TV tonight: Rob Brydon’s confusing but addictive new travel competition

Destination X is best described as The Traitors meets Race Across the World. Plus, action drama Fire Country crash-lands on TV. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC One“Where the X am I?” That’s what the contestants are going to need to work out at each stage of this discombobulating new competition, which turns Europe into a board game. Rob Brydon is the man in charge, sending the gang across the continent in windowless coaches. By the end of each episode, they need to guess where they are on a map, after being fed clues (some of them fake) at stops along the way. Whoever’s guess is the furthest away is eliminated and out of the chance of winning the £100,000 prize at the final destination. Hollie Richardson Continue reading...

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