What to Watch in April: 21 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – March 30, 2023

The month ahead will bring the concluding seasons of Barry and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a new Netflix dark comedy that critics love, a globetrotting sci-fi series from the Russo brothers, series adaptations of Grease and Dead Ringers, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

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59 Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies: Season 1

Musical series debuts April 6 on Paramount+

Yes, it's a prequel to the classic stage and movie musical Grease, and, yes, it's also a musical. (In case you are keeping score at home, that makes three original TV musicals in the past month alone, including the aforementioned Schmigadoon and the recently debuted Up Here on Hulu.) Set four years earlier—at Rydell High in 1954—the 10-episode series from writer Annabel Oakes (Minx) was originally ordered by HBO Max (under the name Grease: Rydell High) in 2019 but then shifted to Paramount+. Pink Ladies features a cast of mostly unknown young stars and original songs by Justin Tranter.

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