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For those that nonetheless haven’t minimize the twine, here’s a number of cable and community TV reveals, films and specials that broadcast this week, April 8-14. Details and occasions are topic to alter.
Monday
THE GREEN MILE (1999) 7 p.m. on AMC. Based on the 1999 Stephen King novel of the identical identify, this three-hour-plus movie tells a somber story of the demise row warden Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) who meets an enigmatic inmate, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) — a delicate big with therapeutic powers that border on the supernatural.
ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG TRIBUTE CONCERT 8 p.m. on PBS (test native listings). The songwriting duo of Elton John and Bernie Taupin are the recipients of the 2024 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, awarded by the Library of Congress. To honor their achievements, a tribute live performance held in Washington D.C. shall be held with performances by Metallica, Garth Brooks, Annie Lennox, Joni Mitchell — final yr’s honoree — and extra.
THE GOONIES (1985) 6 p.m. on E! When a band of misfit neighborhood children finds a treasure map to the fabled treasure of an notorious pirate referred to as One-Eyed Willy, a zany journey unfolds as they race to seek out gold to avoid wasting their houses from foreclosures. Will the Goonies discover what they’ve been trying to find earlier than the Fratellis, against the law household sizzling on their tail, get their grubby mitts on the priceless jewels? Will their coastal city be saved from destruction? Faced with treacherous traps, secret caves and no scarcity of nail-biting moments, repeat after me: “Goonies by no means say die!”
Wednesday
THE GODFATHER (1972) 8 p.m. on TCM. “I’m gonna make him a proposal he can’t refuse.” Never has a string of phrases — spoken by Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) — weighed so closely onscreen. Despite his age and jowls, the top of the Corleone household “stays a fearsome, rudely magnificent creature,” Vincent Canby wrote in his overview for The New York Times. Family obligation. Questionable honor. A son reluctant to take up the throne. This traditional has all of it, plus many extra traces that linger in your ears: “Leave the gun, take the cannoli.”
GHOST ADVENTURES: HOUSE CALLS 10 p.m. on Discovery. Join an intrepid staff of paranormal investigators, Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley, as they doc the houses of people that declare they’re plagued with undesirable, unexplained paranormal exercise.
Thursday
LADY MACBETH (2016) 7:15 p.m. on STARZ. Set in Nineteenth-century rural England, a younger lady (Florence Pugh) is bought right into a loveless marriage and, after rising bored of being silenced and untouched, finds herself passionately enraptured in an affair with a younger man (Cosmo Jarvis) on her husband’s property. This adaptation of “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” an 1865 novella by Nikolai Leskov, exemplifies the facility of newfound liberation as “carnal lust slips into bloodlust,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her overview for The Times.
THE ZONE OF INTEREST (2023) 8 p.m. on HBO. Summer 1943. German-occupied Poland. A mom of 5, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), builds a dream dwelling and life, as her husband, the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), stories to the camp that sits simply past the backyard wall. Loosely primarily based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, this movie creates an phantasm of perfection and idyllic bliss, whereas unimaginable horrors unfold mere steps from the household’s entrance door. “The Zone of Interest” was awarded Best Sound and Best International Feature Film on the Oscars this yr.
GREY GARDENS (1975) 10:30 p.m. on TCM. Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale — in any other case referred to as Big and Little Edie — are the eccentric, reclusive duo who’re the topics of this documentary. Relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy, they reside in Grey Gardens, a ramshackle mansion in East Hampton, the place they exhibit their every day “costumes” and recount tales of lovers of years previous. Cats and raccoons crawl throughout pale pictures and rotting flooring, as reminiscences pile excessive.
Sunday
THE 100TH: BILLY JOEL AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 9 p.m. on CBS. Billy Joel will air his a hundredth consecutive efficiency at Madison Square Garden reside. “I don’t consider myself as a singer,” he not too long ago advised The Times. “I’m a piano participant.” His Garden collection wraps in July 2024, along with his 104th present, which shall be his one hundred and fiftieth lifetime efficiency on the celebrated venue.
