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Exclusive: Historian William Dalrymple and journalist Anita Anand’s well-received history book Koh-i-Noor: The History Of The World’s Most Infamous Diamond has been optioned for a TV drama series adaptation by Paris, LA and Mumbai-based producers 185 Carat Films.

The book charts the winding true story of the Indian diamond, the 27th largest in the world, which is currently part of the British Crown Jewels. The precious stone changed hands between various factions in south and west Asia, until being ceded to Queen Victoria after the British annexation of the Punjab in 1849. The diamond has inspired much folklore over the decades and has become a symbol of power as it passed from one royal to another.

Producing for 185 Carat Films are Paris-based actress-turned-producer Koel Purie Rinchet (Rock On!!), LA-based international sales consultant and producer Raquel Carreras (All’s Faire in Love) and Mumbai-based producer Kamayani Punia (Crazy Mad Lover: Once Again...

Is it weird to say that, for years, I’ve been looking forward to James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser’s closest-yet brush with mortality?

One of the most dramatic interludes in Diana Gabaldon’s The Fiery Cross comes to pass in this week’s Outlander when Jamie gets bitten by a snake and then nearly dies before Brianna is able to help her mother figure out how to save him. It’s the nearest that Big Red comes to shuffling off this mortal coil since Culloden, and ever since reading the novel, I’ve always been struck by how something...

Fame Academy may only have lasted two series, but boy, did it burn bright. And even though it was over ten years ago that it was on our screens, we're still belting out David Sneddon's utter tune 'Stop Living The Lie' at our DS karaoke sessions.

But the news of series two's Alistair Griffin teaming up with Kimberley Walsh for a Tour de France single got us thinking - what happened to all of our favourite Fame Academy contestants? Well, here's what we could find out about 16 of the students over both series...

Series One

Ashley House

Ashley might have been eliminated in week one of Fame Academy (the shame) but he's not let that little disappointment hold him back. He went on to guest star in an episode of Cbbc's Mi: High... look, we promise, this gets better. He's now a sports presenter who helped launch Arsenal TV,...

Dear Christina Ricci,

What do you think you're doing, exactly? I'll be honest, I didn't watch Pan Am, but Miss Emily Cheever liked it and I support it. I also support your weight. So why is your career as a feature actress flying off the rails? Why do you only choose silly/magical romantic comedies with unappealing co-stars?

Like, Penelope? Who told you that middlebrow crap was worth wearing a pig snout for? And in this new one, All's Faire In Love, who told you that taking a role that was originally given to f*cking Jack Black was a good idea? (That's true.) And don't even get me started on Prozac Nation, because I'm the only person who saw Prozac Nation. I hope Samuel L. Jackson chains you to a radiator until you learn how to choose your g*ddamn choices.

Anyway, here's the trailer for All's Faire In Love,...

Actress Christina Ricci was forced to skip the New York premiere of her upcoming movie All's Faire In Love on Tuesday due to filming commitments for her new TV series Pan Am.

The former child star was due to appear at Manhattan's Regal Union Square theatre to promote the romantic comedy, but she had to withdraw from the event at late notice, leaving director Scott Marshall to walk the red carpet alone.

Event representatives blamed Ricci's absence on her "rigorous shooting schedule" for Pan Am, in which she stars as a 1960s flight attendant for the famous and now defunct airline.

See the trailer and images from All's Faire in Love, starring Christina Ricci Scott Marshall directs the comedy from the writing by Robert A. White, which opens via Hannover House on October 28th. Cast also includes Owen Benjamin, Nadine Velazquez, Bill Engvall and Cedric the Entertainer. Set in the world of Renaissance Faires - unique societies of actors, singers, glass-blowers, ale merchants, sword-smiths, and other crafts people dedicated to preserving the living memory of the golden age of the European Renaissance - All's Faire in Love...is a film reminiscent of such successful films as Shakespeare In Love and The Princess Bride.

See the trailer and images from All's Faire in Love, starring Christina Ricci Scott Marshall directs the comedy from the writing by Robert A. White, which opens via Hannover House on October 28th. Cast also includes Owen Benjamin, Nadine Velazquez, Bill Engvall and Cedric the Entertainer. Set in the world of Renaissance Faires - unique societies of actors, singers, glass-blowers, ale merchants, sword-smiths, and other crafts people dedicated to preserving the living memory of the golden age of the European Renaissance - All's Faire in Love...is a film reminiscent of such successful films as Shakespeare In Love and The Princess Bride.

Beach Vacancy Written, produced, directed, and co-starring Brad Leo Lyon and also starring Jon Alderman (All's Faire In Love / Minor League), Beach Vacancy is a horror / comedy that tells the story of five college kids who veer of course on their way to Tiki Beach. Instead, they find themselves directed to the Sandpiper Motel, a potentially haunted resort right on the water. 

Beach Vacancy promises to deliver on the charm of the fondly remembered Saturday the 14th while featuring some side splitting, belly laughs in the vein of such teen sex comedies as Spring Break or Fraternity Vacation. Beach Vacancy even features a dash of Scooby Doo as the film's protagonist stumble upon a mystery and find themselves having to solve it.

This is the second of three projects Director of Photography Skip Erickson has shot for Lyon Productions. Erickson first brought his visual skills to Minor League: A Football Story...

