What’s on TV This Week: 3rd February - 9th February
Boarders
Monday
BBC Three, 9.00pm
School is in session for the second series of RTS Award-winning Daniel Lawrence Taylor’s comedy Boarders.
Bear Grylls
TV Picks: 15th March – 21st March
Bear and Jonny Wilkinson’s Wild Adventure
Tuesday 16th March
ITV, 8pm
England’s Rugby World Cup-winning hero Jonny Wilkinson heads to Dartmoor with wild adventurer Bear Grylls to test his survival instincts, while pushing his body and spirit to the limit.
TV Picks: 15th February - 22nd February
Tenable
Monday
ITV, 3pm
Quizmaster Warwick Davis returns to host another series of Tenable, joined by new co-host and former Coronation Street star, Sally Lindsay.
Bear Grylls' Quick-Fire Questions
Bear Grylls answers quick-fire questions ahead of his new Netflix interactive series You vs Wild, from his biggest fear to his top survival tips.
Read the full interview with Bear here.
Interaction Man: Bear Grylls explores new territory for Netflix
When he’s not jetting across the world to tackle some of nature’s harshest conditions, the 44-year-old survival expert can be found with his family on a remote island off the coast of Wales, living a life you can only imagine is the real-life equivalent of The Wild Thornberrys (minus the talking animals).
He was able to correspond from a mountain in Switzerland in what could possibly be the most Bear Grylls-esque setting for an interview you could imagine.
What's on TV: 23 - 29 July
How to Get Rich Quick
Monday: Channel 4, 8.30pm
The Island with Bear Grylls 2018: Who's who?
Group 1 (Earning circa £100,000 salaries)
(Credit: Channel 4)
1. Dr. James Gill, 33, GP and lecturer from Warwickshire
TV mash ups we'd love to see
From a tense reimagining of GBBO to a collaboration between David Haye and Shonda Rhimes, we dream of the shows that might have been
The Island with Bear Grylls 2017: Meet the contestants
Armed with some survival training, the clothes they stand in, filming equipment, medical supplies, some basic tools and fishing equipment and enough water for 24 hours, the islanders will be forced to fend for themselves in the outdoors as they face dehydration, hunger and severe weather conditions during storm season.
The six-part series will have a new twist as two groups from different generations will be dropped on a pair of neighbouring islands without the knowledge of the other.
Celebrities take on Bear Grylls' Island
For two weeks the celebs will give up the comforts of their showbiz lives, say goodbye to their family and friends and make a remote, uninhabited island their home.
Armed with nothing but the clothes on their back, some basic tools medical supplies, and the minimum of fresh water, they will be fighting for their very survival.