Texas women's basketball coach Vic Schaefer came home to build something lasting

FORT WORTH, Texas — Coach Vic Schaefer understands the legacy of Texas women's basketball.

"I'm all in at Texas," Schaefer said. "And I knew that when I took the job.  I knew what came with it.  I knew what the expectations were, and I wanted that.  I embraced that."

His players, especially point guard Rori Harmon, are right there with him. It was easy to get wrapped up in the celebrations after Texas' 77-41 Elite Eight victory over Michigan on March 30, but fifth-year senior Harmon found Schaefer for a long embrace.

"I don't think he's hugged me that tight — ever," Harmon said. "He's so all in. You want to do it for yourself and your team, but you really want to do it for him."

In 2020, Schaefer decided to give his life to Texas.

Born just down the street from theLonghorns' campus in Austin, there was always a sneaking suspicion he would end up back where it all started.

After previous stops at Sam Houston State and Mississippi State, Schaefer's veteran presence and winning ways translated perfectly to Texas. The Longhorns will be making their fifth trip to the Final Four and last won a title in 1986.

He would join the Longhorns' lineage backed by Jody Conradt, Chris Plonsky and Kathy Harston — a trio of women who built Texas women's basketball from the ground up.

"I don't take being given the opportunity to be the head coach at Texas lightly," Schaefer said. "I understand the history."

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During the Longhorns' Sweet 16 and Elite Eight victories over Kentucky and Michigan, Schaefer took it all in — a sea of orange filled Fort Worth's Dickies Arena.

"That says a lot about the people that care about our program," Schaefer said. "I carry that. I carry that weight."

With that weight comes passion, devotion and the itch to win.

"Who wouldn't want to play for a coach like that?" junior Madison Booker said. "The team wouldn't be where they are without his loyalty."

Schaefer has carried the Longhorns to five Elite Eights over the course of his six year tenure and consecutive Final Fours. Schaefer isn't alone in his commitment to his program. When college women's basketball coaches say something, they mean it.

They believe in it. They act on it. They devote their lives to it.

And all of it — the loyalty, the love, the commitment — sets them apart from coaches in other major college sports.

It's certainly no secret the landscape of college athletics is rapidly changing. NIL, the transfer portal, conference realignment and revenue sharing have created an environment that some fans hardly recognize.

College football coaches are being fired and hired at a rate that can be hard to keep up with.

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The Lane Kiffin saga, Kyle Whittingham's retirement fake-out and the absolute redo of the SEC's coaching staffs are just a few examples.

"I needed Oxford, Mississippi, and Ole Miss more than they needed me," Kiffin once said.

Kiffin had everyone believing he was there to stay. A year later, he was gone.

But not everybody is looking for the next job.

Geno Auriemma, who is in his 41st season with UConn women's basketball, is one of the best to do it.

He's developed WNBA stars Paige Bueckers, Breanna Stewart, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi. He's created an empire.

And most importantly, he's never left.

"UConn is Geno," freshman forward Blanca Quiñonez said. "He knows that he made this program. He has the ability to help a lot of players grow up, not just as a player, but as a person."

The list doesn't end with Auriemma and Schaefer.

Pat Summitt spent 38 seasons with Tennessee. C. Vivian Stringer coached Rutgers for over two decades. Dawn Staley has led South Carolina for 18 years.

While the transfer portal has made an impact on women's college basketball, players have taken note of their coaches' devotion to their successes.

Flau'jae Johnson spent all four years in Baton Rouge, showing the world what it meant to be "loyal to the soil."

Retirement rumors about LSU's Kim Mulkey floated around on social media following the No. 2 Tigers' loss to No. 3 Duke in the Sweet 16, but she was quick to shoot them down.

Like Schaefer, Mulkey's all in.

"I'm going to be in this game unless LSU fires me — until I can't put a product on that floor that's competitive or my health fails me," Mulkey said.

As college sports dive into an era founded on movement and money, women's basketball coaches have stood their ground.

They aren't just building programs — they're becoming them.

Mia Fishman is a student in the University of Georgia's Carmical Sports Media Institute.

