Best-bets for April 23: nature’s beauty, humans’ greed

1) Earth Day, continued. A deluge of earthly shows arrived on or before Friday; most are still available via Disney+ (including the ambitious “Polar Bear”), Netflix (including the gorgeous “Our Great National Parks”), Paramount+, Discovery+ and PBS.org. Also, BBC America wraps a two-day marathon of splendid nature reruns. “Planet Earth” (shown here) continues to 9 a.m., with “Blue Planet II” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and “Africa” from 3-8 p.m. Read more…

1) Earth Day, continued. A deluge of earthly shows arrived on or before Friday; most are still available via Disney+ (including the ambitious “Polar Bear”), Netflix (including the gorgeous “Our Great National Parks”), Paramount+, Discovery+ and PBS.org. Also, BBC America wraps a two-day marathon of splendid nature reruns. “Planet Earth” (shown here) continues to 9 a.m., with “Blue Planet II” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and “Africa” from 3-8 p.m.

2) “Wrath” and “Greed,” 6 and 8 p.m., Lifetime. Years ago, the Rev. T.D. Jakes said he would make seven deadly-sins movies. We guessed that lust would be first (as it often is); it was, followed by envy. Now, after a Covid delay, here are more. The first, which debuted last week, has Michelle Williams meet a wrathful guy; her mom is played by Tina Knowles-Lawson, the mother of Williams’ old colleague, Beyonce. The second has Monique Coleman being greedy; that leaves pride, gluttony and sloth.

3) More movies. It’s Disney vs. Disney: At 7:30 p.m., Freeform has “Monsters University” (2013), part of an animation marathon; at 8, ABC has the live-action remake of “The Lion King” (2019). Meanwhile, Turner Classic Movies has two films by Peter Bogdanovich, who died in January at 82. “Saint Jack” (1979) is at 8 p.m., with “The Great Buster” (2018), a Buster Keaton documentary, at 10:15.

4) “9-1-1,” 8 p.m., Fox. Here’s a rerun of a pivotal episode. Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and “Chimney” (Kenneth Choi) had been lovers, but she descended into postpartum depression. Now he scrambles to find her and their baby, amid the chaos of a St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Boston.

5) “The Cleaning Lady,” 9 p.m., Fox. Here’s another key hour. With help from Hayek (the good-guy member of a drug cartel), Thony was able to get her son a transplant in Mexico. But now she has no way to get back over the border. She has to turn to Garrett (Oliver Hudson), the FBI agent who’s trying to put Hayek and his colleagues in prison.

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