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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 7/16/19)
COOKING: Food Truck Nation (Premiere) at 9pm
CW: Pandora (Premiere) at 8pm
FACEBOOK: Human Discoveries (Premiere) at 9pm
FUSE: T-Pain’s School of Business (Premiere) at 11pm
MTV: Ex On The Beach (Premiere) at 8pm
E!: Relatively Nat & Liv (Finale) at 8pm
ID: Diabolical (Finale) at 9pm

It’s official! MTV and Sean “Diddy” Combs are reuniting to bring back Making the Band. The series, which discovers the next breakout superstars, premiered on MTV in 2002 with Combs at the helm. Combs set off a social media firestorm by suggesting the show’s return and the demand was too loud to resist. The new Making the Band is slated to premiere in 2020.
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The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will go live on Tuesday, July 30, and Wednesday, July 31, at 11p on Comedy Central, providing instant analysis and commentary about the Democratic Party’s second 2020 Presidential Primary Debates.
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Freeform released its lineup for August. The season finale of Sirens bows Thursday, August 1, at 8p, while Grownish wraps its season on Wednesday, August 7, at 8p. Good Trouble airs its summer finale on Tuesday, August 6, at 8p.
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A&E’s Live Rescue is moving to Thursday nights, with new episodes premiering July 18 at 9p. Hosted by Ashleigh Banfield, the show follows first responders from across the country as they put their lives on the line responding to emergency rescue calls.
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HGTV is launching “A Very Brady Contest.” Now that the iconic Brady house has been fully renovated into a replica of the original TV set design from The Brady Bunch, the net is giving one lucky winner a chance to enjoy a six-night stay there from December 9 to 15. The contest, which began yesterday, runs through 5p on Wednesday, September 11. Superfans of the show can submit a 30- to 90-second video sharing why they deserve to win the ultimate Brady fan prize, which also includes a $25,000 cash prize. U.S. residents can visit www.HGTV.com/Brady for full details and official rules.
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The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced thatNBC News’ Andrea Mitchell will receive the lifetime achievement award at the 40th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards in September. Mitchell is NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports.
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Discovery welcomes new and returning advertising partners for Shark Week 2019, including Discover Financial Services, MillerCoors, Hyundai, Procter & Gamble, Universal Pictures, Maui Jim sunglasses and Orangetheory. Universal Pictures will be featured prominently during the summer event with multiple custom vignettes starring Dwayne Johnson for his upcoming film Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
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Cat’s Pride returns as a national sponsor of NBCUniversal-Owned Television Stationsfifth annual Clear The Shelters, a nationwide pet adoption campaign for the second consecutive year. Launched this month, the campaign will culminate on Saturday, August 17, with Clear The Shelters day, when more than 1,000 animal shelters and rescues waive or reduce pet adoption fees to help families adopt a pet. Since 2015, it has resulted in more than a quarter million pet adoptions.
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Freemantle made key moves to its daytime game show programming. Evelyn Warfel was upped to Executive Producer/Showrunner of The Price Is Right and John Quinn was appointed the new Executive Producer/Showrunner of Let’s Make a Deal.
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Amazon nabbed the rights to develop a script-to-series drama on Jack Reacher, the character from Lee Child’s bestselling book series. Scorpion creator Nick Santora  is set to write, executive-produce and serve as showrunner. Series is a co-production of Amazon Studios, Skydance Television and Paramount Television.
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Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua is expanding his work in television, inking an exclusive and multiyear overall production deal with Ben Silverman and Howard Owens’ Propagate reports Deadline. Under the agreement, Fuqua and his production company Fuqua Films will collaborate with Propagate on scripted and non-scripted projects.
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Quibi announced a new shortform series. The Odd Couple and Reno 911! alum Thomas Lennon will create, write, executive-produce and star in Winos, a workplace comedy. Project focuses on a misguided entrepreneur who, after failing in Silicon Valley, moves into wine country and tries to turn a rundown vineyard into a success.
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Ovation TV debuts its latest crime drama, Maigret, on Saturday, August 31, at 7p. Rowan Atkinson stars as world-renowned fictional French detective Jules Maigret, a character who has been featured in 75 books written by Georges Simenon.
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Good Eats: The Return premieres with double episodes on Sunday, August 25, at 10p and 10:30p on Food Network. Alton Brown is bringing back the series that inspired a generation of food fans with culinary science, history, comedy, puppets, cameras inside appliances and great recipes.
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TLC’s Unexpected, the series that takes a raw look at teenage couples’ journeys through pregnancy and parenthood, returns for a third season on Sunday, August 4, at 10p. Meanwhile, TLC GO’s original digital series, Unexpected: Baby Bumps, is back Sunday, July 28, with a five-episode third season.
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The Appalachian investigators of mysterious sightings team exploresnew folklore and hillbilly hauntings in Season 4 of Mountain Monsters, premiering Wednesday, August 21, at 9p. The two-hour special ep airs on Travel Channel.
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CNBC’s new home renovation series Cash Pad bows Tuesday, July 23, at 10p. Couple JoJo Fletcher (The Bachelorette) and her fiancé Jordan Rogers work with homeowners who are in serious need of extra income and hoping to turn their properties into thriving short-term rentals.
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The Sweathogs are heading to Antenna TV. The net will air the Welcome Back (to School) Kotter Marathon, featuring 18 episodes of the sitcom, on Saturday, August 17, from 1p to 10p.
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