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CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH
Apple TV+
Feature Film Exclusive! Dakota Johnson and Cooper Raiff, who also wrote and directed, star in this film that won the 2022 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. Raiff plays recent college graduate Andrew, who is stuck at home with his family in New Jersey, and without a clear life path. But if there’s one thing that belongs on his nonexistent resumé, it’s knowing how to get a party started, which lands him the perfect job of motivational dancing at the bar and bat mitzvahs for his younger brother’s (Evan Assante) classmates. When Andrew strikes up a friendship with a local mom, Domino (Johnson), and her autistic daughter, Lola (Vanessa Burghardt), he discovers a future that he wants — even if it might not be his own. Leslie Mann, Brad Garrett and Raúl Castillo also star in the comedy/drama.
HOME Apple TV+
Season Premiere! The home design docuseries drops all of its Season 2 episodes. The episodes feature new destinations and a look inside the world’s most innovative homes, with stops in France, Mexico City, South Africa, Iceland, Long Island, Amsterdam, Australia, Indonesia, Barcelona and Ghana.
TEHRAN Apple TV+
Season Finale! Season 2 of the Israeli spy thriller about a Mossad agent in the titular Iranian capital comes to a close.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE
Hulu
Original Film! In this British sex comedy/drama, Emma Thompson plays retired widow Nancy Stokes, who seeks a sexual awakening after her boring marriage by hiring a younger sex worker (Daryl Mccormack). Together, they find a human connection.
MAGNOLIA TABLE WITH JOANNA GAINES
Magnolia Network on discovery+
Season Premiere! Joanna Gaines returns for Season 6 of her series in which she spends time in the kitchen sharing her favorite recipes, where they come from and why she finds herself returning to them time and again.
WHERE WE CALL HOME
Magnolia Network on discovery+
Season Premiere! In Season 2, more homeowners and designers reveal how commercial properties and unconventional spaces were reimagined into modern homes.
THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT
Netflix
This acclaimed film offers an archival documentary portrait of the unlikeliest of whistleblowers during the Watergate scandal: Martha Mitchell, a Republican Cabinet wife who was gaslighted by President Richard Nixon’s administration to keep her quiet. It offers a female gaze on Watergate
through the voice of the woman herself.
SPIDERHEAD
Netflix
Original Film! Chris Hemsworth leads this sci-fi thriller set in a near-future dystopian society. He plays Steve Abnesti, who runs a state-of-theart penitentiary where he experiments on inmates, who wear a surgically attached device that administers dosages of mind-altering drugs in exchange for commuted sentences. When two subjects, Jeff (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett), form a connection, their path to redemption takes a twistier turn, as Abnesti’s experiments start to push the limits of free will.
JERRY & MARGE GO LARGE
Paramount+
Original Film! Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening star in this film inspired by the true story of retiree Jerry Selbee (Cranston), who discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, Marge (Bening), wins millions and uses the money to revive their small Michigan town. The comedy also stars Larry Wilmore, Rainn Wilson, Anna Camp and Michael Mckean.
THE LAKE Prime Video
New Series! This half-hour comedy filmed in northern Ontario is the first scripted Canadian Amazon Original series, and stars Jordan Gavaris and Julia Stiles. Gavaris plays Justin, who, after returning from abroad following a breakup with his long-term partner, hopes to connect with Billie (Madison Shamoun), the teenage daughter he gave up for adoption. His plans to make new memories with Billie at the family cottage go awry when he discovers that his parents left the retreat to his picture-perfect stepsister, Maisy-may (Stiles).
THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY
Prime Video
New Series! Jenny Han is coshowrunner and wrote the pilot for this multigenerational drama based on Han’s bestselling book series of the same name. It’s a coming-of-age story about first love, first heartbreak and the magic of that one perfect summer, that hinges on a love triangle between one girl and two brothers, the evolving relationship between mothers and their children, and the power of strong female friendship. Lola Tung, Jackie Chung, Rachel Blanchard, Christopher Briney,
Gavin Casalegno and Tom Everett Scott lead the cast.
