22 New And Returning TV Shows To Look Forward To This Summer

• ‘A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder’ Season 2 – Netflix – May 27

  

  Pippa Fitz-Amobi has a new case to solve in Season 2 of A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, based on the second book in Holly Jackson’s book trilogy, Good Girl, Bad Blood. Max Hastings (Henry Ashton) is on trial for raping multiple women, but then Connor Reynolds’ (Jude Morgan-Collie) brother Jamie (Eden H. Davies) goes missing, complicating matters. Pip enlists her boyfriend Ravi Singh (Zain Iqbal), best friend Cara Ward (Asha Banks) and more to search for Jamie while she also keeps an eye on the trial.

• ‘Deli Boys’ Season 2 – Hulu – May 28

  

• ‘The Four Seasons’ Season 2 – Netflix – May 28

  

  Vacation mode can be accessed via the second season of Netflix’s The Four Seasons with the core group of friends reuniting on trips each season in the year. The upcoming eight-episode second season of the comedy show, based on the 1981 film, will revisit Kate (Tina Fey), Jack (Will Forte), Anne (Kerri Kennedy-Silver), Claude (Marco Calvani) and Danny (Colman Domingo) after Steve Carell’s Nick died in a car crash in Season 1, leaving behind his new girlfriend Ginny (Erika Henningsen), who is pregnant with their child.

• ‘Love Island UK’ Season 13 – Hulu – June 1

  Love Island UK, the inspiration for Love Island US will return for its thirteenth season at the beginning of June. Season 13 will play out alongside the World Cup this summer, and thus will be football-themed.

• ‘Love Island USA’ Season 8 – Peacock – June 2

• ‘Not Suitable for Work’ – Hulu – June 2

  

  Mindy Kaling’s latest show Not Suitable for Work will premiere on Hulu June 2 with three episodes. The show is set in the New York neighborhood of Murray Hill, where five twenty-somethings are striving for the ever elusive work-life balance. Starring Ella Hunt, Avantika, Will Angus, Jack Martin, Nicholas Duvernay and Jay Ellis, the cast also includes Victor Garber, Greg Germann, Judy Gold, Ego Nwodim, Harry Richardson, Constance Wu, Laura Bell Bundy, May Hong, Bhavesh Patel, Emilia Suárez and Michael Benjamin Washington. 

• ‘Cape Fear’ – Apple TV – June 5

  

  Apple’s ten-episode psychological thriller series Cape Fear is based on John D. MacDonald’s book The Executioners — which inspired Gregory Peck’s 1962 film and the 1991 remake directed by Martin Scorsese and produced Steven Spielberg ‘s Amblin Entertainment. The series, which is directly inspired by Scorsese’s remake in particular, stars Anna (Adams) and Tom Bowden (Patrick Wilson) and Javier Bardem as Max Cady, a notorious killer whom Anna and Tom put behind bars. Created, written and showrun by Nick Antosca, Cape Fear is billed as a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century. 

• ‘Every Year After’ – Prime Video – June 10

  

  It’s not quite The Summer I Turned Pretty, but it does involve a girl and two brothers over summers at the lake in Barry’s Bay in Canada. Every Year After, based on Carley Fortune’s best-selling novel, follows the second chance romance of Persephone ‘Percy’ Fraser (Sadie Soverall) and Sam Florek (Matt Cornett), whose mother Sue’s (Elisha Cuthbert) death brings Percy back to her once favorite place to be until she had a big falling out with her best friend turned love of her life. Michael Bradway stars as Sam’s older brother Charlie. Aurora Perrineau plays Percy’s best friend Chantal. Abigail Cown plays Delilah, and Joseph Chiu will play Jordie.

  RELATED: Prime Video’s ‘Every Year After’: What To Expect In The TV Show Adaptation From Cast To Plot

• ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3 – HBO Max – June 21

  

  House of the Dragon Season 3 flies onto the small screen June 21. The Game of Thrones spinoff stars Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall, Matthew Needham, James Norton, Tom Bennett, Kieran Bew, Kurt Egyiawan, Freddie Fox, Clinton Liberty, Gayle Rankin, Abubakar Salim, Tom Cullen, Tommy Flanagan, Dan Fogler, Joplin Sibtain, and Barry Sloane.

