The week ahead, April 13-19: Apple's got 'Margo's Got Money Troubles'

Welcome to another week. In the one that just ended, Mario and Ryan Gosling helped movie studios reach their best year-to-date box office since before the start of the COVID pandemic, Rory McIlroy was down and then up to repeat at the Masters and Euphoria returned to HBO after a four-year absence.

Let’s get right to it. Here’s what’s coming this week in the TV and streaming world. All times are ET/PT unless otherwise noted.

Monday
• 8 p.m.: The 1% Club (Fox) - The network is getting an early start on its summer lineup because, as I mentioned last week, the World Cup will take up a lot of airtime in June and early July. So this game show, and The Quiz With Balls (9 p.m.), are premiering tonight.
• 9 p.m.: Boy Band Confidential (ID/HBO Max) - It’s a two-night docuseries about the exploitative side of the 1990s-2000s boy band boom, with a number of familiar faces sitting for interviews.

Tuesday
• You Don’t Know Where I’m From, Dawg (Paramount+) - A doc series about U.S. soccer great Clint Dempsey. Spoiler alert: He’s from Nacogdoches, Texas.
• 9 p.m.: The Dark Wizard (HBO/HBO Max) - Another doc series, this one about climber and BASE jumper Dean Potter.

Wednesday
• Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV) - It’s got a great cast — Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, Nicole Kidman, Greg Kinnear — and an A-list showrunner in David E. Kelley, who adapted Rufi Thorpe’s 2024 novel about a woman (Fanning) with a baby on the way who starts an OnlyFans account to help make rent. Her ex-pro wrestler dad (Offerman) proves surprisingly helpful.
• Million Dollar Secret (Netflix) - Season two for the off-brand version of The Traitors.
• 8 p.m.: Masterchef (Fox)

Thursday
• Beef (Netflix) - New season, new cast and new conflict in Netflix’s anthology about small disagreements that spin out of control. The inciting incident is when a young couple witness (and record) their neighbors fighting. Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny star.
• Big Mood (Tubi) - Bridgerton/Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West lead a dramedy about best friends facing a mental health crisis for one of them.
• Vanderpump Villa (Hulu) - You will not see Secret Lives of Mormon Wives guy Dakota Mortensen in this season, even though he filmed it. The show will edit him out due to an ongoing domestic violence investigation involving him and Taylor Frankie Paul, and good god do I wish I didn’t know any of that.

Friday
• American Gladiators (Prime Video) - Yes, again.
• Full Swing (Netflix) - New season for the doc series about PGA Tour players.

Sunday
From (MGM+) - The freaky horror/sci-fi series about a town that traps its residents begins its fourth season.

Tuesday
• 8 p.m.: Doc (Fox) - The medical drama closes its second season with back-to-back-episodes.

Sunday
• 8 p.m.: Krapopolis (Fox)

Monday
• Noah Kahan: Out of Body (Netflix) - The singer-songwriter reflects on his very fast rise in this documentary that also chronicles a show at Fenway Park.
• The Heartbreak Kid: Becoming Shawn Michaels (Peacock)
• 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT: WNBA Draft (ESPN) - Groundbreaking collective bargaining agreement in hand, the WNBA holds its annual draft amid an extra-busy free agency period and run-up to the 2026 season, which starts in May. It’s conceivable that four of national champ UCLA’s starters will be selected in the first round, though TCU’s Olivia Miles and Spanish center Awa Fam are projected as the top picks.

Tuesday
• Trevor Noah: Joy in the Trenches (Netflix) - The former Daily Show host debuts his latest stand-up special.
• 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT: NBA Play-in (Prime Video) - The NBA postseason starts with the 9-10 game in the Eastern Conference (Charlotte vs. Miami), followed by the 7-8 matchup in the West (Phoenix vs. Portland). All of the play-in games are on Prime, and the first round starts Saturday, with games on ABC/ESPN, NBC/Peacock and Prime (schedules are still TBD as I’m writing this).

Wednesday
• Balls Up (Prime Video) - Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser play “two marketing executives who pitch a sponsorship with the World Cup, only to spark a global scandal that forces them to outrun angry fans, criminals, and officials across Brazil.” Peter Farrelly directed.

Thursday
• Jerry West: The Logo (Prime Video) - NBA great — as both player and executive — West, whose silhouette is indeed the logo for the league, is the subject of an affectionate documentary.
• 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT: NHL (ESPN) - It’s the final day of the regular season, and ESPN will have two games on the main network — St. Louis-Utah at 7:30 and Seattle-Colorado at 10 p.m. ET. The other four games Thursday night are on ESPN+; the playoffs will most likely begin Saturday, though weirdly the league doesn’t have a set start date just yet.

Friday
• A Gorilla Story: Told by Richard Attenborough (Netflix)
• 9 p.m.: Ramy Youssef: In Love (HBO/HBO Max) - The comedian’s third special for HBO.

CBS will announce its schedule for the 2026-27 season on Wednesday — a thing it used to do at the May upfronts, but its parent company, Paramount, doesn’t take part in the annual ritual anymore. The lineup probably won’t look much different than it currently does, as the network has renewed most of its shows already.

Netflix has its quarterly earnings call on Thursday, where its execs might talk about what they plan to do with the $2.8 billion breakup fee the company is getting after Paramount outbid it for Warner Bros. Discovery.

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