Moreover, the excitement continues as a sequel to Magic Mike is in the works. Tatum told Glamour UK that he's "working on the concept" and wants to "flip the script and make it bigger".

I remember going to a play six years ago called The Exonerated in which various famous actors played the parts of six prisoners on death row, wrongly convicted of capital crimes. It was a verbatim play ? that is, the prisoners in question are or were all real people and the script was based on transcripts of their actual words. On the night I saw it, the cast included Delroy Lindo, Stockard Channing and Aidan Quinn. The reason it was able to attract such a stellar line-up, of course, is because it was an anti-capital punishment play. It was an opportunity for well-meaning celebrities to show off their liberal credentials ? and they could do it without having to learn any lines since they simply sit on stage with the script propped up in front of them. Rather incredibly, though, it didn't seem to have occurred to anyone involved that this, in effect, was an endorsement of the American criminal justice system. If any of the innocent people featured on stage had ended up in the electric chair that would have been a good argument against capital punishment. In fact, they had all been released from prison after their convictions were overturned. The impression I was left with ? which can't have been the intention of the play's authors ? is that there were sufficient safeguards built into the legal systems of those American states that have the death penalty to ensure that the innocent are never actually executed. I left the theatre more in favour of capital punishment than I was going in.

10.12 Right, let's have a quick weather report. Basically it's mild and a bit sunny again, but don't just take my word for it, here's the Beeb's view:

Surely resolving that matter deserves a higher priority that one or two other matters on which Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg are spending their energies at present.

Johnson, who built up Apple Inc'sMacy's Inc and rival J.C. Penney Co Inc are due back in court Monday in their battle over Martha Stewart home goods after a month-long mediation effort appeared to have failed.