  Ryan Condal is co-creator, showrunner and EP and EP Martin is the creator of the original Game of Thrones source material. Other EPs are Sara Hess, Melissa Bernstein, Kevin de la Noy, Vince Gerardis, David Hancock and Philippa Goslett. Season 3 is based on Martin’s Fire & Blood.

• ‘The Bear,’ Season 5 – FX/Hulu – June 25

  

• ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2 – Netflix – June 25

  

  Netflix’s live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender will cover Aang’s mastery of earthbending, with the help of Toph Beifong (Miya Cech). Season 2 will take root on Netflix June 25, with returning stars Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, Dallas Liu, Paul sun-Hyung, Maria Zhang, Elizabeth Yu, Daniel Dae Kim and newcomers Amanda Zhou, Madison Hu, Dolly De Leon, Dichen Lachman, Lily Gao, Justin Chien, Terry Chen, Chin Han, Hoa Xuande, Lourdes Faberes, Rekha Sharma, Crystal Yu, Kelemete Misipeka and more.

• ‘Elle’ – Prime Video – July 1

  

  Prepare for all the pink that will take over screens when Prime Video and Hello Sunshine’s Elle releases in the beginning of July ahead of the iconic holiday Jennifer Coolidge mentions in the Legally Blonde films. Lexi Minetree stars as Elle Woods in the prequel series that watches her conquer high school. June Diane Raphael will play Elle’s mother Eva, and Tom Everett Scott (The Summer I Turned Pretty) will play her father, Wyatt. Gabrielle Policano (Baby Girl), Jacob Moskovitz (Y2K) and Chandler Kinney (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin), Zac Looker (Geek Girl) and more will also star in the series.

  RELATED: Everything We Know About Prime Video’s ‘Legally Blonde’ Prequel Series ‘Elle’

• ‘Silo’ Season 3 – Apple TV – July 3

  

  Season 3 of Apple TV’s Silo starring Rebecca Ferguson will premiere July 3 with its first episode. The ten-episode third installment of Graham Yost’s television adaptation of Hugh Howey’s best-selling trilogy will return to the dystopian society of 10,000 people living underground shrouded in secrecy. Juliette Nicols (Ferguson) has survived her forced “cleaning,” but she returns with memory loss as the silo readjusts following rebellion. A new threat looms for the community. in the “Before Times,” journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) uncover a conspiracy that pulls them into a chain of events with catastrophic, irreversible consequences.

• Big Brother Season 28 – Paramount+ & CBS – July 9

  Julie Chen Moonves will return to host Big Brother Season 28, making the show the first to reach 1,000 original episodes in primetime.

• ‘Little House on the Prairie’ – Netflix – July 9

  

  Based on the true story of author Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family, Netflix’s remake of Little House on the Prairie will arrive July 9. The series has already been renewed for a second season. Alice Halsey (Lessons in Chemistry) will star as Laura Ingalls, with Skywalker Hughes portraying Laura’s older sister Mary. Luke Bracey will portray Pa, and Crosby Fitzgerald will play Ma.

• ‘The Five-Star Weekend’ – Peacock – July 9

  

  Based on the book of the same name by Elin Hildebrand — author of The Perfect Couple which is now a Netflix series — The Five-Star Weekend watches Jennifer Garner’s Hollis Shaw gather three of her closest friends from different stages of her life as well as a surprise fifth guest for the eponymous event in Nantucket. The series also stars Chloë Sevigny, Regina Hall, D’Arcy Carden, Gemma Chan, Harlow Jane and Timothy Olyphant.

  RELATED: ‘The Five Star Weekend’ Trailer: Jennifer Garner Plays A Widowed Food Blogger In Upcoming Peacock Adaptation

  Additional cast includes Rob Huebel, David Denman, Josh Hamilton, West Duchovny, Judy Greer, Tory Devon Smith, Morrison Keddie, and Roberta Colindrez.   

• ‘Lucky’ – Apple TV – July 15

  

  Another book adaptation heading to Apple TV this summer is that of Marissa Stapley’s Lucky, a Hello Sunshine project starring Anya Taylor-Joy in the titular role. Timothy Olyphant will also appear in this show as Lucky’s father, John. Annete Bening will play Priscilla, a dangerous mob leader. Drew Starkey (Outer Banks, Queer) play’s Lucky’s husband Cary, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor will portray agent Billie Rand. The series also includes Clifton Colins Jr., Mo McRae, William Fichtner and Eric Lange.

