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The new TV shows of the summer
The beach? It’s just a bunch of sand. Road trip? Gas prices. Visiting family? Too much family. Sitting in front of the TV? Now that sounds like a good vacation. The summer TV season is here, and your questions of where to go should be replaced with what to watch.
Our list of the shows we can’t wait to see includes several returning favorites, but what’s more exciting than a brand new series? Here we bring you all the noteworthy new shows coming this season, including Damon Lindelof’s latest superhero drama, Larry David’s next comedy, and Will Ferrell’s return to television.
And for those of you who want something new but also familiar, may we interest you in a Big Bang Theory spin-off or a Legally Blonde prequel? Or how about some of your favorite books being adapted for the screen? There are plenty of those, too
Read on for all the new shows you should keep an eye on this summer
ALSO: The most anticipated TV shows of the summer
2 of 39HBO
Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult (HBO)
If there were a cult composed of people who loved documentaries about cults, I’d say, “Pass me the Kool-Aid.” The newest addition to the creepy genre focuses on the relationship between Hoyt Richards, who would go on to become one of the most famous male models of the 1980s, and Frederick von Mierers, a charismatic socialite who preyed on attractive young people with promises of spiritual enlightenment and claimed to be possessed by an alien.
Premieres Monday, June 1 at 9/8c on HBO and HBO Max
3 of 39Gloriavale Christian Community/Paramount+
Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal (Paramount+)
Another docuseries about a cult — my bad, this one is a “community” — Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal goes inside New Zealand’s isolated Gloriavale religious sect, which allegedly helped inspire the TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale thanks to its patriarchal society and charges of abuse. The series interviews former members who left and gets inside access to Gloriavale, where those who remain are adamant that they’ve intentionally chosen this life.
Premieres Tuesday, June 2 on Paramount+
4 of 39Disney/Cara Howe
Not Suitable for Work (Hulu)
Not Suitable for Work was created by Mindy Kaling, so you already know part of what you’re getting with it: a young, attractive cast who can all star in their own rom-com. What makes NSFW unlike what you might expect is that these post-college New Yorkers are more interested in their careers than they are in making out in the rain or dashing through an airport trying to stop their crush from boarding a flight to Italy after a change of heart. Buuuuuuuut we give it about three episodes until Kaling can’t contain her beloved rom-com tropes.
Premieres Tuesday, June 2 on Hulu
5 of 39Netflix
Michael Jackson: The Verdict (Netflix)
Michael Jackson’s complicated legacy as the King of Pop and an accused pedophile was sanded down in the 2026 biographical film Michael, but those who felt the movie didn’t tell the whole story might want to check out this Netflix docuseries, which goes into detail about the Michael Jackson abuse trial, interviewing those who were in the courtroom
Premieres Wednesday, June 3 on Netflix
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The Witness (Netflix)
Based on a true story that dominated tabloids in the U.K. in the early 1990s, this Netflix miniseries follows a young boy who was the only witness to his mother’s murder, the father who tries to protect him from reliving the heinous crime, the media that wouldn’t move on from the tragedy, and the legal system that tries to use the boy to solve the case.
Premieres Thursday, June 4 on Netflix
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Cape Fear (Apple TV)
If it worked for Presumed Innocent, then it could probably work for another ’90s crime thriller, right? Apple TV is adapting Cape Fear — the 1991 film starring Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte that itself was adapted from the 1962 film and a 1957 novel — as a TV series, starring Amy Adams as a Georgia lawyer who is stalked by her former client, played by Javier Bardem, who was jailed for heinous crimes and released several years later. No word on how many prison-style dips Bardem can do.
Premieres Friday, June 5 on Apple TV
8 of 39Hulu
Alice and Steve (Hulu)
Good friends Alice (Nicola Walker) and Steve (Jemaine Clement) watch their friendship crumble after Steve starts dating Alice’s 26-year-old daughter (Yali Topol Margalith) in this comedy. Clement was always delightfully awkward; now he’s awwwwwwkwarrrrrrrrd!
Premieres Monday, June 8 on Hulu
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Every Year After (Prime Video)
Carley Fortune’s novel The Summer I Turned Pretty
Every Summer After gets adapted by the streaming industry’s most prolific book-to-show manufacturer, continuing Prime Video’s love of digitized pages, particularly those in the YA romance beach read genre. In Every Year After, a woman (Sadie Soverall) returns to her Canadian lakeside summer house, where she’s reacquainted with the love triangle she shared with two brothers during her teenage years. If the story sounds familiar, that’s exactly what Amazon wants.
