Saeed Jaffrey, Bollywood and British screen legend, dies aged 86

Death of veteran actor who starred in Gandhi and A Passage to India as well as The Chess Players, Dil and Coronation Street was announced on Sunday

Drama feeds off real-life crime, but has London Spy gone too far?

Our entertainment is filled with fiction spawned from tragedy, but writers must respect the real victims, such as the late MI6 spy Gareth Williams

On my radar: Ben Whishaw’s cultural highlights

The actor on novelist Elizabeth Harrower, Todd Haynes’s Carol, and the punk spirit of artist Maria Lassnig

Jessica Jones, Aziz Ansari’s Master of None, W/ Bob & David – new on Netflix in November

The latest in Marvel’s new superhero TV strand and new comedies from Aziz Ansari and Bob Odenkirk and David Cross; plus films including Force Majeure, Nebraska and Love Is Strange

The Man in the High Castle: new on Amazon Prime in November

An adaptation of Philip K Dick’s Nazis in America thriller; The Fall and Ray Donovan; plus films including Sandra Bullock in Gravity, Iranian vampire horror A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and aging hipster comedy While We’re Young

We’re Doomed! A first look at John Sessions in BBC2’s Dad’s Army Story

Sessions is playing Arthur Lowe in BBC2’s one-off drama telling the making of the long-running sitcom, with Paul Ritter and Richard Dormer playing writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft

This Is England writer: ’92, ’98, 2000? I’m ready to pen more

Playwright Jack Thorne speaks about the TV drama and his admiration for Shane Meadows before a potentially controversial staging of his play Mydidae in Belfast

Andrew Scott: ‘Being in a James Bond film is just really cool, right?’

Andrew Scott is having the time of his life. He talks to Chloe Fox about starring in Spectre, coping with fame and why he sketches strangers on the tube

The 10 best fictional chefs

Ahead of the release of Bradley Cooper’s new film, Burnt, here are our top screen heroes of the kitchen

Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira: ‘There’s a dearth of African female perspectives’

The Walking Dead actor may play a zombie-killing machine on the AMC hit but as her new play opens she talks about the Liberian civil war, Lupita Nyong’o and showing western audiences the real Africa

Jennifer Grey: ‘I don’t understand people who re-enact Dirty Dancing’

The star of some of the greatest 1980s movies on what it’s like to return to the era in new comedy Red Oaks on Amazon Prime, and why she has never done ‘the lift’ again

The week in TV: This Is England ’90; The Leftovers

Shane Meadows’s brilliant This Is England saga was put to bed while The Leftovers returned on bold and baffling form

‘I’ve turned down every other cop show’: Stellan Skarsgård on River

The troubled detective is nothing new, but in her first police drama Abi Morgan has mixed procedural with a Plato-quoting Victorian poisoner. We go behind the scenes of her hallucinatory new TV show

Barrie Keeffe, a loss to journalism but what a gift to playwriting

It was a genuine joy to watch a gut-wrenching drama by one of my oldest friends