AS A passionate Janeite, I have been longing for a period drama to rival the 1995 Pride and Prejudice, the benchmark of Austen adaptations. How does the latest offering, Miss Austen (BBC1, first episode, 2 February), measure up?

This four-part drama, adapted from Gill Hornby’s bestselling novel, stars the always excellent Keeley Hawes as Cassandra, Jane Austen’s older sister. Set after Jane’s death, and told by means of flashback to when the sisters were younger, this really looks the part. It feels the part, too; there are the obsequious and stupid vicar, the jealous and vicious female villain, the principled heroine, guided by integrity and loyalty, and the swollen egos and petty cruelties.

I enjoyed all of this, but, for my money, Miss Austen lacked the humour and lightheartedness that I associate with Jane Austen. Still, the true test of this story of sisterly love is that, 250 years after her birth, my yearning to wear a bonnet has been rekindled. It’s what she would have wanted.

The provocative title of Go Back to Where You Came From (Channel 4, Monday of last week) was enough to raise my blood pressure; but I watched it on your behalf. Six British people, with widely differing views on immigration, have to make their way home from Syria and Somalia, respectively, to experience what it might be like to be a refugee.

This is predictably enraging television, but also deeply upsetting. The journey of Dave, a chef from Nottingham, from being someone espousing shocking and dehumanising views to being someone reduced to tears by the plight of Syrian children was predictable but still hard to watch. Despite the feeling that the six participants were typecast, it was surprisingly well done, and offered deeper insight than its confrontational title suggested.

Celebrity Bear Hunt (Netflix, released on Wednesday of last week) is billed as nature’s deadliest escape room. The location is the Costan Rican jungle, the participants are 12 celebrities, including Shirley Ballas, Boris Becker, Mel B, and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. It’s the kind of programme I watch with the supreme confidence of knowing that I’d be far better at it than the contestants, despite the fact that my tent once blew away at a festival because I had neglected to peg it down.

Hunting the celebrities is the renowned Christian and former SAS trooper Bear Grylls. “Let the hunt begin,” he says, hanging off a helicopter and executing a perfect sign of the cross. Ah! Grylls has God on his side. This is clearly not going to be a fair fight. Presented by the lovely Holly Willoughby, this is a fun watch, if only for Mr Llewelyn-Bowen’s quips and loud shirts.