Middle-class problems: Mornington Crescent

Gerard Gilbert meets Tony Grisoni, the writer of a devastating new drama about the effect of a mass shooting upon a small community

Fresh faces, sex, class and period costume ... it's the 'Abbey' habit

When ITV1 launched its celebrity diving show Splash!, the critical derision it prompted only succeeded in driving masochistic viewers to the belly-flopping entertainment on offer.

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

Johnny Depp and Simon Pegg are fans of Fletcher's shows - and so are thousands of CBeebies viewers. Gerard Gilbert meets the king of children's TV

Culture clash: TV detectives

Soot-covered, sexually abused child slaves getting their limbs lopped off by looms – it really is grim up North

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View From the Sofa: Jim White takes to the airwaves in pointless effort to help broadcaster visit all 92 league clubs in a day while brash new competitor plays it safe back in studio

This is an abominable time of year for the radio listener. Early August is when the big-name presenters pack up and sod off to the Seychelles, leaving their shows in the hands of the unqualified and confused. It's a time when the interns run riot, and when producers press the big button marked "pre-recorded tat" and disappear off for a nap.

Breaking Bad will begin its long-awaited series finale in August, but fans hoping to glean any more information won’t get much from this teaser of the final episode.

A teaser for Homeland season three has been released, but fans hoping to know what happens to Sgt Brody after the CIA headquarters bombing won’t be able to glean much from the sparing trailer.

Ahead of the airing of a documentary made with the acclaimed naturalist, the eccentric musician tells Sarah Morrison how the pair found common ground in each other's fields

Without the bitchy, bejewelled debauchery of bygone Hollywood, this was an affair to forget