Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira: ‘There’s a dearth of African female perspectives’

The Walking Dead actor may play a zombie-killing machine on the AMC hit but as her new play opens she talks about the Liberian civil war, Lupita Nyong’o and showing western audiences the real Africa

Jennifer Grey: ‘I don’t understand people who re-enact Dirty Dancing’

The star of some of the greatest 1980s movies on what it’s like to return to the era in new comedy Red Oaks on Amazon Prime, and why she has never done ‘the lift’ again

The week in TV: This Is England ’90; The Leftovers

Shane Meadows’s brilliant This Is England saga was put to bed while The Leftovers returned on bold and baffling form

‘I’ve turned down every other cop show’: Stellan Skarsgård on River

The troubled detective is nothing new, but in her first police drama Abi Morgan has mixed procedural with a Plato-quoting Victorian poisoner. We go behind the scenes of her hallucinatory new TV show

Barrie Keeffe, a loss to journalism but what a gift to playwriting

It was a genuine joy to watch a gut-wrenching drama by one of my oldest friends

Emmys 2015: Viola Davis strikes diversity chord with black British actors

Remarks in acceptance speech it was only lack of opportunity that ‘separates women of colour from anyone else’ garner praise from Britons in industry

Gavin Clark and Toydrum’s Evangelist – God Song: exclusive stream

Premiered on This Is England ’90 on 20 September, this is the first track from new album Evangelist, completed after Clark’s death in February

For Jackie Collins, the show always went on

Daughter of showbiz agent Joe and sister of actor Joan, Jackie was a trouper who invented a genre of pop fiction – and knew how to popularise it

Abi Morgan and Mike Bartlett are our new superstar dramatists

The playwrights transcend the limits of both stage and screen to create complex works that play with pace, depth and structure

This Is England ’90 recap – episode one, Spring

We rejoin Lol, Milky, Woody and the rest of Shane Meadows’s gang as Mrs Thatcher vacates No 10 and Madchester fever kicks in

Readers suggest the 10 best teachers

Last week we brought you our list of the 10 best teachers. Here, we present your thoughts on who should have made the cut

New on Netflix in September – Keith Richards: Under the Influence, Line of Duty, Toy Story 1-3

The Stone rolls alone in a new rock doc, there’s another chance to see the Brit drama about cops fighting corruption, and enjoy family classics from Pixar

I shot Pablo Escobar: Narcos’ José Padilha on his new TV series

Robin Hood or murdering madman – who was Pablo Escobar? Netflix’s latest drama digs beneath the myths surrounding Colombia’s notorious drug lord in search of the real deal

This Is England ’90: it’s bye-bye Thatcher, hello acid house

The year is 1990, and Shaun, Lol, Woody and their gang are still going strong. Welcome to the latest TV instalment of Shane Meadows’s powerful, moving drama

Rupert Friend: I thought acting wasn’t for me

Three years ago the actor was on the verge of giving up. Then Homeland came calling. He talks to Tom Lamont about the CIA, leaving London for the US and why he really misses the pub