Summer TV of 2015

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America's Got Talent

Tuesday, May 26, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC

Heidi Klum, Howard Stern, Howie Mandel, and Spice Girl Mel B. return to judge novelty acts in NBC's reality competition. Auditionees will compete in live shows at Radio City Music Hall in the tenth season of this summer mainstay.

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Aquarius

Thursday, May 28, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC

David Duchovny stars as a 1960s Los Angeles police detective investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl who has fallen under the spell of cult leader Charles Manson (Game of Thrones' Gethin Anthony). After the two-hour premiere on May 28, NBC released the entire series online for bingeing. If you prefer a more traditional method, the rest of the season will air on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET.

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So You Think You Can Dance Season 11

Monday, June 1, at 8 p.m. ET on Fox

Paula Abdul and Jason Derulo join SYTYCD executive producer Nigel Lythgoe as judges on the 12th season of the Fox reality hit. This year's installment features a "stage vs. street" theme, where contemporary, ballet, jazz, and tap dancers will compete separately from hip-hop, animation, and breaking dancers, and one from each genre will go home each week.

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Devious Maids Season 3, UnREAL

Monday, June 1, at 9 and 10 p.m. ET, respectively, on Lifetime

Lifetime's summer programming begins with this double-header of drama. The third-season premiere of soapy Devious Maids leads into the series premiere of UnREAL, about the behind-the-scenes drama on a Bachelor-esque dating show.

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Pretty Little Liars Season 6

Tuesday, June 2, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC Family

Charles is still in charge when the suspenseful drama begins Season 6. The long-lost DiLaurentis sibling, aka evil "A," has Mona (Janel Parrish), Aria (Lucy Hale), Hanna (Ashley Benson), Spencer (Troian Bellisario), and Emily (Shay Mitchell) locked in his dollhouse. "Their attempt to escape has angered their captor," creator I. Marlene King tells Us. "'A' will seek revenge," adding,"I can't think of a single question that won't be answered.

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Hannibal Season 3

Thursday, June 4, at 10 p.m. ET on NBC

As the show returns for Season 3, Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) is on the run in Europe with psychiatrist Bedelia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson), and the lives of Will (Hugh Dancy), Jack (Laurence Fishburne), and Alana (Caroline Dhavernas) converge toward the cannibal once more.

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Food Network Star Season 11

Sunday, June 7, at 9 p.m. ET on Food Network

The cooking competition that gave the world Guy Fieri returns for an eleventh season, with Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis back as judges.

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The Fosters Season 3

Tuesday, June 8, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC Family 

After a possibly fatal car accident in the Season 2 finale, the blended Adams Foster family must deal with the tragic consequences in this drama about a lesbian couple raising their biological and adopted children.

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Becoming Us

Tuesday, June 8, at 9 p.m. ET on ABC Family

Illinois teen Ben adjusts to a new normal: His transgender dad is transitioning to female.

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Orange Is the New Black Season 3

Friday, June 12, on Netflix

Have the ladies of Litchfield prison let their guard down? The drama shifts from "a little gangsta" to "a little lighter" for Season 3, creator Jenji Kohan says. A key theme: faith. Explains Taylor Schilling, aka disillusioned inmate Piper, "It plays with the idea of how belief shapes our lives." No longer "baffled by prison," Schilling's character comes into her own, but others falter.

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The Astronaut Wives Club

Thursday, June 18, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC

Come for the soapy intrigue, stay for the 1950s style! Costume designer Eric Daman (Gossip Girl) put the stars of this drama — about the spouses of America's first men in space — in fab cigarette pants and tea dresses. "My character wore all kids of bright colors, from pink to orange, with matching shoes," says Yvonne Strahovski, who stars with Odete Annable and JoAnna Garcia Swisher. "I loved getting dressed in the vintage outfits!" 

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Mistresses Season 3

Thursday, June 18, at 9 p.m. ET on ABC

The Season 3 premiere picks up where the Season 2 cliffhanger finale ended, with bride-to-be Joss in the arms of her sister's ex-husband. Star Alyssa Milano is leaving the series, about four women and their romantic entanglements, but Jennifer Esposito will join the cast as a new regular. 

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The Last Ship Season 2

Sunday, June 21, at 9 p.m. ET on TNT

The team aboard the USS Nathan James continues their quest to save humanity after a deadly pandemic.

