Naked Education

Tuesday

Channel 4, 8.00pm

Naked Education repackages Naked Attraction as an educational, myth-busting and body positive TV show. Hosted by the familiar Anna Richardson (Naked Attraction) but featuring Yinka Bokinni (The Apprentice: You’re Fired!) and Dr Alex George (Love Island), the show aims to “address sensitive subjects that other programmes shy away from” in a powerful and entertaining way.

Each episode from this six-part series will present people of different ages, sharing their experiences about their own bodies whilst asking questions about others. The show will also speak to people who have gone through body transformations such as weight loss and surgery, providing further perspective on how we perceive our bodies.

Speaking on Instagram, Dr. Alex George said: “When I say this series is going to get people talking, I mean it. We talk about everything from the ageing body to penis size, answering the questions people are afraid to ask.”

Long Lost Family: What Happened Next

Tuesday

ITV1, 9.00pm

Long Lost Family: What Happened Next delves deep into the stories of reconnected family members and seeks to learn what happened to their relationship post-rekindling.

Hosted by presenters Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell (Countdown), the series is a spin-off of Long Lost Family, where the duo help people through the practical process of finding estranged family. Previous series have seen parents reconnect with children given away as babies, and siblings brought together after 60 years apart.

Participant Joselyn Taylor takes centre stage in the first episode, sharing more about what happened after she had been searching for her brother for 20 long years.

Rain Dogs

Tuesday 10.40pm

BBC One

Centred on a loving bond between a mother and daughter, Rain Dogs is a comedic, painful and desperate journey into the chaotic lives of single mother Costello Jones, played by Daisy May Cooper (Am I Being Unreasonable?), and her daughter Iris, played by Fleur Tashjian in her breakout role.  

Life isn’t easy for the pair. Estranged from her family, Costello faces a gruelling fight to give her daughter stability in a world of high rents, low wages and job insecurity. The first episode sees the pair clash with bailiffs as they are evicted from their flat. “Do they think we’re gangsters or something?” Iris sarcastically quizzes her mother.

Life is complicated further by the injection of Costello’s best friend, the erratic and aristocratic Selby, played by Jack Farthing (Spencer).

The series, co-produced with HBO, is the first TV creation of Cash Carraway, the writer of bestselling book Skint Estate. Speaking to HBO, Carraway said: “This isn’t a show about poverty, but Costello does happen to be very poor, regardless of how hard she works. The image we have of working-class people now is that they wouldn’t have ambition, so I’m really keen for that not to be the case.”

Beef

Thursday

Netflix

Steven Yeung (The Walking Dead) and Ali Wong (American Housewife) star as Danny and Amy in Beef, a furiously funny story of a road rage altercation gone horrifically wrong. When the two clash after a lot of honking and hollering from the wheels of their cars, they become obsessed with each other, and hell-bent on getting revenge.

Set in the petrol haze of sunny Los Angeles, these two characters lead very different lives, with their own distinct and painful problems. Amy, the wealthier of the pair, is stressed, neurotic and becoming unhinged. Danny on the other hand is out of pocket and struggling with his family. Their problems manifest in deep anger management issues, with simmering frustrations boiling over in this captivating series.

Dreamland

Thursday

Sky Atlantic & NOW TV, 9.00pm

We’re all going to the seaside in Dreamland, Sky Atlantic’s newest comedy-drama starring Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who) and Lily Allen in her debut TV role. Set in the garish, salty Margate summer, Dreamland follows Mel (Allen) unexpectedly returning to her hometown, reconnecting with her pregnant sister Trish (Agyeman) and the rest of the family. The group will work through their issues, discovering more about themselves and each other as they go. The trailer promises “sun, sea and secrets.”

Produced by Sharon Horgan (Motherland) and Clelia Mountford (Bad Sisters), the picturesque Kentish town provides the perfect play pen for this quintessentially British dramedy. Gabby Best (I Want My Wife Back) and Aimee-Ffion Edwards (Peaky Blinders) play Clare and Leila, Mel’s two other sisters. Frances Barber (Whistable Pearl) plays the mother, Cheryl, whilst Sheila Reid (Big Boys) plays the Nan and matriarch of the family. Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Ghosts) stars as Spence, Trish’s partner and the father of their kids.