What's on TV this week—Widow's Bay and Saturday Night Live

Plus, the U.K.'s Twenty Twenty Six and Chile's The House Of The Spirits.

By Christina Izzo  |  April 26, 2026 | 8:00am
Widow's Bay (Photo: Apple TV)
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What's on TV this week—Widow's Bay and Saturday Night Live

Welcome to What’s On, our weekly roundup of notable shows. Here is what’s happening on TV from Sunday, April 26 to Saturday, May 2. All times are Eastern.

New this week

Widow’s Bay (Apple TV, Wednesday, 12 a.m., limited series premiere)

In Apple TV’s genre-mashingy series, Matthew Rhys stars Tom Loftis, the mayor of a quaint but supposedly cursed island town in New England. The locals (played by Kate O’Flynn, Stephen Root, and Dale Dickey) fully buy into those superstitions, but Loftis is skeptical and instead focuses on driving up tourism. However, his plans get upended when those scary stories start coming true. Read The A.V. Club’s review. 

The House Of The Spirits (Prime Video, Wednesday, 3 a.m., limited series premiere) 

 

Adapted from Isabel Allend’s debut novel, Prime Video’s limited-series take on her saga details the life of the Trueba family across a century of social change, violent revolution, personal upheavals, and magical realism in conservative Chile. The eight-episode series is told through the perspective of granddaughter Alba (Rochi Hernandez), and Alfonso Herrera and Nicole Wallace also star. 

Man On Fire (Netflix, Thursday, 3 a.m., limited series premiere) 

 

More than two decades after Denzel Washington took on the role of Special Forces mercenary John Creasy on the big screen, Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen ll steps into those vigilante shoes for this seven-episode series. The action-thriller finds our guy fighting to rescue the teenage daughter (Billie Boullet) of a dead colleague in Rio de Janeiro, all while battling his dark past and PTSD. Alice Braga, Scoot McNairy, Paul Ben-Victor, and Bobby Cannavale round out the cast.  

Twenty Twenty Six (BritBox, Friday, 12 a.m., limited series premiere) 

 

Hugh Bonneville is back as Ian Fletcher in this satirical six-part follow-up to the London Olympics mockumentary Twenty Twelve and its BBC-focused sequel W1A. This time around, he’s been named the new Director Of Integrity for the team behind the World Cup. Per usual, Hugh Skinner plays Fletcher’s trusty assistant, and David Tennant narrates.   

Can’t miss recaps

The Audacity (AMC, Sunday, 9 p.m.)

Euphoria (HBO, Sunday, 9 p.m.)

Rooster (HBO, Sunday, 10:05 p.m.)

The Comeback (HBO, Sunday, 10:36 p.m.)

Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+, Tuesday, 9 p.m.)

The Boys (Prime Video, Wednesday, 3 a.m.)

Hacks (HBO Max, Thursday, 9 p.m.)

Half Man (HBO, Thursday, 9 p.m.)

Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) 

Also arriving

The 152nd Kentucky Derby (NBC, Saturday, 2:30 p.m.)

Ending soon

The Forsytes (PBS, Sunday, 9p.m., season one finale)

R.J. Decker (ABC, Tuesday, 9 p.m., season one finale)

Imperfect Women (Apple TV, Wednesday, 12 a.m., limited series finale)

Million Dollar Secret (Netflix, Wednesday, 3 a.m., season two finale)

American Gladiators (Prime Video, Friday, 3 a.m., season one finale)

Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters (Apple TV, Friday, 3 a.m., season two finale)  

 
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