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YouTube and TV bosses work to end revenue stalemate as talent show star gets 100m hitsITV has missed out on sharing a million-pound windfall from clips of Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle uploaded onto video website YouTube.Boyle's performance on ITV's Britain's Got Talent has attracted more than 100 million hits on the site in a fortnight as the 47-year-old church volunteer continues to captivate a huge global audience.But the financially beleaguered channel had insisted that no advertisements be shown alongside the clips until it has thrashed out a deal with Google, which owns YouTube. The stalemate has meant that no one - not ITV, nor Simon Cowell, nor YouTube itself - has been able to cash in. Estimates of how much ITV - and the show's producers, Talkback Thames, and Simon Cowell's company, Syco - could have lost to date vary between £500,000 and £1.5m. ITV has been battered by an advertising slump recently and is cutting hundreds of jobs. Late on Friday night Fre

(Cert 12A) This tale of political twists and dogged journalism remains gripping as it transfers from TV to the big screenThe american critic Robert Warshow famously called the western 'an art form for connoisseurs, where the spectator derives his pleasure from the appreciation of minor variations within the working out of a pre-established order'. The same thing is, I think, true of other genres, where novelty should be subtle rather than radical, evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The political thriller, for instance, has been developing in a fascinating manner over the past 50 years and State of Play, an American thriller based on the 2003 BBC series of the same name, gains from the way it draws, consciously and unconsciously, on an established repertoire of characters, situations and themes.The movie, an admirable and indeed exemplary instance of the genre, begins by presenting two apparently unrelated incidents occurring within a few hours of each other in a paranoid Washingto

Actress Bea Arthur, star of the TV sitcom The Golden Girls, dies of cancer at the age of 86 in Los Angeles.

The actress Bea Arthur, star of the TV sitcom The Golden Girls, dies of cancer at the age of 86 in Los Angeles.

Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows ...

After eloping five months ago in Mexico, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt got married Saturday -- and this time, it's official! ET has learned that the reality TV stars got hitched in Pasadena, Calif., early Saturday evening.

A family spokesman for Bea Arthur said the star of TV's 'Maude' and 'The Golden Girls' has died.

If you are a child of the 70's or 80's, you probably have a lot of fond memories about actress Bea Arthur. Her humor and wit kept us all glued to the TV.Source: Stephanie ModkinsPublished: Apr 25, 2009

Bea Arthur, the actress best known for her roles as television's 'Maude' and the sardonic Dorothy on 'The Golden Girls,' has died of cancer, a family spokesman said Saturday.

TV News: Tony-winning actress was 86 -- Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows 'Maude' and 'The Golden Girls' and who won a Tony Award for the musical 'Mame,' died Saturday. She was 86.