The Newcastle-born actor carried last year’s ‘28 Years Later’ on his shoulders, all while going toe-to-toe with some of Britain’s biggest stars. As he returns for the sequel ‘The Bone Temple’, he speaks to Adam White about early fame, his rock band aspirations, and the annoying law that meant he missed meeting Cillian Murphy

After a career of playing dashing gents, the Irish actor has transformed himself to play the late boxing trainer Brendan Ingle in ‘Giant’, a biopic of the boxing legend ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamad. He and actor Amir El-Masry speak to Adam White about self-belief, self-doubt and why early retirement was never on the cards for them

The soapy new drama series about gay hockey players is a lot of silly, sexy fun – but you wouldn’t know it based on the pricklier, angrier and more territorial aspects of its fandom. Why is very unserious TV being treated quite so seriously, asks Adam White