12 celebrities are poking the bear in Celebrity Bear Hunt, six Britons are stepping into immigrant’s shoes in Go Back to Where you Came From, and three RTS Award-winning comedies air their newest instalments.
Boarders
Monday
BBC Three, 9.00pm
School is in session for the second series of RTS Award-winning Daniel Lawrence Taylor’s comedy Boarders.
Private school St Gilberts ‘welcomed’ five black scholarship students in series one, as a thinly veiled PR exercise. Although the micro-aggressive headmaster (Derek Riddell) was given the boot at the end of series two, it doesn’t mean it’s the end of their struggles.
The mother (Niky Wardley) of their fellow student and nemesis Rupert (Harry Gilby) has stepped up to the plate, and she’s promised to cut the scholarship down to only three places.
Go Back to Where you Came From
Monday
Channel 4, 9.00pm
Six opinionated Brits are going on an extraordinary journey to find out why asylum seekers are coming to Britain.
Will it change their minds about people coming to the UK?
Go Back To Where You Came From, coming soon to Channel 4. pic.twitter.com/WqArAd4xvH
— Channel 4 (@Channel4) January 13, 2025
Six people from across the UK are trading their lives for an altogether different experience. Each of them has varying opinions on the migrant’s crisis but those are about to change. The six will begin their journeys in Syria and Somalia, before recreating a migrant’s journey to the UK.
This Australian format is now in their school curriculum, due to the transformative effect it has had on participants down under.
Celebrity Bear Hunt
Wednesday
Netflix
An Inbetweener, a Spice Girl and a Strictly Come Dancing judge, are being chased by… a bear.
Joe Thomas, Mel B and Shirley Ballas are among the 12 celebrities who have signed up for this brand-new entertainment format, being dropped into a Costa Rican jungle where they will have to adapt to and survive living without luxury. If Grylls winds up unimpressed with how they take to their new lives, they will be subject to the Bear Pit, where the caught celebrity will be eliminated.
Other celebrities taking part in the challenge include Lottie Moss, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Big Zuu.
Amandaland
Wednesday
BBC One, 9.00pm
Amanda is done with W4.
The Motherland spin-off sees queen bee Amanda (Lucy Punch) lose her wings and leave Chiswick following her divorce. Turns out the judgemental yummy mummy who plagued Julia (Anna Maxwell-Martin) has a similar figure in her own life… her own mother (played by Joanna Lumley).
Can Amanda become a strong powerful independent mother, and Instagram celebrity? Only time will tell.
Am I Being Unreasonable?
Wednesday
BBC One, 9.30pm
RTS Award-winning duo Daisy May Cooper and Lenny Rush are back with a second instalment of Am I Being Unreasonable?
Cooper stars as Nic, a mother trapped and depressed, and excited by her new friend Jen (Selin Hizli). Series one ended on a bombshell moment as the layers of Nic’s lies unravelled to show she’d not only been lying to her friends, but also to herself. Series two begins with Nic still in the midst of this revelation, sharing a caravan with Jen (who has her own fair share of secrets) and worrying her son Ollie (Rush) will wind up like her.
Big Boys
Sunday
Channel 4, 10.00pm
Jack Rooke’s semi-autobiographical comedy Big Boys is about to enter its final series.
Jack (played by Derry Girl’s Dylan Llewellyn) and Danny (Jon Pointing) met in their first year, after the university’s accommodation was over-subscribed, and they decided to lump the two “mature students together.” Whilst Danny is an actual mature student at 25, Jack had taken a gap year to grieve his father.
In series three, they’re about to leave university and enter real adult life. Danny is battling with whether he has a future in Kent, and a future in his relationship if it goes long-distance, and Jack is stressing over Louis Walsh’s X Factor dismissal (it is 2015 after all).
