‘No one’s faced it down’: Arinzé Kene on tackling the UK riots in Good Dog

He’s played Sam Cooke, an EastEnders bad boy and a closeted footballer in The Pass. Now, Arinzé Kene has returned to writing plays – and to the violent summer of 2011 – with a searing account of escalating tension in London

Portrait of ‘real’ Mr Darcy unlikely to set 21st century hearts aflutter

Experts believe Jane Austen’s ideal Darcy would bear little comparison to the one played by Colin Firth in BBC’s 1995 series

Lena Dunham: ‘I find trolls hard to handle – it must be even worse for teenagers’

As the final series of Girls begins, its creator explains why she has to speak out about online abuse

From The Americans to Drunk History: the best film and TV streaming in Australia this month

Eccentric artists, lethal weapons and drunk histories: we’ve scoured the local streaming services and picked out the best offerings

Kal Penn raises $800,000 for Syrian refugees after receiving racist tweet

Star of Harold and Kumar films – and son of Indian immigrants to the US – was spurred to fundraise for a humanitarian charity by racial abuse

Barbara Hale obituary

Actor best known for her role in the US television legal drama Perry Mason

On my radar: Pankaj Mishra’s cultural highlights

The writer on Riz Ahmed in The Night Of, his favourite cafe, the insights of William Empson and extraordinary Indian bharatanatyam dancing

From Westworld to Homeland: pop culture’s obsession with gaslighting

Why have stories about men mind-controlling women come to define much of modern pop culture?

Sex and the middle-aged woman … a groundbreaking BBC drama tells it like it is

Emily Watson tells why her role in Apple Tree Yard has been a delight

Why I love… Donald Glover

His face is cute and elastic, making it a perfect vessel for comedy

Paul Abbott: ‘Shameless became too hysterical. I was glad to see it off’

As No Offence returns to Channel 4, the award-winning scriptwriter talks about former hits, problems with pitching, and State of Play 2

From Ed Balls to Honey G: TV heroes and villains of 2016

Who clinches the coveted prize for most devilish golfer? Who wins for services to chill? We announce TV’s biggest champions and baddies of the year

The Young Pope review – stunning, thoughtful and visually arresting

Jude Law has been excellent as Pius XIII, oscillating between vindictive authoritarian and wounded man-child with surprising charm

Danny Dyer discovers he is related to two kings and Thomas Cromwell

EastEnders actor finds out on BBC lineage show ancestors include Henry VIII’s fixer, William the Conqueror and Edward III

Independence Day: Resurgence; Looking: The Complete Series and the Movie; Chevalier; The Wait and more – review

Roland Emmerich’s second stab at an alien invasion has even more action than the original, while Juliette Binoche proves she’s cinema’s greatest mourner