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June TV Calendar
The following list provides the dates of the returning cable and major network dramas as well as new cable and major network dramas, made-for-TV movies and mini-series that will air during June:
June 1 – The new AMC period drama Halt and Catch Fire will debut at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: Set in the early 1980s, roughly one year after IBM all but cornered the market with the release of its first major product: the IBM PC. It is also the same year people realize the IBM PC’s fatal flaw, which quickly makes personal computing anyone’s game. The cast includes Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies), Scoot McNairy (Argo), Mackenzie Davis (Smashed), Kerry Bishé (Argo) and Toby Huss (Cowboys & Aliens).
June 1 – The new UP Channel movie Love Finds You in Sugarcreek will debut at 7 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Rachel Troyer (Sarah Lancaster from Chuck) is a smart, focused, single policewoman in the quaint town of Sugarcreek, nicknamed “The Little Switzerland of Ohio” and located about an hour south of Akron, in the heart of Amish country. She frequently looks in on her three kindly Amish aunts Bertha (Kelly McGillis from Top Gun), Anna (Marianna Alacchi) and Lydia (Annie Kitral), who raised Rachel from girlhood after she was orphaned and are the proprietors of a picturesque, although faded, farmhouse inn. When a mysterious stranger, Joe (Tom Everett Scott from That Thing You Do), shows up on the inn’s doorstep with his five-year-old son, Bobby (Thomas Kapanowski), the aunts insist on taking the pair in as a matter of faith and good will. Rachel’s police instincts immediately tell her that this seemingly broke outsider is much too refined to be the drifter he presents himself to be. So, while the aunts welcome Joe as a handyman and enjoy having a child around the Sugar Haus Inn again, a wary, suspicious – yet attracted – Rachel becomes determined to uncover his identity. Her digging not only reveals his surprising identity, but the fact that he’s run away from his home, his life, and a shocking unsolved murder. Unfortunately, Rachel’s digging doesn’t go unnoticed, which brings Joe’s past – and its violence – right into this quiet Amish community.
June 2 – The third season of Longmire will begin on A&E at 10 PM
June 2 – Mistresses will return for a new season on ABC at 10 PM
June 2 – The remaining episodes of the second season of Beauty And the Beast will be back on The CW at 9 PM starting tonight
June 6 – Orange Is The New Black will starts its second season on Netflix
June 7 – The Hallmark Channel original movie Looking for Mr. Right will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: A struggling novelist gets her big break when a book she writes about her dream man finally sells to a greedy literary agent, who wants to market it as a true story. Suddenly needing to find a guy to promote the book with her as her perfect boyfriend, the writer tries to make a romance spark between her and a local realtor, only to discover she’s been ignoring an imperfectly true love all along. The cast includes Sarah Lancaster (Chuck), Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day), Kip Pardue (Remember the Titans) and Brandon Quinn (Against the Wall).
June 7 – The new Starz drama Power will debut at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: The series follows James St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick), nicknamed “Ghost”, owner of a popular New York City nightclub. In addition, he is a major player in one of the city’s biggest illegal drug networks. He struggles to balance these two lives, and the balance topples when he realizes he wants to leave the drug ring in order to support his legitimate business. The cast includes Naturi Naughton and Sinqua Walls [among others].
June 8 – The Tony Awards will air at 8 PM on CBS
June 8 – The season finale of the new period piece drama Turn will air on AMC at 9 PM
June 9 – Major Crimes will return for its third season on TNT at 9 PM
June 9 – The new TNT drama Murder in the First will debut at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: The series follows homicide detectives Terry English (Taye Diggs from Private Practice) and Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson from Boss) as they investigate two seemingly unrelated murders. The mystery deepens, however, when they find both murders have a common denominator in a Silicon Valley wunderkind (Tom Felton from the Harry Potter franchise). The cast includes Mimi Kirkland (Safe Haven), Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon A Time), Ian Anthony Dale (Hawaii Five-0), Nicole Ari Parker (Revolution), Currie Graham (Raising the Bar), Richard Schiff (The West Wing), James Cromwell (Babe, L.A. Confidential) and Steven Weber (Dallas and Wings).
