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TV Calendar for May
The following list provides the dates of the new dramas that will air on streaming services as well as the major and cable networks and the made-for-TV movies and more that will all air during May:
May 1 – The season finale of the Hulu streaming series The Act will air online today
May 2 – The final season of iZombie will get started tonight on The CW at 8 PM
May 3 – The new Netflix movie The Last Summer will debut online today
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: High school graduates wrestle with love and friendship during their final summer together before heading off to college. The leads are KJ Apa (Riverdale), Maia Mitchell (Good Trouble and The Fosters), Jacob Latimore (The Chi) and Halston Sage (The Orville). The cast also includes Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf), Sosie Bacon (13 Reasons Why and Here and Now), Gage Golightly (Teen Wolf), Greer Grammer (Awkward), Gabrielle Anwar (Burn Notice) and Ed Quinn (Eureka).
May 3 – The 10-episode dark comedy web series Dead To Me will debut on Netflix today
Show Synopsis: A powerful friendship blossoms between Jen (Christina Applegate), a tightly wound widow and Judy (Linda Cardellini), a free spirit with a shocking secret. The streaming series also stars Max Jenkins, James Marsden and veteran actor Ed Asner.
May 4 – The UP TV premiere movie The One I Wrote For You will debut at 7 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Cheyenne Jackson (30 Rock) plays Ben Cantor, a coffee shop barista and family man who decides to rekindle his dream to make it big as a musician by competing in a reality TV show for songwriters. The cast includes Christine Woods (FlashForward) and veteran actors Kevin Pollak and Christopher Lloyd.
May 4 – The Hallmark Channel movie Paris, Wine and Romance will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Isabella (Jen Lilley) travels to Paris to compete in a major wine competition. While there she meets, Jacque (Dan Jeannotte), a competitor who shows her the city of love and teaches her about how wine is more than just a business.
May 5 – The new Starz period piece drama The Spanish Princess will debut at 8 PM
Show Synopsis: This series is set in 16th century London, focusing on Catherine of Aragon (Charlotte Hope from Game of Thrones), the strong-willed young Princess of Spain, who has been 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 ladies-in-waiting Lina – a Spanish noble of African Iberian descent – and the sweet and free-spirited Rosa. When her husband Prince Arthur dies suddenly, the throne seems lost to Catherine until she devises an audacious plan and sets her sights on the new heir, the charismatic and headstrong Prince Harry (Ruairi O’Connor) who will one day rule as King Henry VIII. The cast includes Elliot Cowan (Lost in Austen), Dame Harriet Walter (Downton Abbey and Sense and Sensibilities), Georgie Henley (Chronicles of Narnia franchise) and Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey)
May 5 – When Calls the Heart will be back on the Hallmark Channel at 8 PM after its short hiatus
NOTE: The series will also air a special, new episode on May 6 at 8 PM as well.
May 5 – The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Psychologist and former prosecutor Hailey Dean (Kellie Martin) aids her friend Detective Garland Fincher (Viv Leacock) in investigating the murder of his former Marine friend. With a growing list of suspects who each seem to have strong motives, Hailey uses her investigative skills, as well as her uncanny ability to read people, to read and follow the clues that will lead them to the killer. And, when the body of a female Marine shows up in the same park where Fincher’s buddy was found, the case takes a whole new turn as Hailey uncovers a conspiracy that puts her own life in danger as she pursues justice for the victims.
May 6 – The season finale of The Resident will air at 8 PM on FOX
May 6 – The series finale of Shadowhunters will air for 2 and ½ hours on Freeform starting at 8 PM
May 6 – The HBO original mini-series Chernobyl will debut at 9 PM
Mini-Series Synopsis: This 5-part mini-series dramatizes the 1986 nuclear accident, one of the worst human-made catastrophes in history, telling the story of the brave men and women who made incredible sacrifices to save Europe from unimaginable disaster, all the while battling a culture of disinformation. The cast includes Jared Harris (The Crown), Stellan Skarsgard (Good Will Hunting) and Emily Watson (Gosford Park).
May 6 – Into the Badlands will air its series finale on AMC at 10 PM
May 7 – The season premiere of the OWN drama The Haves and the Have Nots will air at 9 PM
May 8 – The 4th season of Lucifer will get underway on Netflix today
May 8 – The season finales of Empire and Star will air on FOX at 8 PM and 9 PM respectively
May 10 – The 6th season premiere of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will air on ABC at 8 PM
May 10 – MacGyver and Blue Bloods will both air their season finales on CBS at 8 PM and 10 PM respectively
May 10 – The season finale of Proven Innocent will air on FOX at 9 PM
May 10 – The Netflix feature film Wine Country will debut online today
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The film follows a group of friends having a weekend celebration of a 50th birthday. The cast includes Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Emily Spivey, Tina Fey, Jason Schwartzman and Cherry Jones.
