

Live By Night is not much of a film and Ben Affleck is not especially good in it. He is never wooden as an actor, but he can be stolid. He is at his most stolid here. writes BRIAN VINER.

It's surprisingly refreshing to float through a film as calculatingly and upliftingly lightweight as La La Land , the romantic musical which swept the board at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.

Heaven knows why actors of the calibre of Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Ed Norton and Naomie Harris were prepared to take part in Collateral Beauty, writes BRIAN VINER.