What To Watch This Week: 35+ Premieres, Finales And More
To help you anticipate and navigate all that television has to offer across broadcast, cable and streaming, TVLine offers daily, weekly and monthly What to Watch digests, as well as an overview of every new TV show premiering in 2025.
This week, you'll find six new shows (including Amy Sherman-Palladino's ballet drama Étoile), a dozen returning favorites (including the final seasons of Andor and YOU) and 11 finales (including the very last episodes of The Conners).
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SUNDAY, APRIL 20
📺 8 pm Secrets of the Penguins (NatGeo)
Blake Lively narrates this James Cameron docuseries that takes viewers to the farthest corners of the world to witness penguin behaviors captured on film for the first time.
📺 8 pm Tournament of Champions Season 6 finale (Food Network)
📺 10 pm Sister Wives Season 19B (TLC)
📺 10:30 pm The Rehearsal Season 2 (HBO)
MONDAY, APRIL 21
📺 8 pm Extracted Season 1 finale (Fox, next day on Hulu)
📺 9 pm America's Most Wanted Season 3 (Fox, next day on Hulu)
📺 10 pm Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out (Lifetime)
Dr. Sandra Lee returns with more bursts, oozes, and pops.
📺 10 pm Love It or List It Season 20 (HGTV)
🎥 10 pm Water for Life (PBS documentary)
The film tells the dramatic story of three community leaders in Latin America who resisted government and corporate plans to divert critical local water resources to mining and hydroelectric projects.
🎥 Pangolin: Kulu's Journey (Netflix documentary)
Rescued from poachers, an endangered baby pangolin embarks on a journey back to the wild with help from a devoted human guardian in this documentary.
🎥 The Return (Paramount+ With Showtime)
TUESDAY, APRIL 22
📺 9 pm Andor final season (Disney+, three-episode premiere)
📺 9 pm Renovation Aloha Season 2 finale (HGTV)
🎥 Sea Lions of the Galapagos (Disney+ documentary)
Narrated by Brendan Fraser, the stunning feature film introduces Leo, a handsome sea lion pup who's learning how to navigate life alongside his mother, Luna. (Blair Underwood narrates a companion documentary, Guardians of the Galapagos.)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23
📺 Battle Camp (Netflix, 10-episode binge)
Netflix reality show stars return to face the ultimate physical and mental competition, where a giant spinning wheel randomly decides who stays and who goes.
📺 A Tragedy Foretold: Flight 3054 (Netflix, three-episode binge)
The untold stories and human tragedy behind Latin America's deadliest air disaster are investigated.
📺 8 pm The Conners series finale (ABC, two episodes, next day on Hulu)
📺 9 pm Celebrity Jeopardy! Season 3 finale (ABC, next day on Hulu)
📺 9 pm The Floor Season 3 finale (Fox, next day on Hulu)
📺 10 pm Changing Planet Season 4 (PBS)
📺 10 pm Life or Death: The Negotiators (NatGeo)
Dive into the minds of some of the world's most skilled negotiators to understand what it takes to navigate a situation where one wrong move can prove deadly.
🎥 The Children of October 7 (Paramount+ documentary)
The film features deeply sensitive conversations between Montana Tucker and the children who bravely share their experiences of trauma and survival as they continue to process the unthinkable — being held captive, witnessing the deaths of their parents and enduring violent invasions of their homes.
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
📺 Étoile (Prime Video, eight-episode binge)
Set in both New York and Paris, the Amy Sherman-Palladino dramedy follows the dancers and artistic staff of two ballet companies as they embark on an ambitious gambit to save their storied institutions.
📺 Black Snow Season 2 (AMC+, two-episode premiere)
📺 Tyler Perry's Ruthless Season 5 finale (BET+)
📺 Vanderpump Villa Season 2 (Hulu, 10-episode binge)
📺 YOU final season (Netflix, 10-episode binge)
📺 8 pm Swamp People Season 16 finale (History Channel)
📺 9 pm Elsbeth time slot premiere (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
📺 9:30 pm Swamp Mysteries With Troy Landry Season 3 finale (History Channel)
FRIDAY, APRIL 25
📺 Dope Thief Season 1 finale (Apple TV+)
📺 Morimoto's Sushi Master Season 2 (The Roku Channel, six-episode binge)
📺 Pokémon Horizons: The Search for Laqua Season 2, Part 2 (Netflix, 20-episode binge)
📺 WondLa Season 2 (Apple TV+, seven-episode binge)
📺 8 pm NCIS: Sydney Season 2 finale (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
📺 9 pm Fire Country Season 3 finale (CBS, two episodes, next day on Paramount+)
🎥 Havoc (Netflix movie)
A disillusioned detective (Tom Hardy) must go deep into the criminal underworld to save a powerful man's estranged son.
🎥 Babygirl (Max)
🤣 Jessica Kirson: I'm the Man (Hulu comedy special)
What are you watching this week? Take stock of everything above, then drop a comment with your lists below.