Summer TV 2015 Catch-All

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Hey, there is some good stuff coming up this summer, as well as some so bad it's good stuff. So let's do a summer thread before the next fall season kicks in. It's a bit late on a couple of shows, but there arrested a lot of premieres coming up.

Summer Premiere Dates For New And Returning TV Series

May 14:
Wayward Pines (Fox, series premiere)

May 17:
Submissive Wives’ Guide to Marriage (TLC, series premiere)
Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno Live! (Ovation, series premiere)

May 18:
The Bachelorette (ABC, Season 11 premiere)

May 19:
The Fighting Season (Audience Network, limited series premiere)

May 20:
MasterChef (Fox, Season 6 premiere; two hours)
500 Questions (ABC, series premiere)
Celebrity Wife Swap (ABC, Season 4 premiere)

May 21:
Braxton Family Values (WE tv, Season 4B premiere)
Cutting It: In the ATL (WE tv, series premiere)
What’s My Car Worth? (Velocity, Season 6 premiere)
Between (Netflix, series premiere)

May 22:
American Diner Revival (Food Network, series premiere)

May 25:
American Ninja Warrior (NBC, Season 2 premiere)
The Island (NBC, series premiere)
Texas Rising (History, limited series premiere)
Barmageddon (truTV, Season 1B premiere)

May 26:
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (Fox, series relaunch)
America’s Got Talent (NBC, Season 10 premiere)
I Can Do That (NBC, series premiere)
Extreme Weight Loss (ABC, Season 5 premiere)

May 27:
The Briefcase (CBS, series premiere)
Bullseye (Fox, series premiere)

May 28:
Aquarius (NBC, series premiere)

May 29:
Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars (WE tv, Season 3 premiere)

May 30:
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (Lifetime, miniseries premiere)

May 31:
Halt and Catch Fire (AMC, Season 2 premiere)
Golan the Insatiable (Fox, series premiere)

June 1:
So You Think You Can Dance (Fox, Season 12 premiere)
The Whispers (ABC, series premiere)
Devious Maids (Lifetime, Season 3 premiere)
UnReal (Lifetime, series premiere)
T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle (VH1, Season 5 premiere)

June 2:
Chrisley Knows Best (USA, Season 3 premiere)
Royal Pains (USA, Season 7 premiere)
Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family, Season 6 premiere)
Stitchers (ABC Family, series premiere)
Secrets & Wives (Bravo, series premiere)
How to Be a Grownup (truTV, Season 2 premiere)

June 3:
Girl Code (MTV, Season 4 premiere)
Melissa & Joey (ABC Family, Season 4B premiere)
Baby Daddy (ABC Family, Season 4B premiere)

June 4:
Hannibal (NBC, Season 3 premiere)

June 5:
Sense8 (Netflix, series premiere)

June 6:
Power (Starz, Season 2 premiere)
Tabloid (Investigation Discovery, Season 3 premiere)

June 7:
The Da Vinci List (Ovation, series premiere)

June 8:
Major Crimes (TNT, Season 4 premiere)
Murder in the First (TNT, Season 2 premiere)
The Fosters (ABC Family, Season 3 premiere)
Becoming Us (ABC Family, series premiere)
Odd Mom Out (Bravo, series premiere)

June 10:
Skin Wars (GSN, series premiere)
Knockout (NuvoTV, Season 2 premiere)

June 11:
Beauty and the Beast (The CW, Season 3 premiere)
The Seventies (CNN, limited series premiere)

June 12:
Orange Is the New Black (Netflix, Season 3 premiere)
Defiance (Syfy, Season 3 premiere)
Dark Matter (Syfy, series premiere)
Hit Record on TV (Pivot, Season 2 premiere)
Secret Lives of Americans (Pivot, series premiere)

June 13:
Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell (BBC America, series premiere)

June 14:
Southern Uncovered With The Lee Bros. (Ovation, series premiere)

June 15:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS, Season 19 premiere)
The Making of the Mob: New York (AMC, series premiere)

June 16:
Rizzoli & Isles (TNT, Season 6 premiere)
Proof (TNT, series premiere)
Tyrant (FX, Season 2 premiere)
Clipped (TBS, series premiere)

June 17:
Deutschland 83 (SundanceTV, series premiere)

June 18:
Mistresses (ABC, Season 3 premiere)
The Astronaut Wives Club (ABC, series premiere)
Complications (USA, series premiere)

June 19:
Killjoys (Syfy, series premiere)

June 21:
Celebrity Family Feud (ABC, series premiere)
BattleBots (ABC, series premiere)
True Detective (HBO, Season 2 premiere)
Ballers (HBO, series premiere)
The Brink (HBO, series premiere)
The Last Ship (TNT, Season 2 premiere; two hours)
Poldark on Masterpiece (PBS, series premiere)
The Crimson Field (PBS, series premiere)

