Pilou Asbæk: ‘I didn’t know what I had with Borgen’

The Danish actor on regrets, his strict upbringing and how time spent with soldiers on his new film, A War, changed his views

The Bridge; The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson; The Shop Around the Corner; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Sister; The Dead – review

If the week’s major releases aren’t very Christmassy, then here are a few suggestions to get you in the festive mood

Fargo season two, episode 10 – roll-call of bodies and a hint of hope

In the final episode, Palindrome, Peggy and Ed make a run for it, Hanzee contemplates the future and we solve the mystery of Hank’s study

Can broadcast TV match streaming’s big budget shows?

Netflix and Amazon can focus on blockbusters but others have schedules to fill

Peter Jackson and Capaldi ‘Doctor Who’ video fuels rumours he’ll direct episode

Hobbit director appears in homemade video featuring a cameo from the Timelord and a Dalek and suggests Steven Moffatt is pestering him to sign up

Saeed Jaffrey, Bollywood and British screen legend, dies aged 86

Death of veteran actor who starred in Gandhi and A Passage to India as well as The Chess Players, Dil and Coronation Street was announced on Sunday

Drama feeds off real-life crime, but has London Spy gone too far?

Our entertainment is filled with fiction spawned from tragedy, but writers must respect the real victims, such as the late MI6 spy Gareth Williams

On my radar: Ben Whishaw’s cultural highlights

The actor on novelist Elizabeth Harrower, Todd Haynes’s Carol, and the punk spirit of artist Maria Lassnig

Jessica Jones, Aziz Ansari’s Master of None, W/ Bob & David – new on Netflix in November

The latest in Marvel’s new superhero TV strand and new comedies from Aziz Ansari and Bob Odenkirk and David Cross; plus films including Force Majeure, Nebraska and Love Is Strange

The Man in the High Castle: new on Amazon Prime in November

An adaptation of Philip K Dick’s Nazis in America thriller; The Fall and Ray Donovan; plus films including Sandra Bullock in Gravity, Iranian vampire horror A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and aging hipster comedy While We’re Young

We’re Doomed! A first look at John Sessions in BBC2’s Dad’s Army Story

Sessions is playing Arthur Lowe in BBC2’s one-off drama telling the making of the long-running sitcom, with Paul Ritter and Richard Dormer playing writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft

This Is England writer: ’92, ’98, 2000? I’m ready to pen more

Playwright Jack Thorne speaks about the TV drama and his admiration for Shane Meadows before a potentially controversial staging of his play Mydidae in Belfast

Andrew Scott: ‘Being in a James Bond film is just really cool, right?’

Andrew Scott is having the time of his life. He talks to Chloe Fox about starring in Spectre, coping with fame and why he sketches strangers on the tube

The 10 best fictional chefs

Ahead of the release of Bradley Cooper’s new film, Burnt, here are our top screen heroes of the kitchen