With her feature film debut a hit this month, Amy Schumer will be hoping to keep the momentum going with her first HBO special. HBO announced the premiere date for the special, as well as other important scheduling moves.

Schumer’s special, which was taped at the Apollo Theater in New York on May 29, was first announced in May. It was directed by Chris Rock. The Trainwreck star’s special will debut on Saturday, Oct. 17 at 10 p.m.

And now for something completely different, HBO has also finally scheduled the second season premiere of Damon Lindelof’s The Leftovers with Justin Theroux. The show, which centers on what happens after a majority of the earth’s population mysteriously disappeared, will return on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 9 p.m.

HBO also announced when Doll & Em, a U.K. series from BSkyB, will return for its second season for Sunday, Sept. 13 at 10:30. The show stars Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells and will feature guest appearances from Evan Rachel Wood, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ewan McGregor and Olivia Wilde.

Today was a very busy day at HBO. The premium cable network also announced two U2 specials: a documentary airing on Nov. 7 and a full concert airing on Nov. 14.

Lastly, HBO announced a slate of documentaries for the second half of the year. Alan and Susan Raymond’s Toe Tag Parole: To Live And Die On Yard A (Aug. 3) centers on Yard A at California State Prison, where men serving life sentences try to break the repetition of prison life. Tashi and the Monk (Aug. 17), directed by Andrew Hinton and Johnny Burke, is about a Himalayan community where orphans and neglected children live.

San Francisco 2.0 (Sept. 28) was directed by Alexandra Pelosi and is about the constantly changing city. Alexandra Shiva’s How To Dance In Ohio (Oct. 26) is about a group of children with autism practicing for their spring formal dance. The Diplomat (Nov. 2) is about the late Richard Holbrooke and is directed by his son, David Holbrooke.

Sundance prize winner 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets (Nov. 23) is about the shooting of black teen Jordan Davis by a white man, Michael Dunn. It was directed by Marc Silver. Leah Wolshock’s Very Semi-Serious (Dec. 7) is about the cartoonists at The New Yorker.

Lastly, Nick Read’s Bolshoi Babylon (Dec. 14) is about the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and how it dealt with the 2013 acid attack on creative director Sergei Filin.

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