The list of new shows and specials debuting during the last week in July include a reimagining of the murder/mystery series Pretty Little Liars and the return of Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge in Showtime’s crime series City on A Hill.

HBO Max’s July 28 Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin takes place 20 years after the events of the original Pretty Little Liars series – which ran on Freeform from 2010-2017. The series stars Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria, Malia Pyles, and Maia Reficco, as well as Mallory Bechtel, Sharon Leal, Elena Goode, Lea Salonga, Eric Johnson, and Alex Aiono.

The July 31 third season premiere of Showtime's City On A Hill will focus on Boston’s high society Beacon Hill neighborhood where former FBI agent Jackie Rohr (Bacon) finds a new job running security for a wealthy family but eventually teams with Assistant District Attorney Decourcy Ward to help fix a broken criminal justice system, said the network.

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for multiple shows debuting the week of July 25-31 on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

July 26 – Love in the Flesh (reality series) – Hulu

July 27 – High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (returning series) – Disney Plus

July 27 – The Most Hated Man on the Internet (reality) – Netflix

July 27 – We Met In Virtual Reality (documentary) – HBO

July 28 – Hell of a Week with Charlamagne Tha God (talk show) – Comedy Central

July 28 – Keep Breathing (drama) – Netflix

July 28 – The Resort (drama) – Peacock

July 28 – Harley Quinn (returning series) – HBO Max

July 29 – Amber Brown (drama) – Apple TV Plus

July 29 – Uncoupled (comedy) – Netflix

July 29 – Not Okay (drama) – Hulu

July 29 – Paper Girls (drama) – Prime Video

July 29 – Surface (drama) – Apple Tv Plus

July 30 – Are You Afraid of the Dark? Ghost Island (drama) – Nickelodeon

Showtime will return to Boston for a new season of its crime drama City On a Hill, premiering July 10.

The eight-episode third season, which stars Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge, will focus on Boston’s high society Beacon Hill neighborhood where former FBI agent Jackie Rohr (Bacon) finds a new job running security for a wealthy family. Secrets begin to unravel however, leading to an investigation led by Assistant District Attorney Decourcy Ward (Hodge), who sees an opportunity to finally break down a broken criminal justice system, said Showtime.

City On a Hill season three also stars Jill Hennessy, Lauren Banks and Matthew Del Negro, and introduces new cast members Corbin Bensen, Joanne Kelly and Ernie Hudson, according to network officials.

City On a Hill is executive produced by Bacon, Hodge, Tom Fontana, Jennifer Todd, Jorge Zamacona, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Barry Levinson. ■

Showtime has picked up season three of drama City on a Hill. Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge star. There will be eight episodes airing next year. Showtime said production will resume in New York later this year. 

Tom Fontana produces and is the showrunner.

Season two centered on a federal housing project in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston plagued with drug violence and a distrust in law enforcement. FBI agent Jackie Rohr (Bacon) works to exploit Boston's defective criminal justice system in a desperate attempt to salvage his career. Assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward (Hodge) is onto Rohr’s latest misstep. The antagonism between the two escalates to an all-out war between the offices of the U.S. Attorney and the Suffolk DA. 

At the conclusion of season two, Decourcy pursues justice in and out of the courtroom and Jackie gets ousted from the FBI.

The season also stars Lauren E. Banks, Mark O’Brien, Amanda Clayton, Matthew Del Negro and Jill Hennessy.

Jennifer Todd, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jorge Zamacona, Barry Levinson, Chuck MacLean and Michael Cuesta executive produce alongside Fontana. Bacon, Hodge and Michele Giordano are co-executive producers.

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers is on Disney Plus March 26. Emilio Estevez reprises his role as coach Gordon Bombay from the ’90s film franchise. 

Set in Minnesota, a player on a fearsome youth hockey team is cut and he and his mother, played by Lauren Graham, set out to build their own team of misfits, with an assist from coach Gordon. 

Creator Steve Brill approached Estevez a couple years ago about bringing back Mighty Ducks. “I said, ‘Well, sure, if we can capture the magic of the first films, the magic of the franchise,’ ” Estevez said at last month’s TCA Winter Press Tour. “ ‘If we can create a cinematic experience and not just try to sort of cash in on the nostalgia aspect of it.’ And I think that's ultimately what we’ve done.”

