The 7 shows that’ll kick off the best week of TV in years

January’s agelong acheronian days – breached up lone by The Traitors – person yet drawn to a close, and portion February is not overmuch of an betterment connected the weather front, it boasts immoderate of 2025’s champion TV.

This week alone, the likes of the BBC and Netflix are dropping 7 instant classics, meaning that for the foreseeable you volition lone request to permission your location for essentials.

There are TV shows to cater to each taste: including a world TV show to rival I’m A Celebrity, a spin-off of a immense comedy bid and adjacent a gritty documentary astir a 90s boyband.

Failing that, you tin besides bushed the wintertime blues by bingeing a classic play drama oregon get sucked into the 2nd instalment of a pacy drama thriller created by a BBC legend.

Forget the aureate property of TV, the aureate week of TV is present upon america – truthful drawback your distant and settee into your sofa.

Here are the 7 TV shows astir to footwear disconnected the champion week of televisual treats successful years.

Amandaland

Motherland fans were inconsolable erstwhile the BBC announced it would beryllium nary much aft its last occurrence successful 2022 – but fortunately, the beingness of harried West London mums is surviving on successful spin-off Amandaland.

Centred connected Motherland’s queen bee and blowdried villain Amanda (Lucy Punch) , the sitcom follows her navigating a caller epoch aft her divorce and moving to a little well-heeled country of the capital.

While sadly archetypal formed members including Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin) volition not beryllium making cameos, Amanda’s champion person and punch bag, the meek Anne (Philippa Dunne), steps retired of the shadows.

When is it on? Amandaland returns connected Wednesday astatine 9pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.

Clean Slate

Amazon Prime drama Clean Slate comes from 70s drama fable Norman Leer, who was down sitcoms including Good Times and The Jefferson, truthful you cognize this is simply a TV amusement to look retired for.

The bid follows Harry Slate (George Wallace), an old-school and outspoken Alabama car lavation owner, who has a batch of soul-searching to bash erstwhile the estranged kid helium thought was a lad returns location arsenic a proud, trans woman, Desiree (Laverne Cox).

On X, TV fans person been sharing their impatience implicit the merchandise of Clean Slate, with @QPlusMagazine saying: ‘Mark your calendars! Laverne Cox and George Wallace squad up successful #CleanSlate, a must-watch drama astir family, identity, and 2nd chances.’

When is it on? Clean Slate is coming to Amazon Prime Video connected Thursday.

Celebrity Bear Hunt

Dropping 12 pampered celebrities into a Costa Rican jungle successful the eventual crippled of feline and rodent – what could spell wrong? Probably everything, but Netflix’s Celebrity Bear Hunt is acceptable to beryllium large TV.

Stars including Mel B and Shirley Ballas indispensable fend for themselves and combat for their endurance arsenic they go ‘prey’ for Bear Grylls arsenic presenter Holly Willoughby oversees the chaos.

With a brilliantly bonkers premise and an eclectic formed of characters- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen struggling successful the jungle volition surely beryllium a show to behold – Celebrity Bear Hunt could beryllium our adjacent world TV obsession.

When is it on? Celebrity Bear Hunt stars connected Netflix connected Wednesday.

Miss Austen

It has been a portion since a cosy play play has graced our screens but the BBC has filled that void with Miss Austen, which its pb prima Keeley Hawes described arsenic a ‘classic costume drama’ successful the vein of Colin Firth’s Pride and Prejudice. Sign america up.

Instead of her much celebrated sister Jane, the four-parter focuses connected Cassandra Austen (Hawes); specifically her arguable determination to pain the Pride and Prejudice writer’s letters.

In a review, Metro’s Asyia Iftikhar described Miss Austen arsenic the ‘perfect wintertime nighttime binge watch’ advising viewers to ‘put down the telephone for a fewer hours, drawback a cupful of beverage and cuddle up successful a blanket.’ Duly noted.

When is it on? Miss Austen is disposable to watercourse connected BBC iPlayer.

Boyzone: No Matter What

The latest explosive euphony documentary charts the pitfalls of planetary fame and the fractious narration with manager Louis Walsh suffered by 90s boyband Boyzone.

Sky’s No Matter What covers the acheronian broadside of the euphony including from Walsh’s PR strategy, including planting a fake communicative the radical were progressive successful a level clang in Australia, to Mikey Graham’s use of intoxicant to assistance him with feeling little important than his bandmates.

The no-holds-barred bid is an eye-opening and, astatine times, harrowing representation of surviving successful the limelight astatine the highest of toxic 90s media civilization that volition marque you bespeak connected the attraction of celebrities today.

When is it on? Boyzone: No Matter What is disposable to watercourse connected Now.

Boarders

Our archetypal returning amusement is BBC’s coming-of-age drama play Boarders, which yet returned for play 2 today, aft its debut earned a cleanable 100% connected Rotten Tomatoes.

It follows 5 talented Black inner-city teens transported to an alien satellite – a British boarding schoolhouse – aft gaining scholarships to the prestigious St Gilbert’s.

This clip around, the students volition beryllium grappling with a caller headmistress, who has a vendetta against the fivesome and wants them retired of her schoolhouse astatine immoderate cost.

When is it on? Boarders play 2 is retired present connected BBC iPlayer.

Am I Being Unreasonable?

It has been 3 agelong years since the first instalment of comedy thriller Am I Being Unreasonable – but present it’s backmost with a bang.

Created by Daisy May Cooper with her Rada pal Selin Hizli, the archetypal play followed Nic’s (Cooper) seemingly cleanable Cotswolds household beingness unravel aft gathering a caller person Jen (Hizli) with suspicious motives.

This clip around, Nic is frightened ghosts are coming backmost to haunt her – virtually – aft confessing to the accidental execution of her person to Jen successful play one.

When is it on? Am I Being Unreasonable? returns Wednesday from 9.30pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.

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