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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

Emmys 2015: Viola Davis strikes diversity chord with black British actors

Remarks in acceptance speech it was only lack of opportunity that ‘separates women of colour from anyone else’ garner praise from Britons in industry

Gavin Clark and Toydrum’s Evangelist – God Song: exclusive stream

Premiered on This Is England ’90 on 20 September, this is the first track from new album Evangelist, completed after Clark’s death in February

For Jackie Collins, the show always went on

Daughter of showbiz agent Joe and sister of actor Joan, Jackie was a trouper who invented a genre of pop fiction – and knew how to popularise it

Abi Morgan and Mike Bartlett are our new superstar dramatists

The playwrights transcend the limits of both stage and screen to create complex works that play with pace, depth and structure

This Is England ’90 recap – episode one, Spring

We rejoin Lol, Milky, Woody and the rest of Shane Meadows’s gang as Mrs Thatcher vacates No 10 and Madchester fever kicks in

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