Brill is an executive producer. 

Graham said the series reminds parents to chill out at their kids’ games. “What the series is looking at is how important is winning, how wrapped up have we gotten in achievement?” she said. “I have cousins who are in this world with their kids, who saw the trailer and said that the parents didn’t look bad enough.”

The Mighty Ducks also reminds kids to just have fun on the field, court or rink. “Kids these days, they have trainers,” executive producer and showrunner Josh Goldsmith said. “They specialize. They eat salads. They get flexor injuries very early in their sports careers.” 

Added exec producer/showrunner Cathy Yuspa, “They’re mini-pros.”

Season two of Boston drama City on a Hill starts on Showtime March 28. Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge star. The season centers on a federal housing project in Roxbury plagued with drug violence and a distrust in law enforcement. 

Bacon directs the premiere. “When you get through a whole season, you really learn these characters pretty intimately and also the tone of the show, the look of the show, the back story of everything,” Bacon said at the TCA Press Tour. “So a lot of your homework is already done.”

Bacon acknowledged directing and starring is “a lot of work.”

“I like to think that if I really understand a character, you can kind of throw anything at me, and I can just live in that moment as that guy,” he added. “And, so, going back and forth between being behind the camera, in front of the camera, was pretty seamless for me.”

Executive producer Tom Fontana shared his thoughts on plotting out a new season. “What we are trying to do is find a story that really happened in Boston in this period,” he said, “and then fictionalize it so that we can incorporate our regular characters into the story.”

Showtime has set a March 28 date for the return of crime drama series City On A Hill and an April 18 premiere date for the second season of Couples Therapy.

City On a Hill will return for its sophomore campaign with stars Kevin Bacon, reprising his role irreverent FBI agent Jackie Rohr, and Aldis Hodge -- portraying assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward. The two will continue to butt heads in the second season, which centers on a federal housing project in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, said the network. 

Couples Therapy returns for its second season with Dr. Orna Guralnik continuing to serve as a therapist to struggling couples. The nine-episode season will provide viewers with an authentic and visceral look at her weekly therapy sessions. 

Showtime will air back to back episodes of Couple's Therapy leading up to the finale on May 16, said the network. 

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Season two of drama City on a Hill starts on Showtime March 28. Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge star in a show about political and crime battles in Boston.

There will be eight episodes. 

Season two centers on a federal housing project in the Roxbury neighborhood that is plagued with drug violence and a distrust in law enforcement. As coalition leader Grace Campbell (Pernell Walker) works on behalf of the community, her efforts are undermined by gang activity happening under her nose. Bacon’s FBI agent Jackie Rohr seeks to exploit Boston's defective criminal justice system in a desperate attempt to salvage his career. Unfortunately for Jackie, assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward (Hodge) is onto him.

The antagonism between the two escalates into an all-out war between the offices of the U.S. Attorney and the Suffolk DA. 

Also in the cast are Lauren E. Banks, Mark O’Brien, Amanda Clayton, Matthew Del Negro and Jill Hennessy. 

City on a Hill is executive produced by Tom Fontana, who is showrunner. Jennifer Todd, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jorge Zamacona, Barry Levinson, Chuck MacLean and Michael Cuesta also executive produce. Bacon, Hodge and Michele Giordano are co-executive producers.

City on a Hill, a crime drama starring Kevin Bacon as a corrupt FBI veteran facing down a lively crime scene in early 1990s Boston, premieres on Showtime June 16. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are executive producers, and Tom Fontana is executive producer and showrunner.

Fontana has worked on St. Elsewhere, Oz and Homicide: Life on the Street. He was drawn to City on a Hill, created by Chuck MacLean, for the chance to dive into hot issues that continue to vex Americans, and to examine the so-called Boston Miracle. Showtime has put the premiere online, including YouTube, for free.

“I think the show is a really fun ride,” Fontana said. “But you have to strap yourself in, because it’s a roller coaster.”

