On my radar: Carla Bruni’s cultural highlights

The musician and former French first lady on David Hockney, Big Little Lies, Leonard Cohen’s last album and the Yves Saint Laurent museum

Oscar Pistorius’s family to sue makers of ‘grossly misrepresentative’ film

Relatives of Paralympian threaten to take legal action over US drama Blade Runner Killer, scheduled for release next month

Jessie Buckley on playing outcasts – and hitting the big time

The star of new BBC1 drama The Last Post talks to Sarah Hughes about luck, love and landing roles in a series of notable film and TV projects

Secrets of the TV writers’ room: inside Narcos, Transparent and Silicon Valley

The demands of binge-watching have changed the way scripts are created, bringing larger teams together in one intense space. Showrunners Eric Newman, Jill Soloway and Alec Berg on how their hit shows are written

From Don’t Look Now to The Child in Time: why do we crave stories of lost children?

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. As a new TV adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel starring Benedict Cumberbatch hits our screens, we explore our fears and fantasies around the ultimate horror

‘It’s a terribly fine line’: the stunt performers risking their lives for Hollywood

This summer, two Hollywood stunt performers were killed on set in the first stunt-related fatalities since 2002. How will these tragedies affect the industry?

Adrian Dunbar on directing Homer on a Donegal beach – and his fears for Line of Duty

The actor best known as Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty is bringing Homer and Heaney to County Donegal. Our writer joins him for oysters as he takes his dogs for a windswept walk along the shore

The Guardian view on Jane Austen: pride not prejudice

Editorial: Two hundred years after the novelist’s death, snobbery continues to cloud our celebration of one of Britain’s greatest writers

Clare Douglas obituary

Other lives: Bafta award-winning film editor of TV dramas and documentaries

From Thor: Ragnarok to Stranger Things – 10 things we learned from Comic-Con 2017

The annual fan event in San Diego, with its usual mix of teasers, trailers and talks, gave viewers leads on what to expect from next year’s hottest projects

No actual lake measures up to the ideal lake for which I yearn

The sea is limitless, so why is a lake so much more mysterious?

From Gypsy to The Sopranos, what do real psychotherapists think of TV shrinks?

The Sopranos put a mobster through analysis. Now Gypsy is making a psychotherapist the star of the show. Does TV get it right – or is gross malpractice just dramatically inevitable?

Corey Stoll: ‘It’s foolish to think art can imbue your audience with a particular political view’

The House of Cards and Girls star talks about the final season of vampire horror The Strain, and what it was like to star in this summer’s notorious Julius Caesar

From The Katering Show to Fighting Isis: eight of the best Australian web series

The internet is teeming with video content and time is short, so which web series are most worth the effort? Here are our picks

Preacher’s Joe Gilgun: ‘I don’t want to be a sexy vampire’

The This is England actor is back as the alcoholic vampire Cassidy in the second series of Seth Rogen’s comic-book adaptation. He talks to Lanre Bakare