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NFL kickoff rules 2026: League makes changes to onside kick, more

The NFL made a significant change to its kickoff in 2024,instituting the "dynamic kickoff"to boost the percentage of returned kicks and make one of the league's most dangerous plays safer.

The league is continuing its efforts to refine the play by tweaking its kickoff rule ahead of the 2026 NFL season.

The most notable approved rule change will allow teams to attempt an onside kick at any point during the game. In 2025, teams were only allowed to try an onside kick when trailing, so the rule change will give clubs a bit more flexibility.

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Despite this significant change, NFL teams will still have to declare an onside kick any time they attempt one. This is necessitated by the difference of alignment between the onside kick – which uses the NFL's traditional kickoff formation – and the NFL's dynamic kickoff, where a majority of the players from each team are lined up between the receiving team's 30- and 35-yard line.

With that in mind, surprise onside kicks – like the one Sean Payton famously dialed up to start the second half of the New Orleans Saints' Super Bowl 44 win over the Indianapolis Colts – will remain out of the sport.

It remains unclear whether the NFL's rule change will result in an uptick in overall onside kick attempts, or if the need to declare them – along with their overall lack of efficacy – will continue to limit their use.

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Just five of the NFL's 52 onside kicks were recovered in 2025, according todata from The Football Database. That was good for a mark of 9.6% and up from three total recoveries and a 6% recovery rate in 2024, the first year of the NFL's dynamic kickoff.

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The onside kick rule isn't the only major kicking change the NFL's competition committee has instituted for the 2026 season. The following two rules have also been approved:

• To eliminate the kicking team's incentive to intentionally kick the ball out of bounds when kicking off from the 50-yard line.

• To modify the kickoff alignment requirements for the receiving team players in the setup zone.

The first of these rule changes effectively closed a loophole in the 2025 kickoff rules. Last season, a team kicking off from the 50-yard line after a personal foul penalty on the receiving team would benefit more from kicking a ball out of bounds (which would place the ball on the receiving team's 25-yard line) than they would from kicking a touchback (which would place the ball at the 30-yard line).

Under the NFL's new rule, touchbacks on kicks from the 50-yard line will be brought back out to the 20, eliminating the incentive to purposely sail a ball out of bounds.

Meanwhile, the alignment modifications will simply adjust how receiving team players are allowed to line up within the setup zone. The new rule will require just five players, instead of six, to have their front foot on the setup line – though just two players will be allowed to have their foot off the line in each of the setup zone's three areas.

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Gina Gershon walked away from a beloved horror franchise over an "exploitative" topless scene, the *Showgirls* star recently told *Fox News Digital*.

Gershon was offered a major role in 1981's *Friday the 13th** Part 2,* the second installment in the cult slasher franchise, she recalled to the outlet about the Hollywood experience that taught her how to trust her gut.

"I was offered a lead in that movie," Gershon said. "And, of course, I was so excited to act in movies, but it definitely felt kind of exploitative to me and a little silly that right before she gets killed, her top has to come off."

In her upcoming memoir *AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs*, Gershon goes into detail while describing what the death scene would have entailed.

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"At the time, those kinds of slasher movies always had girls dying with their breasts exposed," she wrote, per Fox News. "My character would be killed by a stake through the heart, blood dripping down her t---. That seemed pretty lame to me: exploitation 101."

The offer came early in Gershon's career and would have marked her onscreen debut. But while she would later prove that showing skin was not an automatic no for her, Gershon had a lot of reservations about the *Friday the 13th* death scene. So she turned to her dad, hoping for advice.

"I was really lucky that I had a father who really taught me how to believe in my own decisions," Gershon said. "It wasn't like I had to rebel against my family. I remember asking him about it, thinking he was going to say, 'No daughter of mine is going to do that!' And he said, 'It's your body. If you're comfortable with it, I'm comfortable with it.'"

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In the end, it came down to a gut feeling.

