While it's easy to get caught up in all the new network shows for the 2016-2017 season, let's not forget we have a full summer ahead of us. A summer filled with returning shows like Mr. Robot, The Strain, Powers, Wayward Pines, and more!
There are also plenty of new shows. Comic adaptations like Robert Kirkman's Outcast and Preacher (adapted/developed by Seth Rogen and Adam Goldberg), along with summertime Netflix fare like Orange is the New Black, Bloodline, Marco Polo, Stranger Things, Voltron: Legendary Defender, and Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down.
We've also included some shows like Penny Dreadful and Person of Interest, which recently started their current seasons earlier this month. So let's check out the summer of TV!
NOTE: Not every single summer show gets its own write up. For a longer list of show debuts/premieres from May through August, head to Page 3.
Airs On: Showtime
Premiere: 5/01/16
Penny Dreadful's third ghoulish season extends the adventure to America, where Ethan becomes a hunted man. Meanwhile, back in London, Vanessa faces her greatest adversary yet while Victor dangerously collaborates with Dr. Henry Jekyll (Shazad Latif).
Airs On: CBS
Premiere: 5/03/16
Person of Interest begins its system shutdown with a 13-episode final season featuring our heroes attempting to rebuild The Machine so that they stand a fighting chance against the all-powerful ASI Samaritan and its legion of covert mercenaries.
Airs On: Netflix
Premiere: 5/20/16
Lady Dynamite is a 12-episode half-hour comedy from Mitch Hurwitz (Arrested Development) and Pam Brady (South Park) starring comedian-actress Maria Bamford (who had a role in Arrested Development: Season 4). Based on what she has accepted to be “her life,” the semi-autobiographical, semi-surreal series is a truthful look at the highs and lows of Bamford’s life -- as an actor on the rise, during her hospitalization for bipolar disorder, and through her present life in LA, where she’s reached a middle ground and found love.
Airs On: AMC
Premiere: 5/22/16
Based on the cult comic book franchise of the same name by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, Preacher is a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that causes him to develop a highly unusual power. Jesse, his badass ex-girlfriend Tulip (Ruth Negga) and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joe Gilgun) come together, and when they do, they are thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between. Developed by Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen and Sam Catlin.
Airs On: FOX
Premiere: 5/25/16
Wayward Pines returns to FOX this May as the new season picks up after the events of the first season - with the residents of the town battling against the iron-fisted rule of the First Generation. Dr. Yedlin (Jason Patric) awakens from suspended animation and finds himself in the middle of this rebellion as he tries to understand what Wayward Pines really is and to help preserve the endangered human race.
Airs On: Netflix
Premiere: 5/27/16
Season 2 of Netflix's Bloodline begins with the Rayburn family struggling to conceal their unthinkable crime. Mysterious strangers from Danny's past arrive with a dangerous agenda, law enforcement is closing in on the truth behind Danny's murder, and the tight-knit family's once harmonious relationship is poisoned by paranoia and mistrust as it slowly begins to unravel.
Airs On: History
Premiere: 5/30/15
This remake of the award-winning 1977 miniseries, based on Alex Haley's novel, features Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anika Noni Rose, Chad L. Coleman, Malachi Kirby and more. The four-night, eight-hour event series is a historical portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and ultimately carry on their legacy despite hardship.
Airs On: Starz
Premiere: 5/30/16
The Dresser brings Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins together on screen for the first time in their acclaimed careers, telling the story of one fateful night, backstage in a small regional theatre during World War II as a troupe of touring actors stages a production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear.”
Airs On: MTV
Premiere: 5/30/16
Scream: Season 2 picks up with Emma’s (Willa Fitzgerald) return to Lakewood after several months at a retreat, where she tried to recover from the horrors of last season. Everyone is walking on eggshells around her, questioning whether she has truly gotten over the Killer’s crimes. Meanwhile, Audrey (Bex Taylor-Klaus) is hiding her connection to the Killer, but is getting harassed by someone who knows the truth.
Airs On: PlayStation Network
Premiere: 5/31/16
The new season of PlayStation's Powers tells the story of Detective Walker’s (Sharlto Copley) obsession with solving the murder of beloved hero, Retro Girl, with the help of his partner Deena Pilgrim (Susan Hayward). With amped visual effects, cinematography, and stunts, creator Brian Michael Bendis has pledged that Season 2 is going to be louder, faster and more electrifying.
Airs On: NBC
Premiere: 5/31/16
Co-hosted by comedians Maya Rudolph and Martin Short, and produced by Lorne Michaels, this variety show will feature various comedy sketches, musical numbers, and celebrity guests.
Airs On: The CW
Premiere: 6/02/16
The fourth and final season of The CW's Beauty and the Beast kicks off this June as Vincent (Jay Ryan) and Catherine (Kristin Kreuk) return from their honeymoon to face all new adventures, leading up to the show's conclusion.
Airs On: Cinemax
Premiere: 6/03/16
From Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead, comes the haunting tale of Kyle Barnes (Patrick Fugit), a young man who has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a journey to find answers but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.
Airs On: AMC
Premiere: 6/05/16
Feed the Beast tells the story of Tommy (David Schwimmer) and Dion (Jim Sturgess) who are like brothers. Dion can’t stay out of trouble. Tommy can’t move past it. For two friends on the brink of losing everything, a dusty pipe dream of opening up an upscale restaurant in their hometown of the Bronx is all they have left to turn their lives around.
Airs On: Netflix
Premiere: 6/10/16
Voltron is back in a brand new Netflix series as five robotic lions form a mighty giant warrior who returns after 10,000 years to protect the universe from evil. Featuring the voices of Walking Dead's Steven Yeun, Adventure Time's Jeremy Shada, Tyler Labine, Josh Keaton, Kimberly Brooks, Cree Summer, and more.
Airs On: AMC
Premiere: 6/11/16
The second half of Hell on Wheels' fifth and final season marks the end of the line for Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) and his work on America’s first transcontinental railroad. The final push to finish brings with it a reckoning for Bohannon and the men standing in his path: the bloodthirsty Swede (Christopher Heyerdahl); the mercenary Chang (Byron Mann); and the rapacious Thomas Durant (Colm Meaney).
Airs On: CBS
Premiere: 6/13/16
In this new comic-thriller set in the world of Washington, D.C. politics, a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) gets her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovers two things: The government has stopped working, and something mysterious is happening to a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers. From Robert and Michelle King, creators and executive producers of The Good Wife.
Airs On: ABC
Premiere: 6/14/16
Based on the hit movie of the same name, Uncle Buck (Mike Epps) is a fun-loving but irresponsible guy who needs a job and a place to stay. His brother and sister-in-law need some help around the house. And they just might be the answer to each other's problems.
Airs On: NBC
Premiere: 6/16/16
Aquarius, starring David Duchovny as an LAPD cop on the hunt for serial killer Charles Manson (Gethin Anthony), returns in June with a two-hour, commercial-free premiere. But none of that "release the entire first season online simultaneously" stunt that they pulled last year.
Mr. Robot, Orange is the New Black, Sharknado 4, and more on Page 2...
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