June 22:
POV (PBS, Season 28 premiere)

June 23:
WWE Tough Enough (USA, series premiere)

June 24:
Big Brother (CBS, Cycle 17 premiere; two-night premiere continues June 25)
Suits (USA, Season 5 premiere)
Mr. Robot (USA, series premiere)
First Peoples (PBS, limited series premiere)

June 25:
Under the Dome (CBS, Season 3 premiere)
Boom! (Fox, series premiere)
Rookie Blue (ABC, Season 5 premiere)
Graceland (USA, Season 3 premiere)

June 26:
Love Thy Neighbor (OWN, Season 4 premiere)

June 28:
Humans (AMC, series premiere)
Falling Skies (TNT, Season 5 premiere)
Last Tango in Halifax (PBS, Season 3 premiere)

June 29:
Teen Wolf (MTV, Season 5A premiere)

June 30:
Zoo (CBS, series premiere)
Scream (MTV, series premiere)
The Haves and the Have Nots (OWN, Season 4 premiere)

July 1:
Extant (CBS, Season 2 premiere)
Operation Wild (PBS, limited series premiere)

July 2:
Food Fighters (NBC, Season 2 premiere)

July 6:
The Boris And Nicole Show (Fox, series premiere)
Penn & Teller: Fool Us (The CW, Season 2 premiere)
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW, Season 11 premiere)

July 7:
Hollywood Game Night (NBC, Season 3 premiere)

July 8:
The Spoils Before Dying (IFC, miniseries premiere)
Catfish: The TV Show (MTV, Season 4B premiere)

July 9:
Dates (The CW, series premiere)
One Bad Choice (MTV, series premiere)
Teen Mom 2 (MTV, Season 6 premiere)
Dominion (Syfy, Season 2 premiere)
Rectify (SundanceTV, Season 3 premiere)

July 10:
Masters of Illusion (The CW, Season 2 premiere)

July 11:
Livin’ Lozada (OWN, series premiere)
Flex & Shanice (OWN, Season 2 premiere)

July 12:
Ray Donovan (Showtime, Season 3 premiere)
Masters of Sex (Showtime, Season 3 premiere)
Basketball Wives (VH1, Season 4 premiere)

July 13:
Running Wild With Bear Grylls (NBC, Season 2 premiere)
Monica the Medium (ABC Family, series premiere)

July 15:
The Jim Gaffigan Show (TV Land, series premiere)
Impastor (TV Land, series premiere)
Dating Naked (VH1, Season 2 premiere)
Twinning (VH1, series premiere)

July 16:
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (FX, series premiere)
Married (FX, Season 2 premiere)
Geeks Who Drink (Syfy, series premiere)
Impractical Jokers (truTV, Season 4B premiere)
Friends of the People (truTV, Season 2 premiere)

July 19:
Welcome to Sweden (NBC, Season 2 premiere)
Tut (Spike, event series premiere)

July 22:
Last Comic Standing (NBC, Season 9 premiere)
Candidly Nicole (VH1, Season 2 premiere)
Life on the Reef (PBS, limited series premiere)

July 26:
Stewarts & Hamiltons (E!, series premiere)

July 28:
Face Off (Syfy, Season 9 premiere)

July 29:
America’s Best Dance Crew All Stars: Road to the VMAs (MTV, series “reinvention”)
Fameless (truTV, series premiere)
Friends of the People (truTV, Season 2 premiere)

July 31:
Cold Justice (TNT, Season premiere)
Cold Justice: Sex Crimes (TNT, Season 3B premiere)
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (Netflix, series premiere)

July TBA:
Gunslingers (American Heroes Channel, Season 2 premiere)

August 2:
Bachelor in Paradise (ABC, Season 2 premiere; two hours)
On the Record with Mick Rock (Ovation, series premiere)

August 3:
Significant Mother (The CW, series premiere)
Ice & Coco (Select Fox stations, start of three-week daily preview)

August 4:
Playing House (USA, Season 2 premiere)

August 5:
Mr. Robinson (NBC, series premiere)
The Carmichael Show (NBC, series premiere)
America’s Next Top Model (The CW, Cycle 22 premiere)
A Wicked Offer (The CW, series premiere)
Job or No Job (ABC Family, series premiere)

August 10:
She’s Got Game (VH1, series premiere)

August 11:
Next Step Realty: NYC (ABC Family, series premiere)

August 12:
Kevin From Work (ABC Family, series premiere)

August 17:
Chasing Life (ABC Family, Season 2 premiere)

August 18:
Startup U (ABC Family, Season 2 premiere)
Six Degrees of Everything (truTV, series premiere)
Hack My Life (truTV, Season 2 premiere)

