WHAT TO WATCH
All times listed are Eastern/Pacific Time. Shows air one hour earlier in Central/ Mountain Time. Star Trek: The Motion Picture — The Director’s Edition
Paramount+ • Exclusive Film
As part of its celebration of First Contact Day (the day in Star Trek mythology when Vulcans made first contact with humans, April 5, 2063), Paramount+ begins exclusively streaming a meticulously assembled and restored high-definition version of 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the movie that brought the Trek franchise onto the big screen. Through a process overseen by producer David C. Fein and preservationist Mike Matessino, the film has been fully remastered in 4K Ultra HD with enhanced visual effects with Dolby Vision, and with high dynamic range on supported devices.
Benjamin Franklin
PBS, 8 p.m. (WTTW Chicago, 8 p.m.) • Miniseries Finale
Ken Burns’ documentary miniseries about Benjamin Franklin concludes with “An American (1775-1790).” In wartime Philadelphia, Franklin helps Thomas Jefferson craft the Declaration of Independence. In Paris, Franklin wins French support for the American Revolution. Back home, he works on the Constitution of the new United States.
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off
HBO, 9 p.m.
Centering around intimate new interviews with Tony Hawk himself, this documentary is an all-encompassing look at the skateboarder’s life, legendary career and relationship with the sport with which he’s been synonymous for decades.
This Is Us NBC, 9 p.m.
Rebecca (Mandy Moore) and Miguel’s (Jon Huertas) anniversary barbecue does not go as planned.
Bloody Boston: A Mob Is Born, Part 1
REELZ Channel, 9 p.m.
This two-part, four-hour documentary that concludes next Tuesday, April 12, goes inside Boston’s organized crime battlefield starting in the 1950s with a look at a heist so big and bold it would be known as the Crime of the Century. The docuseries will also examine the violent Irish Gang War of the 1960s, the rise of infamous Boston bad guy Whitey Bulger in the 1970s, the transatlantic gun-running operation and armored car heists of the 1980s, and the reckoning in the 1990s when indictments finally started coming down.
Black-ish ABC, 9:30 p.m.
Pops and Ruby announce they are moving out of the house to travel the United States in their RV, garnering mixed reactions from the Johnson family. When Bow realizes she is beginning perimenopause, Dre enlists her mother’s help.
Big Restaurant Bet
Food Network, 10 p.m. • New Series! Food Network star, acclaimed chef and restaurateur Geoffrey Zakarian is looking to invest $250,000 in the restaurant world’s next rising star. Through six one-hour episodes, Geoffrey presents eight talented chefs with the opportunity to take the next step in their culinary career with challenges to determine who has what it takes to run their first restaurant.