  RELATED: Everything We Know About Apple And Hello Sunshine’s ‘Lucky’ TV Series Adaptation So Far

• ‘Ride Or Die’ – Prime Video – July 15

  

  Before she returns as Rebecca Welton in Season 4 of Apple TV’s Ted Lasso, Hannah Waddingham will star opposite Octavia Spencer in Prime Video and Paramount Television Studios’ Ride Or Die, an action and adventure show premiering with all eight episodes July 15. Best friends Debbie Claybourne (Spencer) and Judith Burton (Waddingham) thought they knew everything about each other, until a mysterious figure from Judith’s past pops up, revealing that Judith is an international assassin. Forced to go on the run together, Judith and Debbie race against time in a road trip across Europe, with law enforcement, highly trained assassins, and some very dangerous criminals at their heels. 

  Ride or Die also stars Bill Nighy, Ed Skrein, Sylvia Hoeks, Calam Lynch, SavannahSteyn, Jamie Parker, andJacky Ido, and is created by Tessa Coates who executive produces alongside showrunner Matt Miller and director Peyton Reed.

• ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4 – Apple TV – August 5

  

  The return of everyone’s favorite soccer coach, this time for a woman’s team in England, will begin August 5 when Ted Lasso Season 4 premieres on Apple TV. Creator Jason Sudeikis will return to star as the titular underdog father and athletic leader, with Hannah Waddingham’s Rebecca Welton back in close cahoots. Juno Temple returns as Keeley Jones, and Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education) will make her debut in the soccer series alongside Jude Mack (Back In Action), Faye Marsay (Adolescence), Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey (Jurassic World: Dominion) and Abbie Hern (My Lady Jane). Ted’s son Henry has also been recast. Grant Feely will portray the character. Brendan Hunt’s Coach Beard will be back as well, and Brett Goldstein’s Roy Kent can be spotted in the trailer. Jeremy Swift’s Leslie Higgins will return too.

• ‘The Shards’ – FX – August 5

  

  Ryan Murphy‘s anticipated new series The Shards, based on Bret Easton Ellis‘ prep school thriller novel, will premiere August 5 on FX and Hulu, as well as Disney+ internationally.

  First unveiled as a serialized audiobook before hitting the shelves in 2023, The Shards is a dark coming-of-age tale with semi-autobiographical facets for Ellis. Set in Los Angeles in 1981, the story follows a 17-year-old version of Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending the character’s world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.

  RELATED: Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Shards’ Sets Release Date At FX; First-Look Image

  Igby Rigney stars as Bret, an aspiring writer and keenly observant teenager, whose life shifts with the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic new student, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere). Alongside Bret is his elite social circle, which includes Susan Reynolds (Kaia Gerber), Debbie Schaffer (Hayes Warner) and Thom Wright (Graham Campbell), a glamorous and deeply entangled group drawn into a life of wealth, beauty, parties and excess. The promise of their youth is contrasted with the dark and cynical world of the adults surrounding them: Terry Schaffer (Wes Bentley), Liz Schaffer (Evan Rachel Wood) and Steven Reinhardt (Jordan Roth).

• ‘Sterling Point’ – Prime Video – August 5

  

  My Old Ass writer and director Megan Park returns with her YA coming-of-age series, Sterling Point, a drama starring Ella Rubin, Jay Duplass, Keen Ruffalo and many more. Rubin’s Annie Jacobson, a 17-year-old who was raised by her twin brother (Ruffalo) and adoptive father (Duplass) inherits her mysterious grandfather’s island in Canada, which drastically changes her life.

• ‘Dark Matter’ Season 2 – Apple TV – August 28

  

  Another sci-fi show coming back to Apple TV is Dark Matter, based on the bestselling book by Blake Crouch. Season 2 of the series premiers August 28 on the streamer. Dark Matter is led by Joel Edgerton, alongside Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi, Oakes Fegley and Amanda Brugel. Season 2 will pick up with the Dessen family, led by Joel Edgerton’s physicist and professor Jason, as they adjust to their new quiet life, until it becomes threatened once more. Season 1 saw Jason get abducted into an alternate version of his life.

  RELATED: 45 Of The Most Anticipated New & Returning Scripted Shows of 2026

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