The Latest Breaking News from Mel Brooks

The actor-writer-director, who will turn 99 this month, is set to return for an in-development follow-up to his 1987 spoof comedy

THE COUNTDOWN: Not everything can be ‘The Big Lebowski’ or ‘Clueless’, as proven by the absolute trainwrecks that passed through cinemas in the Nineties billing themselves as comedies. Ed Power surveys the worst of them, from the Culkin-less ‘Home Alone 3’ to the Bill Cosby ghost film no one (thankfully)…

From extraordinary interviews with Bowie to green-lighting Ab Fab and Have I Got News For You, Yentob changed the course of not just arts programming but television itself

Approaching an incredible 98-year-old, the EGOT winner (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) remains one of Hollywood's most celebrated satirists, whose films continue to provoke laughter—and occasionally controversy—decades after their release.

The supporting cast shine in this boutique production, which leans into spectacle at the expense of real bite

Picks for the best new TV shows and movies on Hulu this week include a bevy of classic movies that arrive on Hulu as a new month begins.

One is the master of gruesome horror, the other is the composer who scored his most famous films. They sit down to discuss their 46-year collaboration, and the unlikely source of their darkest, most disturbing inspiration

The original Broadway production won 12 Tony Awards.

Veteran director, who originally opposed adapting 1967 film for the stage, is ‘very proud’ as Menier Chocolate Factory production will move to London’s Garrick theatre

Hackman won two Oscars and starred in classic films such as The French Connection.

Mel Brooks’s unapologetically in-your-face western spoof broke all the rules and redefined satire – it is just as relevant for today’s polarised world