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New TV Shows Premiering This Month (April)

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Here’s what’s premiering for the month of April.


Binge Thinking (MTV2)
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Binge Thinking is the ultimate bar crawl, game show on TV that will finally discover the truth behind the question: think you’re smarter after a few drinks? Host, Mac Lethal (Youtube star, rapper), along with co-host Amber Diamond (Nick Cannon Presents:Wild 'N Out), visit a different city's party spot each week and whip up an impromptu game show with unsuspecting (and sometimes a bit "lubricated") contestants. The games cover everything in pop culture from trivia, to physical stunts, to prop-based gameplay all aimed at testing the contestants' ability to think while they drink. (Premieres April 1st)


The Ranch (Netflix)
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The son of a Colorado rancher returns home from a semi-pro football career to run the family business. (Premieres April 1st)


Wynonna Earp (Syfy)
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Based on the IDW Comic, Wynonna Earp follows Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures. With her unique abilities, and a posse of dysfunctional allies, she's the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice. (Premieres April 1st)


America’s Greatest Makers (TBS)
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America's Greatest Makers takes 24 teams of makers from across the country and puts them in head-to-head competition to invent game-changing technology for a chance to go home with $1 million. (Premieres April 5th)


Game of Silence (NBC)
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Carol Mendelsohn, executive producer and veteran of the CSI phenomenon, and David Hudgins (Parenthood, Friday Night Lights) present a gripping new drama about a successful Atlanta attorney (David Lyons, Revolution) whose long-lost childhood friends unexpectedly reappear after 25 years. When a dark secret they thought they had buried resurfaces, the brotherhood bands together to right the wrongs of their shared past — a journey that will push the limits of their loyalty and quench their thirst for revenge. (Premieres April 7th)


Lonely and Horny (Vimeo)
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Ruby Jade (Amir Blumenfeld) is a neurotic, selfish, understandably single 30-something who wants to have sex more than anything else in the world. Along with the help of his empathetic dating coach Josh Rice (Jake Hurwitz) Ruby embarks on a quest to find love, with literally anybody. (Premieres April 8th)


Dice (Showtime)
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Hickory, dickory, dock – the Dice Man's back and he's ready to rock. Twenty-five years after taking the entertainment world by storm, Andrew Dice Clay is eager to reclaim his comedy throne. But that's easier said than done. He still comes across as his bad boy self -- loaded with swagger and bravado. But his offstage life tells a different story, as he deals with a demanding girlfriend, two kids, mounting gambling debt and all of life's obstacles that keep him from being a stand up guy. Watch these two worlds collide hilariously in the outrageous, semi-autobiographical series Dice. (Premieres April 10th)


The Girlfriend Experience (Starz)
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Christine Reade (Riley Keough) is a second year student at Chicago-Burnham Law School and a new intern at the prestigious firm of Kirkland & Allen. Working hard to establish herself at the firm, her focus quickly shifts when a classmate introduces her to the world of transactional relationships. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price. Juggling two very different lives, Christine quickly finds herself drawn into the GFE world, attracted to the rush of control and intimacy. (Premieres April 10th)


Hunters (Syfy)
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The series stars Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek) as Flynn, a headstrong Baltimore FBI agent with a dark past trying to piece together the disappearance of his wife. Britne Oldford (American Horror Story) will play Regan, who is one of the government’s most valuable operatives and may be keeping secrets of her own. Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck) portrays McCarthy, an unhinged junkie and Hunter cell leader. (Premieres April 11th)


The Detour (TBS)
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The Detour is a what-in-the-living-hell-is-wrong-with-this-family comedy created by comic super-couple Jason Jones & Samantha Bee and inspired by their own experiences with family trips. Jones stars as unfiltered dad Nate, who hits the road with wife Robin (Natalie Zea) and kids Delilah (Ashley Gerasimovich) and Jared (Liam Carroll). Every leg of their trip is fraught with disaster as they encounter one hellish turn after another. If there's trouble on the road, this family will find it and plow into it. (Premieres April 11th)


Camping (Sky Atlantic)
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This new comedy from Julia Davis follows the events of a week’s holiday where a group of old friends meet to celebrate one of their landmark birthdays. But as the days unfold, tensions and emotions start to rise. (Premieres April 12th)


