What to watch
FRIDAY April 1, 2022
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
Slow Horses
Apple TV+ New Series
Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce and Olivia Cooke lead this six-episode espionage drama based on the first novel in acclaimed mystery/thriller author Mick Herron’s Slow Horses series. It follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping-ground department of MI5 known as Slough House. Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but irascible leader of the spies who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes. The first two Season 1 episodes are available today; subsequent new episodes are available Fridays.
The Bubble
Netflix Original Film
Judd Apatow co-wrote (with Emmy-winning
South Park writer Pam Brady), co-produced and directed this star-studded comedy about a group of actors and actresses stuck inside a pandemic bubble at a hotel who are attempting to complete a sequel to a film in an action franchise about flying dinosaurs. Karen Gillan, Iris Apatow, Fred Armisen, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, Leslie Mann and Pedro Pascal lead the cast.
The Outlaws Prime Video New Series
This comedy thriller from Stephen Merchant (co-creator of the original British version of The Office) and Elgin James (co-creator of Mayans M.C.) is about a group of seven lawbreakers from different walks of life thrown together to complete a communityservice sentence by renovating a derelict community center. When one of their number gets dragged into a world of organized crime, they unite in ways none of them thought possible. Merchant also serves as director and writer for the series and leads the cast that also includes Christopher Walken. All six Season 1 episodes are available today.
Undercover Boss CBS, 7 p.m.
Acquanetta Warren, mayor of Fontana, California, goes undercover to see how the city is rebounding from the pandemic in the new episode “Mayor of Fontana.”
The Blacklist
NBC, 7 p.m.
“In Eva Mason,” while searching for Sen. Panabaker’s (Deirdre Lovejoy) missing daughter-in-law, the task force learns there may be a larger pattern of abductions. Meanwhile, Red (James Spader) continues piecing together the mystery behind Liz’s death.
The UnXplained
History, 8 p.m. New Episodes
Season 3 of the William Shatner-hosted docuseries that explores the world’s most inexplicable mysteries returns with new episodes tonight with back-to-back installments of the hourlong series. First, “Mysterious Ancient Ruins” takes a look at some archaeological finds that are so baffling they challenge everything we think we know about the past. Then, in “The Mystery of Genius,” explore the question of just where genius comes from: Does it stem from “good genes,” a proper education or something more extraordinary?