Stylish 1960s drama Mad Men and comedy Modern Family are among the regular series leading nominations for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, the highest honours in the television industry. Mad Men, the three-time Emmy winner for best dramatic show, scored 19 nominations, including best drama series and acting nods for its stars John Hamm and Elisabeth Moss.

The giants of contemporary dance, the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) have returned to Australia after a decade-long absence.

Boy wizard Harry Potter makes his final return to theatres this week and may bring enough box office magic to score the biggest opening weekend ever for the hugely successful series.

Oprah Winfrey is putting more of herself into her fledgling OWN cable television channel, taking on the roles of both chief executive and chief creative officer, as well as developing on a new chat show for 2012.

Lady Gaga courts controversy in Sydney after performing in a wheelchair.

Melbourne broadcaster Derryn Hinch will undergo minor surgery this morning after a complication following his liver transplant a week ago.

Italian composer Ennio Morricone will conduct the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at next year's Adelaide Festival.

A judge has granted Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry a stay away order against a man whom she claims intruded on her Los Angeles property three times in recent days, before police arrested him.

Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter R Kelly has failed to make mortgage payments on his multi-million-dollar Chicago-area home for more than a year and now may lose the property to lenders, court documents show.

A judge has ordered a former producer for the TV show Survivor be extradited to Mexico to face charges that he killed his wife two years ago while they were on holiday in the resort town of Cancun.

Don't be surprised if a parade of giant demonic babies engaged in a battle of good and evil invade central Melbourne this October - they're just part of the Melbourne Festival.

Police have arrested two men suspected of murdering Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral in Guatemala as part of a plot by organised crime gangs to kill his music promoter.

The writer and creator of two of the most enduringly popular TV series, Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, has died aged 94.

Singer Jewel has given birth to a baby boy, People magazine reports.

Two Australians are among eight people injured during this year's Running of the Bulls festival in Spain.

The National Gallery has announced a rediscovered painting by Italian master Leonardo da Vinci estimated to be worth $US200 million will go on display in London later this year.

Two artworks from an Aboriginal elder who recently won this year's NAIDOC Artist of the Year award have gone missing.

Rebecca Black, the 14-year-old singer whose song Friday was ridiculed for being inane until it made her a YouTube sensation, is looking to keep her pop culture star from fading with a new single.

Prince William and his wife Catherine will go "under the radar" for the rest of the year, keeping a low profile after their stellar tour of North America, royal officials have confirmed.

Veteran actor Ryan O'Neal has dismissed as "ridiculous" a lawsuit asking him to hand over an Andy Warhol painting of his former partner Farrah Fawcett.