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Nick Carter and Angel Carter Conrad in "The Carters."
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1. 'The Carters: Hurts to Love You'
Tuesday on Paramount+: With a title taken from Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter's 2023 same-named pop song, the new bio miniseries is a tale of two famous brothers, Nick and Aaron, one living, one dead. In 2022, at age 34, one-time child star Aaron drowned, his system flooded with drugs, in a death the coroner deemed accidental. What happened? How did early fame alter their trajectories? Through home movies, music videos, interviews, and the lens of their sister Angel, the docuseries strives to understand the diverging paths of two talented siblings from the same home who found their time in the spotlight. Directed by 'Punky Brewster' star Soleil Moon Frye.
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Wednesday on Britbox: The Agatha Christie classic, first published in 1944, gets a glossy BBC makeover. The arch three-part miniseries, set in the 1930s, stars Hollywood royalty Anjelica Huston as the bedridden widow Lady Camilla Tressilian. The aristocratic owner of an English seaside estate hosts a coterie of strange and suspicious characters. Upon the discovery of a corpse, Inspector Leach ('
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'The Diamond Heist'
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'Ransom Canyon'
Thursday on Netflix: The new contemporary ranch drama joins the field of neo-westerns like 'Longmire,' 'Yellowstone,' and '
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'Secrets of the Penguins'
Sunday on National Geographic at 8 p.m., then migrating to streaming on Disney+ and Hulu: It's amazing penguins still have secrets after the recent movie 'The Penguin Lessons' and the 2006 Oscar winner 'March of the Penguins.' Still, who doesn't love those flightless birds, even though it's a fallacy that they mate for life. Blake Lively narrates National Geographic's three-part docuseries just in time for Earth Day on April 22.
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