What to watch on TV right now

Wondering what to watch? BBC Radio 5 live asked TV experts Boyd Hilton and Chris Butland-Steed to choose their top picks for the next few months.

Boyd says: "Think of it as Lost: The Sitcom."

"It's all about what would happen if a plane crashed on a remote deserted island in the Indian Ocean and you're left with a bunch of ridiculous characters led by this overbearing, kind of sociopathic air steward played by Marc Wootton, who is called Brett.

"Bottom line is, it's really funny. There are some comedies these days that are very gentle and almost verging on drama whereas this is an out and out ridiculous, funny, silly, but very, very well performed comedy."

High & Dry is now available on Channel 4.

Chris says: "I'm really, really excited to see what's going to be happening with series three."

"I love anything a bit sci-fi or futuristic and this is based on now, but in a parallel world, where there are these robots, which are very advanced. They're a bit like an au pair that does everything and does it a hell of a lot better than you do!"

Boyd added: "What Humans did very cleverly from series one was it showed you the small scale. The kind of intimacy of the family situations, what would happen if a family got one of these robots in, and then it spread out over the two series.

"Last series had a lot of stuff going on in America and it spread out globally to show you what was happening in this world and with the 'synths'. It felt like it was intimate enough to have small scale plot line and yet it had big huge global implications as well and I thought it did that really well."

Humans has just started on Channel 4.

Boyd says: "I just cannot wait to see what Benedict Cumberbatch does with this character."

"Patrick Melrose is a central character in a series of novels by Edward St Aubyn and there are five of them in total. In this series each episode will be one of those novels dramatised on their own."

"They span decades in this guy's life and I think the interesting thing is Benedict Cumberbatch. We know him from playing Sherlockand Doctor Strange, he almost specialises in extremely powerful intense highly intelligent characters. This character, Patrick Melrose, if you've read any of the novels you'll know he fits that description perfectly.

"He's a deeply troubled but brilliant figure, he has an abusive father, he's in the most dysfunctional family you can imagine. He goes through drug addiction, various other addictions and issues, relationship problems and I just cannot wait to see what Benedict Cumberbatch does with this character.

"And if that's not exciting enough the whole adaptation as been written by David Nicholls who wrote the novel One Day, and he is a brilliant talent in himself."

Patrick Melrose is on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV.

Chris says: "It's so harrowing but I couldn't stop watching it."

"This programme brought out a lot of feelings I didn't know I had inside me. I grew up with two sisters, and I have a lot of female friends and I am massive feminist. To watch these poor women forced to have children for other people was harrowing.

"It goes at a very slow place but when you get into it, it's mind blowing."

Boyd added: "Margaret Atwood is heavily involved and she's been working with the showrunners in terms of making sure the story that's going to carry on now, after the novel has been covered, will very much reflect what she is interested in and the way the characters evolve.

"I think even though the novel has been dealt with in the first season it could go on for years and years. I think the showrunners have a plan for it to go on for six or seven series."

The Handmaid's Tale, which is shown on Hulu in the US, has just started on Channel 4.

Boyd says: "It's so incredibly gripping and interesting."

"The story is written by Harlan Coben and it stars Michael C. Hall of Dexter fame and Six Feet Under. He plays this father whose wife died fairly recently, he's a paediatric surgeon and he's the father of two teenage daughters.

"He's bringing them up in a kind of posh gated community, and one of his daughters goes off to have a party and he thinks everything is fine and she just disappears off the face of the earth and it's all about him trying to find out what happened to her.

"His next door neighbour, who he's kind of having some kind of illicit relationship with, is Amanda Abbington who happens to be the local detective. So it's about what happens when a police detective is intimately involved with a man whose daughter is the subject of a huge police investigation.

"I've seen the first two episodes, it's so incredibly gripping and interesting. Harlan Coben knows how to do the most gripping riveting plots in the world."

Safe will be on Netflix later this year.

Chris says: "There were so many twists I was literally dizzy by the end of the last episode."

"It's in a nutshell, Westworld is about a futuristic sci-fi western adventure park for rich people and they go there and they get to act out all of their fantasies.

"In the park there are androids, which are reliving every day and are reset every night. But they start gaining consciousness and they start remembering some of the hideous things that have happened to them. They start wanting to fight back.

"It's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. There were so many twists I was literally dizzy by the end of the last episode. I've been waiting in anticipation for this to come back and I cannot wait."

Boyd added: "It seems like they're really going to expand the world beyond the western influence bit of Westworld that we saw. I think in season two you're going to see a lot more. We've seen a bit of a samurai one right at the end of last season and I think we're going to see all sorts of weird and wonderful other parts of this world.

Westworld season two is now available on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV.