Daniel Mays: ‘You’re not getting a Liam Neeson soundbite out of me’
The Essex-born actor, who stars in new film Fisherman’s Friends, says he is firmly in the non-racist camp, and doesn’t want to kill anyone. What else does he have to say?
Richard Gere conquered theatre and cinema … can he now score a TV hit?
Writer Tom Rob Smith tells of ‘wooing’ actor for state-of-the-nation BBC series MotherFatherSon
Keeley Hawes: ‘We all need to be more positive’
Keeley Hawes has cornered the market in playing complex, difficult characters, but off-screen is there a role for life’s simpler pleasures? She talks to Rebecca Nicholson about the joys of TV, meeting her husband on set – and caravanning with Emma Bunton
Anna Paquin: ‘I’ve had some horrific experiences’
After 27 years in the movies, the X-Men and True Blood star is sick of having to work extra hard and be extra nice simply because she is a woman
When the kissing stopped: why did Britain turn its back on black TV?
It was sharp, hard-hitting and streets ahead of America. Why did the powerhouse that was black TV drama lose its way? We speak to its trailblazers
James Gandolfini’s son cast as young Tony Soprano in prequel movie
Michael Gandolfini will appear as a younger version of the New Jersey mobster in David Chase-penned film The Many Saints of Newark
How Ramsay Street became Mulholland Drive: is Neighbours channelling David Lynch?
First, Jim Robinson made a surreal appearance from beyond the grave. Then, Raymond Renshaw arrived in Erinsborough, bringing with him the spirit of Evil Cooper
Roma victory at Critics’ Choice awards strengthens Oscar hopes
Alfonso Cuarón’s drama picks up four awards, while The Americans and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel dominate the TV section with three each
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