August 20:
Documentary Now! (IFC, series premiere)

August 22:
Blunt Talk (Starz, series premiere)
Survivor’s Remorse (Starz, Season 2 premiere)

August 23:
Vicious (PBS, Season 2 premiere)

August 24:
Switched at Birth (ABC Family, Season 4 premiere)
Black Ink Crew (VH1, Season 4 premiere)

August 25:
Public Morals (TNT, series premiere)

August 31:
Todrick (MTV, series premiere)
Girl Code Live (MTV, series premiere)
Awkward (MTV, Season 5A premiere)
Faking It (MTV, Season 3 premiere)
Big Blue Live (PBS, limited series premiere)

August TBA:
From Wags to Riches With Bill Berloni (Discovery Family Channel, series premiere)

September 6:
The Art Of (Ovation, Season 5 premiere)

Summer TBA:
Fear the Walking Dead (AMC, series premiere)
The Strain (FX, Season 2 premiere)
L.A. Hair (WE tv, Season 4 premiere)
The Seven Year Switch (FYI, series premiere)
Hell on Wheels (AMC, Season 5 premiere)

I have Wayward Pines on a DVR, but still haven not watched it. I don't need two Under the Domes to watch, so I'm hoping it is actually good.

My standbys for the summer:

The Bachelorette (Don't judge)
So You Think You Can Dance
Hannibal (New to summer, but must see TV, catch-up on amazon Prime if you have to)
Major Crimes (Actually better than The Closer, way better than it has any right to be)
Orange Is the New Black
True Detective
Big Brother (Seriously, no judging)
Under the Dome (Okay, you can judge me)
Bachelor in Paradise (Okay, I'm a bad person)

BBC's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell series just premiered.

There is so very little on that list I care for. More time for gaming or reading books I suppose.

I'll catch True Detective and probably binge a Netflix show or two, but I see little else there to be interested in.

Thin_J wrote:

There is so very little on that list I care for. More time for gaming or reading books I suppose.

I'll catch True Detective and probably binge a Netflix show or two, but I see little else there to be interested in.

Yeah, there isn't much really cool new stuff. I am curious about Humans, which was going to be an Xbox Exclusive show before Microsoft folded that. AMC saved it, so I believe there is something there. I will watch the pilot, at least. I would rather have Almost Human back, honestly.

Jayhawker wrote:

I have Wayward Pines on a DVR, but still haven not watched it. I don't need two Under the Domes to watch, so I'm hoping it is actually good.

My standbys for the summer:

[size=1]The Bachelorette (Don't judge)
So You Think You Can Dance
[/size][size=40]Hannibal [/size][size=1](New to summer, but must see TV, catch-up on amazon Prime if you have to)
Major Crimes (Actually better than The Closer, way better than it has any right to be)
Orange Is the New Black
True Detective
Big Brother (Seriously, no judging)
Under the Dome (Okay, you can judge me)
Bachelor in Paradise (Okay, I'm a bad person)[/size]

Squeee!

I was hoping for Longmire this Summer, but I'm okay with a Fall release. ANY release is good after A&E's cancellation.

Very excited about True Detective. I'm not too familiar with many of the titles on the list but i'm sure there will be a couple to catch my interest. Can't say I'm that excited about Fear The Walking though, getting a little sick of TWD but i'm sure i'll check it out - at least the first few eps.

I'm actually excited about FTWD. It's going to be a radically different setting, an opportunity to drop in new info about the start of the outbreak, and maybe even more info on what the rest of the world is going through. With new characters and no real need to tie into the other show, other than it occupying the same universe, I think it will give the writers something new and fresh to explore.

I'm actually more worried that True Detective will not live up to the standard set by the first season. In fact, it seems unlikely, because that first season was not only stellar, but it was a odd-ass story. I don't get the feeling that these actors are going to match McConaughey's ability to just crank up the weird.

Is anyone thinking The Whispers is going to actually be good? I will probably give it watch, but it looks like it could be great or horrible. Of course, it might be worse, boring.

And hell yes, mr_noob, Hannibal is primed to be all kinds of awesome. Theses the most meticulously shot shows on television, both visually and sonically. From the promos, it looks like this season will be even better in those regards.

Be forewarned: this does spoil who survived last season's finale.

I hope I can catch Wayward Pines on another service later. I love the book trilogy.

Not much love for Defiance? If you'd asked me if I would be excited for it after season 1, I'd have laughed. Then season 2 happened, and it's on the top of my list.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

Be forewarned: this does spoil who survived last season's finale.

You have a very good butcher!

I don't think it was too spoilery, although I would highly recommend watching the first two seasons, which are fantastic, before jumping into this story. This just blows away every other incarnation of Hannibal, including Silence of the Lambs.

