Top TV Picks
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared
Friday, Channel 4
Comedy horror satirising children’s puppet shows, here focusing on the subject of ‘family’. Red Guy, Yellow Guy and Duck meet two adorable twins who point out that they should not be living with each other as they are not related like a family. The guys begin to question their relationship and get very upset. Luckily the twins invite them over to see a real family in action and have their blood tested.
Mandy
Monday, BBC Two
Comedy short, starring Diane Morgan. Mandy gets a job as a tour guide at Brampton Hall, but soon realises it's not your typical stately home.
James May at the Edge of Space
Monday, BBC Four
The presenter undergoes rigorous training at a US Air Force base in California before boarding a U-2 spy plane for a flight that will take him 70,000ft above Earth. Along the way he has to learn how to eject from his cockpit in an emergency, how to survive the 13-mile fall back to terra firma and how to wear a space suit worth $250,000.
Storyville
Tuesday, BBC Four
The true story of a rugby team's extraordinary 72-day survival after their plane came down on a remote Chilean glacier. With no equipment, food or realistic hope of rescue, they had to decide whether to eat the flesh of their dead friends as their only means of surviving. Thirty years on, they vividly recall the harrowing stories of extreme human endurance.
I Hate You
Thursday, Channel 4
Comedy about two female flatmates in their midtwenties and their intense, messy friendship in today's intense, messy world. Charlie is organised in nature, but a bit of a worrier, while Becca has no embarrassment gene and usually arrives at the wrong decisions. In this first episode, Charlie teases Becca for going on a date with a man in his seventies, but when Becca comes back raving about how interesting older men are, Charlie decides to find her own pensioner. Tanya Reynolds and Melissa Saint star.