The Latest Breaking News from Sally Wainwright

Keeley Hawes’s new Channel 4 and Prime Video drama, The Assassin, introduces a premise that feels both bold and overdue. It follows Julie (Hawes), a menopausal woman, overlooked and emotionally stalled, who worked as a hitwoman in her youth and unexpectedly comes out of retirement to return to the profession.

Lancashire, 60, won two leading actress Baftas for playing grieving Sergeant Catherine Cawood in the BBC drama set in Hebden Bridge.

INTERVIEW: After the whirlwind success of ‘Happy Valley’, Siobhan Finneran is stepping up to a long-overdue leading role in an ITV police thriller. She talks to Katie Rosseinsky about delving into the secretive world of witness protection, why Sally Wainwright’s work struck such a chord, and juggling hard-hitting drama with…

As artists call for better access to the arts, Sally Wainwright, Steven Knight, Larry Achiampong and others speak out

The stage and screen actor on her two, vastly different new roles – with Celia Imrie in a radical play about a woman caring for her mother after a stroke, and in a Sally Wainwright TV drama about five women who form a punk band

The upcoming six-part series will follow five women coping with work, grown-up children, dependent parents, husbands and the menopause.

She has been recognised in the New Year Honours for her services to drama.

There's plenty of great British TV to watch on Netflix including dramas, comedies, and competition series.

The film historian and cultural critic on his love of Gentleman Jack, why blueberries from Maine are superior, and how Tana French’s crime novels transcend genre

Celebrating the grandest and greenest of house designs. Plus: who will get the gongs at The National Television Awards? Here’s what to watch this evening

Renegade Nell has not been renewed for season 2