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If you, like a lot of people, have already binged all of It's a Sin, you'll have been floored by every episode. Callum Scott Howells, who plays Colin, compared the third and fourth episodes to being shot, and the last one to being repeatedly stabbed, when we spoke with him. That sounded quite extreme at the time, but having sat with it for a while, it's quite a level-headed assessment. (If you've not watched it all yet, you need to turn straight around and get out of here. There are a lot of spoilers for It's a Sin coming up.)

Douglas wowed in Emma Rice's Wise Children, her first show with the freshly formed company, which ran at the Old Vic in London and on an extensive tour. You can even watch him in action in our video from the filmed version of the show. He has had a number of roles before this – in shows such as Five Guys Named Moe and The Life at Southwark Playhouse. Nathaniel Curtis – Ash Curtis has a few stage roles under his belt, recently "playing possibly the tallest Romeo that there ever was" in a Shakespeare in the Garden version of the tragedy, according to the company.

Russell T Davies has revealed that the adorable and loveable Colin in It's a Sin is loosely based on a man he dated in the 1990s.

How It's A Sin writer Russell T. Davies drew on his own life for powerful new drama series British script writer Russell T. Davies echoes the spread of the current COVID-19 crisis to another frightening virus in the '80s — HIV. The acclaimed writer of such dramas as Queer as Folk, about gay friends in Manchester, as well as Doctor Who, has penned another powerful and touching five-parter called It's A Sin (showing on Stan from January 23) focusing on three young lads discovering and experimenting with their sexuality. Olly Alexander as Ritchie Tozeras seen on Stan's It's A Sin. (Stan)

Olly Alexander stars in Russell T Davis' Channel 4 drama about the impact of the AIDS crisis in London in the 1980s. Read the Empire review.