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Broadchurch to be remade for American audience

Broadchurch is to get the US treatment with a remake planned for American audiences.

Matt Smith has decided to stand down as Doctor Who

Doctor Who is it? Identity of the next Time Lord to be revealed on live TV this Sunday

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.

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul as drug-makers in Breaking Bad

Watch: Breaking Bad series 5 finale teaser

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.

Damian Lewis as Sgt Brody in Homeland

Watch: Homeland season three teaser

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.

Sean Harris plays a loner ex-soldier in Channel 4 drama 'Southcliffe'

Southcliffe: Faversham fears tourism backlash over Channel 4 gun spree drama

Residents expecting the drama to be like Midsomer Murders have discovered that the plot features a Hungerford-style massacre

The Mill, Channel 4

TV review: The Mill is at the gritty end of the spectrum... but it's not as bleak as The Village

The Mill, Sun, Channel 4 // The Mystery of Rome's X Tombs, Sun, BBC2

Janet McTeer and Stephen Rea. The Oscar-nominated stars have been added to the cast of BBC thriller series The Honourable Woman.

Stephen Rea and Janet McTeer join Maggie Gyllenhaal in BBC2 drama The Honourable Woman

Oscar-nominated stars Stephen Rea and Janet McTeer have been added to the cast of BBC thriller series The Honourable Woman.

Lock yourself in for a pair of potent prison dramas

Women's prison dramas are back in fashion

Conley as Ike Godsey in The Waltons

Joe Conley: Actor best known as Ike Godsey in 'The Waltons'

The role of the kindly village store owner Ike Godsey in The Waltons, familiar in his braces, bow tie and full-length grocer's apron, brought worldwide fame to Joe Conley after he had spent years subsidising the precarious business of acting by running his own real-estate agency.

Charlie Sheen and Lizzy Caplan in Masters of Sex

Masters Of Sex: Michael Sheen set to hit British television screens as 1950s sex expert William Masters

Channel 4 is known for broadcasting controversial documentaries about sex. But the channel is now set to showcase a "classy period drama" featuring Michael Sheen as a pioneering sex expert.

‘House of Cards’, with Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright

Emmy awards 2013: Netflix's House of Cards makes history with first web-only drama nomination

The show, starring Kevin Spacey, got nine nominations in total

Book review: In Praise of Messy Lives, By Katie Roiphe

A darn good rubberneck at others’ errors

Theatre review: Circle Mirror Transformation

Rose Lipman Building, Haggerston, London – 4 stars

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Think comedy’s a man's world? You must be stuck in the 1980s, says Holly Williams
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Wilko Johnson: 'You have to live for the minute you're in'

The Dr Feelgood guitarist talks frankly about his terminal illness
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Guest List: The IoS Literary Editor suggests some books for your summer holiday

Guest List: IoS Literary Editor suggests some books for your summer holiday

Before you stuff your luggage with this year's Man Booker longlist titles, the case for some varied poolside reading alternatives
What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

Rupert Cornwell: What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

The CIA whistleblower struck a blow for us all, but his 1970s predecessor showed how to win
'A man walks into a bar': Comedian Seann Walsh on the dangers of mixing alcohol and stand-up

Comedian Seann Walsh on alcohol and stand-up

Comedy and booze go together, says Walsh. The trouble is stopping at just the one. So when do the hangovers stop being funny?
From Edinburgh to Hollywood (via the Home Counties): 10 comedic talents blowing up big

Edinburgh to Hollywood: 10 comedic talents blowing up big

Hugh Montgomery profiles the faces to watch, from the sitcom star to the surrealist
'Hello. I have cancer': When comedian Tig Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on

Comedian Tig Notaro: 'Hello. I have cancer'

When Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on
They think it's all ova: Bill Granger's Asia-influenced egg recipes

Bill Granger's Asia-influenced egg recipes

Our chef made his name cooking eggs, but he’s never stopped looking for new ways to serve them
The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

With its own Tiger Woods - South Korea's Inbee Park - the women's game has a growing audience
10 athletes ready to take the world by storm in Moscow next week

10 athletes ready to take the world by storm in Moscow next week

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The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation

The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation

Briefings are off the record leading to transfer speculation which is merely a means to an end