El Camino: what can we expect from Netflix’s Breaking Bad movie?

After five seasons, the acclaimed show is returning for a TV ‘event’ with speculation rampant over what’s in store for Jesse

Viola Davis set to play Michelle Obama in TV series

Oscar-winning actor will become the former first lady in a show that will explore the personal and political lives of first ladies

Netflix announces Breaking Bad film starring Aaron Paul

Actor to reprise his role as Jesse Pinkman in a sequel nearly six years after show’s finale

Game of Thrones’ Daniel Portman: ‘People expect Podrick – that’s not what they get’

Renowned as the squire and surprise Casanova in Thrones, the star is now wrestling with audiences in Edinburgh. He talks about his meteoric rise to fame and why he won’t be going back to school

Joseph Fiennes: ‘I’ve done my bit for society – I’ve illustrated the patheticness of misogyny’

The star of the hit dystopian drama says he doesn’t like to equate Donald Trump’s politics with the show. But, he adds, sometimes you just have to point out the blazingly obvious …

Bruce Lee’s daughter on resurrecting his lost TV epic: ‘We righted the wrong’

Shannon Lee has finally made the martial arts saga her father dreamed up. She remembers ‘the inner energy’ of the kung fu superstar Hollywood – and Tarantino – made a mockery of

Spoiler alert: it’s getting harder to keep plot lines from readers

In the age of watching TV shows weeks after an episode has aired, how long should spoiler alerts last, asks the Guardian’s readers’ editor Paul Chadwick

Streep, Clooney … Cruise? Why no one is ‘too big for TV’ any more

Hollywood stars used to turn their noses up at television, but now Meryl Streep and George Clooney are stealing the show in your living room. Who might join them next?

Rip Torn, cult actor and Artie in the Larry Sanders Show dies aged 88

Star of a string of 60s classics fell foul of Hollywood because of his temper but found a fresh lease of life in comedy, from TV’s Larry Sanders Show to the Men in Black films

The Sandman, Catch-22, Cloud Atlas … is there such thing as an ‘unfilmable’ book?

Books by authors like Neil Gaiman and Gabriel García Márquez have been dismissed as too difficult to adapt. With Netflix offering both time and cash, is that true anymore?

‘It’s ghost slavery’: the troubling world of pop holograms

Dead stars from Whitney Houston to Maria Callas are going on tour again. As Miley Cyrus explores the issue in a new Black Mirror, we uncover the greatest identity crisis in music today

From Westeros to Calais: Game of Thrones stars swap dragons for ugly reality of refugees

The Flood, a new British film, focuses on asylum seekers, smugglers and immigration officers

Line of Duty’s Stephen Graham: ‘My throat-slitting was superb. I’m good at dying’

He’s pals with Scorsese and DiCaprio but drives a banger, lives in a sleepy English village and loves reiki. As his searing new show The Virtues arrives, we meet the ‘spiritual scally’

Shane Meadows: ‘For many years I didn’t remember it… but it caused me a lifetime of anguish’

The director speaks for the first time about the horrific episode from his childhood that inspired his new TV drama The Virtues

Chernobyl’s Jared Harris: My wife can’t believe how I keep getting bumped off!

From Mad Men to The Crown, the actor is used to big exits. As new disaster drama Chernobyl launches, he talks about cover-ups, climate change shame – and his hellraising dad Richard