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April TV Calendar
The following list provides the dates of the new dramas that will air on streaming services as well as the major and cable networks and the made-for-TV movies and more that will all air during April:
April 1 – The Twilight Zone will air its series premiere on CBS All Access today
Show Synopsis: Jordan Peele will serve as host and narrator of the new series, a role made famous by creator Rod Serling, who used socially conscious storytelling to explore the human condition and culture of the times.
April 1 – The spring premiere of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will air on The CW at 8 PM
April 1 – Magnum P.I. will air its season finale at 9 PM on CBS
April 2 – The season finale of Good Trouble will air on Freeform at 8 PM
April 2 – This Is Us will air its season finale on NBC at 9 PM
April 4 – The new drama In the Dark will debut on The CW at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: Murphy (Perry Mattfield) is a hard-living, hard-drinking, disaffected twentysomething with a penchant for cigarettes and casual sex. She’s also blind. Murphy lives with her understanding roommate, Jess (Brooke Markham), and more reluctantly also lives with her guide dog, Pretzel, whose presence she resents. Her parents, Hank and Joy (Derek Webster and Kathleen York), own a guide dog school, a venture they opened hoping it would give Murphy a job with some purpose, but so far it’s just another place where she sleeps off her hangovers, much to the particular chagrin of Joy and Felix, the school administrator tasked with attempting to keep the unprofitable school going. Murphy’s closest friend is a sweet teenager named Tyson.
April 4 – The two-hour season premiere of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger will air at 8 PM on Freeform
April 5 – The second season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will premiere on Netflix today
April 5 – The series finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend will air on The CW at 8 PM followed by a special one-hour concert special of the show at 9 PM
April 6 – The new Hallmark Channel movie True Love Blooms will air at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Vikki (Sara Rue) runs the community garden, threatened by Chace (Jordan Bridges), a developer who wants to replace it with condos. Determined to stop him, Vikki goes to his office with a peace lily, hoping to help the businessman see green in a different way. While he’s taken by Vikki’s drive, Chace says the project will go on, notwithstanding her petitions or protests. However, wanting to prove he’s not a villain, Chace takes Vikki to a construction site, where she sees how it’s a source of pride to him and all the workers involved. But despite seeing the other’s viewpoint, they remain at a stalemate. Hopefully they will find a way to hurtle their impasse and find true love.
April 6 – The HBO original telefilm Native Son will debut at 10 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The telefilm tells the story of Bigger Thomas (Ashton Sanders), a young African-American living in Chicago who is hired as a chauffeur for affluent businessman Will Dalton (Bill Camp). As Thomas enters this seductive new world of money and power – including a precarious relationship with Dalton’s daughter, Mary (Margaret Qualley) – he faces unforeseen choices and perilous circumstances that will alter the course of his life forever. The cast also includes Nick Robinson, KiKi Layne, Elizabeth Marvel, David Alan Grier and Sanaa Lathan.
April 7 – The second season premiere of Killing Eve will air on both AMC and BBC America at 8 PM
April 7 – The final episode of Mrs. Wilson will air on PBS at 9 PM
April 7 – The Canadian series Private Eyes will air its season finale on ION at 9 PM
April 7 – The season premiere of Unforgotten will air on PBS at 10 PM
April 7 – The season premiere of The Chi will air at 10 PM on Showtime
April 9 – The Bold Type will air its season premiere on Freeform at 8 PM
April 9 – The NBC drama The Village will move to its new time of 9 PM tonight
April 9 – The new CBS drama The Code will debut at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: The series follows the military’s brightest minds who take on our country’s toughest legal challenges. Go inside the courtroom and out, in the only law office in the world where every attorney is trained as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, an investigator – and a Marine. Operating out of Judge Advocate General Headquarters in Quantico, these active-duty Marines are attorneys who have chosen to serve their country in pursuit of military justice at home and abroad. The cast includes Dana Delany, Luke Mitchell, Ato Essandoh, Anna Wood and Phillipa Soo.
