Fans of Boarders on this side of the pond, rejoice! Season 2 of the Rotten Tomatoes 100% Certified Fresh comedy-drama series is back this week. Check out the trailer!
Series set at boarding schools can be chock full of drama, even when it’s a comedy. To wit: the hit ’79-’80s sitcom The Facts of Life, the awesome 2000s Spanish mystery drama El Internado, and Elite, Netflix’s killer Spanish drama thriller from Spain, amongst others. Of them, only Elite centered on scholarship students (at least initially)… until Boarders.
Boarders follows five talented Black teens — Jaheim (Josh Tedeku, Supacell), Leah (Jodie Campbell, Bulletproof), Toby (Sekou Diaby, My Fault: London), Omar (Myles Kamwendo, The School for Good and Evil), and Femi (Aruna Jalloh, Royal Shakespeare Company: Much Ado About Nothing) — who gain entry to the posh St. Gilbert’s, a prestigious boarding school, thanks to scholarships. Regardless of the fact that the headmaster only made the scholarships available to better the school’s reputation, attending it is a massive opportunity for these fish-out-of-inner-city-water students. They just need to survive their new surroundings.
Which they do. But will they get through what comes next unscathed? Because, in Season 2, the headmaster has been suspended and the now-acting headmistress, Carol Watlington-Geese (Niky Wardley, Hard Cell), mum of Rupert (Harry Gilby, The Last Kingdom), Jaheim’s nemesis, makes it abundantly clear that she wants Jaheim, Leah, Toby, Omar, and Femi out of St. Gilbert’s. But rather than ousting them outright, she enacts a scheme. Meanwhile, American exchange student Devonyè (Kendra Brown, in her debut on-screen role) arrives at the school and shakes things up.
Boarders, a Tubi Original, premieres in North America and Latin America as a six-episode binge on Thursday, April 17, exclusively on Tubi. (Viewers in the UK can stream it now on BBC iPlayer.)
Returning cast include Assa Kanouté (Deep Cover), Tallulah Greive (My Lady Jane), Rosie Graham (Sanditon), Georgina Sadler (The A List), Zheng Xi Yong (Silo), Dillon Mitra (Indian Summers), Archie Fisher (Last Days), Andrew Harmon-Gray, Ruxandra Porojnicu (Coronation Street), Kye Malcolm, Llewella Gideon (Queenie), Mohammed Mansaray (Rules of the Game), Niyi Akin (The Diplomat), Maxim Ays (The Larkins), Al Foran (Deep Fake Neighbour Wars), William Andrews (Grace), and Yuriri Naka (Giri/Haji).
Joining the Season 2 cast are BAFTA winner Wunmi Mosaku (Loki) as Jaheim’s mum, Grace; Cara Theobold (Downton Abbey) as Jude, St. Gilbert’s new writer-in-residence; and Michael Salami (Supacell) as Femi’s Uncle Teju. The new season also features Natalie Cassidy (EastEnders) and Alan Cumming (The Traitors US) in guest roles.
Boarders is created and written by BAFTA nominee Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Uncle, Timewasters, Kaos), and is produced by Studio Lambert (part of All3Media) for the BBC in co-production with Tubi and ZDFneo, in association with All3Media International for the BBC.
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