Friday, May 07, 2010

Ultimate Guide - The Summer 2010 TV Season

As has been the trend these past few years, the TV networks continue to push a “third” TV season onto us during the summer to keep us in the air conditioning.  Nearly all of the major networks seem to have sorted out their summer TV schedules (for the moment at least) so I’ve toiled over the press releases and TV news sites to bring to you what I believe to be the most comprehensive, and hopefully most useful summer TV guide available.
Covert Affairs on USA Network
   Piper Perabo & Christopher Gorham star in the new USA Network show Covert Affairs
Here’s how this works.  With this post you get a listing of all of the major U.S. TV network premieres for May through August 2010.  I give you the premiere date and time, TV network and the season number for each series.  The list you see on this page is sorted by date.  In addition I give you the following free, PDF downloads that also add a short description for many of the series for your convenience:
Keep in mind, the TV networks will change their minds as we go here.  It’s not uncommon to have them change a series the day I post these things and often change things multiple times as well.  If I have anything on the list that looks inaccurate please let us know in the comments as I will correct any inaccuracies.  Any changes to the schedules below after today will be noted here as well.
Where available you can click on any of the series titles below that are hyperlinked.  I’m adding a link to my favorite metadata site, theTVDB.com so you can find more information about the show including photos and episode information when available.
Premiere Date Day Time  (Eastern pm) Network Season Premiere Title
5/24/2010 Mon 9 ABC 6 Bachelorette, The
5/27/2010 Thu 8 FOX 7 So You Think You Can Dance?
5/27/2010 Thu 8:30 NBC 1 100 Questions
5/27/2010 Thu 10 TLC 1 Mall Cops: Mall of America
5/28/2010 Fri 8 FOX * Past Life
5/31/2010 Mon 9 TLC 3 Cake Boss
5/31/2010 Mon 10 ABC 2 True Beauty 
5/31/2010 Mon 10 VH1 1 Dad Camp
6/1/2010 Tue 8 FOX 7 Hell's Kitchen
6/1/2010 Tue 8 NBC 5 America's Got Talent
6/1/2010 Tue 9 TLC 2 One Big Happy Family
6/1/2010 Tue 10 NBC 1 Losing it with Jillian
6/1/2010 Tue 10 TLC 3 Little Couple, The
6/1/2010 Tue 10 OXYGEN 1 Jersey Couture
6/2/2010 Wed 9 TBS 1 Are We There Yet?
6/2/2010 Wed 10 TLC 3 Toddlers & Tiaras'
6/3/2010 Thu 9 USA 4 Burn Notice
6/3/2010 Thu 10 USA 2 Royal Pains
6/4/2010 Fri 9 ANIMAL 2 Whale Wars
6/4/2010 Fri 10 TLC 2 Battle of the Wedding Planners
6/6/2010 Sun 7:30 FOX * Sons of Tucson
6/6/2010 Sun 9 LIFE 2 Drop Dead Diva
6/6/2010 Sun 9 FOOD 6 Next Food Network Star, The
6/6/2010 Sun 11 MTV 1 Hard Times of RJ Berger, The
6/7/2010 Mon 8 ABC FAM 3 Secret Life of the American Teenager
6/7/2010 Mon 8 FOX * Lie to Me
6/7/2010 Mon 8 NBC 7 Last Comic Standing
6/7/2010 Mon 9 FOX 1 Good Guys, The
6/7/2010 Mon 10 NBC 1 Persons Unknown
6/7/2010 Mon 11 OXYGEN 2 Dance Your Ass Off
6/8/2010 Tue 8 ABC FAM 1 Pretty Little Liars
6/9/2010 Wed 11 BRAVO 1 Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
6/10/2010 Thu 10 SHOW 8 Penn & Teller: Bulls**t!
6/10/2010 Thu 10:30 SHOW 1 Green Room with Paul Provenza, The
6/13/2010 Sun 8 TOON 1 Unnatural History
6/13/2010 Sun 9 HBO 3 True Blood
6/13/2010 Sun 10 HGTV 5 HGTV Design Star
6/13/2010 Sun 10 E! 2 Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami
6/13/2010 Sun 10:30 E! 1 Holly's World
6/14/2010 Mon 9 VH1 1 You're Cut Off
6/14/2010 Mon 10:30 MTV 1 Warren The Ape
6/15/2010 Tue 10 BRAVO 1 Double Exposure
6/16/2010 Wed 9 Planet 1 Fabulous Beekman Boys, The
6/16/2010 Wed 10 TVLand 1 Hot in Cleveland
6/18/2010 Fri 10 FOOD 1 Cupcake Wars
6/20/2010 Sun 9 ABC 1 Gates, The
6/20/2010 Sun 10 SHOW 1 Real L Word, The
6/20/2010 Sun 10 TNT 3 Leverage
6/20/2010 Sun 10 ABC 1 Scoundrels
6/22/2010 Tue 8 ABC 3 Wipeout
6/22/2010 Tue 9 TNT 2 HawthoRNe
6/22/2010 Tue 10 TNT 1 Memphis Beat
6/24/2010 Thu 9 ABC 1 Rookie Blue
6/24/2010 Thu 10 COMEDY 6 Futurama
6/24/2010 Thu 10 ABC 1 Boston Med
6/27/2010 Sun 10 HBO 2 Hung
6/27/2010 Sun 10:30 HBO 7 Entourage
6/28/2010 Mon 9 ABC FAM 1 Huge
6/28/2010 Mon 10 ABC FAM 2 Make it or Break It
6/29/2010 Tue 9 ABC 1 Downfall
6/29/2010 Tue 10 FX 6 Rescue Me
6/29/2010 Tue 11 FX 1 Louie
6/30/2010 Wed 10 WE 2 Raising Sextuplets
7/7/2010 Wed 8 NBC 2 Minute to Win It
7/9/2010 Fri 9 SyFy 4 Eureka
7/9/2010 Fri 10 SyFy 1 Haven
7/11/2010 Sun 9 VH1 1 Tournament: Ocho Cinco, The
7/11/2010 Sun 10 VH1 1 T.O. Show, The
7/12/2010 Mon 9 TNT 6 Closer, The
7/12/2010 Mon 10 TNT 1 Rizzoli & Isles
7/13/2010 Tue 9 SyFy 2 Warehouse 13
7/13/2010 Tue 9 USA 2 White Collar
7/13/2010 Tue 10 USA 1 Covert Affairs
7/13/2010 Tue 10 A&E 1 Glades, The
7/14/2010 Wed 9 SyFy 3 Ghost Hunters Intl
7/15/2010 Thu 9 SyFy 1 Mary Knows Best
7/15/2010 Thu 10 SyFy 1 Paranormal Investigators
7/25/2010 Sun 10 AMC 4 Mad Men
7/25/2010 Sun 10 TBS 4 My Boys
7/27/2010 Tue 9 FOX 1 Masterchef
7/29/2010 Thu 10 MTV 2 Jersey Shore
8/1/2010 Sun 8 AMC 1 Rubicon
8/4/2010 Wed 10 TNT 2 Dark Blue
8/9/2010 Mon 8 ABC 1 Bachelor Pad
8/9/2010 Mon 10 ABC 1 Dating in the Dark
8/10/2010 Tue 9 ABC 2 Shaq Vs.
8/15/2010 Sun 10 FOOD 1 Food Trucks
8/16/2010 Mon 10 SHOW 6 Weeds
8/16/2010 Mon 10:30 SHOW 1 Big C, The
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