Riot
Fox
Premiered: Tuesday, May 27 @ 8pm
Steve Carell
executive-produces this adaptation of the Australian slapstick game show Slide
Show, which features improv comedians engaging in a series of physical and
mental challenges. Among the tricks these jokesters will deal with while trying
to make us laugh are a stage that tilts at a 22-degree angle, a pitch-black
room, and a wrecking ball that smashes them off a pedestal. Confirmed guests
include Carell, Jason Alexander, and Cheryl Hines.
Chasing Life
ABC Family
Premiered: Tuesday, June 10 @ 9pm
Think The Big C
for teens. Based on the Mexican series Terminales, the drama stars
Italia Ricci as April, an up-and-coming Boston-based journalist who must
balance her burgeoning career with her hectic home life, which includes her
widowed mother, rebellious little sister and grandmother. Her world is turned
upside-down when she learns that she has cancer. Mary Page Keller, Aisha Dee,
Richard Brancatisano and Haley Ramm co-star.
Almost Royal
BBC America
Premieres: Saturday, June 21 @ 10pm
The British are coming! And they're delusional, spoiled royalty, according to this mockumentary, the network's first original comedy-reality series. Cameras will follow British aristocrats and siblings Georgie (Ed Gamble) and Poppy Carlton (Amy Hoggart) as they tour America, take in all of its homely glory, and learn about this "baseball" thing the country seems so in love with. Premieres: Saturday, June 21 @ 10pm
Rising Star
ABC
Premieres: Sunday, June 22 @ 9pm
Swivel chairs?
Waiting a day to tally votes? That's like the dial-up Internet version of
talent shows. Based on the number-one Israeli reality competition, Rising
Star brings singing shows into the modern era. Using an app, viewers vote
in real time to decide whether the singer stays or goes. Still no word on how
this will work as a live event on both coasts, though. Josh Groban hosts and
Kesha, Brad Paisley and and Ludacris form the panel of experts.
Big Brother
CBS
Premieres: Wednesday, June 25 @ 8pm
The new season of Big Brother premieres
on Wednesday, June 25th at 8pm,when we get to watch the new cast enter the house and scramble to
find a bed and an ally. The
rest of the weekly shows will be on Thursdays at 9PM ET/PT with the first live
eviction on July 3 (my birthday!), and Sundays at 8PM ET/PT. This year we’re set with a
Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday episode schedule. Get ready for a summer of
twists!
Mystery Girls
ABC Family
Premieres: Wednesday, June 25 @ 8:30pm
Donna Martin
investigates! West Bev High grads Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth reunite as
former co-stars of the detective show Mystery Girls. Charlie (Garth) is
a suburban housewife and mother, while Holly (Spelling) longs for her '90s
glory days when she was on television. (How meta.) They are brought back
together when a witness to a crime and a Mystery Girls fanatic will only
speak to the famous duo, so the former pals put their TV crime-solving skills —
or "detectiving" — hats back on.
Girl Meets World
Diseny Channel
Premieres: Friday, June 27 @ 9pm
The highly
anticipated Boy Meets World sequel series features Riley (Rowan
Blanchard), the 12-year-old daughter of Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga (Danielle
Fishel), as she navigates adolescence like her pops did in the '90s. Sabrina
Carpenter plays Maya, the Shawn Hunter to Blanchard's Riley, while her Mr.
Feeny will be none other than her dad, who's now her history teacher. BMW
alums Rider Strong, William Daniels, William Russ, Betsy Randle and Lee Norris
will all make appearances.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Bravo
Premieres: Sunday, July 13 @ 8pm
Season 6 brings a lot of changes! Caroline Manzo, Jacqueline Laurita, and Kathy Wakile are out while Amber Marchese, twins Teresa and Nicole Napolitano join the cast, and Dina Manzo makes a return. Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga are rumored to finally have worked out their issues, but that doesn't mean the season will be drama-free. The show will spend some time this season focusing on Teresa and Joe Giudice's ongoing legal issues, Dina’s divorce, Melissa rekindling a friendship with Amber, the dynamics of the twin sisters.
Food Fighters
NBC
Premieres: Tuesday, July 22 @ 9pm
Hosted by Man v.
Food's Adam Richman, the culinary reality series will pit home cooks vs.
professional chefs. Each week, an amateur cook, who will have three lifelines
to work with, and a pro will face off by whipping up the former's signature
dish. A blind taste test by a panel of judges will determine the winner. If the
home cook prevails, they receive a cash prize and get to cook again versus
another pro.
Bachelor in Paradise
ABC
Premieres: Monday, August 4 @ 9pm
Bachelor
Pad this is not. Well actually, it
sort of is. Just out of The Valley and in a foreign country. Former Bachelor
and Bachelorette contestants who didn't find true love the first (or
second) time around will pile into a house in "paradise" and give
finding their special someone under the watchful eye of America another shot.
There will be hookups, breakups, and beatdowns. Chris Harrison returns to host
the six-episode series.
For more summer shows vist TV Guide.com.
What will you be watching this summer?
