Longmire
AE, Sunday, 10 ET/PT, June 3
Arriving the same day as Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva (9 ET/PT), an entertaining show made less so by some unfortunate guest choices, this adaptation of Craig Johnson's mystery novels stars Robert Taylor as a recently widowed Wyoming sheriff. The opener is a bit plodding and pedestrian, but the setting is gorgeous and a nice change-of-urban-pace, and the cast (which includes Katee Sackhoff and Lou Diamond Phillips) is fine.
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True Blood
HBO, Sunday, 9 ET/PT, June 10
Shows don't come much more incendiary than this outrageously entertaining, wildly over-the-top vampire hit â€" and there's no reason to think it's going to cool down (or settle down) in its fifth season. Indeed, things may get even wilder, what with Denis O'Hare's Russell back on the prowl and Christopher Meloni joining the show as the head of the Vampire Authority. Hey, after all those years of Law Order, it would be worth watching Blood just to see Meloni get a little illegal and disorderly â€" which, on this show, you know is bound to happen.
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J.R. gets another shot, with Larry Hagman back as Ewing in an update of the soap 'Dallas.'
Dallas
TNT, Wednesday, 9 ET/PT, June 13
The king of th e prime-time soaps returns with three beloved members of the royal court: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray. It could be fun, particularly for those with fond memories of the influential original, but be aware that while those stars are back, they're not really the stars here. That honor goes to Josh Henderson and Jesse Metcalfe as J.R. and Bobby's grown and feuding sons. The more things change…
The Newsroom
HBO, Sunday, 10 ET/PT, June 24
The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin, a recent Oscar winner for The Social Network, returns to TV for this drama set in the world of cable news. Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn and Sam Waterston star in summer's most highly anticipated new series. And if you're wondering why it's so anticipated, just rent almost anything else Sorkin has ever done. Any short list of TV's best writers is bound to have his name on it.
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FX, Thursday, 9 ET/PT, June 28
If quality alone were enough to create buzz, we'd be talking about the June 28 season premieres of FX's Wilfred (10 ET/PT) and â€" most especially â€" the Emmy contender Louie (10:30), two of the most original comedies on any network in any season. But it seems what most people are talking about is Anger Management, because it marks the TV return of the too-often unmanageable Charlie Sheen. For everyone's sake, his included, let's hope his behavior and his performance have improved from his last days at Two and a Half Men. If not, it could be a long summer for FX.
Ep isodes
Showtime, Sunday, 10:30 ET/PT, July 1
Looking for the one summer comedy that can give Louie a run for its quality money? Look no further than Episodes, a delightfully acidic showbiz comedy starring Matt LeBlanc as an amusingly shallow version of himself. When last we saw Matt, he'd turned the Americanized version of a British hit into trash while trashing the marriage of the show's creators (wonderfully played by Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan). Now their show is in production, and somehow the trio has to find a way to work together.
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'The Closer' comes to a close as Kyra Sedgwick ends her shift as Brenda Leigh Johnson.
The Closer/Perception
TNT, Monday, 9 and 10 ET/PT, July 9
There will be other departures this summer, but none is likely to register more strongly with viewers than this final run of The Closer, the show that put TNT on the series map and that finally gave Kyra Sedgwick the grand-slam starring role she has always deserved. As you settle in to begin your goodbyes, TNT hopes you'll stick around to say hello to Perception, which stars Eric McC ormack as TV's latest damaged detective â€" a crime-solving professor who also is a paranoid schizophrenic. OK then.
White Collar/Covert Affairs
USA, Tuesday, 9 and 10 ET/PT, July 10
We don't always want flashy. We don't always want a show that demands our attention and allegiance. Sometimes, particularly on a sultry summer night, all we want are a few hours of dependable, diverting light entertainment, and you won't find a pairing that better fills the bill than USA's White Collar/Covert Affairs combo. USA's efforts to expand its blue-sky franchise have come a cropper of late, but these shows are the genre at its best.
Breaking Bad
AMC, Sunday, 10 ET/PT, July 15
No one will ever mistake this Emmy-collecting drama about the increasingly desperate and violent decline of a drug-dealing teacher for light summer entertainmen t. Even its producers would admit the show can be difficult to watch â€" and watching it late on Sundays can make it difficult to sleep. It also happens to be as hard and sharp and brilliant as a diamond, and in the TV landscape, just as valuable. And, with only 16 episodes left, almost as rare.
By Philippe Bosse, Syfy
Saul Rubinek and Sarah Allen star in 'Warehouse 13,' if there IS a warehouse this fourth season.
Warehouse 13
Syfy, Monday, 9 ET/PT, July 23
One of summer's most popular and enjoyable shows returns for a fourth season â€" with a lot of explaining to do. When we last left the Warehouse, Mrs. Frederic, Agent Jinks and H.G. Wells all were dead (and yes, we know, you thought H.G. Wells was already dead), and the warehouse itself had been destroyed. As cliffhangers go, that's a hard one to climb back from, but trust this clever comedy-tinged sci-fi adventure to find a way.
Major Crimes
TNT, Monday, 10 ET/PT, Aug. 13
When one window closes (or Closers), another opens. Immediately after the series finale of The Closer, TNT will launch this sequel built around Mary McDonnell's Police Capt. Sharon Raydor. Many members of the original's cast will follow McDonnell to the sequel - including G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz and Phillip P. Keene - but, alas, Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda seems to be gone for good. Which is a crime.
Copper
BBC America, Sunday, 9 ET/PT, Aug. 19
The last show on the summer list is a TV first: BBC America's first original drama. Created by Tom Fontana (Homicide) and Will Rokos, this period drama stars Tom Weston-Jones as a Civil War veteran working as a cop in New York in the 1860s. If you're going to jump into the original series waters, that's at least an interesting, unusual place to leap.
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