Fuller House, the Full House sequel that was created for Netflix, joins Full House in the GAC Family lineup, starting February 28. It will mark the first time Fuller House will appear on linear TV. 

Full House started appearing on GAC Family earlier this month.

Also: Bill Abbott Plans ‘Rescue Bowl’ for GAC After Hallmark Cancels ‘Kitten Bowl’

Last year Abbott bought Great American Country from Discovery and transformed it into the family friendly GAC Family. Following the Hallmark Channel playbook, GAC Family ran a series of holiday themed movies in the fourth quarter.

Fuller House continues the story of the Tanner family. It stars Candace Cameron Bure (a Hallmark Channel favorite), Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber, along with Soni Nicole Bringas, Michael Champion and Elias Harger. 

John Stamos is a producer and makes guest appearances in Fuller House, along with his co-stars from the original Full House, the late Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin (another former Hallmark Channel stalwart) and Scott Weinger.  ■

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will debut its third season Dec. 6 on Prime Video with actress Rachel Brosnahan and Tony Shalhoub reprising their Emmy-winning roles.

Other shows returning this week include Netflix’s Fuller House for its fifth and final season (Dec. 6) and History's Vikings for its sixth and final season (Dec. 4).

On the new series front, Showtime will resurrect its drama series The L Word for a new series run. The Dec. 8 premiere of The L Word: Generation Q will feature Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig (pictured) and Leisha Hailey reprising their roles from the original series, which ran on Showtime from 2004-2009. 

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting this week on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

Dec. 2 -- Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On (documentary) -- A&E

Dec. 3 -- 24/7: Kelly Slater (documentary) -- HBO

Dec. 3 -- Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah (comedy special) -- Netflix

Dec. 4 -- Toast of London (comedy) -- IFC

Dec. 5 -- Tell Me A Story (returning series) -- CBS All Access

Dec. 5 -- V Wars (sci-fi) -- Netflix

Dec. 6 -- Astronomy Club (sketch comedy) -- Netflix

Dec. 6 -- The Confession Killer (miniseries) -- Netflix

Dec. 6 -- Reprisal (drama) -- Hulu

Dec. 6 -- Truth Be Told (drama) -- Apple TV+

Dec. 8 -- Work In Progress (comedy) -- Showtime

Loughlin, 54, was released on $1 million bond Wednesday after appearing in Los Angeles federal court in connection with federal charges that she and her husband Mossimo Giannulli allegedly paid bribes in an effort to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California. Loughlin will have to appear in court in Boston on March 29, according to published reports.

Loughlin turned herself in to FBI authorities earlier in the day as part of the sweeping college admissions scandal, in which more than 30 other people -- including Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman -- were also arrested and charged.

Loughlin was allowed to retain her passport and travel to Canada where she is currently filming a project, according to USA Today.

While Loughlin is arguably best known for her role as Rebecca Donaldson on the 1990's sitcom Full House -- as well as Netflix’s recent reboot of the series Fuller House -- she’s more recently become one of family-targeted Hallmark Network’s most recognizable stars. She’s appeared in several of Hallmark’s ratings-strong, Christmas-themed movies, including last year’s Homegrown Christmas and 2016's Every Christmas Has a Story.

Loughlin also stars in Hallmark’s drama series When Calls the Heart, now in its sixth season, as well as Hallmark Mysteries and Movies’ film series Garage Sale Mysteries.

Neither Netflix nor the Crown Media-owned Hallmark Channel -- whose family-friendly programming fare appeals to women across multiple age groups -- would comment on the matter.

Computer company HP has pulled a 2017 advertisement featuring Loughlin and her daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli due to the scandal, according to Fortune.

Weeks after premiering its sophomore campaign, Netflix on Saturday said it has renewed comedy series Fuller House for a third season.

The series, based on the 1990s hit comedy series, will return for a third season in 2017, said network officials. The announcement came via the show’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram social media pages.

The second season of Fuller House debuted on Netflix on Dec. 9

Can you make an old hit new again?

Several cable networks and OTT providers are hoping to appeal to the mature end of the millennial demographic — that is 25-to-34-year-olds — by rebooting or remaking classic 1980s and 1990s TV shows.

Cartoon Network has reanimated The Powerpuff Girls, returning the characters to its schedule with a new series some 11 years after the original ended. Netflix’s Fuller House updated the 1990s ABC sitcom Full House, with the Tanner kids now grown up and raising children themselves. MTV has reimagined Scream, the 1990s horror-movie franchise that put Courteney Cox of Friends on the big screen in its first iteration.

And Disney Channel is remixing a rendition of Girl Meets World — featuring the now-grown kid stars of 1990s sitcom Boy Meets World.

All of these shows aim to appeal to busy millennials who are increasingly viewing content on nontraditional television platforms.

Today’s millennial viewers are often defined as cable cord-cutting, binge-watching viewers who devour the latest eclectic short-form content via digital platforms. Older members of the massive 16-to-34-year-old demo, though, still watch a lot of their TV the way baby boomers and Generation Xers do, gravitating to the long-form, classic content they grew up with back when cable was still cool.

ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL

The trend reflects a realization that all millennials are not the same, and not every YouTube video or short-form show will appeal to all consumers in the demo.

“All of these networks are looking at the millennial audience, and some are recognizing that [older millennials] really like reminiscing about their childhood,” David Quinn, senior brand lead for digital marketing firm Beamly, said. “It was a wonderful time and some millennials embrace that.”

Like boomers and Gen Xers, older millennials are finding that the responsibilities that come with work and family leave less time for entertainment. And, like those older demos, they’re often drawn to familiar content that resonates.

