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You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6’s fictional Q, has recounted how Russian spies would watch the latest Bond movie to see what technologies might be coming their way.

Coltrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours.

It’s not perfect, but stick with it and you’ll be rewarded

Love Island babe Ekin-Su Cülcüloglu wanted to be a Bond girl but now ITV bosses have tempted her away from 007 with a host of reality show offers including Dancing on Ice

From Jed Mercurio’s bent copper hit to Michaela Coel’s powerful I May Destroy You and Russell T Davies’s prescient Years and Years, the BBC shows it can still be innovative and provocative

Ex-Prime minister Boris Johnson’s former aide Cleo Watson is planning a second novel about political life, we hear.

Winehouse was enlisted to write the theme song for ‘Quantum of Solace’

Triumph releases an Instagram post teasing a new Bond Edition motorcycle to celebrate the film series’ 60th anniversary.

Convenience, experience and nostalgia are fuelling the uptick in audience numbers at some of Greater Manchester's oldest cinemas and theatres