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What’s on TV, April 5-11: ’The Testaments,’ March Madness, the Masters and more

New and noteworthy series, movies, sports and specials on broadcast, cable and/or streaming this coming week

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Matt Cooper
Apr 03, 2026
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Chase Infiniti in “The Testaments” (Disney)

Sunday — April 5

It’ll be UConn or South Carolina versus Texas or UCLA in the final of the NCAA Women’s College Basketball Tournament in Phoenix. (3:30 p.m. ET, 12:30 p.m. PT on ABC, ESPN)

(Check the NCAA website for team updates)

You could watch the NHL’s Washington Capitals and New York Rangers play the traditional way (7 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. PT on ESPN). Or you could watch the exact same game — but computer-animated in real time — in the “Inside Out Classic” inspired by the 2015 Pixar film. (Disney Channel, Disney+, and ESPN+)

R&B legend Chaka Kahn and gospel great Kirk Franklin are among the music stars helping to draw attention to the mounting student loan debt crisis at historically Black colleges and universities in the concert special “HBCU Awarefest.” (8 p.m. BET)

Trash will be talked, tables flipped, drinks thrown, etc. as the reality TV franchise entry “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” returns for a 17th season. (8 p.m. Bravo)

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Return with us now to early 20th-century Western Canada as the “When Calls the Heart” spinoff “When Hope Calls” kicks off a third season. With Morgan Kohan. (8 p.m. GAF)

Desperate parents take matters into their own hands when a visit from child protective services doesn’t go their way in the new thriller “Kidnapping My Own Daughter.” With Kathryn Kohut and Catherine Saindon. (8 p.m. Lifetime)

he truth may be out there, but the “proof” still looks kinda shaky and blurry, as the unscripted series “Paranormal Caught on Camera” returns with new episodes. (9 p.m. Travel Channel)

It starts with a personal computer built in a garage in San Leandro, Calif. in 1977 in the documentary “50 Years of Apple” on a new “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.” (10 p.m. CNN).

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