"When I sat and thought about it, I just thought, 'I don't really want to do this. I wasn't comfortable with it. It seemed silly to me,'" Gershon shared. "Not that I had anything against nudity — I grew up on European films — but only if it makes sense for the character and the story. But when it just seems silly, I don't know. It just felt like it was something that wasn't for me."

Gina Gershon in 'Showgirls' (1995).

Gershon ended up making her onscreen debut that same year, as a dancer in *Beatlemania: The Movie*. She continued her ascent slowly, snagging another uncredited role in *Girls Just Want to Have Fun* and then making an impression with a small role in 1986's *Pretty in Pink.* After 1988's *Cocktail* and 1991's *Jungle Fever*, Gershon had her big breakout as Cristal Connors in Paul Verhoeven's 1995 erotic cult hit *Showgirls*, which saw her bare skin and take part in a gruesome sexual assault scene.

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At the time, Gershon offered some pushback over that particular inclusion, but recently admitted that she has changed her tune.

"It is really a comment on like ugly America, and on capitalism and power struggles and dynamics and all those things, that of course that rape scene has to be there," Gershon said during a recent radio show appearance. "It's the grossest thing in there — and the powerful men, they're all protected."

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Mary Beth Hurt, who appeared in Martin Scorsese's *The Age of Innocence* and Woody Allen's *Interiors* and frequently collaborated with husband Paul Schrader, has died. She was 79.

Hurt's death was announced on Sunday in a now-deleted Facebook post shared by the *First Reformed *director, per *Variety*. * *has reached out to representatives for Hurt and Schrader.

Hurt was diagnosed with Alzheimers in 2015, Schrader revealed in 2023. That same year Hurt moved into a New York City memory care facility, where she spent the last years of her life.

Hurt was among the most sought after film and stage stars of the 1980s and late 1990s, appearing in Oscar-nominated films like *The World According to Garp *and *Six Degrees of Separation*, and racking up three Tony nominations for her stage work.

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Born Mary Beth Supinger in Marshalltown, Iowa, on Sept. 25, 1946, Hurt locked into the acting track at a young age, studying drama at the nearby University of Iowa before graduating to the acting program at Tisch in New York City.

She made her acting debut in 1974 — on stage as Nurse/Uncle Remus in the Vietnam War musical *More Than You Deserve*, and on television as a member of an all-female police squad in the TV movie *Ann in Blue*.

It would be four years until she received her big break on the big screen, which inaugurated an extraordinary run in some of the most most memorable titles from her filmography. But just the next year she picked up her first Tony nomination for her leading role in a revival of the 1898 Arthur Wing Pinero play *Trelawny of the "Wells." *She would later earn two more Tony nods for her turns in *Crimes of the Heart* and *Benefactors*.

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"I first saw Mary Beth Hurt in *Crimes of the Heart* on Broadway and was blown away by her performance," Dana Delany wrote of Hurt on Instagram. "Heart and Midwestern Steel. In *Chilly Scenes of Winter*, she was in command beyond her years. Totally unique. Finally got to meet and work with her in *Light Sleeper*. Still in awe of her singular sharp wry talent. An artist. May she rest in a deserved peace."

Hurt's first film role became her calling card. Her performance as the anxious, cutting Joey in Woody Allen's *Interiors in *1978* *is notable for standing out amid more established actors, including Diane Keaton, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, and Sam Waterston.

The 1978 film was nominated for five awards at the Oscars, and won Hurt her first major screen acting nomination, for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles at the BAFTAs (that year's award went to Christopher Reeve for *Superman*). Hurt followed *Interiors *up with a co-lead role opposite John Heard in Joan Micklin Silver's *Chilly Scenes of Winter*, and a major supporting part opposite Robin Williams in *The World According to Garp*.

Awards recognition oddly eluded Hurt throughout her career, though it was stacked with acclaimed performances in celebrated films. She later appeared in two films by Martin Scorsese — *The Age of Innocence *and *Bringing Out the Dead* *— *and four by Paul Schrader — *Light Sleeper*, *Affliction*, *The Walker*, and *Adam Resurrected*.

Hurt was married to the actor William Hurt from 1971 to 1982, and then married Schrader in 1983. The couple share two children, Molly Schrader and Sam Schrader.