Nostalgia can be a big driver for remakes of movie and TV hits that have built-in audiences but may be sitting unused in the crowded soup of subscription VOD platforms. The challenge, of course, is to parlay that nostalgia and bring in the old crowd, as well as new viewers, without it all seeming tacky.

It’s a tricky challenge for TV’s demographic marketers, who parse the world in groups of boomers, Gen Xers and millennials.

And older millennials, particularly those with families, also watch more traditional television than their younger demographic cohorts. Millennials starting a family watch more than three hours a day of live TV — that’s over an hour more than single millenials consume, according to Nielsen’s Total Audience Report for fourth-quarter 2015.

That boosts the value of franchises that date back to older millennials’ childhoods, such as Cartoon Network’s The Powerpuff Girls and Nickelodeon’s Hey Arnold!. Nick has set a Hey Arnold! special that picks up where the final episode of the animated series in 2002 left off .

Nickelodeon Franchise Properties senior vice president of content development Chris Viscardi said that franchises like Hey Arnold! and 1990s game show Legends of the Hidden Temple — which the network is turning into a live-action TV movie — give Nickelodeon a leg up on other entertainment networks trying to reach the elusive audience group.

Millennials with families are also more likely than not to introduce their kids to their childhood TV favorites, Viscardi said. That helps Nick reach out to a new generation of viewers.

“There is a huge millennial love for those series, so we know that millennial fans who grew up on them will come back,” Viscardi said. “There are some things inherent in our properties that we know a new generation of fans would love also.”

Nick is exploring several other older titles that it might resurrect and develop new episodes for, although Viscardi would not provide specific details.

Shows such as Girl Meets World — less a reboot than a 2014 spinoff of the 1993-2000 ABC series Boy Meets World, featuring grownup characters from the first series with children of their own — allows Disney Channel to reach a wide audience of both adults and kids, Sean Coccia, executive vice president of business operations and general manager for Disney Channels Worldwide, said.

To further encourage co-viewing, Disney will resurrect DuckTales, a 1987-1990 syndicated animated series built around Donald Duck’s nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie and his Uncle Scrooge, for its Disney XD network in 2017. And Disney Channel later this will year premiere Adventures in Babysitting, an original movie based loosely on the 1987 theatrical fi lm of the same name.

FAMILY AFFAIR

“For Disney Channel, it is not hard to reach these millennials if we deliver content that provides them with the opportunity to share an experience and time with their families,” Cocchia said. “Social media has also helped us by giving these millennial families platforms to talk about what they love and what they are seeing in the new storylines and characters.”

Classic entertainment franchises don’t always initially appeal to the older end of the millennial audience. MTV’s Scream series — based on the horror movie franchise of the same name launched 20 years ago — had its biggest audience among younger 16-to-24-year-olds during its freshman season last summer, according to MTV senior vice president of scripted programming Mina Lefevre.

Scream will return for its sophomore season in May.

“[Younger millennials] knew about Scream — some of them watched it and some of them didn’t — but they all knew about the value and iconic nature of Scream,” Lefevre said. “For us to reinvent it for them is where we stood. We thought we could make it as appealing and iconic to them as it was to [older millennials].”

Cartoon Network’s Miller said that networks looking to reach the full swath of millennials will ultimately have to market and promote differently to the younger and older segments of the demo. “There is absolutely a difference in how we create content for different audience segments because they all consume content differently,” Miller said. “We’ve devoted a lot of time and resources to really understanding all of our audiences and how they consume media — including millennials of all different life stages, not just ages — and we develop our strategies accordingly.”

For the older end of millennials, Beamly’s Quinn said the trend toward revitalizing 1990s classic programming is only beginning as distributors look for ways to reach an elusive audience that is looking for some familiarity to go alongside all the new content offered to them.

“I definitely think this is a trend that we’ll see continue going forward,” he said. “I think it makes perfect sense because if a network is looking to create entertainment in a crowded marketplace it’s nice to create entertainment that has a built-in audience.”

Looking to build on its original programming offering, Pop will add a new scripted series and reality series as it expands its original programming to more than 400 hours, the network said as part of the upfront presentation it will be making to clients.

The network that rebranded from TV Guide Network a year ago will launch a new scripted series Nightcap, this summer, going behind-the-scenes of a fictitious late-night talk show, according to the network. The series will join the network’s sophomore comedy series Schitt’s Creek, which launched its second season earlier this year, according to network officials.

On the unscripted front, the network in 2017 will launch Hollywood Darlings, which follows the lives of three childhood stars of the 1990s including Jodie Sweetin (Full House and Fuller House), Christine Lakin (Step By Step) and Beverley Mitchell (7th Heaven), said network officials. The series joins other launched or previously announced shows including Unusually Thicke, Rock This Boat: New Kids On The Block, Big Brother After Dark, Sing It On and Easiest Game Show Ever.

“We are heading into this upfront season with great momentum, increased distribution and a diverse portfolio of original programming that delivers on our brand promise of celebrating fan-driven content and exceptional talent,” Pop president Brad Schwartz said in a release. “One year following our rebrand, Pop is defying the industry trend with growth in ratings and growth in distribution, along with a programming line-up that is uniquely poised to capture our target audience of ‘Modern Grown-ups’— socially engaged, passionate entertainment fans who love celebrating the good times in life, both those behind you and those to come.”

The series, a sequel to the popular 1980's Full House series, follows the life of recently widowed veternarian D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron Bure) who shares a house with sister/aspiring musician Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and D.J.’s lifelong best friend/fellow single mother Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber), along with Kimmy’s feisty teenage daughter Ramona (Soni Nicole Bringas), according to Netflix.

The series, produced by actor John Stamos, will also feature guest apperances from John Stamos, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin, and Scott Weinger.