Streaming networks such as Twitch and Amazon are working on interactivity - the industry’s next big thing

It was the first war fought on TV – and now documentary master Ken Burns brings the most extraordinary look at Vietnam ever to the small screen. And from guerrilla truths to dead people’s testimonies, it will rock history

The new series loses the BBC’s worst bits while sticking to the winning recipe

With its rapes, beheadings and joyous celebrations of martyrdom, Peter Kosminsky’s unflinching drama goes right to the heart of Isis. But how do you keep viewers onside when every major character is a jihadist?

This new Nordic eight-parter focuses on two paranoid mavericks who end up running a secret hospital for terrorists, celebrities and politicians. It proves the pioneering TV region is still ahead of the game

From his insomnia to his hatred of training, this is a riveting, revelatory look at Usain Bolt as he heads to the blocks for the last time

It would have been an outrage if a 13th man had been cast. The BBC have made this audacious revelation at exactly the right time

Despite his preposterously evil ways, President Frank Underwood now looks a bit of a snowflake. Can the new series possibly outdo Donald?

In Channel 4’s gripping experiment, a real judge, real lawyers and a real jury preside over the trial of a man accused of murdering his wife. But where does fact end and fiction start?

Historian Tom Holland asks tough questions about the roots of Islamist violence – and breaks all the rules of TV presenting by retching at the site of an Isis atrocity

It looked set to be a brave year – but on the night, given the choice between the known and the fresh, almost all radicalism vanished. Here’s who won, who got snubbed and who should be most aggrieved

Will The Crown sweep the board? Will Bake Off be snubbed? And can anyone beat David Attenborough? Here are our predictions for this weekend’s winners

Diana’s ghost, Camilla slapping the prince, Kate as Lady Macbeth … people have been outraged by the BBC’s potentially treasonous new drama. But after watching, the response should be more ‘hooray’ than ‘off with their heads!’

From Downton Abbey to Call the Midwife and now Jamestown, period dramas always fall into the classic trap – characters with laughably liberal values for their day. Stop the madness, TV-makers!

By blending Breaking Bad and Orange is the New Black with impeccable plotting – and some dubious titillation – Spanish prison drama Locked Up is winning over more than just expats

From Fleabag to Thirteen and The Crown, this year’s nominations reveal that the most daring television has now gone online

In the BBC’s gruesomely watchable new reality show Alone with the In-Laws, a couple about to wed are forced into four days of awkward psychoanalysis and agonising sexual questions

With his emphatic answering style, Eric Monkman is the latest contestant on the show to light up Twitter. But too often, the contestants are mocked for their eccentric brilliance – or worse, leched over

TV took the Inspector Morse stories of the late Colin Dexter into the homes of millions – and he wasn’t the only novelist to bathe in the glow of the small screen