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
Sue Lloyd obituary
Actor known for her roles in The Ipcress File and Crossroads
Betty Driver obituary
Singer, comic actor and stalwart of Coronation Street
George Baker obituary
Versatile actor and writer best known as Wexford in the TV detective stories
TV highlights 29/09/2011
The Marvellous Mrs Beeton, With Sophie Dahl | Ringer | Shirley | Young Soldiers | Timeshift: Dear Censor
Da Brick: Spike Lee takes on Mike Tyson
Johnny Dee: The director is to film a pilot of the boxer's life for HBO. What other sports stars' stories would make good TV?
New to The Killing? Me too – and I’m already obsessed
Ben Dowell: BBC4 is reshowing the Danish drama for those who missed it first time around. So have you been watching? And has it lived up to the hype?
What else could Anne Hathaway learn from Emmerdale?
Stuart Heritage: Having admitted she picked up her terrible English accent in One Day from watching the soap, what else could she pick up from it?