The Last Panthers (Sundance TV)
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The Last Panthers opens with a daring diamond heist bearing all the hallmarks of a gang known as the Pink Panthers. But the tragic death of a little girl during the raid sets a collision course in motion involving a British insurance agent, a French-Algerian cop and a Serbian diamond thief. The Last Panthers plunges the audience into a modern day Europe gripped by new forms of crime on an epic scale. The interplay between traffickers in jewels and drugs, European officials, war criminals and city bankers impact every one of us in ways we cannot foresee. (Premieres April 13th)


The Dude Perfect Show (CMT)
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The five Dallas-based friends, who have amassed 9.1 million subscribers since joining YouTube in 2009, are known for live-action stunts and funny videos including their "Stereotypes" series.
The CMT show, produced by Superjacket Productions, highlights those stunts while also following the friends behind-the-scenes during their daily video-making lives. (Premieres April 14th)


The Ed Bassmaster Show (CMT)
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Ed Bassmaster has racked up 2 million subscribers on his YouTube channel and 523 million video views to date. His CMT show will feature a range of characters such as Skippy, the lovable yet annoying nerd who oversteps boundaries; Mumbles, who has an unintelligible accent; and fan-favorite Teste, Ed’s first alter-ego. The half-hour show also promises surprise celebrity guests. (Premieres April 14th)


American Grit (FOX)
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American Grit is a new, 10-episode competition series starring WWE Superstar John Cena. Sixteen of the country’s toughest men and women will be split into four teams as they work together to face a variety of military-grade and survival-themed challenges. Cena and an elite group of mentors from the nation’s most exclusive military units will push these civilians beyond their limits. The mentors, known as “The Cadre,” include Rorke Denver, Noah Galloway, Tawanda “Tee” Hanible and Nick “The Reaper” Irving. These real-life heroes, who represent diverse backgrounds and top branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, will impart their first-hand knowledge and experience to help the competitors work together as teams to surmount near impossible mental and physical challenges. American Grit embodies the military ethos “no man left behind,” because only the first team to complete the challenges together is safe from elimination. Each episode will culminate in “The Circus,” a punishing, endurance-based obstacle course designed to break the weakest competitors. With up to a million dollars of prize money at stake, this is the ultimate test of strength, grit, the human spirit and most importantly, teamwork. (Premieres April 14th)


Strong (NBC)
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Strong is a fitness competition show like no other. Contestants are embarking on a transformative journey in order to reach their full potential. As they will learn, it's not necessarily about losing weight, but rather about finding the balance between mind and body. It's about getting strong. (Premieres April 14th)


The Five (Sky1)
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The Five, Harlan Coben’s first ever TV drama, is a taut mystery about the consequences of a terrible childhood incident for a group of friends. When the missing boy’s DNA turns up at the scene of a murder, the friends are forced to revisit their past and ask the question: is he still alive?
(Premieres April 15th)


The Night Manager (AMC)
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The Night Manager, a six-part miniseries, is a contemporary interpretation of John le Carré’s best-selling spy novel, which follows hotel manager Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) in his quest to bring down international arms dealer Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie). Pine, a former soldier, is thrust into a world of international intrigue when he is recruited by a British intelligence officer (Olivia Colman) to infiltrate Roper’s inner circle. To get to the heart of Roper’s vast empire, Pine must withstand the allure of his beautiful girlfriend Jed (Elizabeth Debicki) and the suspicious interrogations of his venal chief of staff Major Corkoran (Tom Hollander). In his quest to do the right thing, Pine must first become a criminal himself. (Premieres April 19th)


Containment (The CW)
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When a mysterious and deadly epidemic breaks out in Atlanta, a vast urban quarantine is quickly enforced, forcing those stuck on the inside to fight for their lives while local and federal officials desperately search for a cure.
Trying to keep the peace on the streets is police officer Lex Carnahan, who has quickly risen through the ranks of the Atlanta PD. But Lex’s job becomes even harder when he learns that his longtime girlfriend, Jana, and his best friend and fellow officer Jake, are trapped within the cordoned area.
Also quarantined in viral ground zero is 17 year-old Teresa, who is eight months pregnant and now separated from her boyfriend on the other side; Katie Frank, an elementary school teacher now placed on lockdown with her entire class, including her young son; and CDC researcher Dr. Victor Cannerts, the doctor who initially made the controversial call to quarantine the area and is now racing to find a cure for the virus.
On the outside, Dr. Sabine Lommers is leading the government efforts to contain the outbreak, and has asked for Lex’s help in enforcing the cordon– which grows increasingly difficult as the public trust deteriorates. And the public has reason to be wary, as journalist Leo begins unraveling a conspiracy, finding that something doesn’t add up in the official story being told. Torn apart from their loved ones, the survivors trapped within the cordon are fighting against not only fatal infection, but also isolation, fear, and the disintegration of society around them. But as they begin to gain each other’s trust, hope remains, and on either side of the cordon unlikely heroes will rise. (Premieres April 19th)


