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June TV Calendar
The following list provides the dates of the season/series finales for the major and cable network dramas, the new shows that will debut on cable networks as well as mini-series and made-for-TV movies that will air during June:
June 1 – The Hallmark Movie Channel movie Norman Rockwell’s Shuffleton Barbershop movie will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Based on the legendary painting by renowned artist Norman Rockwell, this film focuses on three men inside a small-town barbershop, mainly young musician Trey Cole (Austin Stowell from Dolphin Tale), who returns to his hometown and the barbershop where he got his first haircut. Amid the small town pageantry of the Christmas season, he finds ways to mend old fences and will discover the power of forgiveness. The film stars Danny Glover and Kayla Ewell (The Vampire Diaries).
June 1 – Orphan Black will air its season finale at 9 PM on BBC America
June 1 – A marathon of season 2 episodes of Falling Skies will air on TNT from 10 AM to 8 PM
June 2 – A mini-marathon of Falling Skies (season 2 episodes) will air on TNT from 7 AM to 12 Noon
June 2 – The Killing will start its third season with a two-hour premiere on AMC at 8 PM
June 3 – The third season premiere of the MTV thriller Teen Wolf will air at 10 PM
June 3 – The new ABC summer series Mistresses will debut at 10:01 PM
Show Synopsis: Based on the hit UK television series of the same name, this ABC series is about the scandalous lives of a sexy and sassy group of four girlfriends, each on her own path to
self-discovery: Savannah (Savi), a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life, both professionally and personally; Savi’s free-spirited and capricious baby sister, Josslyn; their friends April, a recent widow and mother of a ten-year-old daughter and Karen, a therapist with her own thriving practice. These four friends find support and guidance with each other as they brave their turbulent journeys and life’s storms of excitement, secrecy and betrayal, all the while bound by the complex relationships they’ve created. The cast includes Alyssa Milano (Charmed), Yunjin Kim (Lost), Rochelle Aytes (The Forgotten) and newcomer Jes Macallan.
June 3 – Revolution will air its season finale on NBC at 10 PM
June 3 – The series finale of The Secret Life of the American Teenager will air on ABC Family at 8 PM followed by the debut of the new series The Fosters at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: This drama is about a multi-ethnic family mix of foster and biological kids being raised by two moms. The cast includes Teri Polo, Sherri Saum (In Treatment), Jake T. Austin (Wizards of Waverly Place), Hayden Byerly (Parenthood), David Lambert (Aaron Stone), newcomer Maia Mitchell (Teen Beach Movie), Danny Nucci and Cierra Ramirez (The Secret Life of the American Teenager).
June 4 – A recap special called Pretty Little Liars: A LiArs Guide to Rosewood will air on ABC Family at 8 PM
June 6 – Burn Notice will be back with its finale season on the USA Network at 9 PM followed by the debut of the new series Graceland at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: The show is about a group of undercover agents from the FBI, DEA and US Customs who reside and operate under one roof. The cast includes Daniel Sunjata (Rescue Me), Aaron Tveit (Gossip Girl), Brandon Jay McLaren (The Killing and Falling Skies), Courtney B. Vance (FlashForward), Jay Karnes (Burn Notice), Scottie Thompson (NCIS) and Vanessa Ferlito (CSI: NY).
June 6 – The new BBC America 3-part mini-series In The Flesh will debut at 10 PM
Mini-Series Synopsis: This mini deals with zombies being reintegrated into their living families and communities. Now called PDS (Partially Deceased Syndrome) sufferers, zombie teenager Kieren Walker is dealing with the same problems fitting in as his living peers, plus a whole lot of scarier issues.
June 7 – The second season of the Canadian sci-fi series Continuum will be back on Syfy at 10 PM
June 7 – The season finale of Da Vinci’s Demons will air on Starz at 9 PM
June 8 – The new drama Sinbad will debut on Syfy at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: The 12-episode series will star Elliot Knight in the title role as Sinbad, tracking the sea-bound journey after he is forced to flee from this home town of Basra. The series also stars Naveen Andrews (Lost) and guest stars include Dougray Scott, Sophie Okonedo and Timothy Spall.
June 8 – The Canadian series Primeval: New World will debut on Syfy at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: The series stars Niall Matter (Eureka), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Danny Rahim (Eastenders) as a team of animal experts and scientists investigating paranormal events, while battling both prehistoric and futuristic creatures.
