By Rick Gables
Get a front row seat in real time with PBS’ three-night event, Nature: American Spring Live, airing on Monday, April 29 through Wednesday, May 1, at 8 p.m. ET (check your local listings). Spring is one of nature’s greatest performances, a time of dramatic transformations from winter to spring. Acclaimed news anchor Juju Chang will host this event, with on camera experts showing springtime phenomena in various ecosystems ranging from the Rockies to the Everglades, highlighting some of the most pivotal events in nature’s calendar. We’ll also experience the mass movements of animals as they take advantage of spring’s bounty.
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will premiere its new original movie Morning Show Mysteries: Death by Design on Sunday, April 28, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Holly Robinson Peete and Rick Fox star. Much beloved restauranteur-turned-TV chef, Billie Blessings (Peete) helps prepare her restaurant for the birthday party of her childhood best friend, interior designer Marian (Keegan Connor Tracy), and Marian’s identical twin sister Jasmine. Jasmine gets into a verbal altercation with Riley (Jessica Heafey), and orders her to leave the party. After the party, Jasmine is found murdered in an alley. Soon, everyone starts to think Riley killed Jasmine. Meanwhile Ian (Fox) welcomes Billie’s input on the case and, one by one, Ian and Billie consider everyone close to Jasmine, and try to identify a motive, means and opportunity for murder.
CBS will premiere its eight-episode original limited series The Red Line on Sunday, April 28, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The series follows three very different Chicago families as they journey toward hope and healing after a tragedy causes them all to consider how race and racial biases affect their lives. On the north side of Chicago, Daniel Calder is a high school history teacher mourning the death of his husband, an African American doctor who was shot, while unarmed, by a white cop. Their grieving daughter, Jira Calder-Brennan, seeks the understanding of someone who knows what it’s like to grow up as a young black woman, and searches for her birth mother to learn more about her personal history, culture and community. On the south side, Tia Young scours news of the shooting, torn between her political ambition of running for Alderman and risking it all to comfort the daughter she gave up for adoption as a teen.
