Limp Bizkit axe festival gig

US rock band Limp Bizkit have scrapped a UK festival appearance this summer to concentrate on their new album.

The band, led by Fred Durst, were due to play the Download Festival at Donington Park, Derbyshire at the end of the month.

Durst said: "Sometimes you just have to go with the flow of creativity and we're doing just that."

Festival promoter Clear Channel Entertainment said it was "disappointed to lose Limp Bizkit".

The two-day event on 31 May and 1 June will still feature acts such as Iron Maiden, Marilyn Manson, Ministry and Audioslave.

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Douglases 'set for West End'

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones are to star together in a London production of Private Lives, it has been reported in the US.

The Hollywood couple will appear in a West End version of the Noel Coward play next year, according to Newsday.

They will play divorcees who are reunited while honeymooning in the same hotel with their new spouses.

The couple, who married in 2000 have previously worked together in the film Traffic, and they recently announced their second joint film project, the Stephen Frears-directed Monkeyface, which will start filming this autumn.

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Moby to play Eden show

Moby has announced details of a one-off show at Cornwall's Eden Project environmental centre.

The US musician will play at the venue near St Austell on 5 August, more than a month after performing at the Glastonbury Festival.

Eden's outdoor arena will have a specially constructed stage on the lake to provide a platform for Moby and his band.

The £86m centre's "biomes" - giant futuristic domes - will be lit up to provide a spectacular setting for the concert.

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Edinburgh TV awards announced

TV stations will compete to become Channel of the Year at this year's Edinburgh Television Festival.

Awards will be presented in categories for best terrestrial, best non-terrestrial and best new channel.

The awards were begun last year to recognise what sponsors Media Guardian called "the often tough and challenging market" facing broadcasters.

The presentation takes place on 23 August at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

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Three admit fight video charges

Three men have pleaded guilty to paying homeless men to be filmed fighting each other for the controversial Bumfights video.

Ryan McPherson, 19, Daniel Tanner, 21, and Zachary Bubeck, 24, face up to a year in jail.

A fourth defendant, 21-year-old Michael Slyman, pleaded guilty to the same charge of conspiracy to promote illegal fighting in March and is expected to be sentenced next week.

More than 300,000 copies of the video - for which homeless people fought in exchange for money, food and alcohol - have been sold over the internet for $19.99 (£12.50) each.

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Bond voted top action hero

James Bond has emerged victorious in a battle with Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to be voted the best action hero of all time.

Bond, whose 20th movie was released in 2002, came top of the poll for a new BBC magazine, Action Hero.

Two stars of other blockbuster films, Superman and Spider-Man, were in second and third places respectively.

Robin Hood, Thunderbirds, Flash Gordon, Captain Scarlet, Zorro and the Incredible Hulk made up the rest of the top 10.

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