Simon Vaughan

Silvio Berlusconi. Il Cavaliere, the knight. Entrepreneur, television mogul, right-wing leader. Famous for his scandals, fraudulent deals, chummy attitudes with despots and other questionable figures. Cruise ship singer. Laughing stock and controversial political powerhouse.

Get a first look at photos of BERLUSCONI A NEW MUSICAL at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

Watch Emma Hatton sing 'Secrets and Lies' from the world premiere of BERLUSCONI A NEW MUSICAL,.

 Rehearsal images and new video content has been released for the world premiere of BERLUSCONI A NEW MUSICAL, ahead of the production’s first preview on 25 March at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

The cast has been announced for the world premiere of BERLUSCONI at Southwark Playhouse. Rehearsals begin on 13 February with first preview on 25 March and press night on 29 March.

Francesca Moody Productions and Wishful Thinking Musicals have announced the world premiere of BERLUSCONI – a naughty, noisy exposé of the original perma-tanned media mogul turned populist politician, told through the eyes of three formidable women ready to share their side of the story and break the veneer of that million Lira smile.

In a new partnership with Melbourne Knowledge Week, Arts House will introduce fresh dangers that look at the dizzying maze of digital extremism and present the notorious video game that puts players in the shoes of a refugee escaping detention. The internationally acclaimed one man show, The Believers Are But Brothers, created by iconoclastic UK theatremaker, Javaad Alipoor, will lead audiences deep into an electronic labyrinth of terrorists, neofascists and fantasists.

Weinstein Television and the BBC will collaborate on a new version of Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES.

Simulcasting on Lifetime, A&E and HISTORY beginning tonight, January 18, at 9pm ET/PT, the epic WAR & PEACE features an award-winning cast including SAG Award(R) and Film Independent Spirit Award winner Paul Dano

Lifetime, A&E Network and HISTORY will air the limited series event based on Leo Tolstoy's enduring novel War and Peace.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of all time, War And Peace will be told over six one hour episodes. Director Tom Harper (The Scouting Book For Boys, Peaky Blinders, Woman In Black: Angel Of Death) will bring this classic to life for a modern audience on a truly epic scale in what Davies calls 'a thrilling, funny and heartbreaking story of love, war and family life'.

BBC AMERICA co-production RIPPER STREET has been ordered for eight more episodes, with the second season set to premiere in 2014.

Spanning the glittering, shallow world of London high society, the trench-scarrEd Battlefields of France, and the breathtaking English countryside, the sweeping five-part HBO Miniseries presentation PARADE'S END debuts TUESDAY, FEB. 26 (9:00-11:05 p.m. ET/PT), WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27 (9:00-11:05 p.m.) and THURSDAY, FEB. 28 (9:00-10:00 p.m.), exclusively on HBO. Check out the brand new teaser trailer below!

From the reliable comforts of Edwardian England to the chaos and destruction of the First World War, the early 20th century was a defining era in history, a time of unprecedented change, when old certainties were being torn down. The long golden afternoons of the pre-war years would be shattered by the most destructive war the world had ever known, and countless lives would be changed forever.

BBC AMERICA announces the premiere dates for three brand new series coming to the network this winter.

From the creative minds of Julian Fellowes, Academy Award ('Gosford Park'), Emmy and Golden Globe winner ('Downton Abbey'), and BAFTA-winning producer Nigel Stafford Clark ('Bleak House') comes the highly anticipated ABC Premiere Event, TITANIC, a four-part miniseries that will premiere SATURDAY, APRIL 14 (8:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

BBC AMERICA is co-producing an extraordinary new crime series, RIPPER STREET, to premiere as part of BBC AMERICA's Dramaville this fall.

From the creative minds of Julian Fellowes, Academy Award ('Gosford Park'), Emmy and Golden Globe winner ('Downton Abbey'), and BAFTA-winning producer Nigel Stafford Clark ('Bleak House') comes the highly anticipated ABC Premiere Event, TITANIC, a four-part miniseries that will premiere SATURDAY, APRIL 14 (8:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

From the creative minds of Nigel Stafford Clark and Julian Fellowes, the highly anticipated four-part miniseries 'Titanic' begins production MONDAY, MAY 9 in Budapest, Hungary.