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From reality returns to cartoon reboots, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week
Auditioning for any competition show can be terrifying, even for the most talented of singers. But you’d think a little bit of the pressure would be relieved once the competitors broke the ice and scored that first, coveted ticket to Hollywood. Well… not so much.
As you may recall, Hollywood Week is always one of the most tear-filled nights of the year. And this first reboot season is no different, as the pressure to impress Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie reaches a new level. With group performances and a massive thinning of the herd on the horizon, everyone is on edge. Add in the expectation of a medical emergency (because isn’t there always a medical emergency?) and this is the episode that will separate the true contenders from the glorified shower singers, before the real battle begins.
In staging Jesus Christ Superstar live for television on Easter Sunday, those involved are taking the celebrated rock opera back to its roots.? Originated as a concept album by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice, the retelling of the last week of Jesus’s life gets a concert-style performance April 1st. Title star John Legend is among the music staples in the production, along with indie pop singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles as?Mary Magdalene and shock rocker Alice Cooper as King Herod. The cast also includes Broadway veterans Brandon Victor Dixon (The Color Purple) as Judas, Ben Daniels (Les Liaisons Dangereuses) as Pontius Pilate and Norm Lewis (The Phantom of the Opera) as Caiaphas. Attended by an in-person audience at the Marcy Armory in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert is the latest live TV musical from longtime producing partners Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
After six seasons and ?a theatrically released movie, if the Corner Gas franchise was going to continue, a change was in order. And what a change it is. But if this new cartoonification of? his brainchild is making the co-creator and star of the iconic Canadian sitcom nervous, Brent Butt certainly isn’t letting on. Everybody’s really happy with how this all went, says Butt.
Though plotlines are under lock and key, the 13 new episodes are set sometime in 2005, which chronologically places the events around season two of the original show.
With Roads to ?Memphis, ?Emmy-winning? director Stephen Ives ?(The Civil War) takes a ?look into the paths taken? by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his assassin, James Earl Ray, exploring the lives of both men and how the two of them came to collide with each other on April 4, 1968. Dr. King’s former aide, Andrew Young, remarks during the program: We were never concerned with who killed Martin Luther King but what killed Martin Luther King, and indeed, viewers will very much come to understand that distinction as they watch this film unfold.
Fire up those pressure-cookers, because this Canadian original series is back for a fifth season. Beginning this week, 21 new contestants hoping they have what it takes to slice and dice their way to a $100,000 victory (not to mention the title of MasterChef Canada) will fill the studio kitchen with their creative culinary offerings.
This year, the selection varies more than ever before, with a truck driver, a mathematician and a firefighter among the chosen cooks. For the first time in the show’s history, returning judges Claudio Aprile, Michael Bonacini and Alvin Leung will travel across the country to the contestants’ homes and bring them back to Toronto where the show shoots; we have to assume a veritable ocean of joyful tears are on the horizon.
This year’s hopeful amateurs include a firefighter from Vancouver, a self-proclaimed food engineer, a hip young musician, a former army infantry soldier, a mathematician who boils food down to a science?and a woman who puts her French, Italian and Pakistani roots to good use in the kitchen.
Even if you know a lot about Superman’s home planet, there’s a lot that you don’t. The SyFy series Krypton is determined to prove that? by diving back two generations before the infant Kal-El was sent toward Earth, just moments before his birthplace exploded. The show focuses on his grandfather Seg-El (played by Cameron Cuffe, seen opposite Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins), who spends his younger years as an outcast along with the rest of his family, yet still tries to resolve the discord among leaders and possibly save Krypton. Complicating things is time traveller Adam Strange (The Vampire Diaries‘ Shaun Sipos), who arrives to inform Seg-El about the eventual destruction of his plant and his grandson’s grand destiny on Earth.
Get ready to GTL again. A few months ago, when MTV announced a Jersey Shore-inspired spinoff featuring a brand-new cast? of characters living together for a summer on the Florida-Alabama border (Floribama Shore), the original Jersey gang was pretty peeved. Snooki took to Twitter along with the rest of her tanning ‘n’ tequila-loving mates to argue that just because most of them have kids now and therefore don’t do quite so much drunken hot-tubbing, doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten how to party. Obviously MTV took Snooki et al. seriously, because this week marks the launch of a new Jersey Shore vacation, one that sees all of the original crew (save Sammi, who opted not to return and deal with ex Ronnie) in attendance. Only this time, their significant others and offspring are joining in on the action as well, except for Snooki’s husband Jionni, who opted out, saying that he just doesn’t like appearing on camera. (Apparently this marriage was very much a case of opposites attracting.)
The first revival season wraps up with Will’s mom (Blythe Danner) and Grace’s dad (Robert Klein) making a surprising connection—albeit one that proves upsetting to both Will and Grace. Meanwhile, Karen finds herself forced to choose between her husband and her lover, Malcolm Widmark (Alec Baldwin).
Comedic actors Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) and Dave Franco (Neighbors) take a deep dive into dark drama with this harrowing Netflix movie about a woman who spends a night driving across Los Angeles with her heroin-addict brother in search of a detox facility, with his two-year-old daughter in tow.
The Emmy-winning newsmagazine returns with the first of 35 new episodes. Watch for segments from Iraq, Russia, Africa, China and of course America, as everything from gun laws to civil rights to education is discussed.