April 9 – New Amsterdam returns from its spring hiatus with new episodes starting at 10 PM on NBC
April 9 – The series premiere of Fosse/Verdon will debut on FX at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: Based on the biography written by Sam Wasson, the series tells the story of the singular romantic and creative partnership between Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) and Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams). He was a visionary filmmaker and one of theater’s most influential choreographers and directors. She was the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Together, they changed the face of American entertainment – at a perilous cost. The cast includes Evan Handler, Margaret Qualley and Nate Corddry [among others].
April 12 – The new Netflix romantic comedy movie The Perfect Date will debut online today
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Ivy League hopeful Brooks (Noah Centineo from The Fosters and Netflix’s hugely popular film To All The Boys I Loved Before) has everything it takes to get into Yale University except the cash. So he starts charging by the hour – posing as a temporary boyfriend for rich students like Celia (Laura Marano from Austin & Ally and the box office film Lady Bird) in need of the perfect plus-one. Along the way, he falls for Shelby the girl of his dreams (Camila Mendes from Riverdale), who may not be so receptive to his means of employment.
April 13 – The new movie Bottled with Love will debut on the Hallmark Channel at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Abbey (Bethany Joy Lenz) is a career-focused executive from Boston who decides in a moment of impulsiveness, to pour her feelings out and admit her desire to find love, in an anonymous letter she seals in a bottle and tosses into Boston Harbor. Months later, the bottle washes ashore in Maine and is discovered by Nick (Andrew Walker), son of the CEO of Everett Valley Farms – the company where Abbey works and is about to secure the biggest deal of her career. When Nick is called home to help with his father’s company, he decides to contact the mystery woman with the only information he has – an email. Without knowing each other’s identity, Abbey and Nick begin an online relationship which becomes a budding romance, while at the same time, they are being forced to work together on a project where they are not getting along.
April 14 – The season finale of God Friended Me will air on CBS at 8 PM
April 14 – The first episode of the final season of Game of Thrones will air on HBO at 9 PM
April 14 – The premiere of the 6-part mini-series Les Miserables will debut at 9 PM on PBS
Mini-Series Synopsis: This new adaptation of the classic novel stars Dominic West (The Affair and The Hour) as Jean Valjean, David Oyelowo (Selma) as Javert, Lily Collins (Rules Don’t Apply) as Fantine, as well as Oscar winner Olivia Colman.
April 14 – The movie Morning Show Mysteries: A Murder in Mind will debut on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Billie Blessings (Holly Robinson Peete) is drawn into a murder investigation when Katie Sanders, a former server at Blessings-turned TV star, becomes the focus when it’s discovered the victim was blackmailing her. Billie must sift through the mounting evidence – and list of suspects – to get to the truth and clear her friend’s name. The film also stars Rick Fox.
April 15 – The CW drama Arrow will move to its new time of 9 PM tonight
April 16 – The season finale of The Rookie will air on ABC at 10 PM
April 16 – The two-hour series finale of the BET drama Being Mary Jane will air at 9 PM
April 18 – The season finale of Star Trek: Discovery will air on CBS All Access today
April 19 – The fifth season of the Amazon drama Bosch will premiere online today
April 19 – The Netflix movie Someone Great will debut online today
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: An aspiring music journalist, Jenny (Gina Rodriguez from Jane the Virgin), has just landed her dream job at an iconic magazine and is about to move to San Francisco. Rather than do long distance, her boyfriend of nine years, Nick (Lakeith Stanfield from Get Out) decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, Jenny gathers up her two best friends, Erin and Blair (DeWanda Wise from She’s Gotta Have It and Brittany Snow from Pitch Perfect), for one outrageous last adventure in New York City. The cast includes Rosario Dawson (Daredevil).
