This Is England ’90 – exclusive trailer for the Shane Meadows drama

Another two years have passed for our troubled youths, and they’ve reached the age of rave and Madchester – but conflict is clearly never far away

Diane Keaton and Jude Law to star in The Young Pope

Oscar-winning star takes first-ever series regular television role in joint HBO, Sky and Canal+ production

The outrageous fortune of Benedict Cumberbatch

Five years ago, Sherlock propelled him into the stratosphere. Now he’s photobombing the Oscars and selling out Hamlet a year in advance. Friends and co-stars reveal why the world is wild for Benedict Cumberbatch

Cynthia Nixon: ‘We don’t need another Sex and the City’

The actor on why SatC’s clones have all flopped, why being bisexual shouldn’t be a big deal for a performer – and why Maggie Gyllenhaal was right to speak out about ageism in the film industry

Cate Blanchett to direct Australian TV drama, Stateless, based on Cornelia Rau

Screen Australia says actor will direct television series based on the story of a German-Australian woman who was wrongly detained as an illegal immigrant

Ayesha Dharker: ‘I try to talk directors out of casting me’

She ducks auditions, doesn’t call agents back and says she was upstaged by her outfit in Star Wars. Yet Ayesha Dharker has a career that spans everything from soaps to Shakespeare. Ryan Gilbey meets her

UK period drama scores Emmy nominee success with Downton and Wolf Hall

Mark Rylance, David Oyelowo and Ricky Gervais competing for best actor as Downton Abbey continues US television awards success with three nominations

Casualty Sin City: the soft-boiled Frank Miller homage no one expected

Noir comes to Holby as the veteran hospital drama tries its hand at something a little out of the ordinary. But can such tricksy pastiches revive a flagging patient?

Glitch actor Patrick Brammall on the fine line between being drunk and undead

Star of Ruben Guthrie and ABC TV series Glitch, Brammall on resurrecting Elvis, Australian gothic and why television online is more radical and raw

Show me the bunny! Fatal Attraction is being turned into a TV show

The movie that seemed to capture – negatively – 80s society has been commissioned as a TV drama by Fox. But is a story about a guy having huge regrets about an affair enough to sustain a series?

Ryan Corr on Banished, Holding the Man and gay marriage

The star of the BBC period drama on its lack of Indigenous characters, taking career advice from Russell Crowe, and the march towards marriage equality

Keep off the pitch: why football makes bad art

Why do so few football transfers to stage and screen hit the back of the net? With Patrick Marber’s new changing-room drama at the National Theatre and Bend It Like Beckham in the West End, we wave a red card

Lee Pace interview: ‘Halt and Catch Fire is about people, not computers’

The Guardians of the Galaxy star is back for a second series as Joe MacMillan, the ruthless visionary in AMC’s drama about the PC revolution. He explains why he likes playing bad guys – and how much his character is based on Steve Jobs