David Farnor | On 13, Apr 2020

Netflix. Amazon Prime Video. BBC iPlayer. NOW. Walter Presents. Apple TV+. There’s so much TV to watch these days in so many places that it can be hard to keep up. Every month, we boil down what’s on the box to the essentials you need in your streaming queue.

This month, that ranges from the second run of Ricky Gervais’ moving After Life to the return of 2018’s most gripping, unexpected thriller to the reunion of Eve and Villanelle in Killing Eve’s third season – not to mention Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s new comedy, Run. Footballing fans can look forward to more from Sunderland FC, while action lovers will be delighted to cash in for a fourth season of Money Heist or the debut of Gareth Evans’ epic new thriller Gangs of London. And, in between all of that, is James Graham’s promising new drama based on his hit play Quiz. Speaking of adaptations, don’t miss BBC Three’s new drama Normal People basedo n Sally Rooney’s novel

We’ve sorted through All The TV to bring you your April watchlist – what’s worth watching, why and where you can find it online in the UK:

Save Me Too

Is she still out there? Lennie James and Suranne Jones return in the critically acclaimed Sky original drama. As the furore over Jody’s disappearance subsides, this could be Nelly Rowe’s last chance to find his missing daughter.

The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show

The always-excellent comic gets her own hilarious, satire-filled series packed with outrageous characters.

Sunderland ‘Til I Die: Season 2

Netflix’s heart-wrenching documentary series follows Sunderland football club through the 2017-18 season as they try to bounce back after relegation from the Premier League.

Cursed Films: Season 1

Cursed Films is a five-part documentary series from writer/director Jay Cheel (How to Build a Time Machine) exploring the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film productions. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen, to the rumored use of real human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary … but what’s real and what’s myth? Episodes arrive weekly, covering The Exorcist, Poltergeist, The Omen, The Crow and The Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Tales from the Loop: Season 1

What if you could change the flow of time, control robots and discover a doppelgänger of yourself from another dimension? For the townspeople living above ‘The Loop’, this is just another day. Perhaps the first series ever based on viral pictures, it is based on the acclaimed art of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, Tales from the Loop explores the town and people who live above “The Loop”, a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.

Money Heist: Part 4

Netflix’s hit Spanish thriller returns for another bout of twisting, turning heist plotting.

Home Before Dark: Season 1

Home Before Dark stars The Florida Project’s Brooklynn Prince alongside Jim Sturgess and follows a young girl who moves from Brooklyn to the small lakeside town her father left behind. While there, her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury.

Red Dwarf: The Promised Land

The 90-minute outing is the 13th instalment of the long-running sci-fi comedy, with Chris Barrie (Rimmer), Craig Charles (Lister), Danny John-Jules (Cat) and Robert Llewellyn (Kryten) returning to the ship – and Norman Lovett joining them to reprise his role of Holly, the ship’s computer.

Three million years ago, David Lister, a vending machine repairman, was sentenced to 18 months in suspended animation for smuggling his pregnant cat aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf. While Lister remained in stasis, a radiation leak killed the rest of the crew. Safely sealed in the hold, the cats evolved into humanoid form. The cats now roam deep space in a fleet of their own…

Brews Brothers: Season 1

Jeff Schaffer and Greg Schaffer head to Netflix for this new comedy about two estranged brothers who end up running a brewery together.

Killing Eve: Season 3

Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh return for a third season of the enjoyably twisted cat-and-mouse thriller. For Villanelle (Jodie Comer), the assassin without a job, Eve (Sandra Oh) is out of the picture. As for Eve, the ex-MI6 operative is hiding in plain sight, hoping that Villanelle will never find her. All seems fine until a death sets them on a collision course yet again. The journey back to each other will cost both of them friends, family, and allegiances – and perhaps a share of their souls.

Quiz

Quiz tells the extraordinary and sensational story of how Charles and Diana Ingram attempted an audacious heist on the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Major Ingram (Matthew Macfadyen), his wife Diana (Sian Clifford) and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, were accused of cheating their way to a million pounds on what was the most popular game show on earth in 2001. The couple stood trial for conspiring by coughing during the recording to signify the correct answers to the multiple choice questions posed to the Major by host Chris Tarrant (Michael Sheen). The three-part drama is adapted by James Graham from his own play, which weaves true life suspense with topical, state-of-the-nation insight.

The Innocence Files: Season 1

Netflix’s investment in true crime goes one step further with this new docuseries that explore eight cases of wrongful conviction that The Innocence Project works to overturn.

Run: Season 1

Written and produced by Vicky Jones, this half-hour comedy series sees her team up with her Fleabag and Killing Eve co-creator Phoebe Waller Bridge in an executive producer role for a story about leaving it all behind. Ruby Richardson (Merritt Wever) walks away from her ordinary life in the suburbs to revisit her past with her college boyfriend, Billy Johnson (Domhnall Gleeson). The two made a pact 17 years earlier: If either one of them texted the word “RUN” and the other replied with the same, they would drop everything and meet in Grand Central Station and travel across America together. If the names involved haven’t already caught your attention, the laughs they deliver certainly will.