Premieres Wednesday, June 10 on Prime Video
10 of 39Netflix
Outlast: The Jungle (Netflix)
Outlast, a survival competition series that forces lone wolf survivalists to work together in teams, spent its first two seasons in the chilly confines of Alaska. Now it’s headed to the sweaty jungles of Panama, where the dangers of bears are replaced by snakes. However, you can expect the biggest threat to still be the players themselves, who have resorted to some nasty tactics in previous seasons.
Premieres Wednesday, June 10 on Netflix
11 of 39NBC
Surviving Earth (NBC)
NBC is the rare broadcast network to dabble in the primetime nature docuseries, following last year’s The Americas with Surviving Earth. The eight-part docuseries educates viewers on how various creatures survived the cataclysmic environments of Earth 450 million years ago. Though from the looks of the cute guy above, it wasn’t all a struggle.
Premieres Thursday, June 11 at 8/7c on NBC
12 of 39Netflix
The Polygamist (Netflix)
This South African drama is comin’ in HOT. Jonasi Gomora (S’dumo Mtshali) is a successful self-made CEO with a dream life… that includes multiple wives and mistresses who don’t know about each other. Until they do. Whoops! The Polygamist also has the best 20-second trailer of the summer.
Premieres Friday, June 12 on Netflix
13 of 39Starz
The Listeners (Starz)
Hear ye, hear ye: This limited series stars Rebecca Hall as a woman who becomes obsessed with a low-frequency hum that only she and a few others can hear, forming the perfect central mystery that will surely end in disappointment when the answer is revealed. (Sorry, that’s years of experience with sci-fi mysteries talkin’.) The Listeners originally aired in the U.K. in 2024.
Premieres Friday, June 12 at 9/8c on Starz and the Starz app
14 of 39Netflix
I Will Find You (Netflix)
Another season, another Harlan Coben adaptation. This time, it’s I Will Find You, which stars Sam Worthington as a man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his son who is presented with evidence that his son may still be alive, prompting him to break out and prove his innocence. Britt Lower and Milo Ventimiglia also star.
Premieres Thursday, June 18 on Netflix
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Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (HBO)
Larry David has complained enough about the modern era, so he’s going back in time for some fresh fodder. In Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star helps producers Barack and Michelle Obama celebrate the 250th birthday of the Land of the Free by making fun of its most important historical events in this sketch series.
Premieres Friday, June 26 at 9/8c on HBO
16 of 39Hulu
Adventure Time: Side Quests (Disney+ and Hulu)
Finn the human and Jake the dog return for more adventurous times around the land of Ooo in this spin-off of the Emmy-winning animated series Adventure Time. These episodes will be self-contained and aimed at bringing in a new audience, which is why they’re modeled after the early seasons of the mothership show. And yes, it’s weird that it’s not airing on Cartoon Network or HBO Max, where previous iterations of Adventure Time aired.
Premieres Monday, June 29 on Disney+ and Hulu
17 of 39Kimberley French/Prime
Elle (Prime Video)
This prequel to the hit Reese Witherspoon film franchise Legally Blonde follows a teenage Elle (newcomer Lexi Minetree) in her high school years to show how she became the iconic character who proved all those stuffy lawyers wrong. I smell a mock trial coming!
Premieres Wednesday, July 1 on Prime Video
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The Five Star Weekend (Peacock)
Author Elin Hilderbrand scored Netflix a big hit with the adaptation of her book The Perfect Couple, so naturally other streamers were banging on her door for more. Peacock’s adaptation of Hilderbrand’s 2023 novel The Five Star Weekend has a title-worthy cast, including Jennifer Garner, D’Arcy Carden, Regina Hall, Chloë Sevigny, Timothy Olyphant, and Gemma Chan, and is about a celebrity food influencer (Garner) who, following a tragic loss, invites some pals to her luxurious Nantucket home, where things don’t go as planned.
Premieres Thursday, July 9 on Peacock
19 of 39Eric Zachanowich/Netflix
Little House on the Prairie (Netflix)
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic Little House books get Netflixified in this eight-episode first season that’s another reminder of how big a hit Yellowstone and its prequels were. The semi-autobiographical tale follows a family forging their lives in the American West in the 1800s. The series has already been renewed for Season 2.