• They championed such cinematic wonders as Synecdoche, New York and Lars and the Real Girl, but the truth is: the market has changed and we might see the company being more selective and that is why Sidney Kimmel Entertainment's Kimmel International can get behind more fair by aligning their troupes with other indie producers. Kimmel are coming to Cannes loaded with several items that I'll be on the look out for 2009/10 such as the new Natalie Portman indie film Hesher, Mark Ruffalo's Sympathy for Delicious and the New York shot Paper Man from directors Michele and Kieran Mulroney (starring Lisa Kudrow, Jeff Daniels and Ryan Reynolds). All's Faire In Love by Scott Marshall - Completed Don't Look Up by Fruit Chan - Post-Production Hesher by Spencer Susser - Pre-Production Invisible Sign, An by Marilyn Agrelo - Post-Production Motherhood by Katherine Dieckmann - Completed Paper Man by Michele & Kieran Mulroney

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Christina Ricci has revealed that she is engaged to her comedian boyfriend Owen Benjamin. Speaking to Us Weekly, a representative for the 29-year-old actress confirmed speculation that she is planning to wed her All's Faire In Love co-star Benjamin. The couple, who met on the set of the forthcoming romantic comedy, went public with their romance last October. According to E! News, the pair (more)...

It's the movie that just keeps on going -- just like its subject matter on a 109 degree summer's day. The Hollywood Reporter says that Ye Olde Times, which saw Jack Black and Lindsay Lohan visiting the Ren Faire has now been revamped into All's Faire in Love. It lost Black and Lohan along the way, but it's aquired Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Cedric the Entertainer, Bill Engvall, and Nadine Velazquez.

The plot sounds as though it has gone an overhaul as well -- the story is now centered on Benjamin, whose shiny new drama degree has landed him a job with a Renaissance Faire theater troupe. Reduced to being their fetch boy, he meets a Faire virgin played by Ricci. That's a virgin to the Renaissance Faire, not the Shakesperean sense of "a faire virgin." But his swashbuckling colleagues aim to disrupt his budding romance.

Cedric is taking the role of Professor Shockworthy,...

Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Bill Engvall, Nadine Velazquez and Cedric the Entertainer are set to join Scott Marshall’s upcoming comedy “All’s Faire in Love,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Benjamin, who recently starred in “The House Bunny,” will play a drama school grad who becomes the fetch boy for his new Renaissance theater group. Things seem to improve when he meets a Faire virgin (Ricci), although his colleagues threaten to interrupt their romance.

Also on board are Ann-Margret, Louise Griffiths and Matthew Lillard. Marshall is directing a script by Robert A. White.

Originally, the film was titled “Ye Olde Times,” with Jack Black attached to star as a professor. Black’s role is now in the hands of Cedric the Entertainer.

Ricci recently starred in “Speed Racer.” She will next be seen in “New York, I Love You.” Engvall’s most recent big-screen appearance was “Delta Farce,” while...

Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Nadine Velazquez, Bill Engvall and Cedric the Entertainer have joined "All's Faire in Love." The story apparently follows a graduate from drama school who works at a Renaissance Faire and becomes the patsy of the theatre troupe. Things look brighter when falling for a Faire virgin (played by Ricci) but his colleagues threaten to ruin the romance. Scott Marshall directs the Robert A. White screenplay. Producing are Scott Reed and Ron Singer. Also cast are Ann-Margret, Matthew Lillard and Louise Griffiths. The project was first called "Ye Olde Times"...

New York -- Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Nadine Velazquez, Bill Engvall and Cedric the Entertainer are heading to the Renaissance Faire in the romantic comedy "All's Faire in Love."

Benjamin ("The House Bunny") will play an eager drama school grad whose new Renaissance Faire theater troupe makes him their fetch boy. His hopes and libido rise when he spots a Faire virgin (Ricci), but swashbuckling colleagues threaten to thwart their budding romance.

Ann-Margret, Matthew Lillard and Louise Griffiths also star in the That's Hollywood/Patriot Pictures production. Velazquez (NBC's "My Name Is Earl") and Engvall (Blue Collar Comedy Tour) will be cast by the time cameras roll this month in Michigan.

Scott Marshall ("Keeping Up With the Steins") directs from Robert A. White's screenplay. Scott Reed and Ron Singer ("Bumper") are producing under their That's Hollywood shingle.

Patriot's Michael Mendelsohn is executive producing, financing and overseeing casting of the film.

First Mark David Chapman, and now this! Lindsay Lohan, fresh off her big-screen role opposite John Lennon's killer (aka the chubby Jared Leto) in Chapter 27, has signed up to star in another film about a murderer – this time, it's Charles Manson. Lohan, 21, will play one of Manson's cult followers, Nancy Pitman, in the movie Manson Girls, E! Online reports. The site quotes the film's producer, Brad Wyman, as saying, "Yes, I am doing it with Lindsay."The actress has been busy back at work since her departure from rehab last fall. She's also recording a new album...

It's been nearly six months since Lindsay Lohan checked out of Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Utah. And now the actress is opening up about the lifestyle that led her to rehab. "I think it was just situations that I was putting myself in," she told People at a photo exhibit last week at N.Y.C.'s The Atelier. "I was putting myself in the wrong situations and I didn't have the focus in the right place." Since leaving, Lohan, 21, said she's rid herself of bad influences and hangers-on. "I did – I changed things," she insisted. The starlet...

Multiple car accidents, three stints in rehab and a court ordered spell at the morgue can put anyone's life into perspective. Lindsay Lohan tells People that the last few years of turmoil have made her more focused on acting and singing than ever. "My life was distracted by certain things and that got in the way of work," Lohan, 21, said Tuesday at the Paper Magazine and Diesel luncheon celebrating this month's cover story. "But now I'm back on track and figuring out what's next." Alongside designer Jeremy Scott, who shot the cover, and Dj friends Samantha Ronson and Steve Aoki,...