MCN: Where did the idea for the series come from?
Tom Fontana: Ben Affleck was doing research for his film The Town. The Town, of course, is contemporary, but he came across a story from the 1990s about a heist, and he thought it was a really interesting idea. Ben brought in Chuck MacLean. They pitched it to Showtime and Showtime bought it.

MCN: Were Ben and Matt Damon very much involved after that?
TF: I can’t say they were very involved. Maybe I’m flattering myself, but I’d like to think they hired me to be the showrunner so they didn’t have to worry.

MCN: What attracted you to the project?
TF: Chuck’s writing in the pilot was exceptional. I’m always attracted to character pieces and I found the characters incredibly compelling.

I also think the themes of the show, like racism, government corruption and misogyny, are very current in the world we live in today. Because it’s got this period sensibility to it, we’re able to deal with these issues without being polemical or preachy.

MCN: That makes City on a Hill relevant in 2019?
TF: I think so. What’s so funny about it is you take something like misogyny, and the hardest part about writing about it has been that you can’t give it a 2019 sensibility. You can’t have people talking about #MeToo. It was very tricky writing it and being able to maintain an honesty about the period but also being able to confront the issues we’ve been dealing with.

MCN: Did you do anything to get yourself into the 1992 mindset?
TF: Fortunately, I’m so old that I remember 1992. It wasn’t that hard for me to go back there.

I did a lot of reading and looked at a lot of newsreels. We weaved a lot of things into the texture of the show, like Rodney King, Larry Bird, the presidential election that year.

MCN: Tell me more about Boston in 1992.
TF: There was an enormous amount of gentrification. Neighborhoods that had one ethnic group in them for generations were being bought up by wealthy … back then we called them yuppies. People were forced to move out of neighborhoods that their families had lived in for generations.

There was a series of incidents in Boston that really set the tone between the police and the black community. There was so much gun violence, prejudice and police brutality that various communities in Boston — African-American ministers, the police department, the mayor’s office, the DA, neighborhood watch programs — came together for the first time in Boston history. They said, “All we’ve been doing is blaming each other. Maybe we should start to work together. Let’s each do what we do best and coordinate it amongst ourselves.”

From 1992 to 2000, gun violence in Boston was reduced by 85%. It was called the Boston Miracle. That’s a large part of the ongoing story of the series.

MCN: What do hit TV shows have in common? What do they do right that the non-hits don’t?
TF: If I had the answer to that I’d be beyond happy! For me, it’s interesting characters. I like characters that I’m curious about, not necessarily people that I like. You can’t do a show like [prison drama] Oz and have everybody like those characters. There are a lot of fascinating characters in City on a Hill. Audiences like to get engaged by a character and their journey. We want to know more about that character and where he or she is going.

MCN: Do you have a moment, a scene in the first season that you feel is a highlight?
TF: That’s like saying to a father, who’s your favorite kid? There are a lot of great moments. Each episode has at least one where you say, pardon my language, holy f---!

Showtime has released the premiere episode of its new drama series City On A Hill on its on demand and streaming platforms in advance of the show’s June 16 debut, the network said Friday.

The premiere episode of the series, which stars Aldis Hodge (Underground) and Kevin Bacon (The Following), is currently available for free now on YouTube, Facebook and SHO.com,as well as on Showtime’s stand-alone service’s website www.showtime.com, said network officials.

Set in early ’90s Boston, where racism is endemic and crime is widespread, the series follows an unlikely alliance between FBI agent Jackie Rohr (Bacon) and Assistant District Attorney Decourcy Ward (Hodge), Showtime said.

Showtime on Friday dropped a new video trailer for its upcoming police drama City On The Hill, premiering June 16.

The series, which stars Kevin Bacon (The Following) and Aldis Hodge (Underground), is set in early 1990s Boston, which is rife with violent criminals emboldened by local law enforcement agencies in which corruption and racism was the norm, according to the network.

Chuck MacLean (Boston Strangler) and Tom Fontana (Homicide: Life on the Street) serve as executive producers for the series, along with Bacon, Jennifer Todd, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Michael Cuesta and Barry Levinson. Bacon and Jorge Zamacona serve as co-executive producers.