TV tonight: the return of private school comedy drama Boarders

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Boarders

9pm, BBC Three

Our five inner-city Black scholarship students – Jaheim, Leah, Toby, Omar and Femi – start another term at St Gilbert’s, in the second series of this fun private school send-up. Carol is now headteacher, and she announces that two scholarships will be stripped. Along with problems at home, romantic distractions and the unease of still trying to fit in, what more sacrifices do the students need to make that their privileged peers don’t? Hollie Richardson

The Making of Bill Gates

7pm, BBC Two

Bill Gates
Gates goes back to the beginning. Photograph: Penguin Random House

As more and more people start to view tech billionaires as a blight on humanity, this get-to-know-you interview is piquantly timed. The co-founder of Microsoft, promoting a new memoir that details how he got started, takes Katie Razzall on a tour of the Seattle haunts of his youth. Jack Seale

Panorama: Rewiring Britain – The Race to Go Green

8pm, BBC One

Ralph Fiennes and Ed Miliband share their views, in this Panorama reporting on the government’s projects to decarbonise Britain’s electricity by 2030. Justin Rowlatt also meets protesters against new pylons, solar plants, wind turbines and electricity substations, who feel their objections are being ignored. HR

Silent Witness

9pm, BBC One

More than a dozen shots ring out in a Syrian pizza restaurant. In the aftermath, a gruesome tableau: windows and six people riddled with bullet holes. But there’s nothing on the CCTV. Can Nikki and Jack find the mystery perpetrator before they strike again? Plus, lots of deeply metaphorical meditations on fishing. Ali Catterall

The Balkans: Europe’s Forgotten Frontier

9pm, BBC Two

Three decades ago, BBC News Europe editor Katya Adler was reporting from the frontlines of the Yugoslav wars of independence. In this new two-parter, she returns to take the political temperature of a region where Bosnian biker gangs revere Putin and resource-rich Albania is still recovering from being “Europe’s North Korea”. Graeme Virtue

Go Back to Where You Came From

9pm, Channel 4

Six Brits have their views challenged.
Six Brits have their views challenged. Photograph: Tom Barnes/Channel 4

A provocative four-part documentary about immigration, in which six British people with strong, opposing and often appalling views on the issue are sent to two of the most dangerous cities in the world – Mogadishu in Somalia and Raqqa in Syria. But among the hard to watch arguments are some, hopefully, glimmers of participants’ willingness to open their minds. HR

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