Bandersnatch’s Fionn Whitehead: prince of darkness

He’s played a traumatised soldier in Dunkirk and a dying teenager. Now, the 21-year-old Black Mirror star has been forced by viewers into all manner of sadistic acts

How we made the nuclear apocalypse TV drama Threads

‘It was not the most comfortable of parts. I’m vegetarian, so the scene where we ate a sheep raw was pretty yuck’

‘They’ve turned Michael Gove into a vacillating fool’ – politicians on Brexit: The Uncivil War

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as leave campaigner Dominic Cummings in a contentious new TV film. What do the people who were at the centre of the drama really think of it?

Partridge, politics and period pomp: the must-see TV shows of 2019

Drama catches on to Brexit, Shane Meadows goes to Ireland, Helen Mirren plays Catherine the Great, and winter comes to Westeros

Downton Abbey the movie: what we learned from the trailer

There is still a stately home in England where the certainties of class prevail, and servants stand by to clean up the mess. But good luck divining Julian Fellowes’ plot from these endless exterior shots

JK Simmons: ‘I still get emotional – how could the universe be so unfair?’

As Hollywood’s go-to character actor for kindly dads and stoic cops, Simmons was used to being overlooked for the big roles. But since winning an Oscar, he finally gets to play the lead – twice

Sofie Gråbøl: ‘Lars von Trier is a very caring person… he’s not like his films’

The Danish actor on her role in the director’s new serial killer movie, being mesmerised by Suranne Jones, and Christmas hygge-style

From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism

From psychedelic sketch shows to far-out satire, black artists are expressing the absurdity of life in a racist society by embracing the disturbing and bizarre

George A Cooper obituary

Character actor who played countless roles as shadowy figures in television series over 40 years

Michel Gondry: ‘I wanted to bring out Jim Carrey’s sadness’

He’s made a secret video with Beyoncé, a documentary with Noam Chomsky and a cult classic with Kate Winslet. Now, the director has turned his wild imagination to TV in bittersweet comedy Kidding

Breaking Bad: The Movie? Why it could be Vince Gilligan’s worst idea

Deadwood, The Walking Dead and now Breaking Bad have all announced possible movie spin-offs, but history shows they’re a terrible, cynical ploy

Cary Fukunaga: exclusive interview with the new James Bond director

He is replacing Danny Boyle, but the Californian may not be the safest pair of hands – he’s no stranger to walking from projects and his latest series, Maniac, is a mind-bending trip into psychotropic drugs

Move over Bodyguard: how crime drama Shiro’s Story became a YouTube hit

Written in freestyle rap, this story of love, betrayal and drug violence is what kids watched while their parents tuned into Bodyguard. We meet the ex-gang member behind the online sensation