Back in 1841, Charles Dickens wrote, “It is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us”; nearly 200 years later, every grandparent can attest to how the cockles of our hearts ...

Asha Alahan (Tanisha Gorey) takes desperate action next week, leaving her dad Dev (Jimmi Harkishin) angry and heartbroken by the depths of her despair. And Abi Webster (Sally Carman-Duttine) makes a ...

The film that confirmed what we believed as children — that our toys are real — celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Not only was Toy Story Pixar’s first feature-length film, but it was also the ...

Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) makes a major decision about her pregnancy next week, as she confirms that her fling with Ross Barton (Michael Parr) led to the conception. With her granddaughter Sarah ...

I have a very bright, paprika orange sofa – my husband [music producer Chris Hughes] nearly had a heart attack when I got it – and the view from it is what you’d call a media wall. I found a good ...

So many stories start on Coronation Street, and the partnership between Suranne Jones and writer Anne-Marie O’Connor is no different. “We’d known each other socially,” explains Jones, who played Karen ...

Food marketing has become so pernicious that it’s difficult to make good choices. By way of example, protein-enhanced foods, from snack bars to yogurts to bottled water, are all over supermarket ...

I don’t know. It’s a complete mystery to me. I think it was probably because I’ve done so many things in my life that almost anything I get asked to do, I’ve done something like it. With this, I’ve ...

A new series sees Rob Brydon journey around the southern states of the US to discover the origins of country music.

I absolutely adore the show, and always have done. This is the first thing I’ve ever done as myself. I did Taskmaster, which was sort of as me, but even that, I decided to dress as Dracula to hide ...

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes — even if they’re all played by the same man. Over the course of his career, Matthew McConaughey has played action roles (Sahara, Fool’s Gold), legal crusaders (A ...

In a strange sort of way, yes. More generally, I suppose, being an actor, you do spend your life pretending to be somebody else, so that’s quite an advantage. But it is also a horror, because you ...