Bruce Forsyth's ashes to be sprinked at the Palladium

Sir Bruce Forsyth's ashes are set to be placed "under the boards" at the London Palladium, his family have revealed.

Forsyth ignored Davidson after Generation Game snub

Sir Bruce Forsyth refused to speak Jim Davidson "ever again" after he took over as host of The Generation Game in 1995.

Sir Bruce Forsyth honoured with NTA award

The National Television Awards have renamed their entertainment prize in honour of the late Sir Bruce Forsyth.

Sue Perkins admits no one can fill Brucie's shoes

Sue Perkins has opened up about the challenge of taking over from Sir Bruce Forsyth on the upcoming reboot of The Generation Game.

Sue Perkins: 'I want to make Bruce proud'

Sue Perkins has told how she hopes the late Sir Bruce Forsyth would be "proud" of her role fronting next year's reboot of The Generation Game.

Sir Bruce Forsyth's private funeral held

Family and friends have said farewell to Sir Bruce Forsyth at a private funeral for the veteran entertainer.

Bruce Forsyth, the last of the BBC's great entertainers

Good game, good game. Didn't he do well? Sir Bruce Forsyth had a glittering 75-year showbiz career but with news of his passing aged 89, we have lost the last of the BBC's great entertainers - and a reassuringly familiar figure who you, me and the entire nation has huddled around the TV to watch for the past half-century.

If Bruce Forsyth is not the world's most famous Bruce, he is certainly the most impersonated and the Bruce who has been on our screens the most since the dawn of TV.

His lengthy career is long overdue for a tribute and The Bruce Forsyth Story: From The Palladium To The Palace (Sunday, Channel 5) was a worthy fit.

There aren't too many celebrity biopics three generations of a family can sit down and enjoy, but the length of Bruce's cv is a by-product, really, of his personality.

What drives him is a constant restlessness. When things got too comfortable, he took a dive into something risky.

After years presenting Sunday Night At The London Palladium, he suddenly quit to play seven different parts in a West End musical.

He left the boards for the glories of The Generation Game, then quit that for Bruce Forsyth's Big Night. The critical hammering that show got drove Bruce to an unprecedented piece-to-camera in the final episode.

"We were trying out something new," he said.

"It was a new format, with new ideas."

You could see, as the wider story unfolded, how important this was to his outlook. You win some, you lose some, but you keep trying out something new. That's how you stay on the screen for 60 years.