Fashion: The season's best-kept secret

1. The Golden Spurtle Trophy is awarded to the winner of the competition to make the best what?

When you're hot, you're hot and when you're not, you're out of work. So runs the Hollywood truism. It's also true that it pays to make hay while the sun is shining if you're an actor.

The point of the tale of terror is not, in the end, the specifics of what kills us – the vampires, the elder gods, the serial killers – so much as the inexorable fact that something will. It is a reminder of death, and of an essentially tragic view of the universe in which any consolation, however welcome, is temporary. In this literature of secular apocalypse, the few happy endings are fleeting, and never eternal; like the other literatures of the fantastic, it is at its best when it says these central things so clearly that they tap into the sublime.

Only the rich grow old, so time is money – but I wouldn't waste either on Justin

Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde

If you've ever been annoyed by television shows that ignore the parking problem, then relief is at hand. While most series simply pretend that traffic wardens don't exist and that an empty parking bay will always appear exactly where the hero needs it, Alphas, 5*'s enjoyably silly science-fiction drama, acknowledges that there can be drawbacks to car ownership. It doesn't get out of hand. They haven't yet fruitlessly looped round the block three times while the baddie saunters off down a pedestrianised street. But on two occasions in last night's pilot episode, forward momentum was briefly allowed to snag on the intractable rigidity of parking regulations. At one point, our heroes had to scrabble through their pockets for the right change for the meter and later one of them got the less than heroic assignment of sitting in the car to make sure it didn't get towed, while the others were employing their special powers to pursue a mind-controlling black-ops type.

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Hope Davis

The Monday Interview: Rob Sharp has an audience with the creative genius and former Python

Starring: Eva Green, Ewan McGregor, Connie Nielsen

An anthology of outtakes, singles and unreleased Magnetic Fields songs, Obscurities demonstrates that even at less than full power, Merritt still wields the kind of wry wit that can cut to an unexpected depth, emotionally.

For his latest expedition into Africa, Damon Albarn took along a posse of Anglo-American producers – including Jneiro Jarel and Remi Kabaka – to Kinshasa to work on five days' recordings with local Congolese bands like Tout Puissant Mukalo and Bokatola System, collaborating on the hoof, as it were.

After production delays, a flooded set, rising budgets and the firing – then rehiring – of its entire writing team, Steven Spielberg's sci-fi drama series Terra Nova has finally arrived. Almost.

If audiences thought that this episode would bring them closer to the truth about Miracle Day, they were wrong.