This Week On TV: April 8-14

By Brent Furdyk. 8 Apr 2019 9:36 AM

This Week: Bear Grylls gets interactive for Netflix, Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams explore a complex showbiz marriage in “Fosse/Verdon”, and winter is has finally arrived in the long-awaited final season of “Game of Thrones”.

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'MasterChef Canada' - season premiere
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Some of Canada's most talented amateur chefs engage in kitchen competition in the new season's two-hour premiere.

* Monday, April 8
'The Code' - series premiere
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Dana Delany heads the cast of this new drama centring on a group of lawyers within the U.S. Marine Corps.

* Tuesday, April 9 on Global
'The Bold Type' - season premiere
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Inspired by the real life of a former Cosmo editor, this drama revolves around a group of women working at a famed women's magazine in New York City.

* Tuesday, April 9 on ABC Spark
'Fosse/Verdon' - series premiere
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The intertwining lives of choreographer/Oscar-winning director Bob Fosse and Broadway star Gwen Verdon

* Tuesday, April 9
'The Silence'
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In this sci-fi horror flick, the world is under attack by terrifying creatures who hunt their human prey by sound. Kiernan Shipka ("Chilling Adventures of Sabrina") stars as 16-year old Ally Andrews, who lost her hearing at 13, as she and her family seek refuge in a remote haven. Along the way, they discover a sinister cult who are eager to exploit Ally’s heightened senses. Also starring Stanley Tucci

* Wednesday, April 10
'You vs. Wild' - series premiere

Credit the hype surrounding the "Black Mirror" choose-your-own-ending "Bandersnatch" episode for this new adventure series. "Man vs. WIld" star Bear Grylls invites viewers to make their own choices and alter the course of the storyline in this new interactive series.

* Wednesday, April 10
'Black Summer' - series premiere
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Fans of zombie apocalypse drama "Z Nation" will want to check out this new spinoff, in which Jaime King stars as a mother separated from her daughter in the midst of the crisis, and embarks on a zombie-killing quest to find her.

* Thursday, April 11
'Fam' - season finale
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It's the end of the first season of this sitcom about a young couple (Nina Dobrev and Tone Bell) whose life is turned upside down where her wild teenage sister moves in with them.

* Thursday, April 11
'A Shot At Love with DJ Pauly D & Vinny' - series premiere
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It's been awhile since the first season of "A Shot of Love", in which bisexual Tila Tequila dated her way through a field of women and men in search of "the one." In this new iteration, "Jersey Shore" goombahs Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio and Vinny Guadagnino move into a house populated with single women looking for love. Will fans of the duo's previous show want to watch? It's practically a "Shore" thing!

* Thursday, April 11
'The Perfect Date'
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Netflix heartthrob Noah Centineo ("To All the Boys I've Loved Before") is back in this new rom-com. This time out, he plays high school student who tries to raise money for college by launching an app offering his services to those in need of a date. When he meets the girl of his dreams ("Riverdale" star Camila Mendes), however, he finds himself reassessing his booming business.

* Friday, April 12
'Huge In France' - series premiere
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A French comedian who is wildly popular in his native land but virtually unknown in the U.S. travels to L.A. to attempt to reconnect with his estranged son, a male model, in this Netflix series.

* Friday, April 12
'Special' - series premiere
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"Big Bang Theory" star Jim Parsons is exec producer of this comedy starring Ryan O'Connell, based on his part-memoir, part-manifesto I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves. In the quasi-autobiographical series, O'Connell is a gay man with mild cerebral palsy who attempts to reboot his life by explaining his affliction as the result of a car accident to conceal his CP.

* Friday, April 12
'Fyre Fraud'
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One of two documentaries about the doomed, disastrous Fyre Festival, this one features an exclusive interview with Billy McFarland, the convicted con man behind the whole thing.

* Friday, April 12
'Saturday Night Live'
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Emma Stone marks her fourth appearance as "SNL" host, and she'll be joined by wildly popular K-pop boy band BTS.

* Saturday, April 13 on Global
'Les Miserables'
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Don't expect to hear the people singing the song of angry men in this non-musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel set during the French Revolution. Dominic West ("The Affair" stars as Jean Valjean, released from years of imprisonment for stealing a loaf of bread, only to find himself relentless pursued by ruthless, obsessed Inspector Javert (David Oyelowo). Lily Collins plays the doomed Fantine.

* Sunday, April 14
'Game of Thrones' - season premiere
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Winter has been coming for seven seasons, and now it has finally arrived as the blockbuster fantasy hit returns for its eighth and final season. When the dust settles — or snow, as the case may be — who will sit on the Iron Throne f Westeros? And more importantly, will humanity survive the encroaching threat of the Night King and his undead army? All will be revealed in the final season's six episode.

* Sunday, April 14

This Week On TV: April 8-14

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