The BBC's new Sunday night drama set in the Wars of the Roses might not quite tick all historical boxes, but it's likely to become required Sunday night viewing.The forest floor is covered in snow. Into the clearing stumbles a lone soldier, his breath heavy as he drips a trail of blood. He pauses, panting and looking around nervously through ...

Will Self's "Madness of Crowds" column.A friend in the publishing business told me that Clare Balding’s “memoir”, My Animals and Other Family, had sold a quarter of a million copies in hardback and was rising 60,000 in paperback. It had also won the National Book Award for autobiography or biography. A normal multiplier for hardback to paperback would be about ...

Downton Abbey star Rob James-Collier will be donning a $6,200 (£4,000) wig for the upcoming fourth season of the hit period drama after shaving his head for another job. The 36-year-old actor reve...

Shaved heads weren't exactly in fashion in 1920s England, so why has one of the stars of Downton Abbey buzzed his hair nearly to the scalp? "I shaved it off for a role where I...

Downton Abbey star Sophie Mcshera is reportedly in talks to play one of Cinderella's ugly sisters in Kenneth Branagh's star-studded movie adaptation of the classic fairytale. Lily James and Cate B...