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​Alessandro Nivola: ​’It’s been nice picking through my dad’s experiences for the Sopranos film​’

The American actor on playing a rabbi, jet ski racing with Robert De Niro and exploring his Italian-American heritage

Sandy Ratcliff obituary

Actor who found fame as Sue Osman in the BBC series EastEnders

What’s the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV’s crown

The saga of the Seven Kingdoms may be bowing out, but it has opened the floodgates. Here’s your guide to the next big heroes

Crushed by a giant cheese: 10 of the greatest celebrity moments on Midsomer Murders

As the 20th series starts, who can forget Henry Cavill being bitten by a fox or Orlando Bloom being jabbed with a pitchfork?

Daniel Mays: ‘You’re not getting a Liam Neeson soundbite out of me’

The Essex-born actor, who stars in new film Fisherman’s Friends, says he is firmly in the non-racist camp, and doesn’t want to kill anyone. What else does he have to say?

Richard Gere conquered theatre and cinema … can he now score a TV hit?

Writer Tom Rob Smith tells of ‘wooing’ actor for state-of-the-nation BBC series MotherFatherSon

Anna Paquin: ‘I’ve had some horrific experiences’

After 27 years in the movies, the X-Men and True Blood star is sick of having to work extra hard and be extra nice simply because she is a woman

Stephen Merchant to play ‘Grindr killer’ Stephen Port in BBC drama

Extras actor will make major departure from comedic career to portray the man who killed four men he met on dating sites

When the kissing stopped: why did Britain turn its back on black TV?

It was sharp, hard-hitting and streets ahead of America. Why did the powerhouse that was black TV drama lose its way? We speak to its trailblazers

James Gandolfini’s son cast as young Tony Soprano in prequel movie

Michael Gandolfini will appear as a younger version of the New Jersey mobster in David Chase-penned film The Many Saints of Newark

How Ramsay Street became Mulholland Drive: is Neighbours channelling David Lynch?

First, Jim Robinson made a surreal appearance from beyond the grave. Then, Raymond Renshaw arrived in Erinsborough, bringing with him the spirit of Evil Cooper

Roma victory at Critics’ Choice awards strengthens Oscar hopes

Alfonso Cuarón’s drama picks up four awards, while The Americans and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel dominate the TV section with three each

Bandersnatch’s Fionn Whitehead: prince of darkness

He’s played a traumatised soldier in Dunkirk and a dying teenager. Now, the 21-year-old Black Mirror star has been forced by viewers into all manner of sadistic acts

How we made the nuclear apocalypse TV drama Threads

‘It was not the most comfortable of parts. I’m vegetarian, so the scene where we ate a sheep raw was pretty yuck’

‘They’ve turned Michael Gove into a vacillating fool’ – politicians on Brexit: The Uncivil War

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as leave campaigner Dominic Cummings in a contentious new TV film. What do the people who were at the centre of the drama really think of it?

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  • Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
  • The Guardian view on the analogue resurgence: the shock of the old
  • Helen Mirren speaks out about being called ‘evil Zionist’ on the street in London
  • Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims
  • SpaceX heads for record $1.78tn float amid fears it is overvalued
  • Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange booths have been gamified by fans
  • Cassette tapes were the voice notes of my youth, bringing tales from the diaspora to our living room
  • ‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!
  • AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’
  • ‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
  • AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
  • ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
  • Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
  • Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
  • The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested
  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran

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