Time Traveling Bong (Comedy Central)
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A three-episode romp involving two cousins, played by Ilana Glazer and Paul W. Downs, who travel through time stoned after discovering a time-traveling bong. (Premieres April 20th)


Deadbeat (Hulu)
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Deadbeat stars Tyler Labine as a medium who is faced with a constant stream of stubborn spirits, and will go to to whatever lengths require the least amount of effort to help New York City's most frivolous ghosts finish their unfinished business. (Premieres April 20th)


Comedy Knockout (truTV)
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In each episode, host Damien Lemon (Guy Code) sends three comics into a battle of high stakes comedic gameplay. With points doled out based on the audience’s applause, it’s all about one-upmanship as competitors attempt to landj massive comedy blows and whip the rowdy crowd into a frenzy of raucous laughter. The whole time, the comedians throw roast-like, rapid-fire jabs at each other to knock their opponents off balance. Each show ends with one comedian crowned Champion, one eliminated, and one ultimately forced to face the crowd and apologize for going down in shameful defeat. (Premieres April 21st)


Sports Detectives (Smithsonian Channel)
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Some of the most coveted and valuable treasures from history's greatest games and players are missing or misidentified. It's up to the Sports Detectives to find the items and get to the truth. Follow private investigator Kevin Barrows and sports reporter Lauren Gardner as they travel the country on the hunt for Ali's missing Olympic gold medal, Jim Craig's Miracle on Ice flag, Dale Earnhardt's first racecar, and other legendary items. (Premieres April 24th)


Rebellion (Sundance TV)
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Rebellion begins with the outbreak of World War I. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are dashed, social stability is eroded and Irish nationalism comes to the fore. The tumultuous events that follow are seen through the eyes of a group of friends from Dublin, Belfast and London as they play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland's independence. (Premieres April 24th)


Huang’s World (Viceland)
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Eddie Huang went to law school, got hired, got fired, told jokes, sold weed, did molly, opened a restaurant, wrote a New York Times bestseller, and now he’s here. (Premieres April 28th)

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Maybe The Night Manager since its only a 6 ep mini-series.
Been really feeling the tv fatigue/overload lately. Too much shit already that I don't have time to watch.

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Tommy Bunz wrote:Maybe The Night Manager since its only a 6 ep mini-series.
Been really feeling the tv fatigue/overload lately. Too much shit already that I don't have time to watch.
BIGTIME cosign on TV fatigue, can't keep up with shit anymore, just slowly plucking my way through Americans and BCS after finished Daredevil and just ignoring the rest. Stalled out half way through Top Boy and Money & Violence and Billions and Hap & Leonard, even though I liked all of them... just too much to wade through. I honestly get more satisfaction of catching stray eps of TNG or old Xfiles, it's safety blanket stuff.

With that said, I'm in on Night Manager because I love the book and Le Carre adaptations have always been good, and this shit got a banger cast.

Can see myself fucking with that Panthers show at some point when it pops on on Netflix or something. It's on the same wave as Night Manager - good cast and eurospies are always a good combo and I think it's a short series too.
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Checking The Ranch now, it's decent, I dig the multi-cam,live audience feel it has plus Masterson & Kutcher still have good chemistry. As always Sam Elliot's a pimp.

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Im in on Night Manager.

Also glad vice is brining back Huangs World, really enjoyed the youtube show. Viceland has some of my favorite shows right now.

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Night Manager looks okay, will probably watch it but probably not right off the bat.

Also really feeling the TV fatigue, just too much stuff out there right now.

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Not watching the MacLethal show. Hate hate hate



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Night Manager aired last month (?) on BBC. It wasn't the best thing I've seen all year. And certainly not the worst. It was perfect for my work commute, and it was only 6 episodes.

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Night manager and DICE
Hey, by the way who's Curt?

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