Devs: Season 1

An eight-episode, multi-dimensional tech thriller comes from the brilliant mind of British producer, writer and director Alex Garland. It stars Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman and Alison Pill and follows a young software engineer named Lily Chan who works for Amaya, a cutting-edge tech company based in Silicon Valley. After her boyfriend Sergei’s apparent suicide, Lily suspects foul play and begins to investigate.

#blackAF: Season 1

Pulling back the curtain, #blackAF uncovers the messy, unfiltered and often hilarious world of what it means to be a “new money” black family trying to get it right in a modern world where “right” is no longer a fixed concept. The Netflix original series stars Kenya Barris as a fictionalised version of himself and Rashida Jones as his wife Joya.

Bosch: Season 6

Titus Welliver returns for the penultimate season of Amazon’s cop drama, based on Michael Connelly’s novels. Based on The Overlook and Dark Sacred Night, it sees Bosch up against the biggest case of his career when the city he loves comes under attack.

The Midnight Gospel: Season 1

This new series from Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time) and Duncan Trussell (Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast) follows Clancy, a space-caster who uses a multiverse simulator to interview beings living in other worlds.

A Mother’s Son

The small coastal town of East Lee, in Suffolk, is thrown into turmoil when Lorraine, a teenage girl, goes missing and is found murdered. Shock and horror sweep the inhabitants of the town, including the newly merged family of Rosie and her two children, and her new partner Ben and his two teenage children. Their family holiday is overshadowed by the threat that a killer might be present in the midst of their ‘safe’ town. When Rosie finds a stained pair of Jamie’s trainers hidden in his room, her instinct suspects it could be blood. A seed is planted – could her son be involved in Lorraine’s murder? Hermione Norris, Paul McGann and Nicola Walker star in this two-part drama, airing back-to-back on Monday and Tuesday.

The Last Dance: Season 1

The 10-part series, which airs on ESPN in the USA, tells the story of how Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls came to dominate and define basketball in the 1990s. The basketball star remains a sporting legend even decades after the peak of his NBA career. The documentary, directed by Jason Hehir (The Fab Five, The ’85 Bears, Andre the Giant), charts the simultaneous rise of Jordan and the NBA, boasting more than 500 hours of never-before-seen footage from the Bulls’ last championship run in the 1997-98 season. Episodes arrive in pairs every Monday.

Emergence: Season 1

Created by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, ABC’s new thriller follows a police chief who takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the centre of it all.

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045: Season 1

Set in the year 2045, after global capitalism has defaulted, the series follows Japan’s elite task force, Public Security Section 9, which begins conducting covert cyber operations. Appleseed’s Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama, who gave us Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, bring us a new anime based on Shirow Masamune’s manga.

Gangs of London

Gareth Evans’ unique brand of cinematic action hits Sky Atlantic in this new Sky original, which tells the story of a city torn apart following the death of the most powerful criminal in London. This has all the makings of one of the year’s best shows.

After Life: Season 2

Set in the small fictitious town of Tambury, Ricky Gervais’ comedy-drama follows Tony (Gervais), a writer for the local newspaper whose life is upended after his wife dies from cancer. Life goes on in Season 2, which sees Tony try to become a better friend to those around him – each grappling with their own problems and only to be intensified by the looming threat of the local newspaper being shut down.

Code 404: Season 1

Stephen Graham, Daniel Mays and Anna Maxwell Martin star in this new Sky comedy. Detective Inspectors DI John Major (Mays) and DI Roy Carver (Graham) are the top crime fighting duo in the Unit. But when an undercover sting goes horribly wrong, Major is gunned down on the job and killed. Full of guilt and regret about Major’s untimely death, Roy turns to the only person who understands him, John’s wife, Kelly (Maxwell Martin). However, John gets a reboot. Chosen by the police as the prototype for a new A.I. driven initiative, John is brought back from the dead – much to the surprise of Roy and Kelly. He’d like to believe he’s better than ever, but something isn’t quite right…

Normal People

The adaptation of Sally Rooney’s international literary phenomenon, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones (War Of The Worlds, Cold Feet) and Paul Mescal, tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in a small-town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College. At school, he’s well-liked and popular, while she’s lonely, proud and intimidating. But when Connell comes to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers – one they are determined to conceal.

Van der Valk

Anything with Marc Warren in is always worth watching, and here, he gets a deserved chance to take the lead in a three-part series about the streetwise Dutch detective. Based on the detective show from the 1970s. it reimagines Van Der Valk in the contemporary world of Amsterdam as he leads a dynamic team in solving a raft of mysterious crimes using astute human observation and inspired detection.

Blood: Season 2

Channel 5’s gripping thriller returns for a second season, with Adrian Dunbar once again taking a leading role. The drama, set in rural Ireland, follows a woman who returns home after her mother’s death – and with five more episodes on the cards airing nightly, you can expect the fallout from Season 2 to hold just many twists and turns.

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