June 10 – Pretty Little Liars will be back for its fifth season on ABC Family at 8 PM
June 10 – The new ABC Family drama Chasing Life will debut at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: The series follows April (Italia Ricci from Unnatural History), a smart, twenty-something, aspiring journalist who tries to balance her ambitious career with her family, which includes her widowed mom, Sara (Mary Page Keller), rebellious little sister, Brenna (Haley Ramm), and her grandmother, Emma (Rebecca Schull) while keeping the secret that she has cancer.
June 10 – Royal Pains will return for its sixth season on the USA Network at 9 PM
June 11 – The season finale of new drama The 100 will air on The CW at 9 PM
June 11 – Suits and Graceland will both return for new seasons on the USA Network at 9 and 10 PM respectively
June 14 – The BBC America mini-series In the Flesh will air its season finale at 10 PM
June 15 – The season finale of Game of Thrones will air on HBO at 9 PM
June 15 – The 2-part PBS Masterpiece Mystery The Escape Artist will air at 9 PM, running 90 minutes
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: David Tennant (Doctor Who) stars as a brilliant defense lawyer with a storybook family and a potent nickname, “The Escape Artist,” for his ability to spring the obviously guilty. Then he gets a trial that changes his life forever. The film also stars Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda).
NOTE: The second part of The Escape Artist will air on June 22 from 9 PM to 10:30 PM.
June 15 – The Lifetime Movie Network movie My Daughter Must Live will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Katie O’Malley (Madeleine Martin from Californication) is a promising dancer. When she has trouble keeping up with the rest of the dance troupe during rehearsals for an upcoming competition, her mother, Meghan (Joelle Carter from Justified) suspects she might be using drugs. When her father, Stu (Paul Popowich from Cracked), finds Katie unconscious in her room, she is rushed to the hospital. The doctors determine that Katie’s liver is not functioning and without a partial liver transplant, she will die. Meghan, Stu and all of their close relatives agree to be tested as potential donors but no one qualifies. When Meghan questions how neither parent could be a match, she is told the blood tests reveal that Stu is not Katie’s biological father. Meghan pieces together the timeline of her pregnancy and realizes that the one night stand she had with her old boyfriend, Dan (Sergio Di Zio from Flashpoint), at a high school reunion when she was 22 (and engaged to Stu) means that Dan is Katie’s biological father. Meghan begins searching for him but he has disappeared. When she finally tracks Dan down, she discovers that he has moved away and changed his name. He agrees to be tested but when he turns up a match, he refuses to become a donor.
June 16 – Switched at Birth and The Fosters will both be back with new episodes on ABC Family at 8 and 9 PM respectively
June 17 – Rizzoli & Isles and Perception will return with new episodes on TNT at 9 and 10 PM respectively
June 17 – The season finale of the new FX drama Fargo will air its season finale at 10 PM
June 19 – The Canadian police drama Rookie Blue will be back on ABC at 9 PM
June 19 – Season two of Rectify will start on Sundance at 9 PM
June 19 – Defiance will return for its second season on Syfy at 8 PM followed by the 90-minute debut of the new drama Dominion at 9 PM
Show Synopsis (Dominion): Based on the 2010 film Legion, Christopher Egan (Kings) stars in this new series that is set 25 years in the future, after a war between an army of angels and mankind has transformed the world. The cast includes Tom Wisdom (300), Roxanne McKee (Game of Thrones), Alan Dale (Lost), Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Merlin) and Luke Allen-Gale (The Borgias).
June 21 – Orphan Black will air its season finale on BBC America at 9 PM
June 21 – The two-hour series finale of Crisis will air on NBC at 8 PM
June 22 – True Blood will be back for its 7th and final season at 9 PM on HBO
June 22 – The new TNT drama The Last Ship will debut at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: The series opens with a global catastrophe that nearly decimates the world’s population. Because of its positioning, the Navy destroyer U.S.S. Nathan James avoids falling victim to the devastating tragedy. But now, Captain Tom Chandler (Eric Dane from Grey’s Anatomy) and his crew must confront the reality of their new existence in a world where they may be among the few remaining survivors. The cast includes Rhona Mitra (Strike Back), Adam Baldwin (Firefly and Chuck) and Travis Van Winkle (Hart of Dixie).
