July means many televisual things - but mostly Game of Thrones, Game of Thrones, Game of Thrones!
And for those who plan on watching more than just Game of Thrones, there's the return of Rick and Morty, The Strain, Ballers, Suits, and Shooter. Plus, the debuts of Castlevania, Snowfall, Midnight Texas, Friends from College, Ozark, and more.
Airs On: YouTube
Premiere: 7/03/17
Focused on the female heroes of Star Wars, Forces of Destiny’s six core characters are Leia Organa, Padme Amidala, Ahsoka Tano, Sabine Wren, Rey and Jyn Erso. In 16 animated shorts, which will be released on YouTube, each of these six will take a turn starring in new stories that co-exist alongside the existing Star Wars lore. Which is to say, yes, these are canon! A new short will premiere each day at 10am PT, culminating with their Disney Channel TV debut on Sunday, July 9th.
Airs On: FX
Premiere: 7/05/17
Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic, following numerous characters on a violent collision course - including: Franklin Saint (Damson Idris), young street entrepreneur on a quest for power; Gustavo “El Oso” Zapata (Sergio Peris-Mencheta), a Mexican wrestler caught up in a power struggle within a crime family; Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson), a CIA operative running from a dark past who begins an off-book operation to fund the Nicaraguan Contras; and Lucia Villanueva (Emily Rios), the self-possessed daughter of a Mexican crime lord.
Airs On: Netflix
Premiere: 7/07/17
Four 30-minute episodes, billed as "Castlevania Season 1, Part 1," will hit Netflix in July - an adaptation of classic NES game Castlevania III: Dracula Curse. With series producer Adi Shankar having remarked that the show will be "done in the vein of Game of Thrones" and "be R-rated as f***," Castlevania will tell the tale of the last remaining survivor of a disgraced clan battling to save Eastern Europe from Dracula.
Airs On: CBS
Premiere: 7/09/17
In this new live game show version of Candy Crush (yes, you read that correctly), teams of two people use their wits and physical agility to compete on enormous, interactive game boards featuring next generation technology. Mario Lopez is set to host.
Airs On: USA
Premiere: 7/12/17
Suits' Season 7 will feature the show's landmark 100th episode as fans wonder, coming out of Season 6, will things change between Mike and Harvey now that Mike is a legit lawyer? What did Donna mean when she told Harvey she wanted "something more?" Can Louis withstand yet another personal heartbreak? And is Gina Torres' Jessica really gone for good? Oh, Suits.
Airs On: CBS
Premiere: 7/12/17
Salvation is a suspense thriller that centers on a staggering discovery: an enormous asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth. Without alerting the public, MIT grad student Liam Cole and tech billionaire Darius Tanz team up to save humanity from this impending apocalypse. Keeping it secret will complicate life for Liam and those closest to him. Santiago Cabrera, Jennifer Finnigan, and Charlie Rowe star.
Airs On: Netflix
Premiere: 7/14/17
From Nick Stoller (Neighbors, Neighbors: Sorority Rising, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Francesca Delbanco, this eight-episode series features Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Annie Parisse, Nat Faxon, Fred Savage and Jae Suh Park, and tells the story of a group of friends who went to Harvard together and are now facing down their forties and experiencing a range of success, or lack thereof, both professionally and domestically.
Airs On: HBO
Premiere: 7/16/17
Game of Thrones enters its final, shortened two-season endgame with an unusual summertime premiere (production needed to shift so they could film in snowier settings) and a seventh season that only contains (NOOOOOOO!) seven episodes. Just because we're nearing the end though doesn't mean there aren't new faces entering the mix as Black Sails' Tom Hopper replaces Freddie Stroma as Dickon Tarly and Jim Broadbent arrives as Archmaester Marwyn.
Airs On: FX
Premiere: 7/16/17
FX's The Strain enters its fourth and final season with a nine month time-jump, as world has fallen into darkness, and the strigoi are in control. The explosion at the end of Season 3 triggered a global nuclear apocalypse and he resulting nuclear winter liberated the strigoi, allowing them to move about during daytime, and allowing the Master to establish a totalitarian regime. Lost Girl's Jocelyn Hudon joins the final season as Abby - a young woman in a perilous circumstance, who has to use all of her skills to try and survive in an upended world.
Airs On: AMC
Premiere: 7/17/17
Loaded centers around the lives of Josh (Jim Howick), Leon (Samuel Anderson), Ewan (Jonny Sweet) and Watto (Nick Helm) who have just sold their start up video game company Idyl Hands to Casey (Mary McCormack) for millions, and overnight their lives change drastically. The four 30-somethings must answer to their high powered, no-BS boss Casey and are suddenly transformed from “people who play games” to “serious players in the game.”
Airs On: USA
Premiere: 7/18/17
Insidious' Josh Stewart joins the cast of USA's Shooter for its second season as the journey continues for Bob Lee Swagger (Ryan Phillippe) - a highly decorated veteran who must confront a nemesis from his past in order to return to a life of normalcy. Stewart will play Solotov, an assassin with a connection to Swagger and his team from Afghanistan.
Airs On: USA
Premiere: 7/21/17
Before Jason Bateman slips back into the role of Michael Bluth for a new season of Arrested Development, he's actually got a gritty drama headed our way with Ozark, as he plays the patriarch of The Byrdes - that's husband and wife Marty (Bateman) and Wendy (Laura Linney), and their teenage kids Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) and Jonah (Skylar Gaertner). Oh, and Marty’s job? The top money launderer for the second largest drug cartel in Mexico.
Airs On: HBO
Premiere: 7/23/17
Find out what's next for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Spencer Strasmore when Ballers returns for a third season and the setting switches from Miami to San Francisco. We're not sure what'll take the story out to the West Coast but Johnson himself, when announcing the premiere date, teased that there'd be some big changes for the characters.
Airs On: NBC
Premiere: 7/24/17
Based on the book series of the same name by Charlaine Harris -- who also wrote the books that became HBO's True Blood -- Midnight, Texas stars François Arnaud (The Borgias) as Manfred, a charming, powerful psychic who can communicate with spirits, who finds safety in Midnight - a town that sits on a veil between the living and hell. Midnight is also home to creatures like witches, angels, vampires, werewolves, and other assorted oddities.
Airs On: Amazon
Premiere: 7/28/17
From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last work, which celebrated its 75th anniversary last year, The Last Tycoon follows Hollywood’s Golden Boy, Monroe Stahr (Matt Bomer) as he battles father figure and boss, Pat Brady (Kelsey Grammer, Frasier) for the soul of their studio. Lily Collins (The Blind Side) also stars as Celia Brady, and noted Pulitzer-winning Fitzgerald scholar A. Scott Berg serves as consulting producer.
Airs On: HBO
Premiere: 7/28/17
Telling tales of the characters who pass through a single room of a typical American chain motel, the anthology series Room 104 begins its 12-episode season on July 28th. From Mark and Jay Duplass, the show tells a different story each week, with the tone, the characters and the era changing every time. Starring James Van Der Beek, Orlando Jones, Amy Landecker, and more.
Airs On: Adult Swim
Premiere: 7/30/17
Rick and Morty, totally on brand, Rick and Morty'd the hell out of everyone by unleashing the first episode of its third season this past April 1st as part of an April Fools' prank - airing it all night long, every half hour. Now, after months of wondering, we finally know that the remainder of Season 3 will kick off on July 30th.
August premieres include The Defenders, Sharknado 5, and more. Check it out...
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