David Farnor | On 05, Apr 2021

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.

We’ve sorted through All The TV to bring you your April watchlist – what’s worth watching and where you can find it online in the UK. You know, in case trying to predict what’ll happen in Line of Duty each Sunday night isn’t enough to fill your week.

Creepshow: Season 2

Based on the 1982 horror comedy classic, the anthology Creepshow returns for a second season and is still the most fun you’ll ever have being scared! A comic book comes to life in a series of vignettes, exploring terrors ranging from murder, creatures, monsters, and delusions to the supernatural and unexplainable. You never know what will be on the next page. Executive produced by showrunner Greg Nicotero, Creepshow’s second season will feature guest stars Kevin Dillon, Iman Benson, Josh McDermitt, Keith David, Molly Ringwald, Barbara Crampton, Justin Long, and D’Arcy Carden, among others. Episodes arrive weekly.

Romeo & Juliet

The National Theatre transforms its Lyttleton theatre into a film studio to present this new production of William Shakespeare’s tragic tale, starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley in the title roles. Originally planned for the stage and reconceived by director Simon Godwin in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the production also features Adrian Lester, Lloyd Hutchinson, Colin Tierney and Ella Dacres in supporting roles.

Wellington Paranormal: Season 1 to 3

Oh mate, something weird is going down in Wellington. Co-created by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, Wellington Paranormal is a spin-off from their 2014 vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows. Here, cameras follow incurious police officers Karen O’Leary and Mike Minogue as they keep the streets of New Zealand’s capital safe from the unexplainable, with all three seasons available to watch at once on-demand.

Intruder

Rebecca and Sam’s lives are turned upside down when two teenagers break into their coast home in this four-part thriller, starring Sally Lindsay and John Burke. Episodes air nightly.

Lights Up

BBC Four’s new season devoted to new theatre from up-and-coming talents and familiar faces. Airing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays each week, the run includes the National Theatre Of Scotland’s multi award-winning stage play Adam, Katherine Parkinson’s debut play Sitting and Orpheus in the Record Shop, which sees rapper and playwright Testament (Black Men Walking, The Beatboxer) fuse spoken word, Greek myth and beatboxing with a cinematic score performed by members of the Orchestra And Chorus Of Opera North.

Grey’s Anatomy: Season 17

The longest-running primetime medical drama in the world returns for more life and death situations in its 17th season. In the midst of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Grey Sloan Memorial and its surgeons’ lives have been turned upside down. We pick things up one month into the pandemic, and it’s all-hands-on-deck as Meredith, Bailey and the rest of the Grey Sloan doctors find themselves on the frontlines of a new era. The season begins with a double-bill.

Snabba Cash: Season 1

This Swedish reboot of the feature film franchise from Oskar Söderlund, Jesper Ganslandt and best-selling author Jens Lapidus follows tech entrepreneur Leya (Evin Ahmad), who kick starts her company with criminal money – but finds out the hard way there are no shortcuts to the top without paying the price.

Meet the Richardsons: Season 2

Somewhere between Curb Your Enthusiasm and Hoff the Record comes this new comedy from Dave, which sees Jon Richardson play himself. The mockumentary sitcom follows Jon and his wife, Lucy Beaumont, through their day-to-day lives, from being parents to being married. Jon plays into his own neurotic unhappiness, and a lot of the fun comes from trying to tell where the line is between knowing self-parody and real life marital tensions.

Filthy Rich: Season 1

This larger than life Southern Gothic dramedy revolves around two strong, sharp women who will go to any length to protect their loved ones and get their due. When the wealthy CEO of the world’s largest Christian network dies in a plane crash, his wife and adult children are stunned to discover he has grown, illegitimate kids who are also in his will. When the matriarch of the family tries to pay them to go away, these newly legitimized heirs have very different ideas and insist on not only staying in town, but becoming part of the family empire.

Solar Opposites: Season 2

This darkly hilarious sci-fi sitcom from the co-creator of Rick and Morty centres around a family of aliens, Korvo, Terry, and their child-replicants Yumyulack and Jesse, from planet Shlorp, who crash on Earth and must take refuge in middle America. They disagree on whether this is awful or awesome. Episodes arrive weekly.

Them: Season 1

Them explores terror in America. The 1950s set first season centres on a Black family who moves from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighbourhood during the period known as The Great Migration. The family’s idyllic home becomes ground zero where malevolent forces, next-door and otherworldly, threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them.

I Can See Your Voice

This mystery singing game show is hosted by Paddy McGuinness, who is joined by celebrity investigators Jimmy Carr, Alison Hammond and Amanda Holden to identify which people in a group of contestants are good singers or bad singers.

Too Close: Season 1

Three-part psychological thriller starring Emily Watson as dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Emma Robertson, who is assigned to work with Connie Mortensen, a wife and mother accused of a despicable crime. Her assessment will determine whether Connie faces life in jail, life in a secure psychiatric hospital, or the chance of rehabilitation and release. Emma hopes that the high-profile case will make her career, but her sessions with Connie quickly become a complex psychological game of cat and mouse with confusing sexual undercurrents. Episodes air nightly.

