TODAY’S NEWS, TOMORROW’S TELEVISION : HBO’s “Kids in the Hall” are ready to romp again and England’d Avengers are getting A&E; lodging

SERIES HBO’s comedy-sketch series “The Kids in the Hall” will return for a second season with 20 new episodes beginning in the winter. The Kids-Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson-are a Canadian group of skit writers and comedy actors.

The cable network Lifetime plans to introduce its first night of original programming in June, 1991. The two-hour block of original programming, 9-11 p.m., will include the half-hour comedy series “Carolina Moon,” the half-hour mystery series “The Hidden Room” and the half-hour drama “Heartbreakers.” Lifetime also has in the works “Apartment 3-G,” based on the long-running comic strip, and an unnamed drama series about a female private eye.

Turner Broadcasting System has signed a distribution agreement with New World Entertainment to run syndicated episodes of “The Wonder Years,” the ABC sitcom starring Fred Savage, in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Premiere dates have not yet been announced.

“The Avengers,” England’s classic send-up of secret agents, returns to television on A&E; beginning Oct. 1. The British-made series, which ran on ABC from 1966 through 1969, starred Patrick Macnee and his revolving cast of female co-stars- Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson.

MOVIES

“WonderWorks,” which for six years has presented weekly, hourlong anthologies on PBS, will change its format to become “WonderWorks Family Movie” on Oct. 17. The series will then be presented as a two-hour, monthly prime-time special. The change was made to promote a consistency of scheduling on PBS stations and to provide a medium for long-format productions.

SPECIALS

Tennessee Ernie Ford, George Jones, Louvin Brothers and Webb Pierce were named nominees for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame by the Country Music Association. The 1990 Hall of Fame inductee will be announced on the “24th Annual Country Music Awards” Oct. 8 on CBS.

Carol Burnett, F. Murray Abraham and Tim Curry are some of the narrators scheduled for “HBO Storybook Musicals,” a new fall series of animated family specials. The series will translate enduring children’s works into musical specials. Upcoming productions, featuring the work of such composers as Charles Strous and Sheldon Harnick, include “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel,” “The Marzipan Pig” and “The Little Tramp.”

Showtime is currently working on “Kurt Vonnegut’s Monkey House,” a series of half-hour specials based on stories of the acclaimed author of “Welcome to My Monkey House,” “Slaughterhouou Five” and “Cat’s Cradle.” The series, which will premiere as a 90-minute trilogy early in 1991, is from Atlantis Films Limited, the same company that produced the ACE Award-winning “Ray Bradbury Theatre.”

The Washington Post Company and Ventura Entertainment Group will jointly produce “Inside the White House,” a series of one-hour specials using newly available material from the Presidential libraries to give viewers an incisive, behind-the-scenes look at Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan. The series does not yet have a broadcaster attached; production is set for early next year.