Premieres Thursday, July 9 on Netflix
20 of 39HBO
The Man Will Burn (HBO)
Burning Man is — depending who you ask — a community-building experiment designed to challenge societal norms through the power of art and expression or a bunch of white hippies and tech bros doing drugs in the desert. (Two things can be true at the same time.) The four-part docuseries The Man Will Burn followed the festival, its creators, and participants over a tumultuous five-year period that included COVID-19, destructive weather, and the idea that Burning Man may have gotten too big and lost sight of its core values.
Premieres Thursday, July 9 at 9/8c on HBO, HBO Max
21 of 39Brooke Palmer/MGM+
The Westies (MGM+)
J.K. Simmons goes to the mean and intimidating side of his incredible acting range as a mob boss in this crime drama from Godfather of Harlem creator Chris Brancato. Set in the 1980s, The Westies follows the titular Irish gang, whose notoriously violent methods kept the Italian mafia’s Five Families at bay despite being greatly outnumbered. Titus Welliver also stars.
Premieres Sunday, July 12 at 9/8c on MGM+
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Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro (ABC)
“Let’s make a reality show out of it!” is a common mantra in the TV business, and ABC’s new Dancing with the Stars spin-off is the perfect example of making an entirely new series for something instead of just putting out a press release. Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro, hosted by Robert Irwin, pits professional dancers in a competition against each other to become to next DWTS pro, and to increase the drama, they’re living in the same house. Let’s see how they like it when someone is doing the foxtrot all night in the room above them.
Premieres Monday, July 13 at 8/7c on ABC
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Hot Ones: Extra Heat (Netflix)
YouTube talk show sensation Hot Ones heads to Netflix for what appears to be another way for Netflix to promote itself on Netflix. This time, host Sean Evans still interviews celebrities who are eating increasingly spicy chicken wings, but he does so on location at Netflix-sponsored events and interviewing Netflix stars. Is it still synergy if you only synergize with yourself? That’s Will Ferrell in the picture above as his character Lonnie Hawkins from the upcoming Netflix comedy The Hawk
Premieres Monday, July 13 on Netflix
24 of 39Prime Video
Murder 101 (Prime Video)
Need a new spin on the true crime docuseries? Murder 101 follows a group of sleuths in Tennessee trying to crack a cold case involving a series of murders of young women. But these detectives are high school students taking a sociology class led by teacher Alex Campbell. Putting their minds together, they unearth new leads in a case long forgotten and learn how to give voice to those who are no longer around to speak
Premieres Monday, July 13 on Prime Video
25 of 39Federal Bureau of Investigation/Paramount+
The Real Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount+)
Would you believe that Leonardo DiCaprio is NOT the real Wolf of Wall Street? Paramount+’s docuseries The Real Wolf of Wall Street tells the story of Jordan Belfort, the man who inspired the character in Martin Scorsese’s popular drama and ran a financial scam that made him a LOT of money and landed him in prison.
Premieres Tuesday, July 14 on Paramount+
26 of 39Apple TV
Lucky (Apple TV)
Anya Taylor-Joy stars in this crime thriller about a woman (Taylor-Joy) on the run from the feds after her boyfriend screws her over on a huge score and absconds with the cash. It was created by Banshee’s Jonathan Tropper, who has never met a bone he didn’t like to break in one of his memorable action sequences
Premieres Wednesday, July 15 on Apple TV
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Nation’s Dumbest (Fox)
In this primetime game show, celebrities — including Ice-T, JoJo Siwa, Carmen Electra, and more — play a quiz show with slightly different rules: The more questions you get right, the quicker you’re eliminated, and the more you get wrong, the longer you stick around, with one contestant hailed as the nation’s dumbest. The stupider you are the more screen time you get? This just about sums up America
Premieres Wednesday, July 15 at 9/8c on Fox
28 of 39Prime Video
Ride or Die (Prime Video)
The all-too familiar action-comedy trope of someone learning their bestie is an assassin is on full display when Debbie (Octa discovers her gal pal Judith (Hannah Waddingham) kills people for a living, and the two go on the run in Europe while being chased by bad guys. Laughter follows. Maybe
Premieres Wednesday, July 15 on Prime Video
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The Hawk (Netflix)
Certain types of Step Brothers-loving white-baseball-cap-wearing dudes: This show is for YOU. Will Ferrell plays an aging golf pro who refuses to retire in pursuit of the career Grand Slam, even as his golfer son (Jimmy Tatro) rises up the ranks.
