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Wednesday, April 19
The Mandalorian
Disney+
Season Finale!
Season 3 of Lucasfilm’s Emmy-winning live-action Star Wars series, which chronicles the adventures of Din Djarin, aka the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal), concludes today.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always
Netflix
This hourlong special marks the 30th anniversary of the popular Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series, and is inspired by the legendary mantra from the franchise: “Once a Ranger, Always a Ranger.” Three decades after the Power Rangers formed, the team comes face-to-face with a familiar threat from the past. In the midst of a global crisis, they are called on once again to be the heroes the world needs. Among the past stars from the franchise making their returns here are Johnny Yong Bosch, David Yost, Barbara Goodson (voice) and Walter Jones.
Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary Celebration: Studio Contract Players (Actors)
TCM, beginning at 8am
Catch a Classic!
Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong celebration of the legendary Warner Bros. studio’s centennial continues with another Wednesday lineup of films featuring great male stars associated with WB as contract players. The day begins with Sydney Greenstreet in The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) and Three Strangers (1946), and continues with Ronald Reagan in Knute Rockne, All-American (1940) and The Hasty Heart (1949); Paul Henreid in Between Two Worlds (1944) and Deception (1946); Humphrey Bogart in Black Legion (1937) — which is preceded by the 1947 Merrie Melodies animated short Slick Hare, starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, and also featuring caricatures of Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Carmen Miranda and other top stars of the era — then delivering an iconic performance as Sam Spade in the legendary film noir The Maltese Falcon (1941); Tab Hunter, first as the subject of the 2015 documentary Tab Hunter Confidential, then starring in Battle Cry (1955); and Peter Lorre in The Beast With Five Fingers (1946) and The Verdict (1946).
NBA Playoffs: Round 1
TNT, beginning at 7:30pm Live
Two matchups from Round 1 of the NBA playoffs air tonight on TNT.
The Conners: “What’s So Funny About Peas, Love and Understanding?”
ABC, 8pm
Darlene (Sara Gilbert) figures out a new plan to afford Mark’s (Ames McNamara) college tuition.
The Masked Singer: “Supreme Six”
FOX, 8pm
The new episode “Supreme Six” recaps the journeys of the three champions and the three underdogs remaining in the competition.
Nature: “Niagara Falls”
PBS, 8pm
Niagara Falls is made up of three separate waterfalls that combine to form the world’s second-largest, and fastest-moving, waterfall. Explore this geological wonder, and witness its stunning beauty and the wide variety of wildlife — mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians — that call it home.
The Goldbergs: “Uptown Boy”
ABC, 8:30pm
With Erica (Hayley Orrantia) at a crossroads about her future, she draws inspiration from Baby Boom.
Abbott Elementary
ABC, 9pm
Season Finale!
In the Season 2 finale, Abbott Elementary takes a trip to the Franklin Institute, and Ava teaches the students about aliens.
Riverdale: “Chapter One Hundred Twenty-One: Love & Marriage”
The CW, 9pm
After enlisting Archie’s (K.J. Apa) help, Cheryl’s (Madelaine Petsch) plan to fool her family spirals out of control.
Farmer Wants a Wife: “Barn Dance Romance”
FOX, 9pm
In the new episode “Barn Dance Romance,” the four farmers and their remaining ladies go to a barn dance in Tallahassee, Florida.
Home in a Heartbeat With Galey Alix
HGTV, 9pm
New Series!
In the series premiere, “Dallas Palace,” Galey Alix meets the McCarthy family, who are eager to find functionality in their home after experiencing the loss of a loved one. Over a single weekend, Galey and her team work tirelessly to reimagine their underused living and dining room into a luxurious and cohesive space the whole family can enjoy for years to come.
Changing Planet
PBS, 9pm
Season Premiere!
Dr. M. Sanjayan’s seven-year Earth Day project continues as he revisits six of our planet’s most vulnerable ecosystems and catches up with the inspiring scientists and local experts fighting to safeguard their communities and wildlife from the effects of climate change.
