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What’s on TV, July 19-25: ‘Avatar Aang,’ the World Cup final, the WNBA All-Star Game and more

New and noteworthy series, movies, sports and specials on broadcast, cable and streaming this coming week

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Matt Cooper
Jul 17, 2026
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“Avatar Aang — The Last Airbender” (Paramount+)

Sunday — July 19

¡Ay, caramba! Spain faces defending champs Argentina in live coverage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final. From Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (3 p.m. ET and noon PT on Fox, Fox One, Peacock, Telemundo and Universo)

Someone’s going home with 200 grand, which should be more than enough to buy a new wardrobe, in the season finale of the survival competition “Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown.” (8 p.m. Discovery Channel)

Contractor Mike Holmes and company continue their efforts to help families in dire need of functional spaces fix up their fixer-uppers in new episodes of “Holmes on Homes: Building a Legacy.” (8 p.m. HGTV)

A woman who faked her own death to escape an abusive marriage discovers she’s not out of the woods yet in the new thriller “He’ll Never Find Me.” With Kabby Borders. (8 p.m. Lifetime)

And then their were eight: The remaining contestants face off in the freshman season finale of the culinary competition “100 Cooks” hosted by “AGT’s” Terry Crews. (9 p.m. Food Network)

Husband-and-wife duo Chase and Sarah Morrill endeavor to turn a dilapidated B&B into a bigger and better lakeside resort in their new spinoff series “Maine Cabin Masters: All Inn.” (8 p.m. HGTV)

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Monday — July 20

I tell you what! Creator and co-star Mike Judge’s reboot of his Texas-set animated sitcom “King of the Hill” is back for a fifteenth season. (Anytime, Hulu)

A second season of “Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross” sees the former “Black-ish” co-star racking up the frequent flyer miles with trips Australia, Thailand and Switzerland. (Anytime, Roku Channel)

If you lived there, you’d be embarrassed by now in new episodes of the renovation series “Ugliest House in America” hosted by former “Parks and Rec” co-star Retta. (9 p.m. HGTV)

It’s always the person you least suspect when the true-crime series “A Killer Among Friends” returns for a second season. Jennifer Love Hewitt (“The Ghost Whisperer”) narrates. (9 p.m. Investigation Discovery)


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