'Boarders' Renewed For Third & Final Season

TV producers love a series focused on various educational settings, whether it’s within the traditional U.S. K-12 system or located across the pond in the stricter “Key Stage” system of the U.K. However, unless the show focuses on the teachers (such as Abbott Elementary and Bad Education), it has a natural endpoint, since linear time is not optional. Graduation eventually comes for us all, and that’s the case with Boarders, the genuinely great little series from the BBC currently streaming with two seasons in the U.S. for free on Tubi. The BBC has confirmed the show will return for Season 3, but as this is the quintet’s final year at school, it will also be the last.

Boarders debuted as a fish-out-of-water comedy series set in the world of the British upper-class boarding school, beginning when five talented Black London inner-city teens – Josh Tedeku as Jaheim, Jodie Campbell as Leah, Sekou Diaby as Toby, Myles Kamwendo as Omar, and Aruna Jalloh as Femi – receive full ride scholarships to St. Gilbert’s Academy. Initially intended as a temporary public relations exercise to improve the school’s reputation, the five students instead get to work proving they belong there and making friends/enemies/frenemies along the way, including Assa Kanouté as St. Gilbert’s upper-class Black student like Abby.

The series was conceived by Daniel Lawrence Taylor, who also co-stars as the kids’ mentor, Gus. As part of the announcement, Taylor said, “Boarders has been a deeply personal project for me, and it’s been incredible to see how audiences have connected with the characters. From day one, I wanted to create something funny, honest, and proudly Black – and in this final term, I hope to finish their story as they face their final year with greater challenges, deeper friendships, and the looming question of life beyond school.”