What to watch
Eden: Paradise Lost
CHANNEL 4, 10.00PM
Channel experiment,soughtIn idealists Marchto 4’s establishEden which began2016, “a 23 new society”off from the from modern scratch, worldcut on a remote Scottish peninsula for an entire year. “What if we could start again?” was the much-hyped tag line. And the answer was… well, we never got to find out the answer because the series was pulled last summer, after just four episodes, when viewing figures took a dive from 1.7 million to less than 800,000.
Not that Channel 4 or production company Keo Films thought to tell the participants that. Instead they were left to get on with it. Rumours swirled of Lord of the Flies levels of acrimony, mass defections, starvation, health problems, people eating chicken feed to survive. So it could make for absorbing viewing in this five-part update, which airs every night this week. Although probably the greatest fascination will be in seeing the reactions of the 10 participants who suffered through to the end as they emerged from the nightmare in March this year only to discover that their efforts have mostly been in vain – and that the political landscape has drastically altered while they were gone. Gerard O’donovan
(Vanessa Redgrave) gives her late husband’s cottage to their grandson Adam (Julian Morris), who finds himself drawn to his architect, Steve (David Gyasi). GO Entertainment Make or Break? CHANNEL 5, 10.00PM
This is a new reality series, stripped across the week, in which eight troubled couples test the strength of their relationships at a Mexican holiday resort, where alongside counselling and therapy sessions, they have to swap partners every two days. GO Factual
The Bug Grub Couple BBC ONE, 7.30PM
Bug burger or beef burger? That’s the choice at the Grub restaurant in Pembrokeshire, part of entomologist Dr Sarah Beynon and chef Andy Holcroft’s Bug Farm – an insect zoo, research centre
and insect eaterie. Here they struggle to convince us why we all should learn to love eating insect protein. GO
Animal Rescue Live: Supervet Special
CHANNEL 4, 8.00PM
This new, live, animal rescue show with Steve Jones, Kate Quilton and Noel Fitzpatrick attempts to rehome a whole shelter’s worth of dogs, cats and assorted other species. Among the celebrities espousing the joy of pets in this opener is pop singer Leona Lewis. Continues until Friday. GO