Chernobyl (HBO)
Chernobyl, a five-part miniseries co-production from HBO and Sky, dramatizes the story of the 1986 nuclear accident, one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — and of the sacrifices made to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Starring: Jared Harris, Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adrian Rawlins, Con O’Neill, Sam Troughton, Adam Nagaitis, Barry Keoghan, Ralph Ineson, Mark Lewis Jones, Fares Fares, David Densik
Premiered May 6th
Los Espookys (HBO)
From the minds of Julio Torres and Ana Fabrega, alongside Fred Armisen and Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live, comes the Spanish-language comedy Los Espookys. The half-hour, six-episode series follows a group of friends who turn their love for horror into a peculiar business.
Starring: Bernardo Velasco, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres and Fred Armisen.
Premieres June 14th
Euphoria (HBO)
The show follows a group of high school students as they navigate drugs, sex, identity, trauma, social media, love and friendship.
Starring: Zendaya, Maude Apatow, Angus Cloud, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie, Jacob Elordi, Barbie Ferreira, Nika King, Storm Reid, Hunter Schafer, Algee Smith and Sydney Sweeney.
Premieres June 16th
City on a Hill (Showtime)
The series is set in early 1990s Boston, rife with criminals emboldened by local law enforcement agencies in which corruption and racism was the norm. In this fictional account, assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward arrives from Brooklyn and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran, Jackie Rohr. Together, they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to involve, and ultimately subvert, the entire criminal justice system of Boston.
Starring: Aldis Hodge, Kevin Bacon, Amanda Clayton, Cathy Moriarty, Jere Shea, Jill Hennessy, Jonathan Tucker, Kevin Chapman, Kevin Dunn, Lauren E. Banks, Mark O’Brien, Michael O’Keefe, Rory Culkin, Sarah Shahi
Premieres June 16th
Wu-Tang: Of Mics and Men (Showtime)
This limited docuseries looks back on the group’s career, combining intimate and reflective interviews from each of the nine living members with never-before-seen archival footage and performances. Their ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit brought them together to overcome the poverty, violence and oppression of their New York neighborhoods. But it was music and their shared lyrical genius that allowed them to form the most recognized musical movement in the world, all while walking the tightrope that links business with brotherhood.
Premieres May 10th
The Loudest Voice (Showtime)
This seven-part limited series based on a bestselling book is about Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. To understand the events that led to the rise of the modern Republican party, one must understand Ailes. Focusing primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the party’s de facto leader, the series also touches on defining events in Ailes’ life, including his experiences with world leaders that gave birth to his political career, and the sexual harassment accusations and settlements that brought his Fox News reign to an end.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Seth MacFarlane, Sienna Miller, Simon McBurney, Annabelle Wallis, Aleksa Palladino, Barry Watson, Josh Charles
Premieres June 30th
The Spanish Princess (Starz)
The series follows Catherine of Aragon, the beautiful teenaged princess of Spain who was promised the English throne since she was a child. She arrives in a grey, rain-lashed England with her glorious and diverse court, including her lady-in-waiting Lina, a Sub-Saharan African. She becomes Princess of Wales, but when her husband Prince Arthur dies suddenly, the throne seems lost to Catherine. However, she claims her marriage was never consummated and that therefore as a virgin she may set her sights on the new heir, the charismatic and headstrong Prince Harry who will one day rule as King Henry VIII
Starring: Charlotte Hope, Stephanie Levi-John, Laura Carmichael, Georgie Henley, Ruairi O’Connor, Angus Imrie, Elliot Cowan, Alexandra Moen, Harriet Walter
Premiered May 5th
The Rook (Starz)
Based on the novel by Daniel O’Malley, The Rook, the series centers around Myfanwy Thomas, a woman who wakes up in the rain beside London’s Millennium Bridge with no memory of who she is and no way to explain the circle of latex-gloved dead bodies splayed around her. When Myfanwy discovers she is a high-ranking official in the Checquy, Britain’s last truly secret service for people with paranormal abilities, she will have to navigate the dangerous and complex world of the agency to uncover who wiped her memory – and why she is a target
Starring: Emma Greenwell, Joely Richardson, Olivia Munn, Adrian Lester, Ronan Rafter, Catherine Steadman, Jon Fletcher, Shelley Conn and James D’Arcy
Premieres June 30th
The Weekly (FX)
The Weekly is a new documentary TV series from The New York Times, bringing unparalleled journalism to the screen. Each half-hour episode features a Times journalist investigating one of the most pressing issues of the day. With more than 1,550 journalists scattered across 160 countries, The Times produces 2,500 stories a week – investigative reports, political scoops, cultural dispatches. And each week, The Weekly chooses to tell one of these stories in a visual and unforgettable way.
Premieres June 2nd
The Name of the Rose (Sundance TV)
Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan friar William of Baskerville (Guglielmo da Baskerville), followed by the young novice Adso of Melk, reaches an isolated Benedictine abbey to participate in a dispute over poverty between representatives of the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival in the abbey the two are involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.
