TV This Week for April 19- 25: ‘Boyhood’ on Showtime

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SUNDAY

CNN goes to pot with the new special “Weed 3: The Marijuana Revolution” and new Colorado-set docu-series “High Profits.” 6 and 9; 7 and 10 p.m. CNN

It’s a hoedown and a bro-down when Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan team up to host “The 50th Academy of Country Music Awards.” 8 p.m. CBS

Clothing is not an option on the season premiere of the wilderness-survival series “Naked and Afraid.” 10 p.m. Discovery Channel

Bill Paxton — or is it Bill Pullman? — no, it’s Bill Paxton who’s exploring his family history on a new “Who Do You Think You Are?” 10 p.m. TLC

MONDAY

“Independent Lens” presents “The Great Invisible,” a look back at 2010’s deadly Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion and the disastrous oil spill that followed. 10 p.m. KOCE

My God, it’s full of stars! In the new special “Hubble’s Cosmic Journey,” physicist Stephen Hawking and others mark the 25th anniversary of the launching of the space-based telescope. 10 p.m. National Geographic Channel

CGI effects are used to re-create cities the way they used to look in the new series “Time Traveling With Brian Unger.” 10 and 10:30 p.m. Travel Channel

Setting course for Rigel VII: “Star Trek’s” George Takei is host Neil deGrasse Tyson’s first guest on the new weekly chat show “StarTalk.” 11 p.m. National Geographic Channel

TUESDAY

“The National Mall — America’s Front Yard” surveys that little patch of Washington, D.C., that stretches from the U.S. Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial. 8 p.m. KOCE

A shadowy figure who helped plan the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, is profiled in “American Terrorist” on a new “Frontline.” 10 p.m. KOCE

Our so-bad-she’s-good gal is back in new episodes of “Inside Amy Schumer” 10:30 p.m. Comedy Central

WEDNESDAY

All in the family: Dick Van Dyke guest stars with his brother Jerry Van Dyke on “The Middle,” and Rosanna Arquette guest stars with her sister Patricia Arquette on “CSI: Cyber.” 8 p.m. ABC; 10 p.m. CBS

What do puffins, ants and coral have in common? They’re just some of the critters in this new episode of “Nature.” 8 p.m. KOCE

“Nova” does its own salute to the Hubble Telescope in a new episode . 9 p.m. KOCE

A new “Nazi Mega Weapons” recalls the heavily fortified WWII defensive barrier known as the Siegfried Line. 10 p.m. KOCE

The mystery drama “Broadchurch” ends its second season. With David Tennant and Olivia Colman. 10 p.m. BBC America

The 1980s-set espionage drama “The Americans” ends its latest season. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys star. 10 p.m. FX

Work it! Members of a gay and gender nonconforming African American dance team strut their stuff in the new unscripted series “The Prancing Elites Project.” 10 p.m. Oxygen

THURSDAY

On the eve of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, KOCE offers encores of the documentaries “The Armenian Americans” and “The Armenian Genocide.” 7 and 8:30 p.m. KOCE

Kenya is the first stop on the return of the nature series “Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan.” 9 p.m. Travel Channel

Baby, it’s cold outside: A snowstorm turns a hook-up into a “Two Night Stand” in this 2014 rom-com. With Miles Teller (“Whiplash”) and Analeigh Tipton. 10 p.m. Cinemax

FRIDAY

The new special “Bruce Jenner — The Interview” finds the reality-TV star and former Olympian opening up to Diane Sawyer about his much-speculated-upon personal life. 9 p.m. ABC

It takes two to tango — and cha-cha and mambo, etc. — on the return of the dance competition “America’s Ballroom Challenge.” 9 p.m. KOCE

“VOCES on PBS” presents “Now en Español,” profiling five Latina actresses who helped dub “Desperate Housewives” into Spanish while pursuing their own showbiz dreams.10 p.m. KOCE

If off-color comedy is your bag, laugh it up with the new stand-up specials “Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate” and “Andrew Dice Clay Presents the Blue Show.” 10 p.m. Epix; 11 p.m. Showtime

SATURDAY

Why climb Yosemite’s Half Dome and El Capitan? Because they’re there, as detailed in the new sports doc “Valley Uprising.” 8 p.m. Discovery Channel

Dwayne Johnson does his best Steve Reeves in the 2014 sword-and-sandal tale “Hercules.” Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and John Hurt also star. 8 p.m. Epix

Westward, ho! The Canada-set frontier-era drama “When Calls the Heart” is back for a second season. With Lori Loughlin, Erin Krakow and Jack Wagner. 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel

They grow up so fast! Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke and Oscar winner Patricia Arquette star in Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making 2014 family drama “Boyhood.” 8 p.m. Showtime

Two B-movie franchises collide in the 2015 made-for-cable creature-feature “Lake Placid vs. Anaconda.” With Robert Englund, Yancy Butler and Corin Nemec. 9 p.m. Syfy