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Housewives of Beverly Hills The Real House- + The Robert Irvine Show wives of New York City (Wed) Southern Charm (Tue) wives of New York City Southern Charm ` Nature Cat A: As regular readers of this column (Thu) Married to M edicine (Fri) (Wed) Married to Medicine 5 Arthur & George on Masterpiece Black know, “ever” is a word we don’t — and [CNBC] Power Lunch (Mon-Thu) Jay Leno’s (Thu) (Fri) (Mon) [CNBC] Jay Leno’s Garage Work The Widower The Great British can’t — give a definitive response to. Garage (Fri) (Fri) (Tue) (Wed) [CNN] Wolf [CNN] CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin Baking Show (Thu) Keeping Up Appearances (Fri) “Knots Landing” may not be on now [DISN] Bunk’d [AMC] Movie “The Green Mile” [DISN] Mission Force One (Mon) Vampirina (Tue- (Mon, Wed, Fri) (Fri) [DISN] Movie “A Bug’s Life” “Pup Star: [BRAVO] Vanderpump Rules The Real (which it isn’t), but who’s to say it won’t Thu) Muppet Babies (Fri) (Tue) (Thu) (Mon) resurface five or nine years from now, [FOOD] The Pioneer Woman Better 2Gether” Housewives of Beverly Hills (Tue) The Real House- [MSNBC] MSNBC Live With Craig Melvin [FOOD] Spring Baking Championship (Mon) wives of New York City (Wed) Southern Charm which we don’t know at this point? 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