Plebs is set in Ancient Rome, but the sitcom tells timeless truths about life at the bottom of the pile, says its writer Tom Basden

Plebs is set in Ancient Rome, but the sitcom tells timeless truths about life at the bottom of the pile, says its writer Tom Basden

It made £602 in its first week, has been called 'as funny as  leprosy' and you can’t see it anywhere. Can Simon Usborne seek out Run for Your Wife?

The English actor and media personality describes meeting a ghost, his new crush, and why he hates his "hard man" image

I had seen the hat before, I was sure of it. Mr Khan's, that is, from Citizen Khan. So I Googled it and sure enough, it was the very same hat worn by the Asian man in Mind Your Language – not the one with the turban but the other one who smiled unctuously and shook his head from side to side every time he spoke. Mr Khan didn't shake his head in the same way, but he may as well have done, and he certainly wore the same hat, which must have been gathering dust in ITV's costume cupboard since the late 1970s, before being taken up now, three decades later, by the BBC.

A bleak cityscape at night, set to a pulsating musical score. In the corner of the screen the words “Day 1” appear before we cut to a murder scene. It could be an archetypal out take from the hit Danish drama Forbrydelsen, or The Killing, except that the city is Nottingham and this is a BBC drama with a British cast.

Jeremy Renner's version of Matt Damon's hero has plenty of wham-bam but little complexity

Film franchises have seen prequels and sequels but when Matt Damon decided not to return for a fourth stint as rogue CIA agent Jason Bourne, producers opted for something different - the "same time-quel."

Briton who started year ranked 44 in world keeps Team GB on medal course

Celebrated author, playwright and commentator Gore Vidal has died at the age of 86, his nephew said today.

In Gove's world, you need not bother training to stride into the class

The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh

How do you write a song about serial killings? Adam Cork tells Matt Trueman how London Road came about

Arabella Weir, 54