A rise in international demand for UK television shows and streaming services helped 2013's increase in revenue across Europe, North America and Australia. Online revenues reached £61.2m in 2013, an increase of 18.3%, which was helped by new and renewed deals with the likes of Deezer and YouTube.
The Last Time - The final Monty Python reunion show at the O2 Arena in London on 20 July will be "the last time we'll be working together", Michael Palin has said. The comedy troupe will not go on tour and will go their separate ways after 10 London performances, he said. Palin told the BBC, "20 July will be the last night of the Pythons in the sense that there are absolutely no plans to do any more shows after that."
The reunion, which begins on 1 July, will see John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Palin appear together on stage for the first time since 2009. "We withheld tickets for the last show of all because partly we didn't want touts to get them all too early on, but also we weren't sure whether we were going to do any more," Palin said.
Festival Update - Glastonbury has added another 87 names to the bill including Kasabian, Jack White, Elbow and MIA. Kasabian are Sunday's Pyramid Stage headliners and will close the festival. The line-up also features Pixies, Jake Bugg, Robert Plant and James Blake. Friday night headliners Arcade Fire and Dolly Parton were among those already confirmed to play the festival in June.
"It's really important for us to keep giving British bands that opportunity to headline here," organiser Emily Eavis told BBC 6 Music. "Kasabian are a massive live act, they're brilliant live. It just seemed a sort of natural choice for us." Saturday night's Pyramid Stage headliner is still yet to be announced, although Eavis said there was definitely one in place.
Montreux Headliners - Stevie Wonder will be joined by Pharrell Williams and Damon Albarn when he headlines the 48th Montreux Jazz Festival later this year. The full line-up for the festival, which runs from 4-19 July, includes Van Morrison, Massive Attack, hip-hop duo Outkast and Jamie Cullum.
Wonder's appearance fulfils a long-held wish of the festival's late founder Claude Nobs, who died in 2013. "We tried to get Stevie many times," said festival director Mathieu Jaton. The veteran star will play at the Swiss resort's Stravinsky Auditorium on 16 July, with seats priced at 450 Swiss francs (£304).
(Jim Evans)
