🏀 March Madness without cable: All the games will be shown on four channels, and two streaming subscriptions will get you in. Max costs $10 per month to watch TBS, TNT and TruTV, and Paramount+ with Showtime costs $12 a month for CBS games. Score!
Fire up the TV: Here’s what to stream in April
Don’t want you to waste your precious time looking for something to watch. Let me point you straight to the good stuff — everything new this month that’s worth a stream. Just remember to spend some time outside, OK?
Netflix
Black leather, bullet time, Keanu: All three ���Matrix” movies are on Netflix this month. If that’s not your bag, “Happy Gilmore” with Adam Sandler is always a hole-in-one. Or, treat the kids to “Hotel Transylvania” (and then “Hotel Transylvania 2”).
Shows to watch out for: New seasons of “The Circle,” “Heartbreak High,” “Spirit Rangers” and “As The Crow Flies.” Oh, and all four seasons of adventure series “Black Sails.” No need to pirate it!
Hulu
Lots of cool movies hitting Hulu this month including the star-packed thriller “Don’t Worry Darling,” Cohen classic “The Big Lebowski” and Marvel blockbuster “Wonder Woman.”
Series for streaming: New seasons of “We’re Here” and “Ugliest House in America” — for when you wanna feel better about your fixer-upper.
Amazon Prime Video
You’ve got the ‘80s’ “Top Gun,” the ‘90s’ “Titanic” and the 00s’ Bond flick “Spectre.” Or you could pay homage to the ‘70s with the new Exorcist movie, “The Exorcist: Believer.” Thanks, I’ll pass.
As far as shows go, your best bets are (all the seasons of) “House,” and the latest video-game-to-TV adaptation, “Fallout.” I swear there’s a new one every day.
Max
If you have an extra 20 hours on your hands, you could binge all eight “Harry Potter” movies on Max this month. There’s a ton of other great stuff, like this year’s Oscar-winning “The Zone Of Interest” and early aughts classic “Lost In Translation.” Ooh, maybe I’ll watch when I’m missing Japan.
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I think we’re all wondering the same thing. Am I really saving any money since I ditched cable for streaming? And about those commercials … they’ve come to streaming, too.
Just this week, Disney+ and Hulu said that come October, prices will increase. Ad-free Disney+ is going from $11 to $14 — ad-free Hulu from $14 to $18. You could pay less to watch some ads, but … they’re annoying.
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Expand your streaming horizons: Ditch Hulu’s algorithm and browse by channel. Click Browse > Networks, then filter by A-Z. What’ll it be? Renovations on HGTV? Recipes on Food Network? Rom-coms on Lifetime? Feels like old-school channel surfing!
🏀 This takes balls: Finally, we won’t need to pay a bunch of different streamers for sports. ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced an all-in-one sports streaming service, packing 14 networks and ESPN+. Coming this fall, priced above $40 monthly.
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