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

Commissioned for BBC One and BBC iPlayer, co-produced with PBS and made in partnership with The Open University, this three-part series follows climate activist Greta Thunberg as she takes a year off school to explore the science of global warming and challenge world leaders, calling for action on climate change. A three-part series, airing weekly.

Fear The Walking Dead: Season 6, Part 2

The Walking Dead spin-off returns to complete its sixth season, with Lennie James’ Morgan in the lead.

Wynonna Earp: Season 4

Can you say Buffy the Vampire Slayer? The creators of this highly entertaining adaptation of Beau Smith’s comic book clearly can.

Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!: Season 1

This comedy created by and starring Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is inspired by his relationship with his daughter, Corinne.

The Circle: USA: Season 2

A cast of eight new contestants enter The Circle, where they flirt, befriend and compete in challenges against each other on a unique social media platform to earn the ultimate cash prize as top influencer. With $100k on the line, will they be able to earn clout and figure out who is real and who is a catfish? Four episodes drop at once each Wednesday until the finale on 8th May.

Frank of Ireland

Penned by brothers Brian and Domhnall Gleeson and Michael Moloney, this comedy co-produced by Channel 4 and Amazon Studios follows Frank Marron, played by Brian Gleeson (Peaky Blinders, The Bisexual), a 32-year-old catastrophe. A misanthropic, narcissistic fantasist in arrested development who thinks the world owes him something, he is, nonetheless, our hero. Frank lives in Dublin with his mother Mary (Pom Boyd, Rosie, Rialto,Snakes and Ladders), and that’s fine. He is single and his pocket money hasn’t increased in a decade or more, but that’s fine too. Frank is fine because of his wingman Doofus, played by Domhnall Gleeson (The Revenant, Ex-Machina, The Force Awakens). Doofus foolishly thinks they are best friends and it’s his job to blow smoke up, facilitate and attempt to fix the relentless debris in Frank’s wake.

Mythic Quest: Everlight

The gaming workplace comedy, created by Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Megan Ganz, tells the story of a team of software developers as they navigate the challenges of running a popular video game. Soon after the coronavirus outbreak last year, the programme announced that it would return for a special quarantine episode following the team as they adapted to working from home. Now, the team are reuniting to explore the gradual return to offices and normality in a half-hour special featuring guest star Anthony Hopkins.

The Year Earth Changed

Showcasing exclusive footage from around the world after an unprecedented year, The Year Earth Changed is a timely documentary special narrated by David Attenborough. From hearing birdsong in deserted cities, to witnessing whales communicating in new ways, to encountering capybaras in South American suburbs, people all over the world have had the chance to engage with nature like never before. In the one-hour special, viewers will witness how changes in human behaviour — reducing cruise ship traffic, closing beaches a few days a year, identifying more harmonious ways for humans and wildlife to co-exist — can have a profound impact on nature.

Tiny World: Season 2

Narrated and executive produced by Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), this nature docuseries grants viewers a unique perspective into the natural world, illuminating the ingenuity and resilience of the planet’s smallest creatures.

Earth at Night in Colour: Season 2

Narrated by Tom Hiddleston (Avengers), this nature series uses cutting-edge cameras and a revolutionary post-production process to present nature’s nocturnal wonders with striking new clarity. Some never-before-seen behaviours of animals after dark, captured using low-light cameras and light from a full moon, include elephants battling hyenas around starlit waterholes and kangaroos embracing under the cover of darkness to find a mate.

Leonardo: Season 1

Aidan Turner stars in this new drama exploring the secrets and drama behind the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, his life, his work and his personal struggles – all set against the backdrop of Renaissance Italy. Co-starring Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor, Bates Motel) as Stefano Giraldi, young investigator of the Podestà in charge of solving the mystery at the centre of the story, and James D’Arcy (Homeland, Broadchurch) as Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan.

Grown-ish

Follow Zoey Johnson as she heads to college and begins her hilarious journey to adulthood. From Black-ish executive producer, Kenya Barris, comes a contemporary take on the current issues facing both students and administrators in the world of higher education. Season 1 and 2 arrive on 16th April, with Season 3 arriving on 30th April.

Batwoman, Season 2

Kate Kane soars onto the streets of Gotham as Batwoman, a highly trained street fighter primed to snuff out the failing city’s criminal resurgence

Ackley Bridge: Season 4

Inspired by real-life Lancashire and Yorkshire schools established to integrate the white and Asian communities in some of the most divided towns in the country, Ackley Bridge has won praise across its previous three seasons for tackling real-life situations and issues in an irreverent, insightful way, with humour and punchy, big hearted stories. Season 4, though, will change things up by swapping the previous weekly, 60-minute format for a series of 10 episodes, each lasting 30 minutes.

