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

Dallas star Ken Kercheval dies at 83

Actor played hapless Cliff Barnes and appeared in numerous films and TV shows

Chimerica’s Cherry Jones: ‘Everything progressive in America has been trampled on’

Jones has played nuns, poets and even the US president in 24 ... while working with problematic men. ‘If we condemn by instinct, we’re on a slippery slope,’ she says

​Alessandro Nivola: ​’It’s been nice picking through my dad’s experiences for the Sopranos film​’

The American actor on playing a rabbi, jet ski racing with Robert De Niro and exploring his Italian-American heritage

Sandy Ratcliff obituary

Actor who found fame as Sue Osman in the BBC series EastEnders