Nature: My Bionic Pet
These are not your average house pets and zoo creatures. See how dogs in need of legs, a swan with a deformed beak, and even an alligator that lost its tail in a fight have benefited from recent advances in prosthetic technology. Wednesday, April 9, at 8 p.m., PBS; check local listings
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Inside the Hunt for the Boston Bombers
The bombings at last year’s Boston Marathon triggered a massive manhunt that made unprecedented use of modern surveillance technology. This two-hour special revisits the horror of the event through interviews with eyewitnesses and re-creates the successful investigation with help from Boston officials, including then-Mayor Thomas Menino and current Police Commissioner William B. Evans. Sunday, April 13, at 9 p.m., National Geographic
What a startup: Mike Judge’s new comedy series is shaping up to bea spot-on send-up of the tech world’s haves and wannabes, its laughs generated mostly by a group of misfit coders holed up in a “hacker hostel” while trying to develop the next new thing. In the series premiere, a Mark Zuckerberg–like whiz kid (Thomas Middleditch) is yanked into a dizzying bidding war when industry players learn of a music-compression algorithm he’s created. In episode two, he has to decide what friends are worth. Sunday, April 13, at 10 p.m., HBO
Years of Living Dangerously
To tackle “the biggest story of our time,” a team of celebrity correspondents has fanned out across the planet to explore the threats posed by global warming. Working under executive producers James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a riled-up Harrison Ford carries the first of the series’s nine episodes, traveling to Indonesia to investigate corporate-driven deforestation. In future episodes, Jessica Alba, America Ferrara, and columnist Thomas Friedman get in on the action. Sunday, April 13, at 10 p.m., Showtime
Other highlights
Deadbeat
If The Dude from The Big Lebowski saw dead people à la Haley Joel Osment’s character in The Sixth Sense, he’d resemble the lead in this chuckle-worthy new Hulu original. Available for streaming Wednesday, April 9, from Hulu
Bermuda Tentacles
The team behind Sharknado conjures a new B-movie disaster: crashing Air Force One in the Bermuda Triangle and asking a Navy SEAL team to save the day. Linda Hamilton stars. Saturday, April 12, at 9 p.m., Syfy
Nurse Jackie
Edie Falco’s ER nurse has kicked her pill addiction as she returns to New York City’s All Saints Hospital for a sixth season.Sunday, April 13, at 9 p.m., Showtime
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SpaceX breaks Starship losing streak in 10th testspeed read The Starship rocket's test flight was largely successful, deploying eight dummy satellites during its hour in space
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