Unruly pupils turn hapless teachers in the return of Bad Education, Kumail Nanjiani stars in a stranger-than-fiction Chippendales origin story and zombie video game The Last of Us is given the HBO treatment.
Welcome to Chippendales
Wednesday
Disney+
A new true crime saga starring Kumail Nanjiani as Somen "Steve" Banerjee, the Indian immigrant and entrepreneurial underdog who bought a failing L.A. bar and turned it into the world's greatest male-stripping empire, Chippendales. Steve found a profitable niche, but it wasn't long before other clubs followed in its footsteps and he resorted to desperate means to stave off the competition.
Starring as Steve's choreographer Nick De Noia is Murray Bartlett, who played Armond the manager of The White Lotus in series one.
Next Level Chef
Wednesday
ITV, 9.00pm
A wild new cooking challenge fronted by sweary chef Gordon Ramsay pits a mix of home cooks and pro chefs against one another across a three-storey kitchen.
To win the £100,000 and a one-year mentorship from Ramsay and his fellow hosts Nyesha Arrington and Paul Ainsworth, the contestants will have to work their way up from a gloomy basement stocked with only basic ingredients to the state-of-the-art top floor, and out-cook any chef standing in their way.
Alex Jones: Making Babies
Thursday
W Channel, 8.00pm
Having opened up about her own fertility struggles back in 2016, Alex Jones has now set her sights on becoming a fertility assistant for a new documentary, sharing what she learns about what it takes to facilitate pregnancy.
Making Babies sees her start training at King's Fertility in London, where she is put straight to work caring for patients opting for IVF treatment.
Bad Education
Sunday
BBC Three, 10.00pm
It's been ten years since Jack Whitehall, as Mr Wickers, tried and failed miserably to teach a class of kids in his school sitcom Bad Education. Now, to mark the anniversary, the series is returning, albeit with a twist.
Two of his unruly pupils, Stephen (Layton Williams) and Mitchell (Charlie Wernham), have since left and come back to Abbey Grove to teach drama and PE. But it looks as if Mr Wickers' methods (or lack thereof) have rubbed off on the pair—when we join them, they have been told that one of them will be fired. Cue panic.
The Last of Us
Monday
Sky Atlantic, 2.00am
HBO tries its hand at the tricky process of video game adaptation with The Last of Us, the multi-award-winning, post-apocalyptic action-adventure.
Following the outbreak of a deadly virus, a hardened smuggler named Joel (Pedro Pascal) is tasked with escorting a teenage survivor, Ellie (Bella Ramsey), across a pandemic-ravaged and zombie-riddled United States.