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Barbie fans aren't a group that can be toyed with, judging by attendee reactions to the weekend's "heartbreaking" Barbie Dream Fest convention in Florida.

After the event — which featured an appearance from tennis star Serena Williams and inclusive ticket packages costing as much as $502.50 — launched Friday at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., fans quickly shared reactions to social media.

*Good Morning America *highlighted a roundup of footage from the three-day affair, including images of a blow-up version of the toy line's iconic "B" logo "deflating" on the show floor, per one attendee named Cherry Bonbon.

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*GMA *host Lara Spencer described the event as one that "wasn't quite the dream" fans expected. In an interview, attendee Alexandria Dougan described her disappointment with one of the "interactive" experiences touted on on the event's website.

"The interactive Barbie Dream House was a VW bus that you weren't allowed to enter into," Dougan said. "It was a cardboard cutout box of a Barbie house."

Dougan pointed out that Mattel and Barbie are representative of a "big brand that everyone trusts," which she said made the convention "really heartbreaking" for her.

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In a statement obtained by **, Mattel said: "Barbie Dream Fest was created by Mischief Management, which licensed the Barbie brand from Mattel. We are working with Mischief Management, who are managing attendee feedback and issuing full refunds to everyone who purchased tickets. We want every fan experience to be an excellent one."

In a separate statement, Mischief Management said it was "incredibly grateful" to those who attended the event, and that Barbie Dream Fest was "created as an intimate fan convention designed to foster meaningful connection, inspiration, and closer access to Barbie and her world." The company's statement also stressed that it would refund all ticket purchases.

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EW has additionally reached out to representatives for Williams for comment.

Reactions to Barbie Dream Fest have likened it to Willy's Chocolate Experience, the *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*-inspired event whose cheap decor, inflatable bouncy castle, and lone Ompa Loompa boosted it to online infamy in 2024.

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- Sophie Turner has been injured, causing a halt on the production of the upcoming *Tomb Raider *live-action series.

- "Sophie Turner recently experienced a minor injury," Amazon MGM Studios told EW in a statement.

- The first live-action *Tomb Raider *series is being developed by *Fleabag *star Phoebe Waller-Bridge and stars Turner, Sigourney Weaver, and Jason Isaacs.

Sophie Turner has been injured, causing a production halt on the highly anticipated *Tomb Raider *series, in which the *Game of Thrones *star plays heiress and adventurer Lara Croft.

"Sophie Turner recently experienced a minor injury. As a precaution, production has briefly paused to allow her time to recover. We look forward to resuming production as soon as possible," Amazon MGM Studios said in a statement shared with **.

Amazon announced that production on *Tomb Raider *kicked off on January 15. Based on the beloved video game series that was adapted into a popular pair of films starring Angelina Jolie in the early 2000s, the property's first live-action series adaptation does not yet have a release date.

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*Tomb Raider *has been a viable site for adaptation ever since the first game released in 1996. The first Jolie film, *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider*, grossed over double its budget in 2001, while sequel *The Cradle of Life *earned $160 million on a $95 million budget.

A pair of unrelated animated series followed, and in 2018, Lara Croft returned to the big screen in a reboot starring Swedish Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander, which similarly grossed over double its budget.

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*Tomb Raider* game series company Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios announced *Fleabag *creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the creative force behind the* *live-action series in 2024.

"If I could tell my teenage self that this was happening, I think she'd explode," the actress, writer, and director said at the time. "*Tomb Raider* has been a huge part of my life and I feel incredibly privileged to be bringing it to television with such passionate collaborators."

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Turner's casting was announced the following September.

"I'm so excited to announce the formidable Sophie Turner as our Lara alongside this phenomenal creative team. It's not very often you get to make a show of this scale with a character you grew up loving," Waller-Bridge said.

Joining Waller-Bridge and Turner on the series are co-showrunner Chad Hodge, who previously created the series *Wayward Pines *and *The Playboy Club*, and Story Kitchens' Dmitri M. Johnson, behind the recent, highly profitable *Sonic the Hedgehog *film series.

