Disney+ Schedule April 3-9: New TV & Movies

A coming-of-age sports activities drama collection tops the Disney+ schedule for April 3-9.

On Wednesday, April 5, the streaming service will launch all of the episodes of The Crossover, a basketball collection based mostly on Kwame Alexander’s novel of the identical identify. The collection is led by Jalyn Corridor (The Home with a Clock in Its Partitions) and Amir O’Neil (Madagascar: A Little Wild) as brothers Josh and JB Bell. Extra solid contains Derek Luke as the previous skilled basketball participant and the boys’ father and coach Chuck Bell; Sabrina Revelle because the household matriarch Crystal Bell; Deja Monique Cruz because the Bell brothers’ finest pal Maya; Trevor Raine Bush as Bell brothers’ teammate and finest pal Vondie; and Skyla I’Lece as Alexis. Phylicia Rashad visitor stars because the boys’ grandmother and Chuck’s mother, Barbara, who’s a fountain of affection and knowledge.

“The collection introduces teen brothers Josh and Jordan, broadly thought-about basketball phenoms,” reads the synopsis. “By means of his lyrical poetry, an grownup model of Josh, aka Filthy (Daveed Diggs), narrates the story of he and his brother’s coming-of-age, on and off the courtroom, as their former skilled basketball participant father adjusts to life after basketball and their mom lastly pursues lifelong goals of her personal.”

The collection is government produced by showrunners Kwame Alexander, Damani Johnson, and Kimberly A. Harrison. Government producers are James, Maverick Carter, Jamal Henderson, and Lezlie Wills for SpringHill alongside George Tillman Jr., Bob Teitel, Robert Prinz, and Jay Marcus of State Avenue Photos, and Daveed Diggs, Todd Harthan, and Erin O’Malley. It’s a manufacturing by twentieth Tv.