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July TV Calendar

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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 July:

July 2 – The season finale of Pure will air at 10 PM on WGN America

July 6 – The UP TV original movie A Very Country Wedding will debut at 7 PM

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Based on a Harlequin novel, country singer Zane (Greyston Holt from Bitten) and fiancée Jeannette’s (Bea Santos from Murdock Mysteries) wedding is interrupted by the last leg of a contractually obligated tour, leading them on a roundabout journey back to one another. After a video of Zane saving a female fan goes viral, Zane finally becomes the country music superstar he’s always dreamed of being. Jeannette is happy and supportive, but after he misses their new wedding date, she begins to worry his dreams may no longer have room for her. The cast includes country singer Deana Carter.

July 6 – The Hallmark Channel movie Love Unleashed will debut at 9 PM

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: While hosting a puppy party, Hailey (Jen Lilley from Days of Our Lives) meets single father Ryan (Christopher Russell from UnREAL). She helps him discover the value of adopting a dog, and teaches him that there’s more to life, especially when falling in love.

July 7– The PBS drama Endeavour will air its season finale at 9 PM

July 7 – The TV One thriller Sins of the Father will debut at 8 PM

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The movie follows Clarence Burnett (Deitrick Haddon, gospel music star and Preachers of LA alum) a pastor in Atlanta who’s happily married to Karen (Angela Davis from I Feel Pretty). The couple’s world is torn apart when Karen is brutally murdered outside their Atlanta home, sending shock waves through their close-knit community. As police delve deeper into the Burnett’s inner circle, they discover secret lives filled with lust, cruelty and unearth a sinful conspiracy of biblical proportions. The cast includes Clifton Powell (Ray), A.J. Johnson (Baby Boy) and Terayle Hill (Merry Wishmas).

July 8 – The small screen adaptation of Scream will move from MTV to VH1, airing its 6-episode third season monikered Scream: Resurrection consecutively over three nights, two hours per night, starting at 9 PM

NOTE: Two episodes will air on July 8, July 9 and July 10 at 9 and 10 PM each night.

July 9 – The new WGN America drama The Disappearance will debut at 10 PM

Show Synopsis: This 6-part summer event series centers around the unexplained and sudden disappearance of a 10-year-old boy, and the investigation that leaves a devastating and unforeseen impact on every member of the family. The cast includes Aden Young (Rectify), Camille Sullivan (The Man in the High Castle), Joanne Kelly (Warehouse 13), young newcomer Michael Riendeau and veteran actor Peter Coyote (Law & Order).

July 10 – The third season premiere of Harlots will air on Hulu today

July 11 – The second season of The Outpost will premiere on The CW at 9 PM

July 11 – The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries holiday movie Christmas Camp will debut at 9 PM

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: To get a promotion, Hayley (Lily Anne Harrison, daughter of veteran actor Gregory Harrison), an advertising executive who specializes in social media, must land a toy company that is all about traditional Christmas as an account. The film also stars Bobby Campo (Being Human).

NOTE: The Hallmark Channel will air Christmas in July movies all day long from July 12 through July 28.

July 12 – The Netflix original movie Point Blank will debut online today

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: When his pregnant wife is kidnapped and held as collateral, Paul (Anthony Mackie, Avengers franchise), an ER nurse, must team with the badly injured career criminal and murder suspect (Frank Grillo from Kingdom) under his charge in order to save the lives of his wife and unborn child. Pitted against rival gangs and a deadly ring of corrupt cops, the unlikely duo find a way to survive together in the fight of their lives. The cast includes Marcia Gay Harden (Code Black) and Christian Cooke (Witches of East End).

July 13 – The Hallmark Channel original movie A Merry Christmas Match will debut at 8 PM

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The movie will follow Corey (Ashley Newbrough from Privileged) who lives in a ski village, works at her mom’s antique shop and puts together a Christmas pageant for kids in honor of her late father. When a man named Ryder (Kyle Dean Massey from Nashville) visits the store, Corey wonders if she should have left town and followed her dreams of becoming a theater director.

July 13 – The Hallmark Channel will air their first look Holiday Preview at 10 PM

July 14 – The TV One thriller In Broad Daylight will debut at 8 PM

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The movie tells the story of Jordan Boudreaux (Chyna Lane from She’s Gotta Have It TV series), who gets abducted by her obsessed and estranged boyfriend Steve (Curtis Hamilton from Surviving Compton). Jordan’s family rallies the community while her closest cousin, Malik (Shad “Bow Wow” Moss), makes it his personal mission to find and bring her home safely. The family, community and police band together to find Jordan before it’s too late.

