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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 7/16/26)
A&E: The First 48 (Premiere) at 8pm
A&E: Scott Peterson: The New Evidence (Premiere) at 9pm
NAT GEO: Lost Treasures of Ancient Greece (Premiere) at 9pm
NETFLIX: The Hawk (Premiere)
TUBI: House Rules (Premiere)
The Gang is back, baby. Season 18 of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” — TV’s longest-running live-action comedy — drops Monday, Aug. 17 at 9 p.m. on FXX, FX, and Hulu. The season will include 10 episodes, up from eight for the prior three seasons.
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Sports and true crime collide in ID’s “Game Day Murder,” debuting Monday, July 27 at 10 p.m. Executive produced by NBA icon Shaquille O’Neal and hosted by sports broadcaster Lindsay Czarniak, the series examines murders that shook the sports world.
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Ready for a blast from the past? New HGTV series “Totally ‘90s House” teams up ‘90s TV stars — Brian Austin Green (“Beverly Hills, 90210”), Melissa Joan Hart (“Sabrina the Teenage Witch”) and Joey Lawrence (“Blossom”) to name three — to find dated houses in need of an overhaul. The competition kicks off Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 9 p.m.
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Apple TV’s “Where’s Wanda?” is back for Season 2 on Wednesday, Oct. 21. The German-language dark comedy follows a couple who must prove their daughter is not guilty of murder.
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“Tripping Kosher,” a new food and travel series, premieres Monday, July 20 at 8:30 p.m.on JLTV.
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Netflix is expanding its YouTube creator pipeline, inking a deal with celebrity chef Nick DiGiovanni to bring his existing video catalog to the platform later this year. In addition, original content from “Nick DiGiovanni” and “Nick’s Kitchen” will drop day-and-date with YouTube. DiGiovanni joins a growing roster of creator talent on Netflix, including prank duo Alex and Alan Stokes and Rhett McLaughlin & Link Neal, whose “Good Mythical Morning” series is also headed to the streamer.
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Streaming viewership has overtaken cable for FIFA World Cup 2026, a first for a major sports event. A survey from Samsung Ads found:
· Streaming topped cable, 56% to 37%. Of streamers, 42% used an existing subscription; 14% signed up for a new service specifically for the tournament.
· Among new sign-ups, YouTube TV (35%), Peacock (34%), and Hulu + Live TV (31%) led — though most joined via free trial or lapsed-account reactivation, not fresh paid plans.
· For actual viewing time, Peacock (41%), Hulu + Live TV (34%), and YouTube TV (29%) ranked as the most-watched services during the tournament.
· Smart TVs were the dominant device at 61%, with streaming sticks (Roku, Fire Stick) a distant second at 17%.
· Of new subscribers, 56% say they plan to cancel once the tournament ends; 44% intend to stay. Retention drivers: existing content they watch (32%) and perceived value (28%).’
· The Takeaway: The World Cup confirmed that live sports is now a streaming strategy — but the event-driven subscriber spike comes with a steep hangover. More than half of new sign-ups are already leaning toward the exit, putting the onus on Peacock, YouTube TV, and Hulu to convert trial viewers into long-term subscribers.
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“The Challenge” has a new home. Season 42 of the reality competition — “The Challenge: Cutthroat” — kicks off Wednesday, Aug. 5 on Paramount+. The series, a spinoff of “The Real World” and “Road Rules,” originally aired on MTV.
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Season 3 of Australian comedy “Colin From Accounts” will be its last. The series about a couple who adopt an injured dog airs on Paramount+ in the U.S.
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The 2026–27 NHL season starts Tuesday, Sept. 29, with ESPN‘s Opening Night tripleheader headlined by the Carolina Hurricanes raising their Stanley Cup championship banner. It’s also a historic campaign — the league’s first 84-game regular season in over 30 years, built around a divisional format where every team faces each of its seven division rivals four times. Puck drop on Opening Night is set for 5 p.m. on ESPN.
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Ryan Garcia is putting his welterweight title on the line against Conor Benn this September. Paramount+ and Zuffa Boxing have announced a high-stakes welterweight world title fight between Garcia (25-2, 20 KOs) and England’s Benn (25-1, 14 KOs) on Sept. 12 — Mexican Independence Day Weekend — at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The full Garcia vs. Benn card streams exclusively on Paramount+ at no additional cost to subscribers.
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FloSports and CrossFit are teaming up for the 2026 CrossFit Games, presented by Air National Guard. Through the partnership, FloElite becomes the premier home for CrossFit athletes and fans around the world, offering complete coverage across every division — Individuals, Teams, Adaptive, Teenagers, and Masters. It marks the single biggest investment ever made in broadcasting the CrossFit Games.
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Clear The Shelters Presented by Hill’s Pet Nutrition, NBCUniversal Local’s nationwide pet adoption and donation initiative, is returning for the 12th consecutive year from Aug. 1-31, with fundraising taking place now through Sept. 15.
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The FIFA World Cup 2026 quarterfinals across Telemundo and Peacock ranked as the most-watched quarterfinal stage in Spanish-language media history, averaging a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 10.4 million viewers across the four matches — up 154% from the same stage at the 2022 tournament.
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On Fox, 11.46 million viewers watched Spain knock out France on Tuesday afternoon, in the most-watched FIFA Men’s World Cup semifinals telecast in English-language U.S. history, up 76% from 2022.
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Last weekend, Big3 Basketball action on CBS broadcast scored a 0.3/2 household rating and 596,000 viewers.
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