AMC’s anthology horror series The Terror: Infamy and OWN’s drama series David Makes Man tops the list of scripted series debuting during the week of Aug. 12 to Aug. 18.

The Terror: Infamy, debuting Aug. 12, will focus on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man's journey to understand and combat the entity responsible, according to the network.

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OWN’s Aug. 14 premiere of David Makes Man -- produced by Alivn McCraney (Moonlight) follows a 14-year old African-American male who focuses on education as an escape from a turbulent home life, according to the network.

On the reality front, Paramount on Aug. 18 will premiere a documentary on the life of actor Patrick Swayze dubbed I Am Patrick Swayze.

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting this week on cable networks and streaming services:

Aug. 12 -- Lodge 49 (returning series) -- AMC

Aug. 12 -- Our Boys (drama) -- HBO

Aug. 13 -- Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die In America (documentary) -- HBO

Aug. 13 -- Black Ink Crew: Compton (reality series) -- VH1

Aug. 13 -- Danny’s House (talk/comedy show) -- Viceland

Aug. 16 -- Mindhunter (returning series) -- Netflix

Aug. 16 -- Sextuplets (comedy) -- Netflix

Aug. 18 -- The Righteous Gemstones (comedy) -- HBO

Travel channel this past Sunday ( June 9) debuted the latest reboot of the iconic series Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, hosted by veteran actor Bruce Campbell. The show, documenting the kinds of oddball stories that Ripley’s (celebrating its 100th anniversary) has been documenting in syndicated newspaper cartoon strips for decades, has been revived several times since debuting in 1949. Campbell’s predecessors as host include Jack Palance, Dean Cain and Marie Osmond. Known for playing demon slayer Ash Williams in the Evil Dead movie franchise and, more recently, in the Ash vs Evil Dead series on Starz — as well as for roles in AMC’s Lodge 49 and FX’s Fargo (as Ronald Reagan) — Campbell also executive produces the new 10-episode Ripley’s. He chatted with Multichannel News about the new show and about the increasing opportunities to create and develop content across multiple platforms.

MCN: Your acting career spans more than 30 years. Do you feel this is the best time to be in the television industry, given the various distribution outlets and platforms?
Bruce Campbell: It is the best time to be in television. Thirty some odd years ago I did Knots Landing — it was my first TV show — and I was horrified as to how bad the writing and production was. Now TV’s the place to be. The best directors and the best writers are in television now. I don’t know how or when it turned. I think networks like AMC were at the forefront of creating original content that looked like movies.

MCN: Having said that, are you looking to develop other content for television?
BC: I’m going to set out to do a lot of scriptwriting. What I’ve learned is, you can’t get anything going unless you have something to get going. I can sit around all day waiting for scripts to come in, or I can be self-generating. I like to write what I’m interested in.

MCN: Having accomplished so much in television, could you have ever seen yourself hosting such an iconic show as Ripley’s?
BC: I’ve hosted game shows like Last Fan Standing, so it’s a [genre] I’m familiar with, but it’s fun to come back to it through such a solid brand as Ripley’s. Everyone knew about Ripley’s — that’s part of the reason I said yes. You mention the show and people remember how they saw other versions of the show, so I thought it was cool they were bringing it back. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! is an institution.

MCN: Travel Channel has branded itself as the network for paranormal and supernatural-themed, unscripted content. What is the audience appeal for the genre?
BC: It removes us from our mundane lives when we can see something that is extraordinary and is not normal. When you see abnormal things it doesn’t mean it’s bad, but with shows like Ripley’s, you’ll never see anything like this in your life.

MCN: The Evil Dead franchise has endeared itself to a generation of fans, both through movies and through Starz’s original series Ash vs Evil Dead. Why is that franchise still so popular today?
BC: It’s impossible to answer the question of why The Evil Dead was so popular. Part of it is that the lead guy doesn’t have any special skills. There’s a lot of relatability — he’s not a hero from another planet, he doesn’t wear a cape; he can be killed instantly and he’s almost killed a lot. He’s one of the few good guys in the horror genre. Some of the [horror characters] that have carried on — Freddy [Krueger] or Jason [Voorhees] — are bad guys, while ours is a good guy in the horror business that you can root for.

Lodge 49 premieres on AMC Aug. 6. Wyatt Russell plays Dud, a goofy surfer dude in Long Beach, Calif., who’s in shoddy shape following the death of his father. He ends up at a fraternal lodge, and finds the easy camaraderie — and the cheap beer — helps him heal.

Jim Gavin created the show and Peter Ocko runs it. Gavin said Lodge 49 represents “the culmination of many of my interests and obsessions,” including a “long-term interest in the strangeness of fraternal orders.”

Both executive producers acknowledge the challenge of birthing a series with so much other good stuff out there clamoring for people’s attention. “It’s very hard to cut through the noise,” said Ocko.

He espoused the virtues of “being loud by being quiet”— Lodge 49 does not require the viewer to sort through brain-bending puzzles, like some other series that won’t be named. “It’s the kind of show you can relax with and enjoy,” he said. “Shows about murder mysteries and terror attacks — we are the opposite.”

Ocko said Lodge 49 is a different animal than a series one might expect to find on AMC, home of The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul and, going back a bit, Mad Men. “We are more optimistic than shows they generally do, shows they’re known for,” he said.

Speaking of different animals, Disney Channel offers a fresh take on Freaky Friday on Aug. 10. The mother-daughter body-swap story has been done many, many times, but props to Disney Channel, and stars Cozi Zuehlsdorff (teen Ellie) and Heidi Blickenstaff (mother Katherine), for freshening up Freaky Friday this time around.

This one is a musical movie. Mom and teen daughter don’t get along. They swap bodies, thanks to a magical hourglass they are wrestling over, and find a bit of empathy for each other during the day they wear their opposite’s shoes.

Through it all, Mom is to be married (her husband, and Ellie’s father, died years before), and a magazine is interested in the wedding, which Katherine and her catering company are handling themselves.

Laughs come from high school mean girl Savannah, uber-uptight catering manager Torrey, and goofy Great Dane Boris, among others.

And season three of Insecure starts up on HBO on Sunday (Aug. 12). Creator and star Issa Rae said the series brain trust tries “a bunch of new things” in the new season. Prentice Penny, showrunner, didn’t want “Issa does Issa and “Molly does Molly.”

“We want to go deeper,” Rae said.

We shall soon see how Team Insecure pulls that off.