Richard Osman: ‘The worst thing in the world is someone telling you they’re writing a novel’

The star of quiz show Pointless on his new novel, being on telly, and why class is crucial

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Downton Abbey: Chaos, charm and an orgy of happy endings

Review: The familiarity of it does little to dull the appeal

After Life: Ricky Gervais’s obnoxious new comedy isn’t funny

Review: His character dabbles in heroin, befriends sex workers and assists a suicide

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: as bland as mashed potatoes

Review: It’s polite, tweedy and so anaemic you feel the urge to feed it a pint of Guinness

Helen Mirren on a motorbike? That’s a ‘grey pound’ movie

‘The Leisure Seeker’ is the latest undemanding, patronising film aimed at oldies

Domhnall Gleeson on Peter Rabbit: `It's Peadar . . . What’s ‘rabbit’ in Irish?'

Behind the scenes at the making of the film version of the Beatrix Potter’s book – and keeping lookout for an appearance by Julian Assange

Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon and Charles Dance return to the Gate for Michael Colgan’s farewell programme

The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter

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John Hurt obituary: Open-hearted and hysterically funny

In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett

Breda O’Brien: US struggles to find an honest candidate for president

The best bet seems to be a car salesman and professional magician

The BFG review: It's no catastrophe, but it's no E.T.

Steven Spielberg directs Roald Dahl’s classic tale which is playing out of competition in Cannes

London honours Samuel Beckett with plaque at former home

‘Staying in this town gives me little pleasure’, author said of city in 1934 letter to cousin

Downton Abbey ends on a happy note in swansong episode

Spoiler alert: Irish television viewers say goodbye to the Crawleys in Christmas finale

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Belle

'Belle' director on women film-makers and how the zeitgeist rules cinema

Director Amma Asante's acclaimed new film is inspired by the true story of a mixed-heritage daughter of a British Royal Navy admiral