Monday

How the Rich Avoid Tax

Channel 4

8pm

 

 

Actor Greg Wise goes undercover for Dispatches to expose legitimate tax schemes that the rich can use to keep HMRC’s hands off their cash.

He talks to financial advisors who tell him that “tax is voluntary” and can be avoided, meeting one former employee who estimates that the schemes his former company alone used costs the HMRC over £100 million every year.

 

 

Tuesday

Professor Green: Hidden and Homeless

BBC 3

9pm

Stephen Manderson (aka Professor Green) returns to our screens in another documentary, following his popular and moving documentary about male suicide.

This time he is taking a closer look at the forgotten homeless – young people who do not appear in official statistics because they live in hostels or on friends’ sofas, not on the streets.

 

Wednesday

Drunk History

Comedy Central

10pm

 

 

The new series of Comedy Central’s Drunk History is back.

Watch all your favourite celebrities and comedians knock back one too many and then try to explain the intricate history of the Second World War, the sinking of the Titanic.or Robin Hood.

Jimmy Carr narrates these historical reinterpretations, which although perhaps not completely accurate, are entirely hilarious.

 

Thursday

Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons

Channel 5

9pm

Journalist Paul Connolly finds himself behind bars in this investigation for Channel 5.

Locked inside Poland’s Pietrkow Prison, he finds out what it is like to be an inmate in one of the world’s most notorious correctional facilities.

 

Friday

Spin

More4

9pm

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The second series of French political drama Spin kicks off tonight with a bang - or more accurately a crash.

The illicit lover of the president’s wife Elizabeth is killed in a car accident while she is behind the wheel.

Just as President Alain Marjorie is dealing with that, he is hit by another scandal and his friend Interior Minister Benoit Hassan is forced to resign.

 

Saturday

The Jonathan Ross Show

ITV

9.20

Wossy is joined by a myriad of stars this week, including character actor Sasha Baron Cohen appearing as Nobby from his new comedy Grimsby.

American comic actress Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation, Saturday Night Live) will be appearing on the sofa, and Britain’s very own treasure Stephen Fry will be chatting.

Singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes will be chatting and performing.

 

Sunday

Chinese  New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth

BBC Two

9pm

For anyone who is trying to avoid the BAFTAs, this is the show to watch.

This show is the first in a series exploring the New Year celebrations in China, looking at the festivities as a whole, and also the personal stories of those involved in the celebrations.

At the Harbin ice and Snow Festival, Kate Humble, Ant Anstead and Jing Lusi join revellers celebrating in freezing temperatures, while the Hairy Bikers join a crew of bikers in the Guangzhou province.