For individuals who nonetheless haven’t lower the twine, here’s a choice of cable and community TV exhibits, films and specials that broadcast this week, April 8-14. Particulars and occasions are topic to alter.
Monday
THE GREEN MILE (1999) 7 p.m. on AMC. Based mostly 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 mild large 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 (examine native listings). The songwriting duo of Elton John and Bernie Taupin are the recipients of the 2024 Gershwin Prize for Well-liked Track, awarded by the Library of Congress. To honor their achievements, a tribute live performance held in Washington D.C. will likely 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 youngsters finds a treasure map to the fabled treasure of an notorious pirate often called One-Eyed Willy, a zany journey unfolds as they race to seek out gold to save lots of their houses from foreclosures. Will the Goonies discover what they’ve been looking for earlier than the Fratellis, a criminal offense household scorching on their tail, get their grubby mitts on the priceless jewels? Will their coastal city be saved from destruction? Confronted 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 suggestion he can’t refuse.” By no means has a string of phrases — spoken by Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) — weighed so closely onscreen. Regardless of his age and jowls, the pinnacle of the Corleone household “stays a fearsome, rudely magnificent creature,” Vincent Canby wrote in his evaluation for The New York Occasions. Household responsibility. Questionable honor. A son reluctant to take up the throne. This traditional has all of it, plus many extra strains that linger in your ears: “Depart the gun, take the cannoli.”
GHOST ADVENTURES: HOUSE CALLS 10 p.m. on Discovery. Be a part of an intrepid group 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 offered 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 “Woman Macbeth of Mtsensk,” an 1865 novella by Nikolai Leskov, exemplifies the ability of newfound liberation as “carnal lust slips into bloodlust,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her evaluation for The Occasions.
THE ZONE OF INTEREST (2023) 8 p.m. on HBO. Summer time 1943. German-occupied Poland. A mom of 5, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), builds a dream house and life, as her husband, the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), studies to the camp that sits simply past the backyard wall. Loosely based mostly 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 Curiosity” was awarded Greatest Sound and Greatest Worldwide Function Movie 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 often called Massive and Little Edie — are the eccentric, reclusive duo who’re the themes of this documentary. Relations of Jacqueline Kennedy, they stay in Gray Gardens, a ramshackle mansion in East Hampton, the place they exhibit their day by day “costumes” and recount tales of lovers of years previous. Cats and raccoons crawl throughout light images 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 one centesimal consecutive efficiency at Madison Sq. Backyard stay. “I don’t consider myself as a singer,” he just lately advised The Occasions. “I’m a piano participant.” His Backyard sequence wraps in July 2024, along with his 104th present, which will likely be his one hundred and fiftieth lifetime efficiency on the celebrated venue.
