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truTV’s The Carbonaro Effect is headed to national syndication. Trifecta Entertainment & Media is launching the hidden camera prank series as two weekly half-hours in September, with 93% of the country cleared.
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Netflix renewed Trinkets for a second and final season. The sophomore run of the YA series about three high school girls, based on the Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith novel, is slated to launch in 2020.
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PBS acquired the BBC’s World on Fire. The WWII drama, starring Helen Hunt (Mad About You), will air on Masterpiece.

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Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) will host Teen Choice 2019, airing on FoxSunday, August 11. YouTube sensation David Dobrik will co-host.
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Norman Lear and Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda are teaming for documentaryRita Moreno: The Girl Who Decided to Go For It (wt) for PBS’s Thirteen. The film will feature interviews with Moreno, Lear, Miranda, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Morgan Freeman, Whoopi Goldberg, Eva Longoria, Justina Machado, Terrence McNally and Chita Rivera. Lear, Miranda and Michael Kantor exec produce with Brent Miller as producer, Mariem Perez as producer and director and Ilia Velez s co-producer. “How I wish my Puerto Rican mother were alive to see this: her child’s story being celebrated by the likes of American Masters,” said Moreno. “It is not something she or I could ever have imagined.” The news was announced at TCA.
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PBS also set a docu-series focused on Asian-American history. Five-parter from producer Renee Tajim-Pena is being produced by WETA and the Center for Asian American Media.
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A&E’s 60 Days In: Narcoland, premiering tonight, expands the franchise with a spin-off that takes the show outside of prison walls to look at the drug ecosystem. Greg Henry, an exec producer of the show, explains the shift. “In brainstorming ways to shed new light on the drug epidemic in America, we turned to the approach that’s been so effective with 60 Days In,” says Henry. “Embedding outsiders into communities that have been overrun with drug trafficking, in essence, allows us to thrust the audience directly into the middle of a critical situation. In addition to perspective from law enforcement and those incarcerated for drug-related offenses, viewers are given a new vantage point through our undercover participants, as they meet the real people who are both fueling and fighting the crisis, and witness first-hand its devastating effects on America’s heartland.”
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HGTV’s buzzed-about overhaul of the Brady Bunch house will be unveiled during A Very Brady Renovation, launching Monday, September 9 at 9p. The six Bunch-ers, Barry Williams (Greg), Maureen McCormick (Marcia),Christopher Knight (Peter), Eve Plumb (Jan), Mike Lookinland (Bobby) and Susan Olsen (Cindy) joined network experts Jonathan and Drew Scott (Property Brothers), Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E Laine (Good Bones), Leanne and Steve Ford (Restored by the Fords), Jasmine Roth (Hidden Potential) and Lara Spencer (Flea Market Flip), to execute the project. “HGTV left no stone unturned, creating a perfect replica of the home down to the horse statue next to the staircase and the stuffed animal giraffe in the girls’ bedroom,” said net president Jane Latman.
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Travel Channel has two series premieres on tap for next month: Newcomer Ghost Brothers: Haunted Houseguests makes its appearance Friday, August 16 at 9p, and season four of Mountain Monsters premieres Wednesday, August 21 at 9p.
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INSP’s Ultimate Cowboy Showdown premieres Monday, October 14 at 9p. Six-night event series will be hosted by country music’s Trace Adkins. “The debut of Ultimate Cowboy Showdown ushers in the next phase in INSP’s programming strategy,” said VP of original programming Craig Miller. “As a network with a proven track record of rating success with Western-themed programming, adding a competition series, featuring cowboys, to our slate is a natural progression.”
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Sasha Velour, winner of season nine of RuPaul’s Drag Race, will be featured in a new series for upcoming short-form digital service, Quibi. Eight-part Nightgowns will follow Velour and other performers as they prepare for show time.
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Soap opera Days of Our Lives is launching Days of Our Lives: The Digital Series. Eight-episode offering follows a popular couple from the daytimer, starting Thursday, August 1.
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New PBS KIDS programming starting next month includes the premiere of Pinkalicious and Peterrific: A Pinkaperfect Birthday (August 5), the first one-hour special from the series; back-to-back brand-new episodes of Dinosaur Train (August 26); and a special Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood “Family Week,” featuring the debut of five episodes, starting September 16.
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Also on PBS, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates. Jr. returns for season six on Tuesday, October 8 at 8p (check local listings). The Fall 2019 season will premiere with two new episodes followed by five encore presentations. Season Six will return in early 2020 with eight weeks of new episodes featuring both new guests and re-mixed thematic combinations of former participants’ stories.
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The 25^th anniversary of the premiere of Friends will be marked by an NYC pop-up experience in September. From Superfly, Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Warner Bros. Television Group, the space will offer fans the chance to explore iconic props and re-creations (turkey on your head, anyone?) from the series’ run.
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Ovation TV will air legacy episodes from Inside the Actors Studio leading to the new season premiere on October 13. One James Lipton-led ep will air every Sunday at 12p, starting August 11.
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George W. Bush will be the subject of a two-part doc for PBS’ American Experience, debuting in spring 2020. “What makes George W. Bush such a fascinating subject is that he was one of the least prepared presidents in our history, yet faced some of the greatest challenges,” said filmmaker Barak Goodman. “Not since Lincoln has such an inexperienced leader been called upon in a moment of genuine existential crisis. How Bush evolved in office under these pressures – at first struggling mightily, but later finding his feet – illuminates not only his character, but the evolving nature of power and the presidency in an increasingly dangerous world.”
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ABC’s Celebrity Family Feud on Sunday grew for the second  week in a row in Total Viewers (+2% – 5.6 million vs. 5.5 million) to post its biggest audience since its season premiere – since 6/9/19.
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