Sex Education

Series one of the comedy saw 23-year-old Gemma (Wood) living life to the extreme… until joining the mile high club brought her back down to earth.

Pregnant by a stranger and not wanting to be alone, Gemma decided to move back to Stockport with her hopeless father, Malcolm (Morrissey). She doesn't know how to be a parent, but he doesn’t know how to do basic household tasks. Together they are the perfect fit to struggle through this new era of life together.

The suicide of successful businessman Jack Wright sends his already-fractured family into a tailspin. As if grieving wasn’t difficult enough, his third wife Sally and two sons are left reeling by the discovery that they have been largely left out of the will.

The police investigate Wright’s death, and begin to suspect foul play. When difficult questions emerge about members of the Wright family, decades’ worth of feuds and resentments bubble up to the surface.

Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), Fra Fee (Hawkeye), Molly Windsor (Three Girls), Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley) and Christopher Eccleston (True Detective: Night Country) will lead the six-part series.

Molly Windsor plays Rosie, a woman devoted to motherhood and marriage within a conservative Christian community. That is, until an encounter with escaped convict Sam (Fee) changes everything. Soon, Rosie finds herself on a journey of self-discovery, emancipation and sexual awakening.

Sophie Morgan’s Fight to Fly

Monday

Channel 4, 9.00pm

Listen with even half an ear and it’s obvious that TV music soundtracks have upped their game in recent times. This year alone, Hans Zimmer’s score for The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Federico Jusid’s work on A Gentle­man in Moscow jostle other worthy contenders to show how music can significantly elevate a series.

Dr Susannah Newman (Anne-Marie Duff, Bad Education) is having a session with Jon (Dominic Cooper, Preacher). Under hypnosis, Jon admits to being a murderer. It falls to Susannah to convince a sceptical police force that a young girl’s life is now in danger.

Spacey Unmasked

Monday

Channel 4, 9.00pm

The Doctor last careened onto screens with Christmas special ‘The Church on Ruby Road’, which marked the debut of new companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson). Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education) plays the 15^th Doctor, having appeared in the last of three specials for the show’s 60^th anniversary.

The new series will see the Doctor and Ruby travel to Regency England, Abbey Road studio to watch the Beatles record and distant space. Expect fun and camp in equal, multidimensional measure.

As five scholarship students nervously enter their prestigious new boarding school, mentor Gus – played by the show’s writer and creator, Daniel Lawrence Taylor – offers some wise words: “Don’t be who they expect you to be.” Our leads duly oblige, and that motto applies to Boarders itself. Entering unusual territory in television, the culture-clash series roams freely between high laughs, subtle observations and heavy drama, surprising us every step of the way.

Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) stars as 24-year-old Gemma, recently cast out of her young-wild-and-free lifestyle, after discovering she is pregnant from a one-night stand.

David Morrissey (Sherwood) enters the picture as her father Malcolm. Recently left in the lurch as his now ex-wife jets around the world discovering herself on their life savings, he is unable to do basic household tasks and struggles to boil an egg.