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Covid-19 leaves news and entertainment industries reeling

TV audiences are at Christmas levels, and news website figures sky high, but with few ads or new shows there are fears for the future

Twin Peaks at 30: some damn fine outfits but what do they mean?

It’s three decades since David Lynch’s groundbreaking TV show hit our screens, and the character’s clothes have aged as well as the drama

Emmerdale and Aliens actor Jay Benedict dies of coronavirus

American-born actor also appeared in Foyle’s War and The Dark Knight Rises

Self-Made and The Banker showcase the power of black-owned businesses

The Netflix series and Apple TV movie tell true stories of entrepreneurship at odds with an ongoing Hollywood narrative of black tragedy

Candace Bushnell: ‘It seems like every generation has to relearn feminism’

Sex and the City author has written her first ‘overtly feminist’ novel which details her own experiences of inappropriate male behaviour

Emerald Fennell: the wickedly funny screen princess of darkness

After Call the Midwife and Killing Eve, the Londoner has turned director with her own tale of violent female revenge

Filming of BBC’s Peaky Blinders and Line of Duty postponed

Decision about popular shows comes as TV production grinds to halt amid coronavirus crisis

‘It’s not just “we’ll watch them having sex”’: Trigonometry’s Ariane Labed on the polyamory drama

The French actor is best known for her work in arthouse films such as Attenberg and The Lobster. So what attracted her to a British TV drama about a three-way relationship?

Alison Brie: ‘The effects of trauma spider-webbed through the whole family’

Even as a young girl, Alison Brie knew how to entertain a crowd. Now, the star of Mad Men and Glow is tackling the heartbreak of her grandmother’s struggles with mental illness

From war carnage to Greek idyll: the 1917 team take on The Magus

Flushed with awards success, Sam Mendes and his partners at Neal Street Productions reveal their latest film, TV and theatre projects

Brian Blessed: ‘All my life, 90% of men have bored the arse off me’

Dressed in pyjamas and wellies, the great actor talks about his astronaut training in Russia, the original Cats – and putting his might behind his daughter Rosalind’s very personal plays

Golden Globes 2020: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories

Streaming giants and Hollywood heavyweights (Reese! Meryl!) go head-to-head for the decade’s first TV prizes

Gavin & Stacey, Doctor Who, Dracula: your ultimate guide to Christmas TV

TV quizzes, sitcom specials and an audience with Kylie - plus Adam reunites with Joe for a festive podcast and 007 heads over to a Highlands pile

The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 3 – Chernobyl

This tale of the 1986 Soviet nuclear meltdown combined disaster movie and conspiracy thriller into a near-perfect example of TV making

Douglas Hodge: ‘I almost had to head-butt Harold Pinter’

He’s the musicals maestro who’s now starring in everything from Joker to Gemini Man. He reveals how he went from working men’s clubs to Hollywood – via a Pinteresque spell in theatre

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