Investigation Discovery was among the Discovery Communications networks to unveil their new and returning slates for the 2015-16 upfront season. The network is adding seven new series including a trio with big names: Barbara Walters is hosting American Scandal, revealing never-before-heard details and personal insight from her most notorious interviews;Death By Gossip is produced and hosted by Wendy Williams and showcases the dark side of rumors where dishing the dirthas a deadly outcome;. andJoel Schumacher is executive producing Do Not Disturb, which takes a closer look atchilling cases of hotel murders.

Returning series include the Roseanne Barr-hosted Momsters: When Moms Go Bad and the previously announced Vanity Fair Confidential.

Science, coming of its most-watched quarter in the networks history in 2015, is addingnew series Geek Out Or Freak Out that is part game show and part science experiment; Short-Attention-Span Science;and Outrageous Acts Of Science spinoff Outrageous Acts Of Psych. Most important, the addictive How Its Madeand How Do They Do It return.

Discovery Life Channel is adding two more seasons of its top two series Untold Stories Of The ER beginning in fourth quarter 2015. It also unveiled the upcoming docuseries New Girl On The Block, set for an April 11 bow, the first series to profile a group of female friends in the transgender community, and Sex In Public following sex expert Jill Dictrow as she goes undercover to get unsuspecting pedestrians to dish about their private lives in public settings.

A look at the three networks full 2015-2016 slates:

INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY

NEW ORIGINAL SERIES

DEATH BY GOSSIP WITH WENDY WILLIAMS Hosted and executive produced by talk show host and media mogul Wendy Williams, DEATH BY GOSSIP showcases crimes fueled by rumors ripe with false details and half-truths, where idle gossip has turned dark and dangerous. Offices, gyms, and nosey neighborhoods all make for great rumor mills, until dishing the dirt ends with a deadly offense.

AMERICAN SCANDAL WITH BARBARA WALTERS In AMERICAN SCANDAL, television legend Barbara Walters revisits some of the most compelling stories she has covered in her career, taking viewers inside scandalous stories that captured the publics attention and sharing personal experiences and never before seen footage. In the six-part series, produced by ABCs Lincoln Square Productions, new details about the crimes committed by Jean Harris, Jim Bakker, Mark David Chapman and others are revealed by those closest to them.

SERIAL THRILLER In the heart of a terrorized community, SERIAL THRILLER propels viewers into a world of damage, untimely death and mystery. The three-part original scripted series, produced by October Films, follows a cast of intriguing characters, all on a collision course with fate. The lives of investigators, victims and associates intertwine as the mystery of one of Americas most notorious serial killers unravels.

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