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May TV Calendar
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 air during May:
May 2 – The UPtv original movie Just for the Summer will debut at 7 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: English teacher Penelope Campbell (Hayley Sales from Cedar Cove and Hallmark’s The Perfect Bride movies) loves her annual summer vacations visiting her Grandma Dot, despite Dot’s constant attempts to set her up with every single man in town. This year, she bumps into Jason Humphrey (Brant Daugherty from Pretty Little Liars), none other than her childhood sweetheart, who is still as handsome and charming as ever. It’s a little awkward at first but the conversation soon turns to Jason’s own Grandma Sophie, who keeps doing the same to him. In order to evade the efforts of their matchmaking grandmothers, they make a pact pretending to date each other, but will the old sparks return?
May 2 – The season premiere of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will air on The CW at 8 PM followed by Batwoman at its new time of 9 PM
May 2 – The third season of The Girlfriend Experience will air on Starz at 8 PM followed by The Gloaming at its new timeslot of 9 PM
May 2 – The two-hour season premiere of Pose will air on FX at 10 PM
May 4 – Selena: The Series: Part 2 will premiere on Netflix online today
May 6 – The new Peacock comedy Girls5eva will debut online today
Show Synopsis: When a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 90’s gets sampled by a young rapper, its members reunite to give their pop star dreams one more shot. They may be grown women balancing spouses, kids, jobs, debt, aging parents, and shoulder pain, but can’t they also be Girls5eva? The cast includes Sara Bareilles, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps and Paula Pell.
May 7 – The new Netflix series Jupiter’s Legacy will debut online today
Show Synopsis: The first generation of superheroes have kept the world safe for nearly a century. Now their children must live up to their legacy. The ensemble cast includes Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Ben Daniels, Matt Lanter, Andrew Horton and Elena Kampouris.
May 7 – The feature film Monster will debut online today on Netflix
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Charming and likeable Harlem film student Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) has his life flipped upside down when is charged with murder, and begins a complex legal battle that will see him incarcerated for life, or his name cleared. The cast includes Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Ehle, Tim Blake Nelson, Nasir “Nas” Jones, Paul Ben-Victor and Jonny Coyne.
May 7 – Charmed will move to its new night and timeslot of 8 PM on The CW followed by the season premiere of Dynasty at 9 PM
May 7 – The season finale of Magnum P.I. will air at 9 PM on CBS
May 8 – The second season of Riviera will premiere in Ovation TV at 7 PM
May 8 – The Hallmark Channel movie Baby, It’s Cold Inside will debut at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: When a travel agent (Jocelyn Hudon from When Hope Calls) up for a promotion is directed to forgo her tropical vacation to instead visit the world-famous Ice Hotel, she discovers her sacrifices are more than compensated. Steve Lund co-stars.
May 9 – The season finale of The Gloaming will air on Starz at 8:30 PM
May 9 – When Calls the Heart will air its season finale on the Hallmark Channel at 9 PM
May 11 – The season finale of Mayans M.C. will air on FX at 10 PM
May 11 – This Is Us will be back with the start of its final 3 episodes on NBC at 9 PM
May 14 – The limited series Halston will debut online on Netflix today
Show Synopsis: Ewan McGregor will star in the Ryan Murphy series about the legendary fashion designer Halston (born Roy Halston Frowick). The series will follows Halston as he leverages his single, invented name into a worldwide fashion empire that’s synonymous with luxury, sex, status and fame, literally defining the era he lives in, 1970’s and ‘80’s New York – until a hostile takeover forces him to battle for control of his most precious asset – the name Halston itself. The cast will include Krysta Rodriguez as Liza Minnelli, Vera Farmiga as Adele, Bill Pullman as David Mahoney and Rory Culkin as Joel Schumacher [among others].
May 14 – The Amazon limited series The Underground Railroad will debut online today
Show Synopsis: The series chronicles Cora Randall’s (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is fixated on bringing her back to the plantation she escaped; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he has never caught. As she travels from state to state, Cora contends with the legacy of the mother that left her behind and her own struggles to realize a life she never thought was possible. The cast includes Joel Edgerton, Lily Rabe, William Jackson Harper, Damon Herriman and Will Poulter.
May 14 – The feature film Those Who Wish Me Dead will debut on HBO Max
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The film centers around a young teenage boy who witnesses the murder of his father near a large national forest. Pursued by assassins intent on silencing him, the boy soon meets a veteran fire warden and wilderness survival expert who offers him shelter in her lookout tower. When the assassins set fire to the forest in order to cover their tracks, the pair must both survive a deadly blaze that threatens to consume them and outwit the killers on their trail. The cast includes Angelina Jolie, Jon Bernthal, Tory Kittles, Nicholas Hoult, Aidan Gillen, Tyler Perry, Jake Weber and Finn Little.
May 14 – The second season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series will debut on Disney+ online today
May 14 – The box office movie The Woman in the Window will debut online on Netflix today
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: An agoraphobic psychologist (Amy Adams) befriends a neighbor (Julianne Moore) across the street from her New York City brownstone condo, only to see her own life turned upside down when the woman disappears and she suspects foul play. The cast includes Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
May 14 – The two-hour season finale of Blue Bloods will air on CBS at the special time of 9 PM
May 15 – The Hallmark Channel movie Sweet Carolina will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Marketing executive, Josie (Lacey Chabert), returns home when she becomes the unexpected guardian of her niece and nephew. While there, she reconnects with Cooper (Tyler Hynes), her high school boyfriend.
