Meera Syal remembers the thrill of kissing her heroes dressed as an 85-year-old granny with bad teeth, while Sanjeev Bhaskar reveals how the show was inspired by his parents interrogating his girlfriend

This angrily ambitious reset took on generational trauma, social inequality, austerity’s devastating impact – and pulled it all off masterfully. Roll on series six…

Goodness Gracious Me made him a household name. Now The Sandman could bring international stardom. He talks about the bullies who tried to keep him down – and life as reluctant role model

Ian McKellen and Sanjeev Bhaskar will also take to stage and solve a crime without rehearsal in starry fundraising drama at London theatre

Nicola Walker’s Cassie and Sanjeev Bhaskar’s Sunny team up once again, but even these seasoned professionals have their work cut out when a headless, decades-old corpse is discovered

DCI Stuart and DS Khan return for what promises to be another tight, gripping, but also moving investigation

All the strands came together in a gripping finale, with a solution to the murder that was as convincing as it was clever

The second series kicks off with a soapy, suitcase corpse, but already the bigger picture is beginning to emerge. Plus: volunteers try out for the intelligence services in Spies

The genius of GGM, which returns tonight for a one-off special, is that it tackles universal themes of greed, aspiration and family. At a time when British Asians find themselves increasingly stigmatised, we need it more than ever

As a boy, the actor regularly visited Shimla, where his dad once lived. Filming Channel 4’s glossy colonial drama has brought the memories flooding back