Nearly 40 million people tuned in to Sunday’s Grammy Awards to watch the music industry lay its heart at the feet of its fallen heroine , Whitney Houston, while musicians plugged their new singles, LL Cool J prayed, Nicki Minaj was exorcised and cameras caught it all. Read full article > >

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Nicki Minaj’s Grammy Awards performance — complete with a mock exorcism, a mock confession and dancing monks — caused its intended cultural buzz. Some believe it is a transparent publicity stunt. Others believe it is the sign of a collapsing civilization. We should stop all this bickering. There is no reason it can’t be both. Read full article > >

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Veteran singer June Tabor wins four prizes at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in Salford, three of which are shared with her collaborators The Oysterband.

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Singer Tabor sweeps folk awards

Former Doctor Who star David Tennant is among the winners at the inaugural BBC Audio Drama Awards in London.

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Tennant wins award for Kafka role

For the first time in seven years, the Grammy Awards will have a host — singer LL Cool J has officially signed on to host the ceremony on CBS, the network announced Wednesday. Of course, LL Cool J also happens to be the star of the network’s drama “NCIS: Los Angeles.” For the past few years, he’s hosted the “Grammy Nominations Concert Live!” which reveals the major nominees for the show. Read full article > >

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Skyrim wins top prize in the Spike Video Game Awards, but PlayStation users complain of a bug that makes the title unplayable for some.

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Skyrim award despite PS3 problems

The band are to receive the award for outstanding contribution to music at next year’s Brit Awards, organisers have confirmed.

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Blur to get ‘lifetime’ Brit award

Tyrannosaur, a drama about friendship and cruelty, triumphs at the British Independent Film Awards, beating Tinker Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

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Tyrannosaur in triple Bifas win

Science fiction drama Melancholia, directed by Lars von Trier, is named best movie at this year’s European Film Awards in Berlin.

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Von Trier gets European film gong

As announced yesterday — and hinted at as a possibility several months ago in this blog — Billy Crystal is hosting the 2012 Academy Awards . And while that initially sounded like bad news for the Muppets-as-Oscar-hosts campaign , apparently that optimistic, plucky group still believes Kermit the Frog and Co. will be involved in the big movie trophy show. Read full article > >

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Veteran Oscar host Billy Crystal will host next year’s Academy Awards after Eddie Murphy’s departure as the programme’s presenter.

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Billy Crystal is replacing Eddie Murphy as host of ABC’s Feb. 26 Academy Awards broadcast. The eight-time Oscars host was tapped Thursday to take over for Murphy by Brian Grazer — the movie mogul who was tapped a day earlier to produce the 2012 Oscarcast, replacing Brett Ratner. Yes, that is, in fact, a double accidental upgrade — in just 24 hours. Way to go, motion picture academy! Read full article > >

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Billy Crystal is replacing Eddie Murphy as host of ABC’s Feb 26 Academy Awards broadcast. The eight-time Oscar host was tapped to take over for first-timer Eddie Murphy, by Brian Grazer, the movie mogul who was tapped to produce this year’s Oscarcast , replacing Brett Ratner. Yes, that is, in fact, a double accidental upgrade – in just 24 hours. Way to go motion picture academy! Read full article > >

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ABC and the Motion Picture Academy are now also frantically looking for a new host for the Feb. 26 Academy Awards telecast, after Eddie Murphy quit as show host Wednesday afternoon, in an apparent show of support for the trophy show’s exec producer Brett Ratner — who the academy announced late Tuesday was out . Read full article > >

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Some of the world’s biggest music stars walk the red carpet ahead of the MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast.

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Stars in Belfast for MTV awards