May 10 – The new 10-episode Netflix series The Society will debut online today
Show Synopsis: The series follow a group of teenagers who are mysteriously transported to a facsimile of their wealthy New England town, but soon discover their parents are nowhere to be found. The series includes Kathryn Newton (Supernatural) and Kristine Froseth (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser).
May 10 – The Amazon series Sneaky Pete will air its third season online today
May 11 – The Hallmark Channel movie A Feeling of Home will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Web entrepreneur Abby (Jonna Walsh from Baby Daddy) hides her Texas roots to convince a backer she’s from New England, a task complicated by a trip home and an unexpected reunion with Ryan, her high school sweetheart (Nathan Parsons from Roswell, New Mexico)
May 12 – The PBS mini-series Unforgotten will air its third season finale at 10 PM
May 12 – The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Prescription for Murder will debt at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Psychologist and former prosecutor Hailey Dean (Kellie Martin) aids her friend Detective Garland Fincher (Viv Leacock) in investigating a rapidly growing string of murders at Atlanta Memorial Hospital when Fincher’s girlfriend Dr. Meghan Phillips is named a suspect in the first killing. As the list of suspects grows with each new victim’s death, Hailey’s keen investigative skills, her uncanny ability to read people, and her passion for justice lead her through a labyrinth of clues that eventually point to the killer. But when she gets too close to the truth, Hailey becomes the killer’s next target for murder.
May 13 – The new drama L.A.’s Finest, based on The Bad Boys film series, will debut on Spectrum’s cable service today
Show Synopsis: The series follows Syd Burnett (Gabrielle Union), last seen in Miami taking down a drug cartel, who has seemingly left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba), a working mom with an equally complex history, Syd is forced to confront how her unapologetic lifestyle may be masking a greater personal secret. Taking on the most dangerous criminals in Los Angeles while skirting the rules, and speed limits, Syd and Nancy become a force to be reckoned with – on the streets, and in each other’s lives. The series also stars veteran actor Ernie Hudson, Ryan McPartlin (Chuck), Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights), Duane Martin and Zach McGowan (The 100).
May 13 – The season finale of 9-1-1 will air at the special time of 8 PM on FOX
May 13 – Arrow will air its season finale on The CW at 9 PM
May 13 – The season finale of Bull will air at 10 PM on CBS
May 13 – Knightfall will air its season finale on the History Channel at 10 PM
May 14 – The Flash will air its season finale at 8 PM on The CW
May 14 – FBI and NCIS: New Orleans will both air their season finales on CBS at 9 PM and 10 PM respectively
May 14 – The season finale of New Amsterdam will air on NBC at 10 PM
May 15 – The season finale of Riverdale will air on The CW at 8 PM
May 15 – Gone will air its season finale on WGN America at 9 PM
May 16 – The season finale of The Good Fight will air on CBS All Access today
May 16 – Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19 and For the People will air their season finales on ABC at 8 PM, 9:01 PM and 10 PM respectively
May 16 – The season finale of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will air on NBC at 10 PM
May 16 – S.W.A.T. will air its season finale on CBS at 10 PM
May 16 – The Netflix film Good Sam will debut online today
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Tiya Sircar (The Good Place) is based on the mystery book series of the same name by Dete Meserve, which follows Intrepid TV news reporter Kate Bradley who is assigned to uncover the identity of a mysterious Good Samaritan—Good Sam—who has been anonymously leaving $100,000 cash gifts on the doorsteps of seemingly random New Yorkers. As interest in the extraordinary gifts sweeps across the country, Kate seeks to unravel the identity of Good Sam and the powerful and unexpected reasons behind the extraordinary gifts.
May 17 – The season finale of The Blacklist will air on NBC at 9 PM [check your local listings though]
May 17 – Hawaii Five-0 will air its season finale on CBS at the special time of 10 PM
May 17 – The second season of The Rain will air today on Netflix
May 17 – The new streaming series Catch-22 will debut on Hulu today
Show Synopsis: Based on Joseph Heller’s seminal novel of the same name, the story of the incomparable, artful dodger, Yossarian (Christopher Abbott), a US Air Force bombardier in World War II who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy, but rather his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to avoid his military assignments, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule which specifies that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers which are real and immediate is the process of a rational mind; a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but a request to be removed from duty is evidence of sanity and therefore makes him ineligible to be relieved from duty. The cast includes Austin Stowell, George Clooney and Kyle Chandler [among others].
