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Two Duggars return to television


The Duggar family is returning to TLC.

Well, two of the former 19 Kids and Counting stars, anyhow.

Daughters Jill Dillard, 24, and Jessa Seewald, 22, will return to television in a three-part special, Jill and Jessa: Counting On, on Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. ET, the network announced Friday.

TLC has spent the better half of 2015 mulling how to continue its relationship with the famous Christian family after the network finally canceled 19 Kids and Counting in July, following news that the Duggar's eldest son Josh had molested his sisters, including Jill and Jessa, along with three other underage girls, when he was a teen.

Josh, now 27, is married and the father of four. Once a conservative lobbyist in D.C. who preached family values, he is currently in rehab following the Ashley Madison hack, which revealed him to be a paying customer of the adultery website.

Anna Duggar, Josh's wife, appears in a promo for the specials. "It was heartbreaking to hear what had happened," she says of her husband's scandals.

But the three new TLC specials will mostly focus on the two Duggar two sisters, with cameras following Jill's move to Central America to do missionary work with her husband, Derick (they currently have a 7-month-old son, Israel) and Jessa's first pregnancy.

Jessa and her husband Ben welcomed their a baby boy named Spurgeon (nicknamed Quincy), on Nov. 5.

The 90-minute TLC show will be followed by two more specials, airing on Dec. 20 and 27 at 9 p.m. ET.

Meanwhile, the Duggar family continues to be swamped by sex scandals involving their son. On Wednesday it was revealed Josh is being sued by a porn star and model for allegedly assaulted her while they were having consensual sex after he propositioned her in a Philadelphia strip club in March.

You can see the first promo here.