David Jason, who is a huge star in Britain for Only Fools and Horses but is best known here for A Touch of Frost has been named the UK's greatest star of the past 50 years. Double act Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise came in second in the televised survey, followed by Inspector Frost's John Thaw, Julie Walters, game show host Bruce Forsyth and The Two Ronnies.

As I mentioned on the ie blog a few weeks ago, 2001: A Space Odyssey stars Gary Lockwood and Keir Dullea are coming to Brisbane. They'll attend a screenign of the film, sign autographs and answer questions at the Globe Theatre in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley on Thursday September 28 at 7pm and Sunday October 1 at 6pm.Tickets are $20 per person, but I'm not sure if autographs cost extra - as they often do at fan events, because film veterans have to earn a living somehow. Details here.

Despite being close to predicting the state election outcome in the office sweep, I'm no political pundit. However, I will say that one interesting outcome was, according to my reading of the preliminary figures, Premier Peter Beattie suffered a significant slump in support in his own electorate of Brisbane Central. Is that due to the changing demographics of inner Brisbane or is it the protest vote that didn't eventuate elsewhere?

The King of television, Graham Kennedy, is dead, and it's taken a while for them to promote his sidekick. In case, like me, you missed it, Bert Newton was crowned Australia’s No.1 star last night by the Nine Network. (I wonder if he would have stil been No.1 if he was on Channel Ten?) The rest of the 50 stars for 50 years of TV, in alphabetical order, are here. (The names are in capital letters because I got them in an email that way and I couldn't be bothered changing them.)

What's in a name? At least £110,000, as Sean Combs discovered when he lost the right to call himself Diddy in the UK. As the BBC reports here, the US record producer formerly known as Puff Daddy has settled a court with Briton Richard Dearlove, who has been calling hismelf Diddy since 1992. Combs will now have to "re-brand" himself in the UK. I wonder if he has thought of calling himself "Sean Combs"?