Hymn

Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani star in Lolita Chakrabarti’s acclaimed powerful and poignant depiction of male bonding, directed by Blanche McIntyre. Two men meet at a funeral. Gil knew the deceased. Benny did not. Benny is a loner anchored by his wife and children. Gil longs to fulfil his potential. They form a deep bond but as cracks appear in their fragile lives they start to realise that true courage comes in different forms. Featuring music from Gil and Benny’s lives, Lolita Chakrabarti’s searching, soulful new play asks what it takes to be a good father, brother or son.

Dreaming Whilst Black

Kwabena has been stuck in his dead-end recruitment job for way longer than he initially planned. He spends the majority of his time in reveries of accomplishing his dream: to be a filmmaker. When he bumps into Amy, an old friend from film school who is now working at a production company, he gets the chance that he’s been waiting for. Unfortunately, the once-in-a-lifetime pitching opportunity clashes with an important presentation Kwabena has to deliver for one of the recruitment company directors. Starring Adjani Salmon and co-written by Salmon and Ali Hughes, the half-hour Comedy Slice is based on the web series of the same name.

Mare of Easttown: Season 1

Kate Winslet executive produces and stars in this mysterious seven-part crime drama following small-town Pennsylvania detective Mare Sheehan (Winslet) as she investigates a local murder at a time when her own life is crumbling around her. Stricken with grief following her son’s suicide, Sheehan is trying to find normalcy in her own life, but her pain leads her to develop an obsession with various cases of missing and murdered girls in Easttown. With everyone fully aware of her situation and the rumours swirling around her, how will this affect her dogged pursuit of the killer? Episodes air weekly and are simulcast at 3am.

Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star: Season 3

The hunt for Britain’s Next Make Up Star resumes, as BBC Three’s Glow Up returns to BBC iPlayer for series three, with new host Maya Jama.

Shadow and Bone: Season 1

Based on Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling Grishaverse novels, the series is set in a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, where unnatural creatures feast on human flesh, the series follows Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), a young soldier who uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive.

Starstruck

A brand new six-part romcom created, written by and starring Rose Matafeo. Starstruck follows Jessie (Rose Matafeo), a millennial living in East London juggling two dead-end jobs and navigating the awkward morning-after-the-night-before when she discovers the complications of accidentally sleeping with famous film star, Tom (Nikesh Patel). All six episodes arrive at once.

The Winter’s Tale

Set across a span of 16 years, from the coronation to the moon landings, a new production of Shakespeare’s play, staged for the screen by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Viewpoint

Noel Clarke takes the lead in this new five-part ITV thriller. Based on an idea by Harry Bradbeer (Killing Eve, No Offence) and co-created by Ed Whitmore (Safe House, Manhunt), it follows a police surveillance investigation into a tight-knit Manchester community and explores whether it is ever possible to observe the lives of others with true objectivity and zero effect. Clarke plays surveillance detective DC Martin Young, who sets up his observation post in the home of single mum and secret voyeur, Zoe Sterling (Alexandra Roach), which gives him a direct sightline into the home of missing primary school teacher, Gemma Hillman (Amy Wren), which she says with boyfriend and prime suspect, Greg (Fehinti Balogun). Episodes air nightly through the week.

Intergalactic: Season 1

From award-winning showrunner Julie Gearey (Prisoners’ Wives, Cuffs, Secret Diary of a Call Girl), Intergalactic is a new Sky Original sci-fi drama taking you from the fringes of outer space to the depths of human emotion. The series tells the story of fearless young cop and galactic pilot Ash Harper, who has her glittering career ripped away from her after being wrongly convicted of treason and exiled to a distant prison colony. But during her transport, Ash’s fellow convicts stage a mutiny and seize control of the prison transfer ship. With the flight crew dead, mob leader Tula Quik is intent on reaching the free world – Arcadia – with her gang, and there’s only one prisoner on board who can pilot the ship… With no other options available, Ash must join them on the run towards a distant galaxy and an uncertain future. All episodes arrive at once on-demand.

Love Fraud: Season 1

This four-part docu-series follows the search for one man, Richard Scott Smith, who over the past 20 years used the internet and his dubious charms to prey upon unsuspecting women in search of love — conning them out of their money and dignity. Ewing and Grady capture the story as it unravels in real time as his victims band together to seek sweet revenge by turning to a bounty hunter when they feel the justice system has failed them.

This Time with Alan Partridge: Season 2

In 2019, This Time with Alan Partridge saw Alan handed a career lifeline – the chance to stand in (temporarily) as co-host on the titular evening weekday magazine show. His first return to live TV since his 90s chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You was cancelled after a guest was fatally shot on air, This Time was the perfect shop window for a man of Alan’s gravitas, mixing consumer affairs, current affairs, viewer interaction, highbrow interview and lightweight froth – all the sweet spots for a man whose CV boasts over two decades of weekday local radio. Written by Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbons, as well as Coogan, Season 2 will see Alan try to cling on to his position in the face of behind-the-scenes upheaval and Alan’s fears that his relevance is dwindling.

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