‘Gissa job!’ How Bernard Hill created one of TV’s most tragic and unforgettable characters

Playing unhinged head-butting Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff made Hill a legend. But, from Titanic to The Lord of the Rings, his entire 50-year career was outstanding

The Sympathizer, Ripley and Scoop: what’s new to streaming in Australia in April

Plus post-apocalyptic drama Fallout, season two of Heartbreak High and Ra Chapman’s moreish comedy White Fever

Trevor Griffiths: Mancunian Marxist whose political plays deserve revival

Griffiths, who has died aged 88, explored the conflict between reform and revolution in plays and scripts from the film Reds to dramas such as Occupations, The Party and Comedians

The Zone of Interest review – Jonathan Glazer’s unforgettable Auschwitz drama is a brutal masterpiece

Only the constant pall of smoke, and a dread-inducing soundscape, tell of the horrors beyond the wall as the idyllic life of the commandant of the death camp and his family rolls by in Glazer’s Oscar-nominated film

American Fiction, Three Women and Curb: what’s new to streaming in Australia in February

Plus Terence Malick’s 2011 epic, a moving Ukrainian series, and rapper Vince Staples’ autofictional caper

Roy Battersby obituary

Radical TV director known for Leeds – United!, a 1974 Play for Today, and his later work on Between the Lines and Cracker

Boy Swallows Universe, The Tourist season two and Expats: what’s new to streaming in Australia in January

Plus Jodie Foster in new True Detective, a documentary about the machinations of the Liberal party and big-budget war series Masters of the Air

TV tonight: a very emotional yuletime special with the Hairy Bikers

The motorcycle chefs serve up a seasonal banquet for everyone who helped Dave during cancer treatment. Plus: crunch time for the white chocolate digestive. Here’s what to watch tonight

Tributes paid to ‘wonderful’ drama teacher Anna Scher, who has died at 78

Kathy Burke and Daniel Kaluuya among alumni of her London school, credited with making stars of often working-class students

‘Kate Winslet started getting emotional’: Bafta Breakthrough’s alumni look back

Since 2013, Bafta Breakthrough has paired upcoming stars with established mentors. Alumni such as Rose Ayling-Ellis and Susan Wokoma share what it was like to meet their heroes, the best piece of advice they’ve received, and how they’re managing their rising fame

TV tonight: the excellent Nicola Walker stars in a new series of Annika

Emotions come to the fore in the Scottish cop drama. Plus, a sobering documentary about a 1970s yachting tragedy. Here’s what to watch this evening

Post your questions for Mark Gatiss

What does Mycroft actually do in the government? What’s it like to work with Tom Cruise? And is there any Doctor Who role he hasn’t played? Ask all this and more of the actor and writer

The Full Monty TV review – boring and badly written

Wacky plots, endlessly irritating characters and a distinct lack of stripping – this Disney+ series isn’t a patch on the film

Actor Michael Socha: ‘Did I fall in with the wrong people? No, I was the wrong people’

First cast by Shane Meadows, in This is England, Socha now stars in his latest, The Gallows Pole.​ He describes how acting saved him from a life of violence – and why he loves a madcap scheme

My play King Charles III was written as a tragedy. It’s a warning about what happens now

From Netflix’s The Crown to a play in the West End, what has the character of Charles taught us about entitlement and radicalism?