The week in TV: Jamie Cooks Italy; Mama’s Angel; Disenchantment and more

Jamie Oliver learns a thing or two from Italy’s grandmas, while an Israeli thriller offers a bracing lesson in bigotry

Alan Alda reveals Parkinson’s disease diagnosis

The M*A*S*H and West Wing actor says he has been living with disease for three years, but is living a ‘full life’

Wednesday’s best TV – White Famous; The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco

The sitcom inspired by Jamie Foxx’s life falls back on tired cliches, while a murder kicks off the codebreaking spin-off series

From Aquaman to The Walking Dead: 10 things we learned from Comic-Con 2018

The much-anticipated fan convention in San Diego brought with it a host of new footage and info from new movies and returning seasons

Mamma Mia’s Christine Baranski on schmoozing with Cher and meeting Trump

As the regal actor returns to cinema screens, she discusses her Abba-loving co-stars and her iconic role in The Good Fight

Picnic at Hanging Rock review – as mysterious as the film, but bigger in every way

This ‘small-screen’ adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s novel shares the dreamy, eerie quality of the 1975 movie, but it has been fleshed out with intriguing backstories

Joe Cole: ‘I was ready to deliver a kicking’

From Skins to Peaky Blinders, actor Joe Cole has made his name playing rogues. But nothing prepared him for the full-on physicality of his latest film

From Practical Magic to F*!#ing Adelaide: what’s streaming in Australia in July

Nicole Kidman’s witchy romcom, ABC’s suburban dramedy and Stanley Kubrick’s icy horror are coming to your screens

‘There was a lot of panic’ – behind the first movies to tackle the Aids crisis

Before Philadelphia won two Oscars, a set of smaller films dealt with the pandemic and those involved talk about the battles they faced getting their stories on screen

Alison Steadman: ‘As you get older, learning lines gets harder’

The actor on doing puzzles in bed, her Liverpool roots and watching wildlife

A Very English Scandal finale review – leaves you reeling, seething and laughing

Fabulous performances all round as Jeremy Thorpe finally comes to trial in a sea of hypocrisy, prejudice, ghastly snobbery, injustice and a chorus of tittering from the public gallery

Thandie Newton: ‘Being the first dark-skinned woman in Star Wars is great… and awful’

With roles in Westworld and Solo: A Star Wars Story, the actor is at the top of her game. From navigating the industry as a black British woman, to ‘brainwashing’ - the journey there wasn’t always easy

No more romcoms for me, says ‘older and uglier’ Hugh Grant

Actor has taken his first TV role in years and says there is now less snobbery about the medium

Wednesday’s best TV: Vive La Révolution!; Inside the SS

Joan Bakewell reminisces about the French revolution that nearly was in 1968, while a new series interviews members of Hitler’s notorious paramilitary group

The future isn’t female enough: the problematic feminism of The Handmaid’s Tale

The second season of the award-winning drama is being criticized as ‘torture porn’ and is less interested in men as aggressors than on women’s role in upholding the patriarchy