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The Mail can reveal that Alan Yentob's BBC arts series Imagine has been cancelled after 21 years on television. According to reports, the company's executives decided to end the service after it was sent off to be produced by its commercial arm, BBC Studios, but it failed to sell abroad. Mr Yentob, 76, is likely to be 'disappointed' at the decision and will now host one-off specials for the BBC after controller Charlotte Moore didn't fight to save it. According to one source, "The BBC produced it for years and then it was turned over to BBC Studios, but imagine that their programme will not be exported abroad because it wasn't financially viable.

Harriet Arkell of MailOnline Travel visited Washington, D.C., with her two teenage boys. The 'teenagers' eyes welled up as they arrived in the city.' And the apprehensions never faded. Harriet explores the many highlights of their stay, from world-class museums to a stay at the opulent Waldorf Astoria.

According to the local prosecutor's office, a 34-year-old heroin addict murdered his mother, 70, and set her body on fire inside the $900,000 house they shared in a wealthy Cape Cod, Massachusetts. After the Cape Cod SWAT team searched the house, Adam Howe was arrested on Friday night. Authorities were summoned by family friends who were looking for a welfare check on Howe's mother, Susan, at the house in Truro. After receiving a notice of a fire, the local fire department was dispatched to the scene at the same time as the welfare check was scheduled. 'A family friend called and asked to check on the house,' Assistant District Attorney Tara Miltimore told the Cape Cod Times.' When officers arrived on the scene, they quickly learned that the fire was caused by a dead body fire, according to the press release. Adam Howe had been standing outside the fire but the cops had arrived inside. He was arrested immediately after. Officers were able to ascertain that the individual who was exacerbating was Howe's mother.

In one of the largest art auctions in history, late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's billion dollar art collection will go under the hammer this November. Christie's said in a tweet that the fabled auction house would sell more than 150'masterpieces' from Allen's foundation. The collection spans more than 500 years of art history, although the work's value is more than $1 billion. The auction is titled: 'Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection'.' Allen died in October 2018 at the age of 65, as a result of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a rare form of cancer. He never married and had no children. Allen's net worth was estimated to be over $20 billion at the time of his death. Allen left the majority of his fortune to charity in 2010. This November, Christie's Rockefeller Center will host an auction. The correct date was not known.