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Pioneering actor to receive BAFTA’s highest honour.

BAFTA is to honour Us actor Sidney Poitier with its Fellowship honour at the Ee British Academy Film Awards in London on Feb 14.

Awarded annually, the Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, television or games.

Fellows previously honoured for their work in film include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Lee, Martin Scorsese, Alan Parker and Helen Mirren. Mike Leigh received the Fellowship at last year’s Film Awards.

Poitier said: “I am extremely honored to have been chosen to receive the Fellowship and my deep appreciation to the British Academy for the recognition.”

The pioneering actor’s award-winning career includes six BAFTA nominations, including one BAFTA win for The Defiant Ones (1958), and a British Academy Britannia Award for Lifetime...

Benedict Cumberbatch features in a new trailer promoting BBC Drama.

The Sherlock actor has recorded William Shakespeare's 'All the World's a Stage' monologue from As You Like It for the promo, which aired before new drama The Missing on BBC One at 8.58pm tonight (October 28).

The promo features moments from BBC dramas of the past, present and future.

Upcoming dramas featured in the trailer include the adaptation of Jk Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, Esio Trot starring Dame Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman, James Nesbitt's The Missing, Damian Lewis drama Wolf Hall, Jimmy McGovern's new series Banished, the new version of Poldark, Susanna Clarke's Strange and Norrell, One Child and The Interceptor.

Past dramas include the likes of The Singing Detective, House of Cards, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, This Life, Pride and Prejudice, Criminal Justice, Small Island, Spooks and Life on Mars.

Doctor Who, Last Tango in Halifax,...

Benedict Cumberbatch will feature in a new trailer promoting BBC Drama tonight (October 28).

The Sherlock actor has recorded William Shakespeare's 'All the World's a Stage' monologue from As You Like It for the promo, which will air before new drama The Missing on BBC One at 8.58pm.

The promo will feature moments from BBC dramas of the past, present and future.

Upcoming dramas featured in the trailer will include the adaptation of Jk Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, Esio Trot starring Dame Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman, James Nesbitt's The Missing, Damian Lewis drama Wolf Hall, Jimmy McGovern's new series Banished, the new version of Poldark, Susanna Clarke's Strange and Norrell, One Child and The Interceptor.

Past dramas will include the likes of The Singing Detective, House of Cards, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, This Life, Pride and Prejudice, Criminal Justice, Small Island, Spooks and Life on Mars.

This is the first-ever edition of the Entertainment Geekly Mailbag, where you send questions, aggressive clarifications, or angry rebuttals to me at darren_franich@ew.com, and I attempt to answer those question, declarify those clarifications, and angrily rebut your rebuttal.

Regarding your ‘Doctor Who’ piece…

The Doctor is Not immortal or semi-omniscient.

Time Lords have a limited amount of regenerations and can be killed as the show has stated. The regeneration limit was 12 but he just got a new batch from the Time Lords and it’s not clear how many that was. Maybe a new cycle? But that...

Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.

This Week’s New Instant Releases…

Promised Lands (1974)

Streaming Available: 04/19/2011

Cast: Documentary

Director: Susan Sontag

Synopsis: Set in Israel during the final days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, this powerful documentary — initially barred by Israel authorities — from writer-director Susan Sontag examines divergent perceptions of the enduring Arab-Israeli clash. Weighing in on matters related to socialism, anti-Semitism, nation sovereignty and American materialism are The Last Jew writer Yoram Kaniuk and military physicist Yuval Ne’eman.

Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)

Streaming Available: 04/19/2011

Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Gerald Alexander Held, Lena Stolze, Sunnyi Melles

Synopsis: Directed by longtime star of independent German cinema Margarethe von Trotta, this reverent...

The nominations for the 68th annual Golden Globes were announced this morning. In the television categories - Glee led the way with five nominations. Mad Men and Dexter each score three noms. James Franco was nominated for his role in 127 Hours.

Read the full list of nominees below.

1. Best Supporting Actress in a series - mini-series or TV movie

Hope Davis - The Special Relationship

Jane Lynch - Glee

Kelly McDonald - Boardwalk Empire

Julia Stiles - Dexter

Sofia Vergara - Modern Family

2. Best Actress in a TV series - comedy

Toni Collette - United States Of Tara

Edie Falco - Nurse Jackie

Tina Fey - 30 Rock

Laura Linney - The Big C

Lea Michele - Glee

3. Best TV movie or mini-series

Carlos

The Pacific

Pillars of the Earth

Temple Grandin

You Don't Know Jack

4. Best original song – motion picture

"Bound to You" - Burlesque

"Coming Home" - Country Strong...

Anne Hathaway and James Franco weren't the only ones getting <a href="http://www.celebrity-mania.com/news/view/00017316.html" class="submenu">their second nomination from Satellite Awards</a>. When the International Press Academy announced the nominees for 2010 Satellite Awards on Wednesday, December 1, it was uncovered that "Glee" star Lea Michele is up for another title of Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series. <br><br /> The actress famed for her portrayal of Rachel Berry has won the title in 2009, beating the likes of Toni Collette, Edie Falco and Tina Fey among others. This year, she will still have to battle it out against those three TV stars, and gets some new competition from Laura Linney of "The Big C" and Jane Adams of "Hung". <br><br /> Lea wasn't the only "Glee" stars landing an acting nod for the annual awards. Her co-stars, Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer, were up for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Series, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively.

"Glee" has the biggest chance to take home a trophy at the upcoming 15th Annual Satellite Awards for it has been nominated in 5 categories. The Fox series is taking nods in Actress and Actor in a Series, Supporting Actress and Actor in a Series as well as the coveted TV Series, Comedy. <br><br /> As many as 12 television categories of 38 programs from 15 diverse networks were announced as this year's contenders. If "Glee" is the biggest nominee in the comedy field, it is "The Good Wife" which shows a domination in the drama field. The CBS series is also taking 5 nods followed by AMC's "Mad Men" and HBO's TV movie "Temple Grandin" with four. <br><br /> Network-wise, it is HBO which comes first place in terms of total nods. The cable channel receives nominations mostly from "Grandin", "You Don't Know Jack" and its acclaimed series like "True Blood" and "Hung". Taking 17 nods, HBO towers above...

By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith

HollywoodNews.com: WWE star Rey Mysterio, Jr. steps onto the mat on Disney Xd’s “Zeke and Luther” tonight (8/16), playing himself on an episode that has Luther (Adam Hicks) dreaming of success as a wrestler.

Mysterio tells us he couldn’t have said no. For one thing, he’s spent untold hours watching Disney Channel shows with his own son, 13, and daughter, eight – and he got to bring her along for the shoot. The mask-wearing hunk also has a big kid following himself.

“Lots of kids wear the mask. One of the things that fills me up with energy when I get into the ring – kids in the front row wearing a Rey Mysterio mask,” says Mysterio, who learned the high-flying Lucha Libre wrestling style in Mexico. He stresses that he goes to great lengths to get the message across that his moves...