Motion impossible: Tom Cruise declares war on TV frame interpolation

It’s over. Now Tom Cruise has set his sights on ‘motion smoothing’ – the TV effect that makes films look like soap operas – it’s only a matter of time before you tweak the settings

Sandra Bland: behind a poignant documentary of her life and death

In Say Her Name, the tragic death of a woman stopped by police in 2015 is examined with troubling and frustrating results

Festive advertisers dump TV for online media

TV ad spend expected to fall by almost £44m in final quarter, despite overall rise

Wallace & Gromit producers hand stake in business to staff

Founders of the UK’s biggest animation company giving up 75% of Aardman to employees to ‘safeguard independence’

Breaking Bad: The Movie? Why it could be Vince Gilligan’s worst idea

Deadwood, The Walking Dead and now Breaking Bad have all announced possible movie spin-offs, but history shows they’re a terrible, cynical ploy

Being a Big Brother contestant was life-changing. But so was watching it

The show exposed audiences to people who didn’t look or sound like them, says former contestant Jon Tickle

Give tax breaks to more diverse production firms, say actors

Show business figures call for more women and BAME and disabled people behind camera

BBC to reboot Tomorrow’s World for one-off live special

Much-loved technology show returns, updated for modern viewers

Julia Roberts joins rush by top actors to big-budget TV streaming

Star is latest A-lister on the small screen as Amazon and YouTube launch new series

BBC and Sky call for EU crackdown on Saudi pirate TV service

Broadcasters highlight ‘threat’ from BeoutQ, which provides illegal access to content such as Premier League games

From intern on The Crown to writer of YouTube’s Origin

Welsh screenwriter Mika Watkins, 29, goes from unknown to taking charge of big-budget series

From goats to the Gulch: a day in the life of Atlanta – as it happened

The Guardian Cities team reported from the streets of Georgia’s capital to kick off a week of in-depth coverage

The Bodyguard sets record as BBC’s most popular box set

Drama’s 35m iPlayer requests tops Killing Eve and Taboo to become biggest streaming hit

Amazon signs major deals with Neil Gaiman and Bear Grylls

Deals with author and adventurer are part of strategy to take battle to Netflix

The return of Pls Like: the comedy that catches YouTube’s dark side

Liam Williams’s well-observed mockumentary digs into the real-life furores surrounding vloggers like PewDiePie and Logan Paul in its daring second series