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- Goodfellas actor files $250m lawsuit against The Simpsons for using his likeness
  
  News: Frank Sivero, who played mobster Frankie Carbone in Goodfellas, claims that Simpsons writers living next to him in 1989 imitated his character for animated hoodlum Louie
- How Grayson Perry has revolutionised art on television
  
  Mark Lawson: The artist's new series Who Are You? combines talkshow with art documentary, and even adds investigation to the mix. It's a mould-breaking combination
- A Quantum Leap reunion is happening at last – on NCIS
  
  Graeme Virtue: Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell are finally back together. It's just a shame that it's on NCIS: New Orleans, a show lacking Quantum Leap's cavalcade of creativity
- Nick Cotton returns to EastEnders: 'He's the Freddy Krueger of soaps'
  
  Stuart Heritage: Snarling, hunched and perpetually wreathed in cigarette smoke, he is the baddest baddie ever to grace Albert Square. And that's why we love him. Welcome back
- BBC Children in Need Sewing Bee; American Horror Story review – so-so contest, freaks out to play
  
  Rebecca Nicholson: Yes, it's for a good cause, and yes, everyone on it is lovely – but without any impending disaster, this is a group of people fiddling with needlework
- Lynda Bellingham: a life in clips
  
  Video: The actor and presenter, who has died aged 66, was famous for her role as the Oxo mum, but also starred in Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small and The Bill, and hosted Loose Women
  
  Lynda Bellingham, actor and presenter, dies aged 66
  
  Lynda Bellingham obituary
- Breaking Bad dolls withdrawn from sale
  
  News: Toys R Us recalls figurines of characters from hit drama after petition by Florida mother attracts 8,000 signatures
  - Toys R Us Breaking Bad dolls: the must-have Christmas toy for your kids?
- Radio review: a month in Ambridge
  
  With a new road threatening to cut Brookfield farm in half, could the Archers really be about to decamp to Northumberland? By Nancy Banks-Smith
- Reverend Richard Coles on sex, pomposity and faking HIV
  
  Leo Benedictus: Did the Radio 4 presenter really go cruising in lay-bys? Is he actually friends with atheist-in-chief Richard Dawkins? And how accurate is his Wikipedia entry? Britain's top media vicar Googles himself
- Leslie Jones: brash, outrageous and great for SNL
  
  For the first time in its 40-year-history, the Saturday Night Live cast includes two black women. By Brian Moylan

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The Apprentice, The Knick, The Code, Homeland, Gotham and The Walking Dead: TV review – video

21 Oct 2014:
Telly addict Andrew Collins reviews The Apprentice, The Knick, The Code, Homeland, Gotham and The Walking Dead
Lynda Bellingham dies from cancer – video report

20 Oct 2014:
Actor and presenter Lynda Bellingham has died from cancer aged 66. Last year she was diagnosed with colon cancer, which later spread to her lungs and liver
David Simon on why he created The Wire – video

16 Oct 2014:
Author and TV writer David Simon takes to the stage at the Observer Ideas festival 2014, at London's Barbican, to talk about how he came up with HBO hit series The Wire
Tom Hardy in Peaky Blinders – exclusive first look video

3 Oct 2014:
Hardy joins the show next week as Camden gangster Alfie Solomons, whose 'bakery' appears to be producing something else entirely. See him in action
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Ad Break: GE, Vorwerk, Kit Kat, Sony Xperia, DnB - video

2 Oct 2014:
Watch Jeff Goldblum actor channel Liberace and a clip from the archives suggesting George Clooney has 'married' before
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Ad Break: Thomson Holidays, The National College for Teaching and Leadership, Formula E, Nike, Gatorade - video

25 Sep 2014:
William Shatner's rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody leads this week's collection and the Yankees shortstop gets (another) fond farewell
The Leftovers, Legends, Glue and Cilla: TV review – video

23 Sep 2014:
Telly addict Andrew Collins reviews the latest TV dramas, with two big US imports and two crowd-pleasers from these shores

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The Apprentice 2014: episode three – as it happens

Live 22 Oct 2014: There are still 17 “outstanding” candidates vying to be Alan Sugar’s business partner. But how will they cope with producing their own home fragrance? Julia Raeside watches through her fingers
YouTube games channels take off: top 100 watched 4.4bn times in September

22 Oct 2014: PewDiePie and Stampy are leading the way for the Let’s Play generation according to latest rankings. By Stuart Dredge
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The ban on Breaking Bad figurines reveals just how infantilised we are

22 Oct 2014: Rupert Myers: The adult toy purchaser’s claim that they’re a collector doesn’t really change the fact that they’re playing with dolls
Poverty matters blog

Ethiopian famine: how landmark BBC report influenced modern coverage

22 Oct 2014: Suzanne Franks: Thirty years on, Michael Buerk’s broadcast remains a watershed moment in crisis reporting, but what is its lasting legacy?
BBC Radio 3 chief: I won’t be ‘dumbing down’ station

22 Oct 2014: Alan Davey says station will not become more like Classic FM to address shrinking audience and will still offer ‘complex culture’
Media network blog

Has The Apprentice ruined what it means to be an entrepreneur?

22 Oct 2014: A poll has shown a generally negative impression of the business world. Reality TV could be part of the problem, says Frances Dickens
Children's books

12 Doctors, 12 stories, 12 jackets – a Doctor Who style celebration!

22 Oct 2014: Authors including Neil Gaiman, Malorie Blackman, Charlie Higson and now Holly Black have written stories to celebrate each Doctor in Doctor Who in 12 Doctors 12 stories which is being published tomorrow. This gallery celebrates the each Doctor’s actual jacket (and in most cases tie) with this set of iconic book jackets – plus quotes from all the authors involved on ‘their Doctor’
TV highlights 22/10/2014

22 Oct 2014: Champions League Football: Liverpool v Real Madrid | Surprise Surprise | What Do Artists Do All Day? | Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot | Scott & Bailey | Baggage Battles | Grey’s Anatomy | Grayson Perry: Who Are You?
Australia culture blog

ABC TV's Kitchen Cabinet returns with Silver Bodgie on the menu

21 Oct 2014: Annabel Crabb and dinner guest Bob Hawke serve up half an hour of bloke jokes and political banter – with a side of barramundi
The 'dysfunctional family' is a tired movie trope that's due for retirement

21 Oct 2014: From The Judge to Men, Women and Children a slew of recent films deal with family dynamics but it’s TV where they’re explored in depth