CHRISSY’S COURT The Roku Channel
Season Premiere! Chrissy Teigen and her mother, Pepper Thai, are back as judge and bailiff in the 10-episode second season of their courtroom series in which Chrissy presides over real-life smallclaims cases.
STAR OF THE MONTH: JUDY GARLAND
TCM, 1 p.m.
Catch a Classic! The Judy Garland movie lineup begins with four titles that feature the star in some of her famous onscreen pairings with costar Mickey Rooney. It begins with the first film they made together, the 1937 musical comedy “Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry,” followed by three entries from the beloved “Andy Hardy” comedy franchise, with Rooney as Hardy and Garland as Betsy Booth: “Love Finds Andy Hardy” (1938), whose cast also includes Lana Turner in an early role; “Andy Hardy Meets Debutante” (1940); and “Life Begins for Andy Hardy” (1941), the last “Hardy” film to feature Garland. Following those, the lineup concludes with three Garland-led musicals: “The Harvey Girls” (1946), which also features Garland’s “Wizard of Oz” costar Ray Bolger; “Easter Parade” (1948), costarring Fred Astaire and boasting plenty of classic Irving Berlin tunes; and ”Summer Stock” (1950), Garland’s last movie made with MGM and the last in which she costarred with Gene Kelly.
GOLD RUSH: PARKER’S TRAIL
Discovery Channel, 8 p.m.; also streams on discovery+ Season Premiere! In Season 5, 27-year-old Parker Schnabel is traveling farther than ever before as he and his friends head to New Zealand, believing that the country’s revolutionary mining gear will give him his only real chance at scoring a massive Alaskan payday after he puts down nearly $200,000 of his own gold on a Fairbanks property. But Parker and his crew quickly learn that the island nation is full of high risks, tough environments and secretive Kiwi mining communities that aren’t so quick to lend a helping hand to a potential competitor.
SINS OF THE FATHER: “MAN WITH A VAN: ROAD RAGE”
Investigation Discovery, 8 p.m.
On Easter Sunday 1990, Dennis Depue shoves his
estranged wife down the stairs. He then tells their three children he’s taking her to the hospital, but as he loads her into his van, his plans turn sinister.
LOVE TRIANGLE NIGHTMARE
LMN, 8 p.m. Just-divorced Brittany (Glenda Braganza) thinks her friendly ex Austin (Tomas Chovanec) is just jealous when he urges her to cool things off with hot stranger Jake (Jeff Teravainen). Considering the film’s title, we’re on Team Austin!
MAKING MODERN WITH BROOKE AND BRICE
Magnolia Network, 8 p.m.; also streams on discovery+ Season Premiere! Married duo Brooke and Brice Gilliam return for Season 2 of their series that follows them in their home-remodeling business, with Brooke doing the building, Brice the designing.
THE WEDDING PLANNERS
Uptv, 8 p.m.
In “Wedding of Champions,” James (Michael Seater) creates a fun, retro-themed wedding at a roller skating rink while Hannah (Madeline Leon) runs interference on the four parents. Paige (Kimberly-sue Murray) battles the competition for a celebrity sports wedding. Then, in “Sweet Home Wedding,” a bride who needs more “country” in her ceremony leans on her cousin, Hannah, James and Paige for help. Plus, the siblings’ father visits, opening up old wounds, and Hannah dresses up for a first date.
WATERGATE: HIGH CRIMES IN THE WHITE HOUSE
CBS, 9 p.m.
Fifty years after the Watergate break-in, this special looks back at the scandal, the crimes and the coverup that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, FBI investigator Angelo Lano and former prosecutor Richard Ben-veniste provide insight.
BAKER’S DOZEN
Cooking Channel, 10 p.m. No matter how you slice it, someone is going to rise to the top in this bread-themed installment, which opens with 13 hopefuls constructing gingerbread houses for host Tamera Mowry-housley and closes with a three-way focaccia showdown.
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