June 22 – The new season of Falling Skies will premiere on TNT at 10 PM
June 22 – The new BBC America drama The Musketeers will debut at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: The 10-part series is set in Paris in 1630 with Musketeers D’Artagnan (Luke Pasqualino from The Borgias), Athos (Tom Burke from The Hour), Aramis (Santiago Cabrera from Heroes and Merlin) and Porthos (newcomer Howard Charles) fighting for what is just and heroes in the truest and most abiding sense. The cast includes Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who).
June 22 – The series finale of Drop Dead Diva will air on Lifetime at 9 PM
June 23 – Teen Wolf will air its season four premiere episode on MTV at 10 PM
June 23 – CBS will air a one-hour special, Under the Dome: Inside Chester’s Mill, at 10 PM that will take a look at the show’s season premiere [which happens next week] that will feature highlights from last season
June 24 – The fifth season of Covert Affairs will kick off on the USA Network at 10 PM
June 24 – The new FX Middle East-set series Tyrant will debut at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: Adam Rayner stars as the son of a dictator of a war-torn country who returns to his homeland after a self-imposed 20-year exile.
June 25 – The new summer series Taxi Brooklyn will debut on NBC at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: This is an action-comedy police procedural centered on the fractious, closely bonded partnership between a streetwise Marseilles-born New York City taxi driver (Jacky Ido) and an intensely driven NYPD detective (Chyler Leigh from Grey’s Anatomy) for whom this immigrant cabbie becomes chauffeur, insider on the streets and unofficial partner. The cast includes Ally Walker (Profiler and The Protector) and Jennifer Esposito (Blue Bloods).
June 27 – Continuum will air its season finale on Syfy at 10 PM
June 28 – The Hallmark Channel movie When Sparks Fly will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Fireworks go off when Amy Peterson comes home to help save her family’s annual 4th of July celebration and discovers she really does love the man who she left to pursue her dreams of being a journalist. There’s just one problem: he’s engaged to be married to her best friend, and Amy has been asked to be the maid of honor. The film stars Meghan Markle (Suits), Christopher Jacot (Eureka) and Lochlyn Munro.
June 28 – The Lifetime movie Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: This film tells the true story of the fundamentalist Mormon leader who spent more than a year on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List for unlawful flight on charges related to his alleged arrangement of illegal marriages involving underage girls. The film will star Tony Goldwyn (Scandal), Martin Landau (Ed Wood), Molly Parker (Deadwood) and Joey King (Crazy Stupid Love)
June 29 – The new drama Reckless will debut on CBS at 9 PM followed by the return of Unforgettable at 10 PM
Show Synopsis (Reckless): The series is set in Charleston, S.C., where a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city apart. The cast includes Anna Wood (Deception), Cam Gigandet (Burlesque and Twilight), Shawn Hatosy (Southland), Adam Rodriguez (CSI: Miami), Kim Wayans (In Living Color) and Gregory Harrison
June 29 – The second season of the acclaimed 6-part mini-series Last Tango in Halifax will start tonight on PBS at 8 PM
NOTE: Last Tango in Halifax will air six straight weeks in a row, ending on August 3.
June 29 – The PBS Masterpiece Mystery Endeavor, Season 2 will premiere at 9 PM, running for 90 minutes
NOTE: Endeavor will air for four straight weeks, ending on July 20.
June 29 – The 6-part half-hour mini-series Vicious will debut on PBS at 10:30 PM
Show Synopsis: Partners Freddie (Ian McKellen) and Stuart (Derek Jacobi), who have lived together in a small central London flat for nearly 50 years, are always at each other’s throats, making snide remarks aimed at the other’s age, appearance and flaws. However, underneath their vicious fighting, they share a deep love. Freddie and Stuart are often joined by feisty best friend Violet (Frances de la Tour from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) and Ash (Iwan Rheon from Game of Thrones), their young, upstairs neighbor.
NOTE: Vicious will air for six straight weeks, ending on August 3.
June 29 – The new HBO drama The Leftovers will debut at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, the series will revolve around the residents of a New York town who’ve been left behind after millions and millions of people around the world vanish mysteriously in a Rapture-like event.
June 30 – Under the Dome will be back with new episodes at 10 PM on CBS
Mark your calendars!
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