All times Eastern. FRIDAY, April 2HystericalDocumentary spotlights some of today’s most boundary-pushing female comics, going backstage and on the road with Kelly Brachman, Margaret Cho, Fortune Flemster, Rachel Feinstein, Nikki Glaser, Judy Gold, Kathy Griffin, Sherri Shepperd and Iliza Shlesinger (9 p.m., FX). The SerpentA serial conman (Tahar Rahim) posing as a gem dealer and his girlfriend (Jenna Coleman) carry out a spree of crimes in Thailand, Nepal and India in the 1970s and become suspects in a series of murders of young Western travelers. Debuting on the BBC earlier this year, the limited series is based on real events (Netflix). SATURDAY, April 3Robin Roberts Presents: MahahliaTony Award nominee and Grammy-winning actress Danielle Brooks stars in this network biopic as the New Orleans-born crooner who became one of the most revered gospel figures in America, melding her music with the civil rights movement, performing at Carnegie Hall and at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy (8 p.m., Lifetime). Peter RabbitGet ready for Easter tomorrow by hopping down the bunny trail with the adventures of iconic British hare based on the character created by Beatrix Potter, in this 2018 movie— which mixed live action and computer animation and featured Rose Bryne, Domhnall Gleeson and Sam Neill, and the voices of James Cordon, Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Debicki and Margo Robbie (8 p.m., FX). SUNDAY, April 4Atlantic CrossingA princess (Sofia Helin) steals the heart of the president of the United States in this epic Masterpiece drama based on the real-life WWII relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt (Kyle McLachlan) and Norway’s Crown Princess Martha (9 p.m., PBS). The Greatest Story Ever ToldCelebrate Easter Sunday with this 1965 classic, a sprawling four-hour and 20-minute epic that brings the New Testament story of Christ to the screen, starring Max von Sydow as Jesus, Pat Boone as the Angel at the Tomb (!), Charlton Heston as John the Baptist, and an all-star supporting cast that includes Angela Lansbury, David MaCallum, Roddy McDowell, Donald Pleasence, Sidney Poitier, Telly Salavas, John Wayne and Robert Blake (9 a.m., INSP). MONDAY, April 5HemingwayFilmmaker Ken Burns turns his acclaimed documentary cameras on the visionary work and turbulent life of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, whose works included A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls (8 p.m., PBS). TechCheckNew news-info series digs into the tech angle of investments, stocks, energy, gaming, entertainment and media, anchored by CNBC’s Jon Fortt and Carl Quintanilla with reporting from multiple locations across the country (11 a.m., CNBC). TUESDAY, April 6Four Weddings and a FuneralAmerica got a proper introduction to the English charms of Hugh Grant in this sparkling 1994 romcom—about a committed bachelor, who over the course of four social occasions must consider the notion that he may have discovered love. With the equally charming American actress Andie McDowell as his romantic interest, the low-budget film became a huge hit—the highest-grossing film in British history at the time. And it won Grant a Golden Globe and a BAFTA, the British equivalent (10:30 p.m., TCM). ChadNasim Pedrad (she was a Saturday Night Live performer and cast member 2009-2018) wrote, directed and stars in this quirky new comedy as a teenage Persian boy (yes, you read that correctly!) trying his hardest in his first year of high school to be popular (10:30 p.m., TBS). WEDNESDAY, April 7Exterminate All the BrutesAmerica’s funniest home videos, it ain’t. This four-part series, an explosive exploration of European colonialism from America to Africa, is a grim voyage into the darkest hours of humanity, deconstructing the making and masking of history and asking viewers to re-think the very notion of how our story is being written (9 p.m., HBO). Kung FuRemake of the classic 1970s Old West series puts a fem-centric spin on the tale as a young woman (Olivia Liang) in the present day drops out of college and uses her martial arts expertise to fight the growing criminal infestation in her San Francisco community (8 p.m., The CW). THURSDAY, April 8RebelInspired by the life of workplace activist Erin Brockovich, Annie “Rebel” Bellow (Katie Segal) is a blue-collar legal advocate without a law degree, a funny, messy, fearless woman who fights for the people she loves in his new series, which also stars James Corbett and Andy Garcia (10:01 p.m., ABC). The GLADD Media AwardsNiecy Nash hosts this second annual event, presented by the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer media advocacy group, which will honor fair, accurate and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues across all media platforms (YouTube and Hulu). NEW ON DVD Kristin Wigg and Annie Mumolo (she wrote the screenplay for Bridesmaids as well as the biopic Joy) star in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Lionstate Home Video), a ribald comedy about two Midwestern besties who decided to leave town—for the first time in their lives—for a Florida vacation that turns into much more of a wide-ranging adventure than they ever imagined. With Jamie Dornan, Damon Wayans Jr., Vanessa Bayer, Fortune Feimster and Wendy McLendon-Covey. A Japanese computer-animated fantasy film based on the novel by British writer Diana Wynne Jones, Earwig and the Witch (Shout! Factory features English overdubbing by Richard E. Grant, Grammy-winning country singer Kacey Musgraves and Dan Stevens. It’s a facififul tale about a young orphan girl adopted by a witch and taken into her spooky old house, where she discovers a rockin’ musical mystery about her past.
