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| Early Warner Bros. movies (The Sea Beast / So This Is Paris / Don Juan / The Jazz Singer) |
Order in the court! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, April 1!
Our Top Pick tonight is The Invention of Cinema: Cinema Finds Its Voice (TCM, 11:15 p.m.). The documentary is the classic movie channel's first premiere for the month, a big event month with the entire month of April dedicated to celebrating Warner Bros. 100th. This new documentary examines the innovations that led to Warner's groundbreaking The Jazz Singer.
Elsewhere, Abbott teacher is Live from New York, Academia has secrets, Moses parts the Red Sea, Murdoch finds killer clowns, Hallmark goes to the Maldives, a killers seeks Bodies, college boys play the sportsballs, Bernadette's friends Act their Age, and Night Court gets binge treatment.
Elsewhere, Abbott teacher is Live from New York, Academia has secrets, Moses parts the Red Sea, Murdoch finds killer clowns, Hallmark goes to the Maldives, a killers seeks Bodies, college boys play the sportsballs, Bernadette's friends Act their Age, and Night Court gets binge treatment.
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
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STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
Murdoch Mysteries (Ovation, 7 p.m.): Murdoch investigates the brutal on-camera murder of an actress during the filming of a movie about the clown killer.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
2023 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament (CBS, 6 p.m.): Florida Atlantic vs. San Diego State
Homegrown (HBO Max, 3 a.m. / Magnolia, 1 p.m.)
The Piece Makers (HBO Max, 3 a.m. / Magnolia, 9:30 p.m.)
🎥 The Ten Commandments (ABC, 7 p.m.): 4 hours 44 minutes with commercials, FYI
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| The Ten Commandments (via Giphy) |
🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL
Act Your Age (Bounce): Bernadette's childhood friends come to town, stirring up feelings of jealousy with Angela and Keisha. Olivia launches her new online platform.
🎥 Love in the Maldives (Hallmark Channel): Rae is a writer for a monthly travel column who gets sent to the world's most romantic vacation destination -- the Conrad Maldives. While there, she meets Jared, a guide who makes it his personal mission to give her the adventure she's looking for.
🎥 Stalked by Her Past (Lifetime): An actress stalked by a mysterious figure decides to hide out in her hometown, but things get complicated when she becomes involved with two men.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
2023 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament (CBS): Miami vs. Connecticut
Love & Marriage: D.C. (OWN)
Say Yes to the Dress (TLC): Season finale
🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV): Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Wrestlemania 39 (Peacock)
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| Love & Marriage: D.C. (via Giphy) |
🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥 Bodies Bodies Bodies (Showtime): When a group of 20-somethings gets stuck at a remote mansion during a hurricane, a party game gone very, very wrong ends with a dead body on the ground and fake friends at every turn as they try to find the killer among them.
📺 Night Court (Catchy Comedy): Spend the weekend in the zaniest New York courtroom. While these early seasons aren't fondest remembered episodes, there are some classics, and I like some of the cast members who didn't make the cut for later seasons (Paula Kelly). In one of my early favorites, the "Volunteer Fathers organization finally links Bull up with a son, but Bull's co-workers soon discover that things are not what they seem with the young boy." Guest starring 18-year-old newcomer Pamela Adlon!
WHAT ELSE IS ON
The Incredible Dr. Pol (National Geographic Wild)
Pets & Pickers (Animal Planet)
To Catch a Smuggler: South Pacific (National Geographic)
🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL
📺 Magnum, P.I. (Get TV): "A wealthy woman's life is threatened."
📺 SNL Vintage (NBC): Antonio Banderas, Mary J. Blige (8 Apr 2006)
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| Night Court (via Giphy) |
💤😴 LATE NIGHT 😴💤
Food Wars! (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): The new instructor, Suzuki, challenges Soma to a Shokugeki. Though not a formal Shokugeki, Suzuki will be wagering a secret, while Soma wagers his kitchen knife.
⭐🎥 The Invention of Cinema: Cinema Finds Its Voice (TCM, 11:15 p.m.): The story of how sound was paired with images in early years of cinema. Offering an in-depth look at the people behind-the-scenes and the technological innovations that culminated in Warner Brothers' ground breaking film, The Jazz Singer (1927).
My Hero Academia (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): Lady Nagant tells Izuku the secrets of hero society.
Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Tsunade continues to read Jiraiya's novel. Chunin- and jonin-level ninja have gone missing.
One Piece (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): Smoker attacks Vergo for assaulting his men. Luffy meets something strange in the trash heap. A flashback reveals the true depths of Caesar's madness.
📺 Star Trek (MeTV, 11 p.m.): After having his memory erased on a planet with inhabitants resembling Native Americans, Capt. Kirk is declared a god. Meanwhile, a deadly asteroid is headed toward the planet and the Enterprise must get back to it and Kirk before the imminent collision.
📺 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (MeTV, 2 a.m.): While the Van Allen belt burns, a fanatical unofficial kills several aboard the Seaview in an attempt to sabotage Nelson's plan to explode the burning gases from the atmosphere.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Americana 21st Annual Honors
🎥 Don Juan (TCM, 3 a.m.)
🎥 The Jazz Singer (TCM, 1:15 a.m.)
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): Quinta Brunson, Lil Yachty
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| Yil Yachty (via Giphy) |
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Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it
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Happy watching, everyone!
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