‘The Irregulars’ a new take on Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street gang
Documentaries feature a dance legend, a musical icon, political pastors and an ill- fated cruise. Two new shows premiere on the broadcast networks and a group of street kids add a twist to Sherlock Holmes.
• “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” (March 26, Disney+) is a 10- episode series set in present day Minnesota where the Mighty Ducks have become a highly competitive youth hockey team. When a player is cut, he and his mom build their own team. Emilio Estevez reprises his role as coach Gordon Bombay.
• Based on the Baker Street gang from Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes novels, eight-episode drama “The Irregulars” ( March 26, Netflix) follows a group of street teens who are manipulated into solving crimes for Watson and Holmes. When the crimes take on a chilling supernatural angle, the teens must work to defeat a dark force.
• Legendary dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp is the focus of “American Masters: Twyla Moves” (March
26, PBS, 9 p.m. ET). The film explores her career and includes interviews with Tharp discussing the creative process behind several of her pio
neering dances.
• Documentary “Tina” (March 27, HBO Max) is an intimate look at the life and career of the iconic Tina Turner, from her rise to fame to her personal and professional challenges to her resurgence in the 1980s.
• “City on a Hill” returns for season two (March 28, Showtime, 10 p.m. ET). This time around, the action centers on a federal housing project in Boston that is plagued with gang activity. FBI agent Jackie Rohr (Kevin Bacon) gets involved but assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward (Aldis Hodge) is on to his adversary’s manipulations, and it isn’t long before their hostility toward one another sets off an intense battle.
• PBS Independent Lens premieres “‘ Til Kingdom Come” (March 29, 10 p.m. ET). The film explores the bond between America’s Evangelical Christians and the State of Israel, and the pastors who use prophecy as a political tool.
• Documentary “The Last Cruise” (March
30, HBO/HBO Max, 9 p. m. ET) features first
person accounts of what happened on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which set sail in the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic and eventually had more than 700 people on board infected.
• Feature film “Godzilla vs. Kong” premieres in theaters and on HBO Max (March 31).
• Detective Elliot Stabler ( Christopher Meloni) returns to the NYPD in new series “Law & Order: Organized Crime” ( April 1, NBC, 10 p. m. ET).
• From executive producer Chuck Lorre comes a new comedy, “The United States of Al” ( April 1, CBS, 9: 30 p. m. ET). It follows a Marine combat veteran adjusting to civilian life in
Ohio and the interpreter who served with his unit in Afghanistan who has just arrived in America.