May 18 – The Hallmark Channel movie Sailing Into Love will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Biology teacher Claire (Leah Renee from Hallmark Channel’s Love by the Book) is a bridesmaid and conducts a class on Blue Island. Claire takes action when she learns her former boyfriend works for the developer building a resort on Blue Island. The film also stars Chris McNally (When Calls the Heart).
May 19 – The season finales of Call the Midwife and Les Miserables will air on PBS at 8 PM and 9 PM respectively
May 19 – Supergirl and Charmed will air their season finales on The CW at 8 PM and 9 PM respectively
May 19 – The new drama The Red Line will air its two-hour season finale on CBS at 8 PM followed by the season finale of NCIS: Los Angeles at 10 PM
May 19 – The new Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer Sentence will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Hailey Dean (Kellie Martin) knows District Attorney Paulina D’Orazio is innocent of the murder of a man she once put behind bars and must do all she can to prove it in the face of mounting evidence.
May 19 – Game of Thrones will air its series finale on HBO at 9 PM
May 20 – The season finale of The Enemy Within will air on NBC at 10 PM
May 20 – The Fix will air its season finale on ABC at 10:01 PM
May 20 – The season finale of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will air on The CW at 8 PM
May 21 – The 16th season finale of NCIS will air at 8 PM on CBS
May 21 – The season finale of The Village will air on NBC at the special time of 8 PM
May 21 – The two-hour debut of Blood & Treasure will air on CBS at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: Matt Barr (Sleepy Hollow) and Sofia Pernas (The Brave) star as a brilliant antiquities expert and a cunning art thief (respectively), who team up to catch a ruthless terrorist who funds his attacks through stolen treasure. As they crisscross the globe hunting their target, they unexpectedly find themselves at the center of a 2,000-year-old battle for the cradle of civilization. The cast will include Alicia Coppola, Anna Silk (Lost Girl), James Callis (Battlestar Galactica), Katia Winter (Sleepy Hollow) and Michael James Shaw (Limitless).
NOTE: Blood & Treasure will move to its regular timeslot of 10 PM on May 28.
May 22 – Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. will all air their season finales on NBC at 8 PM, 9 PM and 10 PM respectively
May 22 – The season finale of SEAL Team will air on CBS at 10 PM
May 22 – Whiskey Cavalier will air its series finale on ABC at 10 PM
May 23 – The season premiere of Elementary will air on CBS at 10 PM
May 23 – The new Sundance TV drama The Name of the Rose will debut at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: The limited series, set in Italy in 1327, follows the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (John Turturro) and his novice Adso von Melk (Damian Hardung) as they arrive at a secluded monastery in the Alps. There they become witnesses to a series of mysterious murders. While Baskerville and Melk investigate and search for the killer, they are hunted themselves by the merciless inquisitor Bernard Gui (Rupert Everett), who prosecutes those who criticize the pope. The cast includes Michael Emerson (Lost and Person of Interest).
May 24 – The new DC Universe series Doom Patrol will debut online today
Show Synopsis: This is a re-imagining of one of DC’s most beloved groups of outcast Super Heroes: Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Elasti-Girl (April Bowlby) and Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero) led by modern-day mad scientist Dr. Niles Caulder aka The Chief (Timothy Dalton). The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities – but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence – and to protect Earth from what they find. Part support group, part Super Hero team, the Doom Patrol is a band of super-powered freaks who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them. Picking up after the events of Titans, the patorl will find these reluctant heroes in a place they never expected to be, called to action by none other than Cyborg, who comes to them with a mission hard to refuse, but with a warning that is hard to ignore: their lives will never, ever be the same. The cast includes Alan Tudyk and Joivan Wade.
May 24 – The CW soap opera Dynasty will air its season finale at 8 PM
May 24 – Blindspot will return after a three-week absence on NBC at 8 PM
NOTE: The season finale of Blindspot will air on May 31 [check your local listings though].
May 25 – The Hallmark Channel movie From Friend to Fiance will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: When Ted (Ryan Paevey) gets engaged to the high school mean girl and asks Jess (Jocelyn Hudon), his childhood best friend, to plan their wedding, things get complicated. Her true feelings for Ted keep getting in the way.
May 26 – The season finale of Killing Eve will air on both AMC and BBC America at 8 PM
May 26 – The half-hour dramedy Vida will air its season premiere at 8 PM on Starz
May 26 – The two-hour special Game of Thrones: The Last Watch will air on HBO at 9 PM
May 27 – The Hallmark Channel movie Love in the Sun will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: A dating app creator (Emeraude Toubia from Shadowhunters) finds her views on love challenged when she returns home to Florida and reconnects with her high school sweetheart (Tom Maden from Famous in Love). Shawn Christian co-stars.
