Jon Stewart takes break from The Daily Show to make directorial debut

Has Doctor Who really lost its way?

The fans love to moan, but as the season seven finale approaches, Doctor Who is as good as – if not better than – ever before, argues Dan Martin

Game of Thrones – Review: The Bear and The Maiden Fair

This week’s theme was love lost and found, but among the romance there was also some deeply unpleasant torture porn

TV Baftas 2013: 10 things we learned

We love Olivia Colman even more than we thought, the BBC is still the daddy in broadcasting – and toilet breaks tell you more about the television industry than you’d imagine

The Fall is one of the best BBC dramas in years

Devoting equal time to hunter and hunted, Gillian Anderson stars in this gripping psychological thriller

Hugh Laurie: ‘There’s a sensual pleasure involved in making music that I just can’t get from acting’

His role in House made him the highest-paid actor ever in a TV drama, but with a new album out this week Laurie is keen to follow his real love

Midsomer Murders keeps Danes glued to TV

Gentle rural crime drama ‘has beaten everything the competition can come up with’ on Saturday nights for 12 years

Game of Thrones – Review: Kissed by Fire

We learned a lot about a number of characters in this well-paced episode, especially Jaime Lannister. But is time running out for Robb to save the day?

The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution

How did JMW Turner make such fine sunsets? With science and an eye for all that was going on around him

Richard Williams, master animator

Richard Williams was a pioneer of hand-drawn animation, working on films such as The Pink Panther and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. But perhaps his most enduring work is his masterclass, The Animator’s Survival Kit

Oliver Stone: How America went wrong

What if US history had followed a different path? There’d have been no cold war, no Vietnam and no Afghanistan, as controversial director Oliver Stone aims to show in his new 10-part television study

The Great British Sewing Bee

Trying to replicate The Great British Bake-Off is all very well – except that trousers just aren’t as sexy as chocolate cake

Game of Thrones Season three, episode one

A distinctly sedate opening to the new season – but Jon, Sam, Tyrion and Cersei all had plenty to grapple with

Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels

As the epic fantasy returns to TV, historian Tom Holland explains how it plunders real events from the ancient world to the middle ages to produce a heady cocktail of drama

The Walking Dead: Season three, Episode 14

It was what we’d all been dreading: an Andrea episode. But the unlikable character showed a sharpness that made her tolerable. And then there were the pit zombies …