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TV This Week April 6 - 14: ‘Nature: My Bionic Pet’ on KOCE

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This week’s TV Movies

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SUNDAY

Yee-haw! Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan host “The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards” in Las Vegas. 8 p.m. CBS

Amen! Taraji P. Henson hosts “Celebration of Gospel 2014” at Downtown L.A.’s Orpheum Theatre. 8 p.m. BET

Let the patriot games begin in the new Revolutionary War-era espionage drama “Turn.” With Jamie Bell. 9 p.m. AMC

Daenerys Targaryen — Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Mother of Dragons, etc., etc., — and all your favorites are back on the return of “Game of Thrones.” 9 p.m. HBO

See the Holy See like you’ve never seen it before in “Greatest Mysteries: Vatican.” 9 p.m. Travel Channel

If Mike Judge’s new series “Silicon Valley” is even half as funny as “King of the Hill” or “Office Space” or “Idiocracy” or… 10 p.m. HBO

Read ‘em and “Veep” when this D.C.-set political satire starring Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns for a third season. 10:30 p.m. HBO

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Holy action figures, Batman! “Robot Chicken” returns to the DC Comics universe in a new animated special. 11:30 p.m. Cartoon Network

MONDAY

March Madness endeth here with the “2014 NCAA Basketball Tournament Final” from Arlington, Texas. 6 p.m. CBS

Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle lead a soul-music summit on a new “In Performance at the White House.” 9 p.m. KOCE

The supernatural drama “Being Human” gives up the ghost, and the werewolf and vampire, with its series finale. 9 p.m. Syfy

Aspiring chefs try to beat the odds, and the eggs, in the new reality series “Kitchen Casino” hosted by Bill Rancic. 9 p.m. Food Network

The badass brass sounds of a Chicago-based family band ring out in the documentary “Brothers Hypnotic” on a new “Independent Lens.” 10 p.m. KOCE

TUESDAY

“The Dave Clark Five — Glad All Over, a Great Performances Special” salutes those unsung heroes of the British Invasion of the 1960s. 8 p.m. KOCE

It’ll likely come down to a shootout — preceded by a bit of jawing, natch — on the fifth-season finale of “Justified.” Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins star. 10 p.m. FX

Things are nowhere near as idyllic as they seem in the new true-crime series “Secret Lives of Stepford Wives.” 10 p.m. Investigation Discovery

WEDNESDAY

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“Nature” looks at prosthetics for your pet, “Nova” goes all bird-brained, and “Your Inner Fish” puts a piscine perspective on evolution. 8, 9 and 10 p.m. KOCE

“Ostentatious” doesn’t begin to cover it when celebrities’ conspicuous consumption is cataloged in “Worst Thing I Ever Bought.” 8 p.m. E!

“Women of Homicide” tackle the tough cases in this new docu-series and “Cyber Stalkers” are online and up to no good in that new special. 9 and 10 p.m. TLC

THURSDAY

Mila Kunis gets a little more screen time with “That ‘70s Show” costar and real-life significant-other Ashton Kutcher on a new “Two and a Half Men.” 9 p.m. CBS

And every Mork needs a Mindy, which must be why Pam Dawber is reuniting with Robin Williams on a new episode of “The Crazy Ones.” 9:30 p.m. CBS

FRIDAY

Chef Gordon Ramsay wakes up in a cold sweat with the realization that he’s about to host another season of “Kitchen Nightmares.” 8 p.m. Fox

Jason Isbell, late of the alt-country outfit Drive-By Truckers, does his twangy thang on a new “Live From Lincoln Center.” 9 p.m. KOCE

The 2013 doc “Mad Dog: Inside the Secret World of Muammar Gaddafi” revisits the life and despotic times of the former Libyan leader. 9 and 10:30 p.m. Showtime

If it oinks like a pig, slap some sauce on it and make it a meal like they do in the new Texas-set unscripted series “Boss Hog.” 10 and 10:30 p.m. Discovery Channel

SATURDAY

It’s giant robots versus giant monsters (we were rooting for the monsters) in Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 science fiction tale “Pacific Rim.” Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba star. 8 p.m. HBO

High-school mean girls get that much meaner in the made-for-cable thriller “Death Clique.” 8 p.m. Lifetime

Jamie Foxx is “Django Unchained” in Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 mash-up of the blaxploitation and spaghetti western genres. 8 p.m. Showtime

The bloody good Victorian-era crime drama “Ripper Street” ends its second season. Matthew Macfadyen stars. 9 p.m. BBC America

“The Terminator’s” Linda Hamilton battles a deadly sea beastie in the 2014 creature-feature “Bermuda Tentacles.” 9 p.m. Syfy

“Sex Sent Me to the E.R.” returns with more tales of romantic misadventures that required medical attention. 9 p.m. TLC

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Four longtime gal-pals do NYC their way in the new reality series “Love in the City.” 10 p.m. OWN

The former host of “Insomniac” is back in the wee-smalls with “Dave Attell: Road Work” and “Comedy Underground With Dave Attell.” Midnight and 1 a.m. Comedy Central

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