May 27 – The National Geographic 3-night event series The Hot Zone will debut at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: Based on the eponymous international best-seller by Richard Preston, the 3-part series recounts 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 chimpanzees 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. The cast includes Julianna Margulies, Nick Searcy, Robert Sean Leonard, Topher Grace, James D’Arcy, Liam Cunningham, Noah Emmerich and Robert Wisdom.
NOTE: The show will air its second and third episodes at 9 PM on May 28 and May 29.
May 27 – The new Lifetime movie Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The sequel to the 2018 Lifetime movie A Royal Romance, this film continues the love story of newlyweds Prince Harry (Charlie Field from Genius) and American actress Meghan Markle (Tiffany Smith from Supernatural), pulling back the curtain to reveal the untold joys and challenges of life inside the Royal Family during their pivotal first year of marriage. Beyond blending their families and cultures, Harry and Meghan’s core values are put to the test as they try to find the balance between honoring Royal tradition and staying true to their beliefs.
May 28 – The fourth season premiere of Animal Kingdom will air on TNT at 9 PM
May 28 – The season finale of Fosse/Verdon will air at 10 PM on FX
May 28 – The 2nd season premiere of Pure will air on WGN America at 10 PM
May 29 – The new NBC drama The InBetween will debut at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: Cassie Bedford (Harriet Dyer from the Australian series Love Child) was born with a rare ability. She has visions. Whether she likes it or not. Sometimes Cassie sees events that have previously occurred or will happen in the future. In addition, sometimes she encounters unsettled spirits who need her help. When her father, Det. Tom Hackett (Paul Blackthorne from Arrow), and his new partner, former FBI Agent Damien Asante (Justin Cornwell from Training Day), need assistance solving a dark and puzzling murder, Cassie reluctantly agrees to use her abilities and helps solve some of the city’s most challenging cases. The cast include Chad James Buchanan (Star), Cindy Luna (The Last Ship) and Anne-Marie Johnson (In the Heat of the Night).
May 30 – The season finale of The Twilight Zone will air online today on CBS All Access
May 31 – The new streaming series Good Omens will debut online today on Amazon
Show Synopsis: The End of the World is coming, which means a fussy Angel (Michael Sheen) and a loose-living Demon (David Tennant) who’ve become overly fond of life on Earth are forced to form an unlikely alliance to stop Armageddon. But they have lost the Antichrist, an 11-year-old boy unaware he’s meant to bring upon the end of days, forcing them to embark on an adventure to find him and save the world before it is too late. The ensemble cast includes Brian Cox, David Morrissey, Frances McDormand, Jon Hamm, Michael McKean, Adria Arjona, Miranda Richardson and Mireille Enos [among others].
May 31 – The Netflix streaming series When They See Us will debut online today
Show Synopsis: Based on a true story that gripped the country, the series will chronicle the notorious case of five teenagers of color, labeled the Central Park Five, who were convicted of a rape they did not commit; focusing on the five teenagers from Harlem — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise. Beginning in the spring of 1989, when the teenagers were first questioned about the incident, the series will span 25 years, highlighting their exoneration in 2002 and the settlement reached with the city of New York in 2014. The ensemble cast includes Aunjanue Ellis, Blair Underwood, Famke Janssen, John Leguizamo, Joshua Jackson, Kylie Bunbury, Niecy Nash, Storm Reid, Vera Farmiga and William Sadler [among others].
May 31 – The DC Universe series Swamp Thing will debut online today
Show Synopsis: The series follows Abby Arcane (Crystal Reed from Teen Wolf) as she investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe. The series also stars Derek Mears as the title character, Ian Ziering, Jennifer Beals, Kevin Durand, Virginia Madsen and Will Paton.
May 31 – The two-hour HBO special presentation Deadwood: The Movie will debut on 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: In 1889, the residents of Deadwood are reunited to celebrate South Dakota’s statehood. The ensemble cast includes Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Robin Weigert, W. Earl Brown, Brad Dourif, Paula Malcomson, Anna Gunn, Kim Dickens, Will Sanderson and Gerald McRaney [among others].
May 31 – The UP TV movie The Healer will debut at 7 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: A young man (Oliver Jackson-Cohen from Emerald City and The Haunting of Hill House) discovers that he is the next in a long line of men in his family who have the power to heal. Trying to understand it and the new reality that it offers, a teenage girl with terminal cancer unexpectedly shows him the way. The cast includes Camilla Luddington (Grey’s Anatomy), Jorge Garcia (Hawaii Five-0 and Lost) and veteran actor Jonathan Pryce.
Mark your calendars!
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