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Best TV and streaming picks for the week

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DON’T MISS: “56th Academy of Country Music Awards” — Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton are our hosts for this year’s festivitie­s in Nashville, Tenn. Once again, the show will originate from three iconic country music venues: the Grand Ole Opry, the historic Ryman Auditorium and the Bluebird Cafe, and will feature performanc­es from more than 25 of the genre’s biggest stars. As for the prizes, Maren Morris and Chris Stapleton lead the nomination list with six apiece. (8 p.m. Sunday, CBS).

TUESDAY: Yes, even the crabbing industry has been greatly affected by the global pandemic. Shot last winter, season 17 of “Deadliest Catch” begins with the captains banding together to save the fishery and their way of life in a year when nothing seems normal. (8 p.m., Discovery).

WEDNESDAY: “Sasquatch” is a three-part true-crime documentar­y that follows investigat­ive journalist David Holthouse as he attempts to crack a bizarre, 25-year-old triple homicide in Northern California that some believe was the work of the mythical creature Bigfoot. The truth might be even scarier. (Hulu).

THURSDAY: Premiering on Earth Day, “Secrets of the Whales” is a four-part National Geographic special that takes viewers on an epic journey within the world’s oceans and seas to reveal the extraordin­ary communicat­ion skills and social structures of five different species — orcas, humpbacks, belugas, narwhals and sperm whales. Sigourney Weaver narrates. (Disney+).

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