Not Dead Yet: “Not Well Yet”
ABC, 9:30pm
After a fun night out with Sam (Hannah Simone) and Dennis (Josh Banday), Nell (Gina Rodriguez) winds up sick in bed and wanting to be left alone.
A Million Little Things: “Ironic”
ABC, 10pm
Katherine (Grace Park) and Greta (Cameron Esposito) celebrate their wedding despite several setbacks.
Single Drunk Female
Freeform, 10pm
Two new episodes air tonight. In “Normie,” Sam (Sofia Black-D’Elia) questions if she can move on from her old self, while navigating a relationship with a normie. Then, in “4th Step,” after Sam learns that Carol (Ally Sheedy) invaded her privacy, the two have an explosive fight.
Snowfall
FX, 10pm
Series Finale!
After six seasons, the drama series following drug kingpin Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) and his empire in 1980s Los Angeles concludes tonight with “The Struggle.”
Thursday, April 20
The Diplomat
Netflix
New Series!
Keri Russell, who is also an executive producer, leads this political drama as Kate Wyler, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom. She was supposed to have gone to Afghanistan; while she is great in a crisis zone, in a historic home … less so. War is brewing on one continent and boiling over on another. Kate will have to diffuse international crises, forge strategic alliances in London and adjust to her new place in the spotlight — all while trying to survive her marriage to fellow career diplomat and political star Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell).
Star Trek: Picard
Paramount+
Series Finale!
The third and final season, in which Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) reunited with most of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, concludes today.
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs: Round 1
ESPN, beginning at 7pm Live
ESPN airs a pair of Game 2s from the Stanley Cup playoffs conference quarterfinal round.
NBA Playoffs: Round 1
TNT, beginning at 7:30pm Live
NBA playoffs action on TNT tonight features two games from the conference quarterfinal round.
Station 19: “What Are You Willing to Lose”
ABC, 8pm
A shoddily assembled structure poses a dangerous challenge for the team.
Next Level Chef: “Fry Me a River”
FOX, 8pm
The remaining chefs must elevate their dish by frying their entrée in the new episode “Fry Me a River.”
Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary: Great Directors at Warner Bros.
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong celebration of Warner Bros.’ centennial continues with another Thursday evening of titles from legendary directors who helmed films for Warner. The movies from the three filmmakers highlighted tonight are relatively modern compared to ones highlighted in previous weeks. Up first are two productions from Martin Scorsese: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), starring Best Actress Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn, and Mean Streets (1973), the first of many memorable collaborations between Scorsese and star Robert De Niro. Next are two classics from director Stanley Kubrick, beginning with the TCM premiere of his 1987 Vietnam War drama Full Metal Jacket, which earned the filmmaker a shared Oscar nomination for the adapted screenplay he wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford, based on Hasford’s novel The Short-Timers. The second Kubrick feature is the Best Picture-nominated A Clockwork Orange (1971), which also earned him nominations for his direction and his screenplay adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel. The evening concludes with two films from director Francis Ford Coppola’s pre-Godfather years: The Rain People (1969), a drama starring Shirley Knight, James Caan and Robert Duvall that Coppola also wrote, and Finian’s Rainbow (1968), a musical fantasy led by Fred Astaire and Petula Clark.
Grey’s Anatomy: “Gunpowder and Lead”
ABC, 9pm
Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) takes her personal problems out on her work colleagues, and Mika (Midori Francis) struggles with burnout.
Animal Control: “Pigs and Minks”
FOX, 9pm
Shred and Victoria (Michael Rowland and Grace Palmer) are called into the principal’s office during a school visit in the new episode “Pigs and Minks.”
Wild West Chronicles: “Bass Reeves Tracks Belle Starr”
INSP, 10pm
As U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves attempts to arrest Belle Starr and her outlaw husband, Belle asks for 24 hours to find someone to care for her young daughter, Pearl. When the Starr family decides to flee instead, the marshal must track them down.
Friday, April 21
A Tourist’s Guide to Love
Netflix
Original Film!
Rachael Leigh Cook and Scott Ly lead this romantic film that is the first international production to film in Vietnam since the pandemic. It follows a travel executive (Cook) who, after an unexpected breakup, decides to accept an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. Along the way, she finds adventure and romance with her Vietnamese expat tour guide (Ly) when they decide to reroute the bus in order to explore life and love off the beaten path.
Dead Ringers
Prime Video
New Series!
Starring Rachel Weisz and based on the 1988 David Cronenberg film of the same name, this dark psychological thriller series is about identical twin gynecologists who share everything with each other: workplace, home, even lovers. Their codependency is put to the test when one twin falls for a patient.
Judy Blume Forever
Prime Video
With humor, sensitivity and a healthy dose of adolescent cringe, this documentary from filmmakers Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok traces beloved author Judy Blume’s journey from fearful, imaginative child to storytelling pioneer whose tales dealt frankly with puberty and sex as they elevated the physical and emotional lives of kids and teens, to banned writer who continues to fight back against censorship today. In the film, which debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Blume candidly shares her own coming-of-age story.
All About Eve
MOVIES!, 6am
Catch a Classic!
Fasten your seat belts — it’s going to be a bumpy night! A whopping 14 Oscar nominations went to writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s iconic and sardonic 1950 show business saga, a record that went unmatched until Titanic (1997) and La La Land (2016) each tied it about half a century later. The drama follows maturing stage diva Margo Channing (Bette Davis), who is moved enough by the straits of wide-eyed fan Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) to take her on as an assistant. It isn’t long, though, before the not-so-naive apprentice craftily works Margo’s inner circle against one another in furtherance of her own aspirations to stardom. The film won six of the Academy Awards for which it was nominated, including Best Picture; Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay (both to Mankiewicz); and Best Supporting Actor (George Sanders). Davis and Baxter were both nominated for Best Actress, and costars Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter received Best Supporting Actress nods. The stellar cast also includes Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill and Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles.
S.W.A.T.: “Bunkies”
CBS, 8pm
The team races to uncover the identities of kidnappers holding a prison guard’s family hostage before it’s too late in the new episode “Bunkies.”
Grand Crew: “Wine & Bachata”
NBC, 8:30pm
Fay helps Nicky and Anthony cope with a big life change. Noah and Wyatt compete for the chance to go to a fancy dinner with Sherm.
Fire Country: “Watch Your Step”
CBS, 9pm
The station 42 crew responds to an out-of-control blaze at a wellness retreat, and the third rock crew tries to protect one of their own from a dangerous overdose in the new episode “Watch Your Step.”
Secrets of the Elephants
Nat Geo, beginning at 9pm
New Series!
This entry in filmmaker James Cameron’s Secrets of franchise of natural history series programmed around Earth Day (April 22), which began with last year’s Secrets of the Whales, offers a four-part look into the lives of elephants. Narrated by Natalie Portman, it travels from Africa to Asia to discover the strategic thinking, complex emotions, sophisticated language and dynamic culture of elephants. The first two episodes air tonight, the final two tomorrow night. All installments can be streamed on Disney+ starting tomorrow.
Great Performances: Now Hear This: “Andy Akiho Found (His) Sound”
PBS, 9pm
Experience the creation of music by Japanese American composer Andy Akiho using “found” instruments. To develop a music video, Akiho and host Scott Yoo visit New York City and explore the creative process with an interactive light show and more.
Dear Mama
FX, 10pm
New Series!
Allen Hughes directs this five-part documentary series, debuting with the first two episodes tonight, about the illuminating saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur. Afeni was an activist, an intellect and a voice for the people in the 1960s. Her son, Tupac, was a rapper and poet, a political visionary and philosopher who in the 1990s became known as one of the greatest rap artists of all time. From a time of revolutionary fervor to hip-hop culture’s most ostentatious decade, this series is the definitive portrait of a global superstar and the woman who shaped him, forever linked by love and fate.
Next at the Kennedy Center: “Continuum: Jason Moran & Christian McBride”
PBS, 10pm
Musicians Jason Moran and Christian McBride collaborate for an electrifying jazz performance at the Kennedy Center. They share stories about their legendary teachers and introduce their remarkable protégés.
Saturday, April 22
NBA Playoffs: Round 1
ESPN & TNT, beginning at 2pm Live
Catch four games from the NBA playoffs first round today beginning on TNT and continuing in primetime on ESPN.
NHL Playoffs: Round 1
ABC, 8pm Live
The first round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs continues tonight with a primetime matchup on ABC.
Chasing the Rains
BBC America, 8pm
New Series!
Narrated by award-winning actor Adjoa Andoh (Bridgerton), this epic four-part series takes audiences on a journey into one of the most majestic, unspoiled and rarely filmed areas in northern Kenya. Here, wildlife like elephants, zebras, wildebeest, lions, cheetahs and hyenas struggle to survive through cycles of drought and dramatic rainfall.
A Pinch of Portugal
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Original Film!
When a celebrity chef walks off his show, prep cook Anna (Heather Hemmens) must step into the spotlight and make the show her own, with the help of her Aussie cameraman (Luke Mitchell) and a Portuguese location scout.
Her Fiancé’s Double Life
Lifetime, 8pm
When Assistant District Attorney Darcy Young is invited to her estranged parents’ country home to meet her sister’s new fiancé, Thomas Schure, she’s already dubious at the speed of the whirlwind romance, but as Thomas’ suspicious behavior begins to become more erratic, Darcy becomes convinced that Thomas is a danger to her entire family. Stars Olivia Buckle and Jonathan Stoddard.
Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary: Warner Embraces a New Hollywood
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Tonight’s lineup airing as part of Turner Classic Movies’ celebration of Warner Bros.’ centennial features films produced by the studio in the 1970s, as the creativity of the New Hollywood continued to flourish with a number of unique and enduring titles. Ahead of the lineup is the 1950 Looney Tunes short What’s Up, Doc? (led by Bugs Bunny, in case you couldn’t tell from the title). After this levity, the film lineup turns serious as it kicks off with the Best Picture Oscar-nominated All the President’s Men (1976), the Robert Redford/Dustin Hoffman-led political thriller based on investigations into the Watergate scandal. Following that is the legendary 1973 chiller The Exorcist, another Best Picture nominee, helmed by Best Director nominee William Friedkin and starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair and Jason Miller, all of whom received Oscar nods for their work. The night continues with Scarecrow (1973), a road movie starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino; Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick’s neo-noir crime drama starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek; and Night Moves (1975), Arthur Penn’s very bleak but terrific neo-noir mystery starring Hackman as a private investigator.
Secrets of the Elephants
Nat Geo, beginning at 9pm; also streams on Disney+
Series Finale!
The series concludes with back-to-back episodes. The first hour visits the Congo rainforest, home to one of the world’s most elusive elephant species: the African forest elephant. These creatures have shaped the forest around them to their needs and, in doing so, created a habitat unlike any other on Earth. The final hour shows how Asian elephants are adjusting to further encroachment of humans into their environment: They use tools to break down electric fences and even strike cooperative deals with farmers.
Critter Fixers: Country Vets: “Ready, Vet, Go!”
Nat Geo Wild, 9pm; also streams on Disney+
The docs at Critter Fixer attempt to help a skittish llama get over an illness, remove a 6-pound tumor from a dog’s leg and embark on a new Vet for a Day national tour. Also visiting the clinic are a pregnant dog ready to deliver, some lambs getting ready to compete, a cat with a urinary tract infection, another canine with stomach issues and a ball python in for a gender reveal.