Francis Bourgeois

TikTok’s ‘train guy’ Francis Bourgeois turns astronaut for new Channel 4 factual series

Francis Bourgeois, a white 23-year-old with brown hair, stands underneath a rocket ship with his arms wide open

Channel 4 has commissioned a two-part series, Francis in Space, that will see Bourgeois go behind the scenes of some of the world’s leading space agencies. As he travels across the U.S., he’ll also undergo some of the intense physical and mental trials endured by trainee astronauts, in order to find out if he has what it takes to journey into space.

Ear Candy: Rylan: How to Be in the Spotlight

Rylan stands in front of multicoloured lights, the BBC logo above him and text reading "RYLAN: HOW TO BE IN THE SPOTLIGHT" to his left

After sensitively tackling the crisis of masculinity in How to Be a Man, Rylan is now asking his guests How to Be in the Spotlight. And despite our exposure to a lot of very public breakdowns, including Rylan’s own, it can be hard to empathise when the spotlight also brings with it such enviable perks: his first guest, the actor Daisy May Cooper, boasts: “You can get your Sofology delivery within a week when you normally wait 13 weeks.”