New this week: Red Hot Chili Peppers and ‘Apollo 10½’

MOVIES

— Richard Linklater returns to animation with “Apollo 10½,” which comes to Netflix on Friday. It’s about being a kid in Houston during the summer of the Apollo 11 Moon landing and is loosely based on Linklater’s own childhood. Glen Powell and Zachary Levi voice men of NASA, while newcomer Milo Coy takes on the leading role as Stanley, with Jack Black voicing the adult version.

— Space travel is big on streaming this week, apparently, as HBO Max has its own sci-fi rom com, “Moonshot” available starting Thursday. Produced by Greg Berlanti and directed by Chris Winterbauer, “Moonshot” stars Cole Sprouse as a barista who sneaks on a shuttle to colonize Mars and teams up with Lana Condor to avoid getting caught.

— Disney+ will start streaming “Better Nate Than Ever” on Friday. The musical comedy based on Tim Federle’s 2013 novel follows an unpopular 13-year-old in Pittsburgh who dreams of being a Broadway star and decides to take matters into his own hands and go to New York City with a fellow theater kid, Libby.

TELEVISION

— A decade after the loss of Whitney Houston, CBS remembers the music great’s life and final days with “Whitney, A Look Back,” airing Saturday, on the broadcast network (and streaming on its Paramount+ sibling). The hour-long special produced by “Entertainment Tonight” promises “lost performances and rare moments” with Houston, as well as new interviews including with Dionne Warwick, Clive Davis and CeCe Winans. Houston, 48, died by accidental drowning in her hotel room bathtub in Beverly Hills, California in 2012. Coroner’s officials ruled that heart disease and drug use were contributing factors.

— Jane Seymour stars as a literature professor opening a new chapter in “Harry Wild,” which debuts with two episodes April 4, on the Acorn TV streaming service. A mugging has sent Harriet “Harry” Wild to recover with her police detectiveson Charlie (Kevin Ryan), who’s immersed in an intriguing murder case. Turns out it has parallels to a little-known, Elizabethan-era play — and who better to join the hunt than the well-read Harry? Fergus (Rohan Nedd), her troubled teenage attacker, joins her for further sleuthing on the eight-episode series set in Ireland.

— In the HBO docuseries “The invisible Pilot,” Filmmakers Phil Lott and Ari Mark explore the life of a small-town Arkansas family man and pilot who, in 1977, appears to have met a tragic end, leaving his family and friends bewildered. Years passed before a tangled story of a double life and drug smuggling came into focus — and that, HBO promises, is just the beginning. The three-part series, including interviews with Betzner’s intimates, law officers and journalists, will be released in weekly installments beginning April 4.

MUSIC

— The Red Hot Chili Peppers return on April Fool’s Day with a new album and some old friends. “Unlimited Love” marks their first recording with guitarist John Frusciante since 2006’s “Stadium Arcadium” and first with producer and longtime collaborator Rick Rubin since 2011.

— Thomas Rhett will release “Where We Started,” with Katy Perry as the guest on the album’s title song and closing track. Of the new album, he says: “There are songs that’ll make you cry on this record, there are songs that make you kiss the person you love, there are songs that’ll make you want to dance and there are songs that’ll make you want to party.”

AP "Better Nate Than Ever," a film premiering April 1 on Disney+, "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Childhood," premiering April 1 on Netflix and "The Invisible Pilot," a three-part series premiering April 4 on HBO Max.