April 20 – The Hallmark Channel movie Easter Under Wraps will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Marketing director at Cavendish Chocolates, Erika (Fiona Gubelmann) goes undercover to see why sales have declined and learns from handsome chocolatier Bryan (Brendan Penny) automation has replaced quality. Later, at the museum, Erika is saddened to see the replica of the Cavendish egg, and is inspired by Bryan’s Easter egg sketches to go retro and bring back the legendary confection! Excited, the two pitch the idea to board members, who know Erika is undercover. Too bad Bryan sees her photo at a Cavendish event, and feeling duped, wonders if he should accept a job offer from a rival company.
April 21 – The season finale of Madam Secretary will air on CBS at 10 PM
April 21 – Morning Show Mysteries: Countdown to Murder will debut on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: When a beloved supermarket owner is killed in the early morning hours before opening, restauranteur and TV chef Billie Blessings (Holly Robinson Peete) becomes involved in the investigation of what quickly appears to be the work of a clever and darkly sinister serial killer. Even as her relationship with police detective Ian Jackson (Rick Fox) begins to take a more romantic turn, Billie cannot resist involvement in the case, despite putting herself in tremendous danger.
April 21 – The UP TV original movie New Life will debut at 7 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: From the innocence of a childhood friendship through adolescent attraction, Ben and Ava (Jonathan Patrick Moore and Erin Bethea) have a beautiful life together and their love grows stronger every day. When life takes a turn neither of them expect, their future and the life they planned will never be the same.
April 23 – Roswell, New Mexico will air its season finale on The CW at 9 PM
April 24 – The second season of Cobra Kai will air online on YouTube today
April 25 – The series finale of Gotham will air on FOX at 8 PM followed by the season finale of The Orville at 9 PM
April 25 – Supernatural will air its season finale on The CW at 8 PM
April 27 – The new Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Love Takes Flight will debut at 8 PM on the Hallmark Channel
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Dr. Lizzie Beauman (Nikki DeLoach) is a single mother and hospital administrator determined to attract enough world-class doctors and treatment options to make her hospital successful enough to build a wing for patients’ families to be able to stay together while healing. Lizzie’s five-year old daughter, Quinn, suffers from an insulin disorder and Lizzie knows the demands on working families who have a sick loved one to care for. Lizzie has spent years doing her best construction building walls around her own expectations: no fun and no spontaneity here as the best-lived lives are created through discipline and order. But all that changes when new EMS pilot Charley Allen (Jeff Hephner) comes into Lizzie and Quinn’s lives. Charley challenges the constrictions Lizzie places on herself, especially, her fear of flying. And Charley learns something from Lizzie about the patience it takes to nurture relationships, especially between Charley and his dad whose relationship has been strained since his mom passed away. The day comes when Charley and Lizzie must come together as a team, each performing at the highest skill level to save a transplant patient. In the process, Lizzie and Charley may be able to heal themselves and their loved ones.
April 27 – The season premiere of The Son will air on AMC at 9 PM
April 28 – American Gods will air its season finale on Starz at 8 PM
April 28 – The season premiere of Deep State will air at 9 PM on EPIX
April 28 – The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Morning Show Mysteries: Death By Design will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: When a beloved supermarket owner is killed in the early morning hours before opening, restauranteur and TV chef Billie Blessings (Holly Robinson Peete) becomes involved in the investigation of what quickly appears to be the work of a clever and darkly sinister serial killer. Even as her relationship with police detective Ian Jackson (Rick Fox) begins to take a more romantic turn, Billie cannot resist involvement in the case, despite putting herself in tremendous danger.
April 28 – The new drama The Red Line will air its two-hour debut on CBS at 8 PM followed by the season finale of NCIS: Los Angeles at 10 PM
Show Synopsis (The Red Line): The drama follows the lives of three vastly different Chicago families whose stories of loss and tragedy intersect in the wake of the mistaken shooting of an African American doctor by a white cop. As the stories of the Calder, Young and Evans families crisscross and converge, a message of hope appears – it’s possible to emerge from tragedy stronger, and it’s important to come together with others, not just to survive, but to thrive. The cast includes Noah Wyle, Noel Fisher and Emayatzy Corinealdi [among others].
April 30 – The 6th season premiere of The 100 will air on The CW at 9 PM
Mark your calendars!
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