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Emmerdale airs surprise and unannounced return of legendary character eight months after exit in early ITVX release

Earlier this year, in a storyline that facilitated Hodgins's maternity leave, Vic left for a new life in Portugal. She was troubled after killing her own brother John (Oliver Farnworth) and came to the realisation that –…

Black Doves to Stick: the seven best shows to stream this week

Will that temper her treachery? Not a bit of it. This hugely entertaining espionage thriller returns with Helen cracking a safe (and adding to her spectacular body count) at an official engagement. The Black Doves spy…

Naya Yeira is on the rise

When you’re independent, you’re faced with constraints and you learn to do things yourself. I really do enjoy making my own visuals and giving a world to the sonics,” she muses. “I was so hyperfocused on music, I got…

TV tonight: who will win Celebrity Traitors? It’s time to find out

There's one more round table, then the finalists learn their fates in the flames. Hollie Richardson Landward 7.30pm, BBC Two Dougie Vipond visits Aberdeenshire to meet Mike Duxbury. After losing his sight at six years…

Brat Star, Nori, synecdoche new york, Bathing Suits and Florence Rose Broomfield lead this week's New Music Discovery playlist

With most Friday playlist updates dominated by the same big songs and returning names, we're always trying to go way beyond that to find the exciting new artists taking their first steps who we think will do amazing…

On Star Trek, Patrick Stewart could make anyone feel hopeful for humanity

Their decision may well have opened up an entirely new future for Gene Roddenberry's enduring, resolutely utopian space saga. Prior to the casting of the classically trained Yorkshireman in 1987, Star Trek was best known…

‘Ignorance towards immigration is horrible. It’s not British’: Skepta on his long-awaited return – and his anger at the racist right

"But I can be conscious." The self-proclaimed king of grime has always been a serious person, wary of fools and time-wasters. Focus is important to him, perhaps because he's often multitasking: balancing his music…

Sir Patrick Stewart: Actor who moved effortlessly between Star Trek and Shakespeare

While many actors are typecast, he moved effortlessly from Shakespeare and Dickens to the command of the USS Enterprise and his famous wheelchair in X-Men. In a career that spanned seven decades, Sir Patrick received…

Sir Patrick Stewart: A life in pictures

He was 86. Sir Ian McKellen leads tributes to 'beloved actor' Sir Patrick Stewart after his death at 86 Sir Patrick Stewart: Actor who moved effortlessly between Star Trek and Shakespeare 'A big loss' - Fans react to…

Patrick Stewart: Much loved actor remembered – as it happened

He was 86. The Star Trek: the Next Generation and X-Men star died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles after "a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia", said Kelly Bush Novak, his…