June 9 – The season finale of Army Wives will air at 9 PM on Lifetime
June 9 – The 2-hour season premiere of Falling Skies will air on TNT at 9 PM
June 9 – The season finale of Game of Thrones will air on HBO at 9 PM
June 10 – A marathon of episodes of Switched at Birth will start at 2 PM on ABC Family followed by the season premiere of the series at 8 PM
June 10 – Major Crimes will be back for a new season on TNT at 9 PM followed by the debut of the new drama King & Maxwell at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: Jon Tenney (The Closer) and Rebecca Romijn (Eastwick) will star as the popular characters Sean King and Michelle Maxwell created by best-selling author David Baldacci, who are not your typical private investigators. They are both former Secret Service agents, and their unique skills give them a leg up on conventional law enforcement.
June 11 – Pretty Little Liars will be back with its season premiere on ABC Family at 8 PM followed by the debut of the new drama Twisted at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: The series centers on a charismatic 16-year-old with a troubled past (Avan Jogia from Victorious), who has recently reconnected with his two female best friends from childhood (Maddie Hasson from The Finder and Kylie Bunbury from Prom); but he becomes the prime suspect when a fellow student is found dead in her home. The cast includes Denise Richards and Sam Robards.
June 12 – Royal Pains and Necessary Roughness will both be back on the USA Network with their new seasons at 9 and 10 PM respectively
June 14 – Magic City returns with its season premiere on Starz at 9 PM
June 15 – ABC will reair the remaining episodes of the defunct series Zero Hour starting tonight at 8 PM
June 15 – The Hallmark Channel movie Notes from Dad will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Clay Allen (Eddie Cibrian) never goes anywhere without his trumpet, the instrument that made him a jazz club circuit star. But now, following a divorce and a strained relationship with his college-bound son (Travis Caldwell), Clay takes a surprising new gig as a music teacher at a local disadvantaged high school to pay the bills. The cast includes Michael Beach, Josie Davis and Chris Sheffield.
June 16 – The next new season of True Blood will air on HBO at 9 PM
June 16 – The two-hour season finale of The Client List will air at 9 PM on Lifetime
June 16 – The Masterpiece Mystery mini-series Inspector Lewis, Series VI will begin tonight at 9 PM on PBS
Mini-Series Synopsis: In this episode entitled “Down Among the Fearful” Kevin Whately returns as Inspector Lewis who, with his young partner DS Hathaway, continue solving cases in the seemingly perfect academic haven of Oxford.
June 16 – The Borgias will air its potential series finale on Showtime at 10 PM
June 19 – The two-hour season premiere of Franklin & Bash will air on TNT at 9 PM
June 20 – Hannibal will air its final episode on NBC at 10 PM
NOTE: The network has yet to make a decision on whether this series will continue in the fall.
June 22 – The made-for-TV movie Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret will debut at 8 PM on Lifetime
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The film is based on the disturbing murder trial about Jodi Arias (Tania Raymonde from Lost), the seductive 28-year-old aspiring photographer who was recently found guilty of killing her former lover, Travis Alexander (Jesse Lee Soffer from The Mob Doctor), who was found nude in his home shower with a slit throat, 27 additional stab wounds and a bullet to the head. The cast includes Tony Plana (Ugly Betty) and David Zayas (Dexter).
June 22 – The final four remaining episodes of 666 Park Avenue will begin to air on ABC starting tonight at 9 PM
June 23 – The Masterpiece Mystery mini-series Inspector Lewis, Series VI will air another episode at 9 PM on PBS
Mini-Series Synopsis: In this episode entitled “The Ramblin’ Boy” Inspector Lewis is assigned a new partner because DS Hathaway is on holiday. Together they investigate the discovery of an elderly man’s body in a field. Finding that the man has already been embalmed, the inquiry leads to a funeral home and those connected to it, including one of Lewis’ former colleagues.
June 23 – The new drama Devious Maids will debut on Lifetime at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: The series is about five maids with ambition and dreams of their own while working for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills. The cast includes Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty), Brett Cullen (Lost and Person of Interest), Dania Ramirez (Heroes), Drew Van Acker (Pretty Little Liars), Edy Ganem (Living Loud), Grant Show (Melrose Place), Judy Reyes (Scrubs), Mariana Klaveno (True Blood), Rebecca Wisocky (The Mentalist), Roselyn Sanchez (Without a Trace), Susan Lucci and Tom Irwin (Saving Grace).