July 14 – The season premiere of the half-hour drama Sweetbitter will air at 9 PM on Starz

July 14 – The 4th season premiere of Grantchester will air on PBS at 9 PM

July 16 – The new drama Pandora will debut on The CW at 8 PM

Show Synopsis: This sci-fi action series is set in the year 2199, centering on a resourceful young woman who has lost everything but finds a new life at Earth’s Space Training Academy where she and her friends learn to defend the Galaxy from threats, both alien and human. When secrets about the nature of her own identity begin to surface, she must uncover the truth, and whether she will be humanity’s savior or the instrument of its destruction. The cast includes Priscilla Quintana (Polaroid and Traffik), Oliver Dench (Technology), Raechelle Banno (Home and Away) John Harlan Kim (The Librarians), Ben Radcliffe (Random), Banita Sandhu (October), Martin Bobb-Semple (Free Rein) and Noah Huntley (Free Rein).

July 17 – The 9th and final season of Suits will air on the USA Network at 9 PM followed by the debut of the new drama – and Suits spin-off – Pearson at 10 PM

Show Synopsis (Pearson): The Suits spin-off series centers on the world of recently disbarred NYC powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) as she adjusts to down and dirty Chicago politics. Newly appointed as Chicago Mayor Bobby Novak’s (Morgan Spector from Homeland and The Mist TV series) right hand fixer, Jessica is quickly embroiled in a crooked and dangerous new world where every action has far-reaching consequences. With her compulsion to win, Jessica is forced to reconcile her unstoppable drive with her desire to do the right thing – two things very much at odds. The cast includes Bethany Joy Lenz (One Tree Hill), Chantel Riley (Wynonna Earp and Frankie Drake Mysteries), Eli Goree (Riverdale and Dead of Summer), Simon Kassianides (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Isabel Arraiza (The Oath).

July 19 – The 5th and final season of Killjoys will premiere on Syfy at 10 PM

July 20 – The season finale of Frankie Drake Mysteries will air on Ovation at 8 PM

July 20 – The Hallmark Channel will air its Summer Nights Preview special at 10 PM

July 21 – The season finale of Burden of Truth will air on The CW at 8 PM

July 21 – The TV One thriller Loved to Death will debut at 8 PM

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The film charts a newly engaged couple whose lives are cut short when they are suddenly gunned down by a crazed ex-lover at a toll booth. Upon meeting and falling in love with Dre (Tobias Truvillion from Empire), Monica (Malinda Williams from Girlfriends’ Getaway) leaves a long term abusive relationship with Jackson (McKinley Freeman from Hit the Floor) to be with her new love. Tune in to find out how a once loving relationship turned deadly.

July 21 – The season finale of Big Little Lies will air at 9 PM on HBO

July 21 – The season finale of American Princess will air at the special time of 11 PM on Lifetime

July 22 – The season finale of The Code will air at 9 PM on CBS

July 25 – The new Netflix drama Another Life will debut online today

Show Synopsis: The series centers on astronaut Niko Breckinridge (Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica fame) who is focused on searching for alien intelligence. As she leads a young crew on a mission to explore the genesis of an alien artifact, they face unimaginable danger on what might very well be a one-way mission. Selma Blair will play Harper Glass, a 21st-century influencer who uses journalism, social media and keen intelligence in an attempt to break one of the biggest stories in human history. The cast also includes Tyler Hoechlin (Supergirl and Teen Wolf), Justin Chatwin (Shameless), Jessica Camacho (The Flash), Elizabeth Faith Ludlow (The Walking Dead) Alex Ozerov (Orphan Black), Jake Abel (Supernatural) and Barbara Williams (Rookie Blue).

July 26 – The Amazon streaming series The Boys will debut online today

Show Synopsis: This series is a fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes – who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods – abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about The Seven, and Vought – the multi-billion dollar conglomerate that manages these superheroes and covers up all of their dirty secrets. The Boys are Hughie (Jack Quaid from The Hunger Games), Billy Butcher (Karl Urban from Star Trek), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso from Detroit), Frenchie (Tomer Capon from Hostages), and The Female (Karen Fukuhara from Suicide Squad). Simon Pegg (“Mission: Impossible – Fallout”) guest stars as Hughie’s father. The cast also includes Anthony Starr (Banshee), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Dominique McElligott (Hell on Wheels), Elisabeth Shue (CSI), Erin Moriarty (Jessica Jones) and Jessie T. Usher (Survivor’s Remorse)

July 26 – The second season of the Hulu thriller series Light As A Feather will premiere online today

July 26 – The series finale of Orange Is The New Black will air on Netflix today

July 26 – The 4th season of Veronica Mars will debut on Hulu today

Reboot Synopsis: Spring breakers are getting murdered in Neptune, thereby decimating the seaside town’s lifeblood tourist industry. After Mars Investigations – Veronica (Kristen Bell) and dad Keith (Enrico Colantoni) is hired by the family of one of the victims to find their son’s killer, Veronica is drawn into an epic eight-episode mystery that pits the enclave’s wealthy elites, who would rather put an end to the month-long bacchanalia, against a working class that relies on the cash influx that comes with being the West Coast’s answer to Daytona Beach. Cast members Jason Dohring, Percy Daggs III, Francis Capra and Ryan Hansen will all reprise their roles with Patton Oswalt (Happy and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Clifton Collins Jr. (Westworld) and Izabela Vidovic (Wonder) and Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Barry and Killing Eve) joining the 4th season reboot.