May 16 – The UPtv original film Cooking Up Love will debut at 7 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: On a lark, Zoey (relative newcomer Rachel Bles) rents a food truck and enters a reality TV competition. Heat rises between her and the handsome founder of a fast food chain (Stephen Huszar from the Ruby Herring Mysteries movie franchise), but when Zoey finds out he’s a judge in the contest, things quickly fizzle. Zoey’s determined to win fair and square and she suspects ‘Mr-Too-Good-To-Be-True’ is really after her sauce recipe, not her heart.
May 16 – The movie Poisoned in Paradise: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery will debut on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Jesse Metcalfe and Sarah Lind return in the franchise movie, which this time focuses on what happens when a local waitress is found dead on the beach and a mysterious deposit appears in Zee’s bank account, Martha’s Vineyard proves to be all but the simple, scenic life Jeff Jackson was after.
May 16 – The season premiere of Good Witch will air on the Hallmark Channel at 9 PM
May 16 – The Nevers will air its mid-season finale on HBO at 9 PM
May 16 – City on a Hill will air its season finale on 9 PM on Showtime
May 16 – The 3-part 2018 limited series Death and Nightingales, based on the 1992 Eugene McCabe novel, will debut on Starz at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: The series illustrates the 24-hour period of young Beth Winters’ 23rd birthday (Ann Skelly from The Nevers) in Fermanagh, 1885, as she decides to elope with the handsome Liam (Jamie Dornan from the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise) to escape her claustrophobic life and violent stepfather (Matthew Rhys from Perry Mason and The Americans). Decades of family anger and tragedy come to a head, as Beth struggles both to gain personal independence and to make sense of her complex identity. This struggle is illustrated on the most intimate level between a girl and her father, while also writ large in the political yet deeply emotional tensions tearing her community and nation apart around her.
May 16 – The finale of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist will air on NBC at 9 PM
May 16 – The Rookie will air its finale on ABC at 10 PM
May 17 – The season finale of Bull will air on CBS at 10 PM
May 18 – The season finales of The Resident and Prodigal Son will air on FOX at 8 and 9 PM respectively
May 18 – The mid-season return of Superman & Lois will air on The CW at 9 PM
May 18 – The finale of Big Sky will air on ABC at 10 PM
May 23 – The season finales of The Equalizer and NCIS: Los Angeles will air on CBS at 8 and 9 PM respectively followed by the series finale of NCIS: New Orleans at 10 PM
May 23 – The PBS series Atlantic Crossing will air its season finale at 9 PM
May 23 – The reboot of In Treatment will air on HBO at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: The reimagining of the series is set in present-day Los Angeles, bringing a diverse trio of patients in session with Brooke Taylor (Uzo Aduba from Orange Is the New Black) to help navigate a variety of modern concerns. The cast includes Hamilton alum Anthony Ramos and Joel Kinnaman (The Killing and Suicide Squad) [among others].
NOTE: The show will then move to Monday night at 9 PM starting on May 24.
May 23 – The Chi will air its season premiere on Showtime at 9 PM
May 23 – The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Morning Show Mysteries: Murder Ever After will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: TV host Billie Blessings (Holly Robinson Peete) finds bones in the basement of an old friend’s house, unearthing a dark secret that threatens to unravel the lives of the most powerful people in her city. Colin Lawrence co-stars.
May 23 – The spring finale of Godfather of Harlem will air on EPIX at 9 PM
May 24 – The series finale of All Rise will air on CBS at 9 PM
May 24 – The season finales of 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lone Star will air on FOX at 8 and 9 PM respectively
May 24 – The series finale of Black Lighting will air on The CW at 9 PM
May 24 – Debris will air is finale on NBC at 10 PM
May 25 – NCIS, FBI and FBI: Most Wanted will all air their season finales on CBS at 8, 9 and 10 PM respectively
May 25- This Is Us will air its season finale on NBC at the special time of 10 PM
May 26 – The 5th and final season of Good Trouble will premiere on Freeform at 10 PM
May 26 – SEAL Team and S.W.A.T. will both air their season finales on CBS at 9 and 10 PM respectively
May 27 – The Passionflix movie Wicked will debut online today
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Based on the paranormal romance by best-selling author Jennifer L. Armentrout, the movie is set in New Orleans following evil fae-fighting Ivy (Anna Maiche from Tiny Pretty Things) and the mysterious Ren (Liam Hall from Arrow and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), a man who captures Ivy’s attention like no other.
May 27 – The Netflix movie Blue Miracle, inspired by a true story, will debut online today
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of Casa Hogar, a boys home in Mexico that was hit hard by Hurricane Odile in 2014. The boys enter Bisbee’s Black & Blue Tournament, the world’s biggest fishing tournament, despite having never fished before. They team up with a champion fisherman (Dennis Quaid), and set off to sea, hoping to win the prize money and save their orphanage from bankruptcy. The cast includes Bruce McGill, Raymond Cruz, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson and Fernanda Urrejola [among others].
May 28 – The 5th and final season of Lucifer will premiere on Netflix online today
May 28 – The box office film Cruella will be available for premier access on Disney+ today
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: A live-action prequel feature film following a young Cruella de Vil, to be played by Emma Stone going up against Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), the head of a prestigious fashion house. The cast includes Mark Strong and Kirby Howell-Baptiste.
May 28 – The season finale of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers will air on Disney+ online today
May 29 – The season finale of Mare of Easttown will air on HBO at 10 PM
May 29 – The HBO two-hour movie Oslo will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Based on the play by J.T. Rogers, the film depicts the back-channel negotiations between the development of the 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The movie stars Andrew Scott (Sherlock and Fleabag) and Ruth Wilson (Luther and His Dark Materials).
NOTE: The movie will also stream on HBO Max.
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