All times Eastern. FRIDAY, April 9 Thunder ForceMelissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer star in this new movie comedy (directed by McCarthy’s hubs, Ben Falcone) as two estranged childhood best friends who reunite as superheroes to protect their city (Netflix). Ed Gein: The Real PsychoFind out about the real-life psychopath behind the fictional villains in films from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence of the Lambs, and countless others. Sixty years after the arrest of convicted serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein, a paranormal investigator and psychic medium venture into his hometown of Plainfield, Wis., to see if his horrific crimes and have left a malingering evil that will live on forever (Discovery+). SATURDAY, April 10Austin City LimitsYou perhaps know her as an actress, from her movie roles in Hidden Figures, Antebellum and Moonlight. But Janelle Monáe is also an acclaimed singer, with eight Grammy nominations, an MTV Music Award and honors from ASCAP and Billboard. Watch her perform songs live from her eclectic 2018 album Dirty Computer, which was nominated for an Album of the Year Grammy (11 p.m., PBS). Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins StoryThe first of the network’s “Seven Deadly Sins” movie series, this one stars Keri Hilson, Tobias Truvillion and Durrell Babbs in a morality tale about a wedding that gets rocked when the arrival of a sexy best man sends things into a tawdry tailspin (8 p.m., Lifetime). SUNDAY, April 11The People v. The KlanFour-part docuseries frames the eventual dismantling of America’s first homegrown terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan, around the little-known true story of how a Black mother in Alabama, Beulah Mae McDonald, refused to back down against the hate group after the brutal murder and lynching of her son in 1981 (10 p.m., CNN). The NeversNew six-episode drama series from creator Josh Wheldon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) follows a group of Victorian London women who discover they’ve been given strange supernatural abilities, putting them a precarious position that might allow them to change the world. Starring Olivia Williams, Ann Skelly, Laura Donnelly, James Norton, Tom Riley, Pip Torrens and Ben Chaplin (HBO Max). MONDAY, April 12Miz and MrsTune in for the second half of season two for more Mizchief, mayhem and madness and even more of a front-row seat into the lifestyle of married World Wrestling Entertainment superstars The Miz (Michael Mizanin) and wife Maryse and their family as they experience a pregnancy scare, celebrate an anniversary and Mike creates a man cave (11 p.m., USA). TUESDAY, April 13Our TownsBased on the book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, this documentary shows how eight “overlooked” cities have found ways to transform themselves and find different paths to the future (HBO and HBO Max). Chopped: Martha RulesMartha Stewart takes over in this five-part tournament competition, taking place in an outdoor kitchen in Kennebunkport, Maine, calling the shots and even changing the rules mid-course as 16 chefs compete for a $50,000 grand prize (9 p.m., Food Network). WEDNESDAY, April 14Dad, Stop Embarrassing MeIn Living Color castmates Jamie Foxx and David Alan Grier reunite (joined by newcomer Kyla-Drew) for this comedic father-daughter comedy series, inspired by Foxx’s real-life relationship with his daughter, Corrine (Netflix). Bargain BlockHome renovation experts Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas fulfil their dreams of restoring Detroit’s iconic neighborhoods one neighborhood at a time in this new series, buying as many rundown and abandoned houses as they can on a single block and renovating them to make them affordable for buyers in the community (9 p.m., HGTV). THURSDAY, April 15Spy CityFour-part espionage series stars Dominic Cooper as an English spy sent to Berlin in 1961 to suss out a traitor shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall, when one false move could trigger a nuclear showdown between very nervous Cold Warriors on either side of the very real geopolitical divide (AMC+). YoungerFinal season of the hit series—starring Sutton Foster as Lisa Miller, an editor in the highly competitive publishing world, where she had to lie about her age to land her dream job—brings new life complications for Kelsey (Hillary Duff) and Maggie (Debi Mazar) (Paramount+). NEW ON DVDAre you ready to get spooked all over again? Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (RLJE Films) is a guided tour of one of the most classic horror flicks of all time, as the director himself re-visits the groundbreaking 1973 demon-possession film, a movie so unsettling it reportedly caused some viewers to flee theaters in terror, and sheds new light on how the timeless mysteries of faith and fate have always shaped Friedkin’s life and filmmaking.