July 27 – The Lifetime original mini-series debut of V.C. Andrews’ Heaven Casteel Saga: Heaven will air at 8 PM

Mini-Series Synopsis: This movie introduces the infamous Casteel family, the least regarded of all the families living in the poverty-stricken foothills of the mountains of West Virginia. Yet the eldest daughter, Heaven Leigh Casteel (Annalise Basso from The Red Road), was still the smartest girl in the backwoods and determined to redeem her family name. However, her dreams become deferred the day her stepmother flees and her selfish father Luke (Chris William Martin from Cedar Cove and The Vampire Diaries) sells her and her four siblings to different families. Heaven is sent to live in the home of Luke’s deranged ex-lover, Kitty (Julie Benz from Dexter), who torments Heaven as Kitty’s husband, Cal (Chris McNally from When Calls the Heart) lures Heaven into a forbidden relationship while she fights to reunite her siblings.

July 27 – The HBO original movie Share will debut at 10 PM

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Base on the prize-winning short of the same name by Pippa Bianco, this movie is a cautionary tale about social media, following 16-year-old Mandy (Rhianne Barreto from Hanna), who, after discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, must figure out what happened — and how to navigate the escalating fallout. The includes Charlie Plummer (Boardwalk Empire), Poorna Jagannathan (The Night Of and Big Little Lies), J.C. MacKenzie (Dark Angel and Madam Secretary), Nicholas Galitzine (Chambers), Lovie Simone (Greenleaf) and Danny Mastrogiorgio (Instinct).

July 27 – The new movie Rome in Love will debut on Hallmark Channel at 9 PM

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: When an unknown actress (Italia Ricci from Designated Survivor) lands the role of a lifetime in Rome she paired with an American journalist (Peter Porte from The Young and the Restless) writing a profile, she will discover surprises about love and life in the eternal city.

July 28 – The new TV One thriller Deadly Dispatch will debut at 8 PM

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The film chronicles the tragic murder of Shawn (Rapper Bone Crusher), a well-liked owner of a struggling taxi company. Tiffany (Tamala Jones from Castle) is a local salon owner and Shawn’s longtime, high-school best friend who becomes intertwined in the puzzling circumstances surrounding his death. Unsatisfied with the police’s classification of the case being a “robbery gone wrong,” Tiffany becomes suspicious of Shawn’s grieving widow Amber (Dominique Perry from Insecure). Motivated to find out what really happened to her friend that fateful day, Tiffany embarks on a quest that will not only endanger her strained marriage, but her life as well. Will she be able to come to terms with a deep secret shared between her and Shawn while seeking justice?

July 28 – The new EPIX drama Pennyworth will debut for 70 minutes at 9 PM

Show Synopsis: The 10-episode drama is based on Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon from Endeavour and Medici), [the future legendary butler extraordinaire of Bruce Wayne], a former British SAS soldier in his 20s, who forms a security company and goes to work with a young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge from Reign and Fleabag), who’s not yet Bruce’s father, in 1960s London. The cast includes multi-award-winning recording artist Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ryan Fletcher (Outlander), Hainsley Lloyd Bennett (Eastenders), Emma Paetz (Gentleman Jack), Polly Walker (The Mentalist and Rome) and Emma Corrin (The Crown).

July 29 – The new HBO drama Years and Years will air its season finale at 9 PM

July 31 – The new Hulu streaming series Four Weddings and a Funeral will debut online today

Show Synopsis: Four American friends — Maya (Nathalie Emmanuel from Game of Thrones), Craig (Brandon Mychal Smith from You’re the Worst), Ainsley (Rebecca Rittenhouse from Red Band Society) and Duffy (John Paul Reynolds from Stranger Things) — who reunite for a fabulous London wedding. But after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil, they must weather a tumultuous year of romance and heartbreak. Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused, and of course, there are four weddings…and a funeral. The cast includes Ashley Madekwe (Revenge) and Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow). Original cast member Andie MacDowell will also appear.

July 31 – A special one-hour special retrospective of Jane the Virgin will air on The CW at 8 PM followed by the series finale of the drama at 9 PM

Mark your calendars!

Using her favorite online handle, Rueben is an East Coast-bred gal who is now a permanent Californian and a lifelong tv-oholic. She watches at least 25 TV shows a week, goes to the movies as often as possible, listens to music every waking moment, reads every day and “plays” on the internet every chance she can. Some of her current favorite TV shows are Outlander, Sweet Magnolias, Wednesday, The Mandalorian, The Equalizer, Fire Country, Miss Scarlet, Hudson & Rex, SkyMed, The Rookie, Bridgerton, Cobra Kai, Virgin River, The Witcher, Leverage: Redemption and School Spirits. She is looking forward to the fall TV season, including the return of Outlander, Tracker and The Equalizer and the debuts of the new dramas Matlock, Murder In a Small Town, NCIS: Origins and Cross. Follow her at @ruebenrambling or contact her at rueben@nicegirlstv.com. Please also check out her Rueben's Ramblings website for even more entertainment news.