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BRITBOX: Return to Paradise (Premiere)
DISCOVERY: Homestead Rescue: Intervention (Premiere) at 8pm
NETFLIX: Quarterback (Premiere)
PARAMOUNT+: The Real Wolf of Wall Street (Premiere)
PBS: Once Upon a Time in Space (Premiere) at 9pm
Netflix greenlit a reality competition based on the board game Monopoly — with an eye-popping grand prize of $2 million. Studio Lambert (“Squid Game: The Challenge”) is producing the series, which will see contestants navigating a full-scale Monopoly Town Square, where they can earn cash, snap up properties, cut deals with rivals, and try to avoid landing behind bars.
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Summer’s No. 1 reality stream is coming back to spill all — the Season 8 “Love Island USA” reunion on Peacock is set for Monday, August 31 at 9 p.m. The show held the No. 1 streaming reality title for five straight weeks, with more than 30 percent of viewers “Love Island” newbies and nearly 30 percent tuned in on mobile. Not surprisingly, spinoff “Beyond the Villa” has been renewed for Season 3 in 2027; the cast will be announced later this year.
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Netflix is bringing “Alan’s Universe” — the hit YouTube series from Alan Chikin Chow, the platform’s most-watched Shorts creator (1billion to 1.5 billion monthly views) — to its global membership, with new episodes dropping day-and-date alongside YouTube. The high school anthology joins Netflix’s growing YouTuber strategy that already includes Ms. Rachel, Mark Rober, and The Sidemen. Chow also has an untitled K-Pop scripted series in the works for Netflix with Hybe America, the company behind BTS.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ready for more maniacal murderers? Season 2 of “Unknown Serial Killers of America”premieres Sunday, Aug. 2 at 10 p.m. on Oxygen.
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Season 5 of Telemundo’s “Top Chef VIP” kicks off Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m., with Carmen Villalobos back as host.
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Lifestyle series “Jep & Jess: Beyond the Bayou” starts streaming Thursday, Aug. 13 on Great American Pure Flix, with a broadcast premiere on Great American Family and GFAM+ on Saturday, Aug. 15 at 9 p.m. “Television is at its best when it gives audiences permission to exhale,” said Kaitlyn Haubrich, Chief Brand Officer, Great American Media.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS is bringing back “Survivor” for a rewatch event this summer. The network will rerun the entirety of the reality show’s 50th season starting Monday, July 20 at 8 p.m., with additional dates to follow on both CBS and Paramount+.
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Leave your brain at the door — TBS Japan and A. Smith & Co. (“Hell’s Kitchen”) are teaming up to bring “Dumb Luck” to American screens. Contestants just need to pick a door, cross their fingers, and hope they don’t end up soaking wet, zapped, or blasted with a flour cannon. The show is part of TBS’ effort to bring its original formats stateside.
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ESPN has locked up Adam Schefter on a new multi-year deal, keeping the NFL insider at the network past the 20-year mark. He’s been with ESPN since 2009.
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FanDuel Sports Network is in. The American Association of Professional Baseballannounced today that FanDuel Sports Network and its 14 regional affiliates will carry AAPB games starting this month, pushing the league’s reach past 60 million homes and making it the most-watched MLB partner league in the country.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ESPN is bringing out the big guns from the sports world and Hollywood for “The 2026 ESPYS Presented by Capital One,” airing live tomorrow, Wednesday, July 15 at 8 p.m. on ABC. Marcello Hernández hosts the ceremony celebrating the past year, including musical performances from De La Soul, Ghostface Killah, Slick Rick, and the Savannah Bananas. Presenters include Allyson Felix, Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, DJ Khaled, Billie Jean King, Tracy Morgan, Jake Paul, Robin Roberts, Jayson Tatum, Mike Tyson, Lindsey Vonn, and Will Ferrell, among others.
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FETV will honor actor Randolph Mantooth with an “Emergency!” marathon Sunday, July 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Johnny Gage: Answering the Call” will feature episodes from the 1972-77 medical drama alongside vignettes highlighting the impact of the show on future first responders. Mantooth died July 9 at 80.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Norway-England FIFA World Cup Quarterfinals match on Saturday drew 19.48 million viewers on Fox, making it the most-watched Quarterfinals telecast in English-language U.S. history. The Argentina-Switzerland game came in second with 15.97 million viewers.
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“The Daily Show” had its best second quarter with P18–49 in nine years — the strongest since. The demo jumped 46 percent year-over-year (0.57 vs. 0.39), with Jon Stewart’s Monday night episodes up 21 percent, to 0.67.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Food Network’s “BBQ Brawl” wrapped its seventh season last Monday averaging a .49 Live+3 rating across P25-54, W25-54 and M25-54, the series’ highest-rated season for P/M25-54 in three years. The season reached more than 11 million P2+ cross-platform viewers during its run.
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