Tommy Wiseau’s The Room is so bad it’s good. Now get ready for his sitcom
Stuart Heritage: Everything about the film-maker's imminent show The Neighbors looks truly diabolical, so it's sure to follow his cult hit in being an unmissable car crash
On my radar: Dan Smith of Bastille
The band's frontman talks to Leah Harper about soul and blues singer Rag'N'Bone Man, Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream – and California's best burger chain
On my radar: Christine Bottomley’s cultural highlights
The award-winning actress tells Leah Harper about Maxine Peake, Marina Abramović and Alexander McQueen – and why Ken Loach should be prime minister
Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Honourable Woman: a mystery on two continents
The US actor risked poisoning director Hugo Blick to get a role in his TV thriller which pitches a high-flying businesswoman into a moral maze
As seen on TV: why product placement is bigger than ever
Steve Rose: TV and advertising have always existed side by side. But now that viewers can easily skip breaks, brands are having to find new ways to make sure customers get their message. Can you resist 'native advertising' and 'digital insertion'?
Bates Motel – box set review
The idea of a contemporary prequel to Psycho should be enough to send a shiver down the spine any self-respecting Alfred Hitchcock fan, but this series is darkly impressive
The Walking Dead producer criticises Game of Thrones executive over piracy
Gale Anne Hurd blasts idea that piracy spreads word as ‘really dangerous thinking’, saying Google needs to take more action. By Mark Sweney
DVDs and downloads: The Invisible Woman, House of Cards, The Motel Life and more
Guy Lodge enjoys Ralph Fiennes's intelligent Dickens biopic, Kevin Spacey plumbing new depths in House of Cards, Stephen Dorff in an offbeat road thriller and more
Is Jeremy Paxman right about new poetry’s inaccessibility?
Do you agree with the Newsnight presenter that poetry has removed itself from popular culture? Can you think of examples that might make him think again?
Kevin Spacey answers your questions – as it happened
The Oscar-winning actor, House of Cards star and artistic director of London's Old Vic was online to answer your questions
Happy Valley is violent. So is real life
Dreda Say Mitchell: Criticism of the TV crime drama's shocking scenes is understandable, but violent art has long been a popular form
Jessica Chastain ‘offered True Detective role’
Zero Dark Thirty star the latest A-lister to be pegged for role in season two of Nic Pizzolatto's moody HBO crime drama
DVDs and downloads: The Wolf of Wall Street, Orange is the New Black and more
Guy Lodge reviews Martin Scorsese's surprise box-office hit, Jenji Kohan's Netflix drama and the rest of the week's big releases