June 23 – Copper will be back for a second season on BBC America at 10 PM
June 23 – The new NBC drama Crossing Lines will air its two-hour premiere at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: The series taps into the charter of the International Criminal Court to investigate serialized cross-border crimes and to hunt down global criminals. The cast includes Donald Sutherland and William Fichtner (Prison Break) [among others].
NOTE: The show will then move to Sunday nights at 10 PM on June 30.
June 23 – Drop Dead Diva will be back for a new season on Lifetime starting tonight at 9 PM
June 23 – The season finale of Mad Men will air on AMC at 10 PM
June 24 – The new summer series Under the Dome, based on the Stephen King novel, will debut on CBS at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: The series is based on the Stephen King best-selling novel about a small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by a massive transparent dome. The cast includes Aisha Hinds (Cult), Britt Robertson (The Secret Circle and Life Unexpected), Colin Ford (Supernatural), Dean Norris (Breaking Bad), Jolene Purdy (Gigantic), Mike Vogel (Pan Am), Natalie Martinez (CSI: NY), Nicholas Strong (Nashville), Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight franchise) and Jeff Fahey (Lost).
June 25 – The new season of Rizzoli & Isles will premiere on TNT at 9 PM followed by the second season of Perception at 10 PM
June 27 – The Syfy made-for-TV movie Independence Day-Saster (no I did not make that up!) will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: An alien invasion cripples America’s conventional defense forces. When the President’s helicopter is shot down, his brother (a small-town hero) and a renegade scientist must find the aliens’ weakness and defeat them. The movie stars Ryan Merriman (Pretty Little Liars and The Pretender) and Tom Everett Scott (Southland).
June 28 – The final episodes of The CW series Cult will burn-off in two hour increments starting tonight at 8 PM
NOTE: The other four episodes will air on July 5 and July 12.
June 29 – The Hallmark Channel movie Banner 4th of July will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Desiree Banner (Brooke White) may own her own record company but she has struggled to find her perfect melody since leaving the band she once headlined with her brothers Mitchell (Christian Campbell) and Johnny (Michael Barbuto). Her departure from the band, The Banners Project, led her into a marriage that was doomed to fail and deeply damaged her relationship with Mitchell, whom she has avoided for the past ten years. Nevertheless, when Desiree’s mother, Rosalind (Mercedes Ruehl), suffers a heart attack, Desiree and Mitchell rush home and join their brother Johnny to be by her side. Rosalind, however, has ulterior motives for bringing her children together: she hopes that a Fourth of July reunion concert of The Banners Project will save their hometown from bankruptcy. Despite Desiree, Mitchell and Johnny’s initial protests, The Banners Project is the last hope for the struggling town as the Banner siblings must put their family feud aside and find harmony both on and offstage.
June 29 – The remaining episodes of the defunct series Do No Harm will begin to air on NBC at 10 PM
June 29 – The Lifetime movie Anna Nicole will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Agnes Bruckner (Private Practice) will star as Anna Nicole Smith in the made-for-TV film that follows the swift rise and fall of Vickie Lynn Hogan (Anna Nicole), a Texas high school dropout and single mother with dreams of a better life. The film also stars Martin Landau, Virginia Madsen, Adam Goldberg and Cary Elwes.
June 30 – Dexter will return to Showtime for its final season starting tonight at 9 PM followed by the debut of the new drama Ray Donovan at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: Liev Schreiber appears as Ray Donovan, LA’s best professional fixer, who is the man called in to make the city’s celebrities, superstar athletes’ and business moguls’ most complicated and combustible situations go away; but when his father, Mickey Donovan (Jon Voight) is unexpectedly released from prison, that sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core. The cast also includes Dash Mihok (The Day After Tomorrow), Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes), Katherine Moennig (Three Rivers), Paula Malcomson (Caprica), Peter Jacobson (House) and Steven Bauer.
June 30 – The Masterpiece Mystery mini-series Inspector Lewis, Series VI will air another new episode at 9 PM on PBS
Mini-Series Synopsis: In this final episode entitled “Intelligent Design” Lewis and Hathaway are called in to examine the brutal death of a chemistry professor — recently released from prison — who may be connected to the discovery of a murdered Oxford student lost for 15 years. As more casualties and suspects emerge, Lewis considers his future on the force.
Mark your calendars!
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