Less of Ewan McGregor please! The big problem with Obi-Wan Kenobi

No stakes, no danger, nothing of substance: the show has atoned for many of the Star Wars prequels’ sins, but if it’s ever going to be exciting, the action needs to focus less on the ageing Jedi

What links Eleanor Roosevelt and The Simpsons to James Callaghan’s daughter?

With the launch of TV drama The First Lady, we go down the rabbit hole with Michelle Pfeiffer, Nora Ephron and Bill Clinton

‘Gorgeous is my business’ … how blond billboard bombshell Angelyne became an LA icon

Mystery has shrouded Angelyne ever since her giant ads besieged LA. Now a new drama starring Emmy Rossum and Martin Freeman is telling her astonishing story – and she’s furious about it. We track down the pink-Corvette-driving star

The Essex Serpent review – Claire Danes is magnificent … unlike Tom Hiddleston

The Loki actor feels too suave to play a humble vicar in this adaptation of Sarah Parry’s lush novel – which makes the central romance cold and condescending

Eternal death and Adolf Hitler: an ode to Life After Life, the year’s most underrated TV show

The BBC’s thoughtful, beautifully told drama about continual rebirth isn’t always easy viewing, but it’s a complex, clever paean to human potential

Why the Godfather making-of series The Offer has a nostalgia problem

While the veneration of man-made Hollywood myths continue, stories about women at the time remain frustratingly rare

Tom Hiddleston’s year in TV: ‘I hope Loki coming out as bisexual was meaningful to people who spotted it’

The Marvel star on his new TV spin-off, Loki, growing up watching Blackadder, and the need to ration your news intake

‘I made a lot of mistakes’: Jon Bernthal on machismo, his violent past and playing a corrupt cop in We Own This City

For his role in the hotly anticipated new drama from the creators of The Wire, Bernthal embedded himself in the Baltimore police force. He talks about his own brushes with the law, advice from Brad Pitt and how acting saved his life

The Offer review – the making of The Godfather makes for hit-and-miss TV

The splashy inside Hollywood drama on the making of The Godfather is a patchy, overlong series that is best when it sticks to the script

Dan Stevens: ‘People thought I was crazy’

This was the response when the actor famously left Downton Abbey at its height, fearful of being typecast as a floppy-haired aristo. Now based in LA, he’s starring in everything from comedy and horror to a new series about Watergate

Sienna Miller on taking on the tabloids: ‘It was so toxic – what women were subjected to’

After a bruising battle to expose the red tops’ dirty tricks, the actor reveals the price she paid

That Anatomy of a Scandal scene: is this the silliest TV moment ever?

A jaw-dropping reveal in Netflix’s twisty new courtroom thriller has become talked about for all the wrong reasons

What links Paul Verhoeven’s convent romp to the Sopranos?

From Benedetta to Showgirls – via Christopher Walken in A View to a Kill – we shimmy down the rabbit hole with the controversial film-maker

Hot stuff: The Full Monty to return as TV series after 25 years

Robert Carlyle and co begin filming today on Disney+ follow-up to the Bafta-winning hit film

Aaron Sorkin: ‘Screenwriters write about people who are cooler than we are’

The American writer known for The West Wing, Moneyball and The Social Network on adapting To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage in the 21st century