Turner's castmates include Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Bill Paterson, and Celia Imrie.

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11 Shows You Need to Watch On Netflix This April

Netflix is bringing the comedy this month!

FromRunning Pointseason 2 to the addition of NBC'sSt. Denis Medicalseason 1, the streamer is full of laughs both new and old. The former series, created byMindy Kaling, fictionalizes the real life story of Los Angeles Lakers' co-owner Jeanie Buss; the first season found tons of success on Netflix. The latter show, which premiered in November 2024, gives theAbbott Elementary-treatment to a struggling hospital staff. ThinkThe Pittwith way less blood and way more jokes.

Sprinkled throughout the month are super starry shows too, includingZach Galifianakis'This Is a Gardening ShowandKevin Hart'sFunny AF. If you're looking for something more serious, though, you can streamUnchosen, a British show about a woman trying to leave a cult, andBandi, a French series about a group of siblings in Martinique grappling with their mother's death.

Rounding out Netflix's slate is the return of dating showLove on the Spectrumfor season 4, which will see new and returning cast members star, plus season 3 of everyone's favorite spinoffXO, Kitty. Finally, the streamer is bringing back their anthology series,Beef, for a new season with an all-star cast:Carey Mulligan,Oscar Isaac,Charles MeltonandCailee Spaeny. The foursome will play an older and younger couple who find themselves in a tricky position after a big fight.

Here are the 11 shows you need to watch on Netflix in April 2026.

Love on the Spectrumseason 4 (April 1)

Netflix's dating reality showLove on the Spectrumreturns for season 4 at the start of the month. As always, the series will follow a cast of people on the Autism spectrum as they look for love or work on nurturing their already established relationships.

Over the years,Love on the Spectrumhas seen many successes, including James and Shelley andConnor and Georgie, who will all return for the fourth season.

New romantic hopefuls will fill out the cast and bring fresh relatable, heart-soaring storylines to the screen.

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St. Denis Medicalseason 1 (April 1)

While NBC'sSt. Denis Medicalis in its second season on air, the first season is coming to Netflix at the start of the month.

The raucous comedy, starringWendi McLendon-Covey,Allison TolmanandMekki Leeperamong others, follows nurses and doctors in an underfunded hospital. While the themes of the mockumentary tap on real-world problems in the United States' healthcare system, the show does so with a ton of heart and belly-aching jokes.

WatchSt. Denis Medicalseason 1 on Netflix on April 1

XO, Kittyseason 3 (April 2)

After that season 2 cliffhanger,XO, Kittyfans are ready for season 3to arrive at the beginning of April. The series, which is a spinoff ofTo All the Boys I've Loved Before, follows Lara Jean's younger singer Kitty (Anna Cathcart) as she navigates her teen years in Seoul.

In season 3, Kitty is entering her senior year and potentially reeling from touring with her crush Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee) over the summer (if that cliffhanger promise came to fruition).

WatchXO, Kittyseason 3 on Netflix on April 2

Trust Me: The False Prophet(April 8)

After the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' (FLDS) leader,Warren Jeffs, was convicted of two counts of sexual assault of a child, a member of the group, Samuel Bateman, seized the opportunity to create an offshoot of the group and positioned himself as a prophet to many women and girls who were previously in the FLDS.

Eventually though, new neighbors of the group in Arizona decided to take action. They got to know people in the offshoot, built trust and became moles for an investigation intoBateman's criminal activities. To their benefit, Bateman wanted to be recorded all the time, even when he was talking about hisillegal relationships with women and girls.

The resulting documentary, which charts the time beforehis December 2024 sentencingfor conspiracy to commit transportation of a minor for criminal sexual activity and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, is gripping and honors the bravery of both the filmmakers and the women and girls who fought to get justice.

WatchTrust Me: The False Propheton Netflix on April 8

Bandi(April 9)

In this French drama series, a group of siblings is contending with the shocking loss of their mother. The family lives on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which was colonized first by the Spanish and then the French in 1635.