In other Summer TV news, I watched the first episode of the new trivia game show, 500 Questions, with my family, and we all enjoyed the heck out of it. It's an interesting game, although it's a little less strategic than they are making it out to be. But questions are a good mix, and the game has a nice flow, changing up the structure in often during the hour.

If nothing else, its fun to watch with others and try to get the answers. It makes me long for XBLA's 1vs100.

Very much looking forward to Hannibal. Love that show.

On a completely opposite note, any word when Dr Who starts again? I thought it was summer, but maybe not

It's not Summer TV and, hell, it's not even recent TV, but I saw that one of my dearest, most favorites summer TV shows just got added to Amazon Instant. It's an old HBO series (just one 10 episode season) that has not even been on HBO Go.

John From Cincinnati is back, and I could not be happier. It was the oddest show that we nearly dumped after watching the first couple of episodes, which is pretty much what did it in, but became one of my favorite TV experiences ever. So happy.

RooksGambit wrote:

On a completely opposite note, any word when Dr Who starts again? I thought it was summer, but maybe not

Sometimes in Autumn, likely September I believe.

The Wall Street Journal has a pretty nice rundown of what's interesting this summer. Their Speakeasy section does a decent job with covering TV and pop culture in general.

Really looking forward to the Strain - yes it has moments where supposedly genius characters do stupid stuff but I love the mash up of creepy vampires and zombies.

So USA put the premiere of Mr. Robot up on Youtube and I heard a couple of bits about it that sounded interesting.

I thought it was surprisingly fun.

Seriously NBC puts out Hannibal, but none of their other shows seem to come close to the quality of the writing or cinematography.

It's why i had such high hopes for Constantine which were quickly dashed.

ranalin wrote:

Seriously NBC puts out Hannibal, but none of their other shows seem to come close to the quality of the writing or cinematography.

It's why I had such high hopes for Constantine which were quickly dashed.

Well, Hannibal is because of Bryan Fuller, who also did Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies. While my wife and I actually enjoyed Constantine, I'm sure he would have made it 100X better.

I just hope NBC keeps Hannibal around. It doesn't get the numbers it deserves, but it does get NBC a lot of critical praise.

Oooh, fresh new thread smell!

Lots of stuff to watch this summer, and the 1st episode of Mr. Robot was excellent!

I only care about True Detective, which, yes, has a lot to live up to.

And every now and then, I agree with Jayhawker - I'd rather have Almost Human back than any of these other sci-fi shows. That show was wonderful.

So, watched the third episode of Wayward Pine. So this might have just exceeded my WTF threshold. The show has issues, but I'm sticking with it as being one of the most bizarre stories I've seen told on TV. I'm guessing the book was better.

Its not really Under the Dome bad, but you really do need to check any basis for reality at the door before coming in.

Jayhawker wrote:

So, watched the third episode of Wayward Pine. So this might have just exceeded my WTF threshold. The show has issues, but I'm sticking with it as being one of the most bizarre stories I've seen told on TV. I'm guessing the book was better.

Its not really Under the Dome bad, but you really do need to check any basis for reality at the door before coming in.

I loved the books. I'm enjoying the show so far although they have taken liberties with the order of things and specific details but that's to be expected since they seem to be trying to cover at least 2 of the books in only 10 episodes. I suggest sticking it out, I have hopes they'll be able to do it pretty well. Bizarre is good.

Yellek wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:

So, watched the third episode of Wayward Pine. So this might have just exceeded my WTF threshold. The show has issues, but I'm sticking with it as being one of the most bizarre stories I've seen told on TV. I'm guessing the book was better.

Its not really Under the Dome bad, but you really do need to check any basis for reality at the door before coming in.

I loved the books. I'm enjoying the show so far although they have taken liberties with the order of things and specific details but that's to be expected since they seem to be trying to cover at least 2 of the books in only 10 episodes. I suggest sticking it out, I have hopes they'll be able to do it pretty well. Bizarre is good. :)

Yeah, it went form a Persons Unknown vibe to another whole realm at the end of the third episode. I did not see that coming.

Yeh, Mr. Robot was really cool. A scent of Fight Club, a whiff of Watch Dogs sans boombastica, soundscape reminding a tiny bit of Atticus Ross.
It's tapping into that corporate angst yet in a surprisingly toned down manner.
And the main character is really interesting and likeable. And totally an unreliable narrator.

Not much of a spoiler from the Mr. Robot episode but still a spoiler.

Spoiler:

I love that every time after the lead character explains his little E Corp trick we as an audience starting seeing and hearing it to. Evil Corp. After all we are just someone he created in his head. LOL It's great!

Anyone check out Aquarius?

Woops. Meant to edit one and posted again instead. Move along. Nothing to see here.

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