Katie Holmes will portray Jackie Kennedy in a new mini-series. The Batman Begins actress will play the legendary First Lady in the eight-hour series The Kennedys on The History Channel. Greg Kinnear will star as President John F. Kennedy in the biographical dramatisation – which focuses on the years of his premiership between 1961 and his assassination in Texas in 1963 – and will be executively produced by Joel Surnow. British star Tom Wilkinson will play family patriarch Joe Kennedy Sr. in the programmes, which are the first time the channel has forayed into making a scripted production. The Kennedy dynasty has proved a popular subject for films recently, with Jeanne Tripplehorn playing Jackie in 2009 TV movie Grey Gardens and Brit actress Rachel Weisz rumoured to be taking the role of the former First Lady in an upcoming big-screen biopic.

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Sharon Osbourne has revealed she can’t bring herself to watch The X Factor – because she misses it too much. The TV judge stepped down from the ITV competition in 2008 and was replaced by Cheryl Cole. “I miss X Factor terribly – I still can’t watch it,” she told the Daily Mirror. Sharon admitted she decided to leave the show because she had enough, hinting her relationship with Dannii Minogue prompted her to leave. “I walked from X Factor because I couldn’t stand the b******t any more. Simon Cowell wanted me to stay but my pride wouldn’t let me sit alongside Dannii Minogue. I couldn’t stand her,” she said. “It’ll do fantastically well in America but I won’t be a part of it. Done it, been there, seen what it tastes like.” Sharon – who now sits on the panel for America’s Got Talent with David Hasselhoff and Piers Morgan – admitted she doesn’t plan to be a TV judge forever. “I don’t want to be a judge much longer. It’s nice to be liked, but hard work trying to maintain that profile,” she said. Sharon also told how she would like to be played by 39-year-old Rachel Weisz in a film version of her 61-year-old husband Ozzy’s autobiography because “she’s beautiful”.

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Michelle Pfeiffer – who played Catwoman and her alter ego Selina Kyle in 1992 movie Batman Returns – says she thinks the character should be brought back for the next movie in the hit superhero franchise and she would happily compare experiences with the chosen actress. She said: “You would think they’d bring her back. They better… They should! “I would be there for the consult. I can give the whipping lessons. I did my own whipping.” Both Angelina Jolie and Rachel Weisz have been mooted for the potential role, but Michelle refused to choose a favourite saying only they would “both would be awesome”. Director Christopher Nolan – who helmed the previous Christian Bale-starring Caped Crusader adventures, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight – is rumoured not to be returning for a third movie.