Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting the week of April 20 to April 26 on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

April 20 -- Dummy (comedy) --Quibi

April 22 -- Jane Goodall: The Hope (documentary) -- National Geographic

April 23 -- We’re Here (reality) -- HBO

April 24 -- Bad Cut: The Dangers of Extreme Weight Cutting (documentary) -- FloSports

April 24 -- After Life (comedy) -- Netflix

April 24 -- Beastie Boys Story (documentary) -- Apple TV+

April 24 -- Defending Jacob (drama) -- Apple TV+ (Review)

April 24 -- Extraction (action/thriller) -- Netflix

April 25 -- Bad Education (drama) -- HBO

April 26 -- Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (horror) -- Showtime

April 26 -- Vida (drama) -- Starz

Apple TV Plus continues to build its scripted series credentials with a new drama/ mystery series, Defending Jacob.

The streaming series features an impressive cast, including Chris Evans (Captain America: The First Avenger) and Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), who star as Andy and Laurie Barber, typical suburban parents of a smart, unassuming teenage son, Jacob Barber (Jaeden Martell). Andy is the town’s assistant district attorney, thrust into a mystery when a teenage boy is found murdered in a local park.

Andy’s involvement in the investigation is initially questioned, given his close relationship with the family and the fact that his son knew the victim, but he continues on the case. Partnered with detective Paula Duffy (Betty Gabriel), Andy begins to question the local teens in an effort to seek information as to the boy’s death.

As clues to the murder begin to surface, they ultimately start to point to one suspect, Jacob, which throws the dynamics of family life for Andy and Laurie for a complete loop as they contemplate whether their offspring could be guilty of such a heinous crime.

The eight-part series will keep viewers on edge as the question of Jacob’s innocence or guilt tips one way or the other with every new revelation about the murder and with the efforts of Jacob’s parents to instinctively protect their son, even though he could be involved. In fact, the series begins with a conflicted and exhausted-looking Andy Barber being interrogated in front of a grand jury several months after the murder, setting the stage for a proverbial roller-coaster ride of a mystery.

Apple TV Plus will stream the first three episodes of Defending Jacob — based on the best-selling novel of the same name by William Landay — on April 24, with subsequent episodes streaming weekly.

Apple TV+ Saturday continued its run of new series renewals in advance of their premieres with the greenlighting of a second season of comedy series Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet.

The series, which debuts on Feb. 7, is set in a video game development studio and stars Rob McElhenney, F. Murray Abraham and Imani Hakim, said the streaming service during its Television Critics Association press winter press tour session. Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet is produced by David Hornsby.

In other Apple TV+ news, the service has set a March 6 date for the reboot of Steven Spielberg’s 1980s anthology series Amazing Stories. The service will also debut it's unscripted series Home on April 17; its drama/thriller series Defending Jacob -- starring Chris Evans -- on April 24; UK-based comedy series Trying on May 1; and docu-series Dear -- from producer R.J. Cutler that will chronicle the lives of such iconic celebrities as Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder and Spike Lee -- on June 5. 

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