Pandemic programming calls for light fare, and while Hulu is low on original series in April, there are still plenty of comforting classics becoming available to stream.
That includes most of FX’s vast library of originals, which migrated to Walt Disney Co.’s DIS, -9.43% Hulu last month, as well as new additions such as recent seasons of “Chopped,” “House Hunters” and “Property Brothers” (all April 1), and romance from the “Bachelor” spinoff “Listen to Your Heart” and the new rom-com series “The Baker and the Beauty,” both dropping new episodes a day after they air on ABC, starting April 14.
“Mrs. America,” an original miniseries, launches April 15 under the new “FX on Hulu” banner. It stars Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative crusader and anti-feminist who was a key figure in the culture wars of the 1970s. Rose Byrne, Sarah Paulson, Margo Martindale, Uzo Aduba and Tracey Ullman fill out the all-star cast.
Another highlight: Season 2 of FX’s hilarious vampire mockumentary “What We Do in the Shadows,” with new episodes dropping a day after they originally air on FX, starting April 16.
Also see: Everything coming to Netflix in April 2020 — and what’s leaving
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On the movie front, the best of the bunch is “Parasite,” Bong Joon-ho’s satirical thriller that cleaned up at the Oscars, including wins for best picture and best director, coming April 8.
What’s coming in April
April 1
Kabukicho Sherlock: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED) (Funimation)
60 Days In: Narcoland: Complete Season 1 (A&E)
90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?: Complete Season 4 (TLC)
Alone: Complete Season 6 (History)
Breaking Amish: Complete Seasons 2 & 3 (TLC)
Bring It!: Complete Season 5 (Lifetime)
Chopped: Complete Season 36 (Food Network)
Cutthroat Kitchen: Complete Season 12 (Food Network)
Dance Moms: Complete Seasons 2 & 6 (Lifetime)
Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives: Complete Seasons 27 – 29 (Food Network)
Dr. Pimple Popper: Complete Season 3 (TLC)
Fast N’ Loud: Complete Season 13 (Discovery)
Fixer Upper (How We Got to Here: Looking Back on Fixer Upper): Special (HGTV)
Forged in Fire: Complete Season 6 (History)
Gold Medal Families: Complete Season 1 (Lifetime)
Hidden Potential: Complete Season 1 (HGTV)
House Hunters: Complete Season 120 (HGTV)
Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole: Complete Season 1 (A&E)
Little Women: Atlanta: Complete Season 5 (Lifetime)
Little Women: LA: Complete Seasons 7 & 8 (Lifetime)
Love It or List It: Complete Season 14 (HGTV)
Married at First Sight: Complete Season 9 (FYI)
Marrying Millions: Complete Season 1 (Lifetime)
Property Brothers: Complete Seasons 10 & 11 (HGTV)
Taken at Birth: Complete Season 1 (TLC)
The Family Chantel: Complete Season 1 (TLC)
The Food That Built America: Complete Season 1 (History)
The Kitchen: Complete Seasons 16 – 18 (Food Network)
Til Death Do Us Part: Complete Season 1 (ID)
TRANsitioning: Complete Season 1 (FYI)
The Ant Bully (2006)
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
Bend It Like Beckham (2003)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
The Book Of Eli (2010)
The Boost (1988)
The Chumscrubber (2005)
Diary of a Hitman (1991)
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who (2008)
Dr. T. and the Women (2000)
The Eternal (1998)
Free Birds (2013)
The Full Monty (1997)
Fun in Acapulco (1963)
Gator (1976)
Get Smart (2008)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Gorky Park (1983)
Hud (1963)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Let Me In (2010)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
The Mexican (2001)
Misery (1990)
Moll Flanders (1996)
Phone Booth (2003)
Repentance (2014)
Risky Business (1983)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
The Sender (1982)
Shirley Valentine (1989)
Spider-Man (2002)
Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story (2019)
Victoria Gotti: My Father’s Daughter (2019)
Who Let The Dogs Out (2019)
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Zombieland (2009)
April 3
Future Man: Complete Final Season: Season 3 (Hulu)
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell: Complete Season 4 (Adult Swim)
Siren: Season 3 Premiere (Freeform)
April 6
Too Cautious Hero: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED) (Funimation)
April 7
No Guns Life: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED) (Funimation)
April 8
Parasite (2019)
April 9
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?: Series Premiere (ABC)
Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life: Complete Season 2a (DUBBED) (Funimation)
Little Joe (2019)
April 10
Real Housewives of Potomac: Complete Season 4 (Bravo)
April 12
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Complete Season 9B (Discovery Family)
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic en Español: Complete Season 9B (Discovery Family)
April 14
The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart: Series Premiere (ABC)
The Baker and the Beauty: Series Premiere (ABC)
Songland: Season 2 Premiere (NBC)
Vault (2019)
Unlocked (2017)
April 15
Mrs. America: Series Premiere (FX on Hulu)
The Masked Singer: Sing-Along Spectacular: Special (Fox)
A Teacher (2013)
The Messenger (2009)
April 16
What We Do in the Shadows: Season 2 Premiere (FX)
Harry Benson: Shoot First (2016)
April 20
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
A Kind Of Murder (2016)
April 22
Special-7: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED) (Funimation)
April 23
Cunningham (2019)
April 24
Abominable (2019)
April 29
Footloose (2011)
April 30
2020 Billboard Music Awards: Special (NBC)
What’s leaving in April
April 30
My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
American Buffalo (1996)
Cinderfella (1960)
Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Golden Gate (1994)
The Bellboy (1960)
The Patsy (1964)
The Tenant (1976)
Unforgettable (1996)
Buffalo 66 (1998)
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
Still Smokin’ (1983)
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
Judgment Day (1999)
Lord of War (2005)
National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie (2011)
National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze 2: College @ Sea (2006)
Southie (1999)
The Last Stand (2013)
The Last Warrior (2000)
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
The Spy Next Door (2010)
28 Days Later (2003)
Robin Hood (1991)
Say Anything (1989)
Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason (2004)
Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
For Colored Girls (2010)
John Q (2002)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985)
National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
Vegas Vacation (1997)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