InBandi, a name meaning "special," some of the scrappy siblings turn to a life of crime to support themselves, while others rail against the criminal actions of their family members. The high-octane drama promises emotionally dark scenes in the beautiful landscape of Martinique.

WatchBandion Netflix on April 9

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Big Mistakes(April 9)

Dan Levyis back at the helm of another zany comedy six years after his award-winning showSchitt's Creekcame to an end. InBig Mistakeshe plays Nicky, a reverend who gets wrapped up in some very shady business with his sister Morgan (Taylor Ortega).

The show was co-written and co-executive produced byRachel Sennottbringing both millenial and Gen Z humor to the forefront. While the stakes are high, the siblings deal with their fear through laugh-out-loud situational comedy.

WatchBig Mistakeson Netflix on April 9

Beefseason 2 (April 16)

Ready for another serving ofBeef? Three years afterSteven YeunandAli Wongcaptured the attention of viewers eager to see the culmination of their characters' insane road rage fight, the drama series is back, this time focusing on two couples with a new kind of beef.

Mulligan and Isaac star as an older couple who get into a massive fight, only to realize it was witnessed by his employee, played by Melton, and his girlfriend, Spaeny. The following story embroils everyone involved in a complicated game of currying favor in their world of an elite country club. Sounds spicy!

WatchBeefseason 2 on Netflix on April 16

Funny AF with Kevin Hart(April 20)

Hart is back on Netflix but not for another comedy special. In the middle of the month, the comedian is bringing a new reality competition show concept to the streamer in which he will both mentor and judge up-and-coming comedians.

InFunny AF with Kevin Hart,theJumanjiactor travels across the country in search of the best stand-up comic. While he shares his expertise, ultimately the audience will decide who wins in a live vote.

WatchFunny AF with Kevin Harton Netflix on April 20

Unchosen(April 21)

Sex Education's Asa Butterfield is back on Netflix in a much darker role. His new psychological thriller follows a woman, played by Molly Windsor, who is attempting to emancipate herself from a religious cult.

A spiritual sister toUnorthodox,Unchosenplans to deliver the drama and intrigue of cult behavior while centering one woman's heart-pounding fight for freedom.

WatchUnchosenon Netflix on April 21

This Is a Gardening Show(April 22)

You may not immediately associate award-winning comedian Galifianakis with gardening but that's kind of the point in his new series,This Is a Gardening Show.

The show educates and entertains viewers by putting them into Galifianakis' novice gardening shoes, allowing them to learn alongside the actor, while he impresses his concerns about how the climate crisis is affecting and will affect our food systems.

With a slew of experts, beautiful shots and some very cute kids,This Is a Gardening Showis a surprising respite from the hamster wheel of day-to-day life and offers a slice of hope to viewers.

WatchThis Is a Gardening Showon Netflix on April 22

Running Pointseason 2 (April 23)

Tie up your laces — it's time to get back on the court forRunning Pointseason 2! The comedy's sophomore season will pick up after the Los Angeles Waves lost in the lead-up to the championship and will feature all of the first season's primary cast likeKate Hudson,Brenda SongandJay Ellis. Joining the crew for season 2 isRay Romano, who will play coach Norm Stinson.

Will Waves owner Isla Gordon be able to continue raising the team's profile? Will their star player, Travis Buggs (Chet Hanks), come back from rehab? And what will happen in Gordon's love life? Come April 23, fans ofRunning Pointwill hopefully get some answers to their questions.

WatchRunning Pointseason 2 on Netflix on April 23

Man on Fire(April 30)

Following the 2004Man on Firemovie,Yahya Abdul-Mateen IIis ready to take the reins fromDenzel Washingtonas the leading ex-mercenary. This reboot series follows the same source material from author A.J. Quinnell plus his first sequel novel.

Although Mateen II's John Creasy is trying to start a new life, he is pulled back into his old ways when an opportunity for sweet revenge crosses his proverbial desk. The seven-episode series also starsBobby Cannavale. While you wait for the show, the original movie is available to stream on Netflix.

WatchMan on Fireon Netflix on April 30

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