Tony Grisoni on Southcliffe: 'This is not about Dunblane'

Review Be patriotic and turn off your set right now

Ian Burrell: In a prime time live television event that promises to combine the theatrics of the final of Miss World with the nostalgia trip of This is Your Life, the next incarnation of Doctor Who is set to emerge from the TARDIS on Sunday

Playing Sidekick Simon to Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge in new film, Alpha Papa, was a near religious experience for comedian, Independent writer and long-time fan Tim Key

Actor has the last word in battle with homophobic heckler

Adam Sherwin: A Chinese heritage group has accused the architect of “destroying” Beijing’s old town after a futuristic new development created by her practice was honoured with a top award by the Royal Institute of British Architects

Review This film is proof that Allen’s powers are merely fluctuating, not in terminal decline: it’s his most assured, affecting work in years

Matilda Battersby: JK Rowling wins 'substantial donation' to charity from law firm behind Robert Galbraith confidentiality leak - and pledges to donate three years of royalties, too

Independent columnist Terence Blacker makes his Edinburgh Festival debut this week with a show of storytelling and songs. He reveals the pain and pleasure of creating a work for the stage rather than the page

Nick Clark, Adam Withnall: Acclaimed musician Min-Jin Kym has talked of her “elation” after the British Transport Police tracked down her Antonio Stradivarius violin, worth £1.2m, following an almost three year search

Indie icon Greta Gerwig is fed up with romance in films, she tells Kaleem Aftab, which is why she got behind the camera as well as in front of it for her new hipster comedy, Frances Ha

Review Many fans see the Robert Glasper Experiment as jazz’s future, and last year’s hip-hop and R&B-inflected, guest-star-heavy album Black Radio as its Trojan Horse back into the black music mainstream

Fringe veteran calls for squabbles to end as playwright is criticised over opening speech

Bookmakers have stopped taking bets after a rush of wagers on Peter Capaldi of 'The Thick of It' fame

When the comedian discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on

Comedian Seann Walsh on the dangers of mixing alcohol and stand-up

Before you stuff your luggage with this year's Man Booker longlist titles, Katy Guest makes a case for some varied alternatives

GalleryJohnny Depp and Simon Pegg are fans of Justin Fletcher's shows - and so are thousands of CBeebies viewers

A reprimand for 'bias' seems to have done little to undermine the status of one of our most eminent broadcasters

Maisah Sobaihi is a performer who wants to tell a different Arab story

Today's popstars are more likely to be found saying sorry than singing. But do they mean it? By Matilda Battersby

Review At their debut gig as MSK the original Sugababes prove they are older, wiser and in control

Review Like many, I'd previously written off such clip shows as hastily bodged together. That was before I realised they can actually be a deeply moving mediation on ageing, memory and mortality

Nick Grimshaw grows Radio 1 audience by 100,000 listeners

Richard Curtis, has announced that his next film will be his last. But directors have a nasty habit of retiring again and again

The actress best known for her Oscar-nominated role as Goldie Hawn’s tormentor in 1980 comedy Private Benjamin has died of bladder cancer aged 80

Wardens playwright Darren Richman on why dying is easy, but comedy is hard

Beijing accused of taking box office receipts from American studios