Back for a second season, Banged Up Abroad returns with a slew of travel mishaps that are akin to the most improbable of urban legends. From drug smuggling in Venezuela to gold smuggling in Nepal, this series is the stuff of any traveller’s worst nightmare. One episode shows how a group of naive first-time backpackers are mercilessly imprisoned in Peru and another who is taken hostage by Colombian guerrilla forces.

National Geographic, Channel 11.