Starring: John Turturro, Rupert Everett, Damian Hardung, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Greta Scarano, Richard Sammel, Stefano Fresi, Roberto Herlitzka, Fausto Maria Sciarappa, Maurizio Lombardi, Antonia Fotaras, Guglielmo Favilla, Tchéky Karyo, Sebastian Koch, James Cosmo, Michael Emerson
Premieres May 23rd
American Princess (Lifetime)
When Amanda, an Upper East Side socialite, runs away from her own dream wedding, she realizes that the life she thought she wanted wasn’t actually right after all. After impulsively joining a Renaissance Faire, Amanda experiences an unexpected awakening that leads her to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about the pursuit of happiness. She quickly develops new friendships, rivalries and romances that, much to the confusion of her family, opens her eyes to new beginnings.
Starring: Georgia Flood, Lucas Neff, Seana Kofoed, Rory O’Malley, Mary Hollis Inboden, Lesley Ann Warren, Tommy Dorfman, Steve Agee
Premieres June 2nd
NOS4A2 (AMC)
Based on Joe Hill’s 2013 best-selling novel of the same name, NOS4A2 follows Vic McQueen, a gifted young woman who discovers she has a supernatural ability to find lost things. This ability puts her on a collision course with the evil and immortal Charlie Manx. Manx is a supernatural villain who feeds off the souls of children then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – a twisted place of Manx’s imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law. Vic strives to defeat Manx and rescue his victims – without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself.
Starring:Ashleigh Cummings, Zachary Quinto, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jahkara Smith
Premieres June 2nd
Klepper (Comedy Central)
Jordan Klepper is not behind a desk in New York City. He’s sinking in a boat with environmental protesters in a Louisiana bayou. He’s packing moving boxes with one of the nation’s first Native American Congresswomen in New Mexico and he’s posting bail at the Fulton County Jail. The premiere episode features Klepper getting body-slammed by a vet dealing with PTSD in Texas. In Comedy Central’s new docuseries, Klepper leaves the comfort of the studio and embeds on the front lines of America’s push for change.
Starring: Jordan Klepper
Premieres May 9th
Alternatino with Arturo Castro (Comedy Central)
Creator, writer and star Arturo Castro tackles more than 45 characters in sketches over ten episodes that showcase his perspective on relationships, everyday awkward moments and much more. Each episode in addition to the sketches has a scripted narrative thread that features a heightened version of Arturo as he goes about daily life as a Latin millennial.
Starring: Arturo Castro
Premieres June 18
The Hills: New Beginnings (MTV)
The series will reunite the original cast members, alongside their children, friends, and new faces, and follow their personal and professional lives while living in Los Angeles.
Starring: Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge, Whitney Port, Stephanie Pratt, Mischa Barton, Jason Wahler, Spencer Pratt, Justin “Bobby” Brescia, Frankie Delgado, Kaitlynn Carter, Jennifer Delgado, Brandon Thomas Lee, Ashley Wahler
Premieres June 25th
The Hot Zone (National Geographic)
The terrifying true story of the origins of the Ebola virus, a highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest and its first arrival on U.S. soil. In 1989, when this killer suddenly appeared in primates in a scientific lab in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., there was no known cure. A heroic U.S. Army veterinarian working with a secret military SWAT team put herself in mortal peril when she tried to head off the outbreak before it spread to the human population.
Starring: Julianna Margulies, Noah Emmerich, Liam Cunningham, Topher Grace, Paul James, Nick Searcy, Robert Sean Leonard, Grace Gummer, James D’Arcy
Premieres May 27th
Sherman’s Showcase (IFC)
Drawing inspiration from dance/variety shows Solid Gold, Soul Train and Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, each episode of Sherman’s Showcase is hosted by Sherman McDaniels as he takes viewers through time, via music and comedy drawn from the 40-year library of a legendary (but fictional) musical variety show. Whether it’s a questionably attired funk super group in the 1970s, an up-and-coming MC in the 1980s or an R&B diva from the 1990s, Sherman’s Showcase has it all: music, comedy, famous guest stars and dancing with an exuberant host who’s been with the show throughout its run.
Starring: Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle
Premieres July 29th
Perpetual Grace, LTD (Epix)
Perpetual Grace, LTD follows James, a young grifter, as he attempts to prey upon Pastor Byron Brown, who turns out to be far more dangerous than he suspects. The pastor and his wife Lillian – known to their parishioners as Pa and Ma – have used religion to bilk hundreds of innocent people out of their life savings.
Starring: Jimmi Simpson, Sir Ben Kingsley, Jacki Weaver, Damon Herriman, Chris Conrad, Hana Mae Lee, Kurtwood Smith, Luis Guzman, Terry O’Quinn, Timothy Spall
Premieres June 2nd
Pennyworth (Epix)
It follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier in his 20s, who forms a security company and goes to work with a young billionaire Thomas Wayne, who’s not yet Bruce’s father, in 1960s London.
Starring: Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Emma Paetz, Jason Flemyng, Jessica Ellerby, Paloma Faith, Polly Walker, Ryan Fletcher
Premieres July 28th