Fortunate Son

Taking on the evils of big business is Julian Casablancas - son of late millionaire fashion mogul John - whose new album Tyranny rails against the fact that “corporations have become the new ruling body”.

Pawlitzer prize

Soon to be rivalling Katie Price in the “literary merit” stakes is Karl Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette, who is getting her own lifestyle book.

Kim Jong-Unimpressed

Channel 4’s new North Korean political thriller Opposite Number has received the the rogue state’s seal of disapproval, with an official statement calling it “nothing but a slanderous farce”.

All Downhill from here

Celeb insurance underwriters rejoice: Channel 4’s bone-crunching winter sports show The Jump has been given a second series.

The money store

Defunct hip-hop weirdos Death Grips - AKA the guys who deliberately leaked their own albums - have belatedly shown a smidgen of corporate savvy by licensing a track to Adidas.

Snakin’ Stevens

Potentially swapping Downton for dystopia is Dan Stevens, who is being linked with the role of Snake in an Escape From New York remake.

Lizard v whale

The new instalment of the AV Club’s always entertaining product-sample segment Taste Test is a doozy, featuring Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow drinking “a beer made with yeast scraped off 35m-year-old whale fossils”. Watch it here