What to Watch in April: 24 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies
The month ahead will bring the long-awaited returns of critic favorites Better Call Saul, Russian Doll, and Barry, a series adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth, new films from Judd Apatow and Richard Linklater, a new Michael Mann-directed crime drama, David Simon's latest HBO miniseries, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home throughout April, listed in order by premiere date.
Sci-fi series debuts April 24 on Showtime
Originally developed for Paramount+ (but then literally traded to Showtime in exchange for the recent Halo series), this new series from recent Star Trek veterans Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet is set in the present and is loosely based both on the cult classic 1976 movie and the Walter Tevis novel that inspired it. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars—effectively in the role played by David Bowie in the original film, though it's an entirely new character named Faraday—as an alien who arrives on Earth at a key point in human history. Naomi Harris plays the scientist who befriends him and carries the burden of saving her planet—and the alien's. Rob Delaney, Jimmi Simpson, Kate Mulgrew, Clarke Peters, Sonya Cassidy, Joana Ribeiro, and Bill Nighy also star, with the latter actually playing Bowie's character, Thomas Newton, who in this series is an earlier alien visitor to Earth. Two episodes air back-to-back on opening night, and critics found those two episodes to be surprisingly fun when they premiered at SXSW a few weeks ago.
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