TVLine Items: Dora Reboot Trailer, Longest Bluey Ever and More

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Dora the Explorer is back in a newly released trailer for Paramount+’s upcoming preschool series, dubbed just Dora.

Premiering with all 26 CG-animated, 11-minute episodes on Friday, April 12, the update “follows everyone’s favorite bilingual explorer, Dora (Diana Zermeño), and her best monkey friend, Boots (Asher Colton Spence), as they embark on epic adventures in a fantastical rainforest,” reads the official synopsis. “Guided by trustworthy Map (Anairis Quiñones), Dora and her friends must work together to overcome many obstacles while being challenged by the sneakiest fox, Swiper (Marc Weiner).”

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Kathleen Herles, who voiced Dora in the original series, returns as Mami, while Mike Smith Rivera joins the cast as Papi.

Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets? Well…

* The next new episode of Bluey, “Ghostbasket,” will premiere Stateside Sunday, April 7 on Disney+, to be followed a week later by a 28-minute special (the show’s longest episode everrrrr) titled “The Sign.”

* The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Marlo Hampton is exiting the Bravo series ahead of Season 16 “to participate in new creative entertainment projects focused on my future, and not reliving my past,” Hampton said in a statement to People.

* Presents at this year’s Oscars (airing on ABC Sunday, March 10 at a new, earlier time, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT) include Mahershala Ali, Nicolas, Cage, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong’o, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ke Huy Quan, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Yeoh and Zendaya.

* Prime Video has given a series order to The Runarounds, a YA music drama from creator Jonas Pate (Outer Banks), inspired by the real-life band of the same name that was featured in a Season 3 episode of Outer Banks. The eight-episode series, starring the real-life band’s members, “follows a tight-knit group of young adults from all walks of life who come together to form a rock band the summer after graduating from high school,” per the official synopsis. “Against the backdrop of Wilmington, North Carolina, The Runarounds will have to choose between succumbing to the pressures of real life, or risking it all to become the greatest band of all time.”

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