The two British stars won a joint Best Actor prize after sharing the lead in the National Theatre’s Frankenstein.

The two British stars won a joint Best Actor prize after sharing the lead in the National Theatre’s Frankenstein.

Billy Connolly is going from Big Yin to tiny dwarf to complete the cast of Peter Jackson's movie version of The Hobbit.

Tomas Alfredson's perfectly cast adaptation of John le Carré's thorny tale of double-crossing spies doesn't quite equal the peerless BBC series from the Seventies, but it's still a sensationally nimble achievement.

Sunday night blockbusters play second fiddle to BBC's unlikely hit, says Adam Sherwin

It's a fresh take on Sherlock Holmes which will transplant the sleuth to a modern-day setting. But it doesn't take Baker Street's finest to deduce the source material for a major new drama announced by American network CBS.

Spy drama set to battle it out with Marilyn biopic as long-list of nominees is revealed

The second series of 'Sherlock' gets us off to a promising start, and there's always more 'Downton' to look forward to

Doyle is enjoying something of a renaissance, is he not?

Campaigners fighting to save Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's crumbling former home have been boosted by a High Court decision to allow a judicial review of a case that might have tested the wit of the author's most famous creation.

Even his creator failed to kill off the world's greatest detective, so it's no surprise that he is back in the new series of the BBC's acclaimed updating. Gerard Gilbert goes on set with stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman