A new week means fresh film and TV releases! Get ready for an updated calendar of premiere dates, covering all the must-watch new movies, new TV shows, and returning favorites across broadcast, theater, streaming, and cable for the week of April 13th-19th
If you’re wondering what to watch next, consider me your TV guide! 📺✨
Sunday, April 13
Bumpy Johnson battles the Genovese crime family to regain control of the neighborhood he once ruled.
Where to Watch: MGM+
Season 2 Premiere
Based upon the video game and set 20 years after modern civilization has been destroyed by a deadly virus, two survivors must navigate killers and monsters on a trek across America.
Where to Watch: HBO/Max
Movie PremiereWhen her fiance fails to show up on their wedding day, Cassie looks for comfort.
Where to Watch: Lifetime
The Thorn tells the epic story of God’s love for the world and the spiritual battle for all humanity. The story of Jesus Christ is presented in an immersive show with live music, drama, aerial acts, movement arts, modern dance, and big visual effects.
Where to Watch: UPTv
Monday, April 14
HGTV renovation stars face off against one another as they try to add value to identical properties in the Los Angeles area with only four weeks to complete the project and win a cash prize.
Where to Watch: HGTV/Max
In a revival of the classic game show, contestants compete to take home $10 000 by answering trivia questions to place X’s and O’s on a tic-tac-toe board.
Where to Watch: Fubo Tv
Illuminating the remarkable history, perplexing mysteries and legendary journeys behind some of the world’s most sacred and holy relics, including objects of immortality, holy riches and revered monuments.
Where to Watch: History Channel
Two contestants compete in a dynamic blend of trivia and bingo, hosted by Valerie Bertinelli.
Where to Watch: Game Show Network
An unfiltered look at Florida police departments, pulling together some of the most intense action from real ride-alongs with six departments across the state.
Where to Watch: A&E Channel
Tuesday, April 15
Husband-and-wife team Brian and Mika Kleinschmidt help clients design and build the perfect house — from the ground up — in just three months.
Where to Watch: HGTV
Tipping the scale
s at over 1,000 pounds combined, the Slaton sisters try to lose enough weight to qualify for and undergo life-changing bariatric surgery and pursue their dreams.
Where to Watch: TLC
Victims of infidelity put the cheaters in their lives on blast and get justice for their broken hearts, with a little help from Tami Roman, Kevin Carr and Brianne Joseph.
Where to Watch: MTV
In a spinoff of Vanderpump Rules, a group of close friends trade bottle service in West Hollywood for baby bottles in the Valley while they navigate bustling businesses, rocky relationships, and feisty friendships.
Where to Watch: Bravo
An emotional look at a family ravaged by fame. Following the rise of Nick and Aaron Carter, the darker side of success unfolds; as told by their sister Angel, struggles with mental illness, addiction and neglect are revealed.
Where to Watch: Paramount+
A criminologist and her former police chief partner investigate the vanishing of a local girl in the small Swedish town where she was once held captive.
Where to Watch: Netflix
Before it hits Broadway this spring, experience the making of the West End phenomenon, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow.”
Where to Watch: Netflix
Investigating the shadowy world of political donations and fundraising 15 years after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizen’s United case, which enabled unlimited spending by hidden sources on many political campaigns.
Where to Watch: HBO/Max
Wednesday, April 16
Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans leads his team of co-investigators at haunted locations both in America and abroad, interviewing locals about alleged hauntings before going face to face with supernatural entities.
Where to Watch: Discovery Channel
Antoine, a young French man, searches for his presumed-to-be-dead sister in Syria; while unraveling the mystery, Antoine ends up joining forces with a unit of Kurdish female fighters and traveling with them in ISIS-occupied territory.
Where to Watch: Hulu
Sherlock Holmes teams up with a young American who believes she may be his daughter. Despite differences, they solve a conspiracy and her mother’s case.
Where to Watch: CW
Superintendent Battle and Inspector Leach probe the killing of a widow in Gull’s Point. A failed suicide, a false theft charge, and a tennis star’s love life surprisingly connect, culminating in the revelation of a murder plot.
Where to Watch: Britbox
Josh Gates travels through history on a search to uncover new evidence and answers to unexplained mysteries, and true stories that defy explanation.
Where to Watch: Discovery Channel
When Hampton Chambers is released from prison, his family reunion does not go as he had planned. During his absence, Hampton’s wife and sons have formed an unconventional family unit and Hampton’s return spins their world into chaos.
Where to Watch: Appletv+
A seemingly ordinary decision turns the world of Elisa, mother to two young kids, upside down.
Where to Watch: Freeform/Disney+/Hulu
It’s the year 2000, and London unveils the Millennium Dome to usher in the third millennium. A group of criminals devise a plan to steal the Millennium Dome Diamond at the heart of the Millennium Jewels collection.
Where to Watch: Netflix
In the early 1980s, a vain TV presenter and a ufologist from a small Warmian town try to discover alleged aliens. Their actions create a storm of doubt throughout the country.
Where to Watch: Netflix
Good-hearted Julián is kidnapped to impersonate a corrupt casino owner, marry his fiancée and outwit the mafia — though romance was never part of the plan.
Where to Watch: Netflix
For the first time in Colombia, LOL opens its doors to 10 of the best comedians to compete against each other to win the LOL trophy while they dare to make comedy free of censorship and limits. In this crazy extreme experiment, comedians will reveal much more than their repertoire of jokes. What will be their challenge? Make each of their opponents laugh while keeping a straight face.
Where to Watch: Prime Video
Thursday, April 17
Detective Elliot Stabler, former member of the Special Victims Unit, returns to the NYPD to the city’s most powerful crime syndicates after a devastating personal loss.
Where to Watch: Peacock
Sisters Amy and Lou face the highs and lows of life on their Alberta horse ranch.
Where to Watch: Faith & Family
Reformed criminals put their unique skills to good use by helping regular citizens fight back against corporate and governmental injustices.
Where to Watch: Prime Video
Three ranching dynasties fight for their land, their legacies and the people they love.
Where to Watch: Netflix
A student travels to Istanbul and takes up lodging with her mother’s estranged best friend, but they struggle to see eye-to-eye across cultural divides.
Where to Watch: Netflix
The maniacally upbeat Husseins find humor as they learn to code-switch while navigating the early 2000s under the watchful eyes of their terrified neighbors.
Where to Watch: Prime Video
Friday, April 18
Nine-year-old environmentalist Jane embarks on a quest to save endangered animals, inspired by the work of Dr. Jane Goodall.
Where to Watch: Appletv+
The story of Dorrigo Evans, an army surgeon whose short but forbidden affair with his uncle’s wife sustains and haunts him through his darkest days in a Thai-Burmese prisoner of war camp in WWII.
Where to Watch: Prime Video
Revisits the 1995 bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building, the act of domestic terrorism in US history.
Where to Watch: Netflix
Nicole’s sister Darcie has been missing and is now presumed dead.
Where to Watch: Lifetime Movie Network
When a gunman enters an Apple Store in the heart of Amsterdam, the police face a delicate challenge to resolve the standoff. Inspired by true events.
Where to Watch: Netflix
Granted unparalleled access, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan takes viewers on an adventure behind the curtains of Industrial Light & Magic, the special visual effects, animation and virtual production division of Lucasfilm. Learn what inspired some of the most legendary filmmakers in Hollywood history, and follow their stories from their earliest personal films to bringing George Lucas’ vision to life.
Where to Watch: Disney+
Saturday, April 19
WrestleMania 41 is a two-night event, live from Allegiant in Las Vegas.
Where to Watch: Peacock
The NBA basketball postseason action play-in tournament begins on April 19. Games are broadcast on NBC, Amazon, and ESPN.
Where to Watch: ABC/Amazon/ESPN
After missing out on a promotion, Monica reluctantly walks the Camino de Santiago at the urging of her mother. She’s surprised when along the way, she finds inner peace and an unexpected romance.
Where to Watch: Hallmark
