Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen
She's won more Baftas than any other actress. Here, Julie Walters tells Euan Ferguson about her hippy years, life in the country and why it's never been a better time to be a woman on TV
Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm join Sky Arts revolution
Harry Potter and Mad Men stars lead cast for four-part comedy drama set in Russia in 1917. By John Plunkett
Ol’ Dirty Bastard to be played on screen by The Wire’s Omar
Michael K Williams, who played drug vigilante Omar Little, to take role of controversial Wu-Tang Clan rapper in film
Budget 2012: tax breaks extended to animation and games industries
Government to allow film industry-style tax breaks for the UK's animation and video game producers. By Dan Sabbagh
21 Jump Street – review
21 Jump Street's undercover cops return to school but find the rules have changed, writes Peter Bradshaw
You don’t have to be posh to be an actor (but it certainly helps)
They're all over the screen with their floppy fringes and cut-glass accents. Are posh actors edging out working-class talent?
Fiction that mirrors your own life is a guilty pleasure
Morven Crumlish: It may be lazy to bring your own experience to a piece of fiction, but seeing the familiar in an unexpected place is reassuring
Women on the case: the new winning formula for primetime TV drama
Series like Call the Midwife and Scott & Bailey are attracting record audiences with a mix of strong female characters
From Hackney to Hollywood: the stars of an all-black drama school
In 2003, with just a few hundred pounds, actor Femi Oguns set up Britain's first 'black' drama school. It's now a powerhouse in the promotion of black talent to the entertainment industry here and abroad
Curse of the Corleones strikes Godfather prequel
Paramount Studios is trying to block a novel, which offers an earlier instalment of the crime family saga
Your next box set: The Good Wife
Julianna Margulies stars as Alicia, who has to put up with an awful lot - not least her husband's sexual misdemeanours
Steven Mackintosh: ‘People still say to me, “Chill Winston” – and I love it’
The Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels star tells Tim Lewis about his tense new BBC thriller and squaring up to Ray Winstone
What Borgen and The Iron Lady tell us about women in power
Both new Danish political drama Borgen and Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady show us there is still no clear map for women in politics
Screen picks for 2012: Tom Green, Domhnall Gleeson and Sally El Hosaini
Tales of Manchester noir, Hackney gangs and Russian love should light up our screens in 2012
Christina Ricci to make Shakespeare debut in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Star of The Addams Family and Pan Am will take to the New York stage in production also starring Bebe Neuwirth