TV shows, new DVDs, movies and books you’ll want to check out this week!
(All times Eastern.)
MONDAY, April 4
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
In a movie that airs on TV too rarely, Paul Newman hams it up in this 1972 Western farce directed by John Huston as a Texas outlaw-turned-judicator with a colorful supporting cast that includes Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty, Stacy Keach, Roddy McDowell and Jacqueline Bissett (5:45 p.m., TCM).
Remembering Paul Newman in Photos
Random Acts
This new hidden-camera show with a heartwarming twist sends pranksters undercover to dole out “random acts of kindness” in uplifting, unexpected ways—like washing strangers’ cars while they shop, making breakfast for snoozing college students and buying groceries for unsuspecting parents (10:30 p.m., BYUtv).
15 Random Acts of Kindness You Can Do Right Now
TUESDAY, April 5
10 That Changed America
Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Geoffrey Baer hosts this three-part travelogue series spotlighting American architecture, design and urban planning, exploring how our homes (tonight), parks (April 10) and towns (April 19) reflect our nation’s history, values, ingenuity and hopes for the future (8 p.m., PBS).
Imagining Zootopia
Go behind the scenes of Disney’s latest hit movie—about an ambitious bunny cop and a cunning fox, working together across “prey-predator” lines to solve a baffling crime—to see how the storytellers, animators, artists and technicians worked for two years to make the magic happen (8 p.m., Fusion).
Review: Hip, Heartwarming Zootopia Shows how Far House of Mouse has Evolved
WEDNESDAY, April 6
David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies
In the first of a three-part, three-week series, the esteemed British naturalist shows how humans are the animal kingdom’s latecomers when it comes to rising above the Earth (8 p.m., Smithsonian Channel).
Walk the Prank
Tru TV has Impractical Jokers and The Carbonaro Effect. Now Disney gets in on the hidden-camera, reality-prank bandwagon with this new series featuring fresh-faced, pint-sized kids pulling all kinds of wholesome stunts (8:30 p.m., Disney XD).
15 Easy Pranks to Try at Home and Work
THURSDAY, April 7
Game of Silence
In this new series about friendship, love, revenge and a deepening moral dilemma, David Lyons, Michael Raymond James, Shawn Cook and Gil Harris star as four best friends whose lives are changed when a dark secret from their past suddenly reappears (8 p.m., NBC).
NBC’s New Game of Silence: You Can’t Hide Your Past Forever
Grey’s Anatomy
Meredith (Ellen Pompano) goes on an ambulance ride with Owen (Kevin McKidd) and Nathan (Martin Henderson) to pick up a heart for a transplant patient, and a musician (guest star Wilmer Valderrama) with MS is admitted to Grey Sloan Memorial with a troubling tremor his hand (8 p.m., ABC).
Grey’s Anatomy Star Jason George Teases the Second Half of Season 12
FRIDAY, April 8
Sleepy Hollow
For the season three finale, the completion of Pandora’s box becomes apparent to Abbie (Nicole Beharie) and Ichabod (Tom Mison), and the Hidden One is on the verge of destroying all humanity. Yes, it’s a big night (8 p.m., Fox).
Science Meets Supernatural When Bones and Sleepy Hollow Crossover
Adult Swim Golf Classic
Two pro golf champions, portrayed by Kroll Show’s Jon Daly and Adam Scott from Parks and Recreation, tee off against each other in this rollicking, ribald parody of a TV golf tournament, circa 1966—but it’s played for real charities, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and Save the Children (11:30 p.m., Adult Swim).
SATURDAY, April 9
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
The heiress, socialite, artist, actress, apparel empress and perfume princess, along with her CNN-journalist son, reflect on their extraordinary shared family history as the cameras of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus captures it all (9 p.m., HBO).
Anderson Cooper: ‘I Try to Give Everyday People a Voice’
Outlander
To kick off the second TV installment of the smart, sexy time-travelling series based on author Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling international books, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) arrive in France in the 1700s with a new mission—to infiltrate the French aristocracy and change history (9 p.m., Starz).
Is Any of Outlander Based on Diana Gabaldon’s Life?
SUNDAY, April 10
2016 MTV Music Awards
Kevin Hart and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson host this 25th annual best-of Hollywood tribute with a feisty, rock-n-roll-edged blowout taped live from Warner Bros. Studios and backlot in Burbank, Calif. (8 p.m., MTV).
Madonna: Queen of MTV Video Music Awards
House of Lies
This season on the hit half-hour comedy series, Marty (Don Cheadle) is a man on a mission: No longer content fleecing millionaire clients, he sets his sights on world domination and takes his team (Kristen Bell, Ben Schwartz and Josh Lawson) to Cuba on a high-stakes, winner-take-all power play (9 p.m., Showtime).
READ ALL ABOUT IT
In Delta Lady (Harper), Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rita Coolidge—whose hit tunes include “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher,” “We’re All Alone” and “All Time High”—candidly tells the ups and downs of her life story, including her romantic relationships with Leon Russell, Stephen Still, Graham Nash and Kris Kristofferson.
NEW ON DVD & BLU-RAY
It was a sensation when it hit the big screen. Now it’s a sensation all over again as Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Disney Home Entertainment) comes to Blu-ray with hours of bonus features, including in-depth making-of documentaries and more features with extensive footage, never-before-seen scenes and exclusive interviews with the actors and filmmakers.
The line between good and evil gets blotched and blurry in Mojave (Lionsgate), an intense existentialist crime thriller in which a narcissistic movie-maker (Garrett Hedlund) is hunted by a homicidal, chameleon-like drifter (Oscar Issac from Star Wars: The Force Awakens), who follows him home from the gritty desert back to the mean streets of Los Angeles.
THIS WEEK AT THE MOVIES
Tim Roth, Alan Arkin and Sharlito Copley star in Hardcore Henry, a action-adventure gangster flick with a twist: The audience “sees” everything through the eyes of Henry, a man resurrected from the brink of death and turned into a cyber super-soldier who remembers nothing about his past—except that, somewhere, he has a wife who needs to be rescued.
Melissa McCarthy is The Boss, a corporate big cheese who’s sent to prison for insider trader. When she gets out, ready to rebrand herself as America’s sweetheart, not everyone she cheated is quite ready to forgive and forget.
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Melissa McCarthy
Young Jacob Tremblay follows up his breakout role in Room as an orphan child in Before I Wake whose dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps. And that’s bad news for his newly adoptive parents (Kate Bosworth and Thomas Jane).
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