New releases for your streaming pleasure: April 24-30

New releases for your streaming pleasure: April 24-30

8 new titles from Apple TV+, Netflix, HBO Go, Animal Planet, AFN and Prime Video

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
New releases for your streaming pleasure: April 24-30

Looking for a title to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!

APPLE TV+

The Big Door Prize: Season Two

Premieres on April 24

Based on M.O. Walsh’s novel, “The Big Door Prize” season two follows the residents of Deerfield as the Morpho machine readies them for the mysterious “next stage”. As everyone’s potentials are exchanged for visions, new relationships form and new questions are asked. Dusty and Cass decide to take time apart while Trina and Jacob learn that they can shed their old labels. Giorgio and Izzy each find romance while Hana and Father Reuben attempt to discover the purpose of the machine. The small town is once again left questioning what they thought they knew about their lives, relationships, potentials, and about the Morpho itself.


NETFLIX

City Hunter

Premieres on April 25

An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner's sister to investigate his death.

Dead Boy Detectives

Premieres on April 25

Do you have a pesky ghost haunting you? Has a demon stolen your core memories? You may want to ring the Dead Boy Detectives.

Talk To Me

Premieres on April 29

A group of teens turn an embalmed hand that can possess the holder into a rowdy, risky party game. But once the rules are broken, there's no going back.


HBO/HBO GO

Asteroid City 

Premieres on April 27

Set in the fictional American desert town of Asteroid City circa 1955, a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention that brings together students and parents from across the country is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. Stars Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman, Steve Carell, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody and Jeffrey Wright.


ANIMAL PLANET

Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure

Premieres on April 22

What begins as Portia de Rossi’s simple desire to come up with a nice birthday gift for her wife, Ellen DeGeneres, snowballs into something bigger than anybody could have imagined. The couple find themselves embarking on one of the largest architectural and landscaping projects in the history of Rwanda, only to collide with challenges like volcanoes, earthquakes, and a global pandemic. It all culminates in a once-in-a-lifetime experience for them, their family and friends as they celebrate the opening of The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.


AFN

Travel With Mommy

Premieres on April 25

Join Chinese chef Jeremy Pang on a culinary journey across the United Kingdom as he aims to inspire enthusiastic and adventurous home cooks to try more Asian recipes. As he takes in the rich landscape of the United Kingdom, he samples a variety of eclectic ingredients from various food producers and incorporates them in his recipes.


PRIME VIDEO

Them: The Scare

Premieres on April 25

Set in Los Angeles County (the first instalment took place in Compton circa 1952 but will move the time frame forward to 1991). The new story centers on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve who is assigned to a new case: the gruesome murder of a foster home mother that has left even the most hardened detectives shaken. Navigating a tumultuous time in Los Angeles, with a city on the razor’s edge of chaos, Dawn is determined to stop the killer. But as she draws closer to the truth, something ominous and malevolent grips her and her family.

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