Bad Monkey

Wednesday

Apple TV +

Vince Vaughn stars as Andrew Yancy, an ex-detective who recently made a switch into restaurant health inspections. Based on Carl Hiaasen’s novel of the same name, Bad Monkey sees Yancy finding a ticket back to his old job in the form of a severed human arm. If he can prove it’s linked to a murder case and send down the victim’s ex-wife Eve (Meredith Hagner, Vacation Friends) for the crime, there’s a chance the force might welcome him back, despite his long history of reckless behaviour.

The series is produced by Ted Lasso creator Bill Lawrence, so no matter how dark utilising a human arm to get your job back might sound – it’s safe to assume there will be some laughs along the way.

Stags

Thursday

Paramount +

Whereas Bad Monkey is a dark premise told comedically, Stags is far the opposite. A week of debauchery on a location-stag-do in South America suddenly turns into a fight for survival, when the stags are thrown onto a prison island. What a buzz kill.

The series stars My Mad Fat Diary’s Nico Mirallegro as Stu, the groom-to-be, with his stags comprised of Charlie Cooper (This Country), Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing), and Corin Silva (All The Light We Cannot See) among others.

Emily in Paris

Thursday

Netflix

After four series, Emily (Lily Collins, Love Rosie) is still in Paris despite tricky workplace dynamics, a devastating love triangle, and the general culture clashes of being an American in the French capital.

Despite relinquishing herself from her ménage à trois last series – after British boy Alfie (Lucien Laviscount, Waterloo Road) realised Emily still had feelings for Parisian restaurant owner Gabriel (Lucas Bravo, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris) – in series four, Emily is immediately sucked back in.

Her and Gabriel seem to be finally beginning their relationship, despite his on-and-off ex-fiancé, Camille (Camille Razat, Mastemah) being pregnant with his child. Their almost smooth sailing relationship doesn’t stay this way for long, as Emily soon realises she has feelings for both men, but for very different reasons.

Daddy Issues

Thursday

BBC Three, 9.00pm

Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood plays Gemma – a 20-something-year-old who’s just joined the mile-high club, and then came back down to earth with the realisation she’s pregnant.

With her party days forced behind her, she decides to move her useless divorced dad (David Morrissey, Basic Instinct 2) out of his bedsit and into her Stockport flat. She doesn’t know how to be a mother, but he doesn’t know how to do basic household tasks like the laundry and microwaving rice, so they’re a match made in dysfunctional heaven.

Made In Korea: The K-Pop Experience

Saturday

BBC One, 5.15pm

Five British men are taken to Seoul for a boyband bootcamp like no other. Blaise Noon, Dexter Greenwood, James Sharp, Olly Quinn and Reese Carter are about leave their homes in London, Huddersfield, and Sunderland to learn what it takes to be a K-Pop sensation.

In just 100 days they will undergo full transformations – choreography lessons, singing lessons, makeovers, and even life coaching. Each week they will be tutored by the brutal Hee Jun Yoon, who has been a huge part of K-Pop’s success as a genre, launching the careers of over 100 performers, such as Girls’ Generation, Red Velvet and RIIZE.

Can she do the same for the UK’s Dear Alice? We’ll have to find out.