Premieres Thursday, July 16 on Netflix
30 of 39Colin Remas Brown/HBO Max
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe (HBO Max)
Big Bang Theory spin-offs are a varied bunch. They’ve been set in the late 1980s as a single-camera coming-of-age sitcom, the mid-1990s as a multi-camera family sitcom, and now, all over the space-time continuum with Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. Stuart Bloom (Kevin Sussman), owner of the Comic Center, leads the cast of characters in this sci-fi comedy in which Stuart, Bert (Brian Posehn), Denise (Lauren Lapkus), and Barry (John Ross Bowie) get into multiverse shenanigans.
Premieres Thursday, July 23 at 9/8c on HBO Max
31 of 39Adult Swim
President Curtis (Adult Swim)
Rick & Morty‘s President Curtis (voiced by Keith David) gets his own show in this schwifty spin-off of the popular animated series. And it sounds like it will be a lot like Rick & Morty — Curtis tackles strange occurrences from our dimension and beyond. Sure, why not?
Premieres Sunday, July 26 at 11:30/10:30c on Adult Swim
32 of 39Disney/Sarah Shatz
Furious (Hulu)
Elizabeth Meriwether is taking a hard turn away from her days as the creator of New Girl with this crime thriller starring Shameless‘ Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent hunting down a female serial killer (Lola Petticrew). It sounds like one of those “two sides of the same coin” type of dramas, as both women have their own moral codes and interpretations of what’s right and wrong despite being on opposite sides of the law. But the real question is: Will they play a game of True American?
Premieres Monday, July 27 on Hulu
33 of 39Starz
Fightland (Starz)
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson continues to expand his TV empire with this crime drama about a former championship boxer (Howard Charles) in London who goes after the criminal organization that he believes betrayed him.
Premieres Friday, July 27 on Starz
34 of 39Amazon Prime Video
Sterling Point (Prime Video)
The coming-of-age drama Sterling Point comes from creator Megan Park (My Old Ass) and follows a 17-year-old city girl (Ella Rubin) who learns that her grandfather left her, and her twin brother (Keen Ruffalo), a mysterious island in Canada in his will. There, she finds friends, romance, and family secrets
Premieres Wednesday, Aug. 5 on Prime Video
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The Shards (FX, Hulu)
Bret Easton Ellis’ 2023 semi-autobiographical novel about hypersexualized teens and a serial killer gets adapted by — who else? — Ryan Murphy. The drama tags along as a group of privileged prep school seniors in 1980s Los Angeles explores all the things those kinds of teens are wont to do. But things get heavier when Bret (Igby Rigney) suspects the mysterious new transfer (Homer Gere) is a serial killer targeting teens.
Premieres Wednesday, Aug. 5 at 9/8c on FX and Hulu
36 of 39Netflix
Alley Cats (Netflix)
Ricky Gervais! And with those two words, you’ve either already moved on to the next slide or can’t wait to see what comes next. The polarizing comedian and celebrity roaster is behind this adult animated series about feral cats in England who make observations about life, probably, knowing Gervais, while licking their own butts
Premieres Friday, Aug. 7 on Netflix
37 of 39USA
Anna Pigeon (USA)
Park rangers solving crimes is officially a new TV trend, according to the law of three. Following Spectrum/Paramount+’s Joe Pickett and Netflix’s Untamed is USA Network’s Anna Pigeon, which stars Chicago P.D.‘s Tracy Spiridakos as… a park ranger solving crimes. This is USA Network’s second show following its return to original scripted programming; The Rainmaker was released last summer.
Premieres Friday, Aug. 7 at 10/9c on USA
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Lanterns (HBO)
One of the most anticipated shows of the summer is HBO’s Lanterns, which brings DC Comics’ Green Lantern characters Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) to the small screen. Created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, Lanterns combines Green Lantern lore with a True Detective-style crime feeling as veteran Lantern Hal and new recruit John investigate a murder in flyover country that may have extraterrestrial links.
Premieres Sunday, Aug. 16 on HBO
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