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True Detective Season 2

Sunday, June 21, at 9 p.m. ET on HBO

New A-listers, same grim feel. In the drama's return, three disparate L.A. cops — played by Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, and Taylor Kitsch — investigate a murder. Vince Vaughn also stars.

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Ballers, The Brink

Sunday, June 21, at 10 and 10:30 p.m. ET, respectively, on HBO

HBO debuts two new comedies following the finales of Silicon Valley and Veep: Ballers and The Brink. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars as a retired football player trying to build a post-pro career as a financial manager in Ballers, while The Brink stars Tim Robbins and Jack Black as players in a geopolitical crisis in Pakistan.

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Big Brother Season 17

Wednesday, June 24, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS

The Chenbot is back! Julie Chen returns to host as a new group of houseguests evades eviction in the hopes of taking home the grand prize. 

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Suits Season 5

Wednesday, June 24, at 9 p.m. ET on USA

Season 5 of Suits picks up after the dramatic Season 4 finale, in which Donna (Sarah Rafferty) decided she couldn't suppress her feelings for lawyer boss Harvey (Gabriel Macht) any longer and went to work for Louis (Rick Hoffman), and Mike (Patrick J. Adams) and Rachel (Meghan Markle) got engaged.

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Mr. Robot

Wednesday, June 24, at 10 p.m. ET on USA

This cyber-drama follows a young programmer (Rami Malek) working as a security engineer by day and hacker by night who is recruited to destroy the multinational corporation he works for in USA's dark psychological series.

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Under the Dome Season 3

Thursday, June 25, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS

We'll finally learn the reason why an entire town was covered by a dome in the latest season of the drama, based on a Stephen King novel, and ER vet Eriq La Salle joins the cast.

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Graceland Season 3

Thursday, June 25, at 10 p.m. ET on USA

Is Mike dead?! The Graceland Season 3 premiere looks to resolve the big Season 2 finale cliffhanger that saw undercover agent Mike in a hospital dead looking less than alive. 

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Rookie Blue Season 6

Thursday, June 25, at 10 p.m. ET on ABC

Canadian cop drama returns with Andy (Missy Peregrym) coming to terms with the fact that her new boyfriend's ex is pregnant with his child while the other couples on the Canadian import face plenty of obstacles in the new season.

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Humans

Sunday, June 28, at 9 p.m. ET on AMC

This British-American sci-fi drama focuses on life-like robot servants that look creepily similar to their human counterparts.

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Teen Wolf Season 5

Monday, June 29, at 10 p.m. ET on MTV

The pack of teen werewolves and their friends have faced plenty of threats over the years, but the idea of graduating from high school is looming overhead in the newest season of the supernatural soap. 

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Zoo

Tuesday, June 30, at 9 p.m. ET on CBS

Lions and tigers and bears have always inspired fear, but kitty cats? After millennia of abuse from mankind, "the entire animal kingdom has decided to fight back," says executive producer Jeff Pinkner. (James Patterson's novel inspired the popcorn series.) Amid global mayhem, baffled experts, such as James Wolk's zoologist, seek answers.

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Scream

Tuesday, June 30, at 10 p.m. ET on MTV

Based on the meta 1996 slasher flick, this series is "a fresh reinvention," says co-showrunner Jill Blotevogel. That means new high school bait (led by Willa Fitzgerald) in a new town and new methods to the killer's madness — "every type of technology and app teens use to unwittingly make themselves vulnerable," Blotevogel says. Eek! 

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Extant Season 2

Wednesday, July 1, at 10 p.m. ET on CBS

The Halle Berry space drama has undergone a big revamp, with Goran Visnjic and Camryn Manheim leaving and Jeffrey Dean Morgan joining the cast.

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Ray Donovan Season 3

Sunday, July 12, at 9 p.m. ET on Showtime

Mickey and Ray will strike out on their own in Season 3 of the Showtime drama, about a professional Hollywood "fixer."

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Masters of Sex Season 3

Sunday, July 12, at 10 p.m. ET on Showtime

The period drama about sex researchers William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzie Caplan) will jump to 1966 in Season 3, as the pair take their groundbreaking research public.

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The Strain Season 2

Sunday, July 12, at 10 p.m. ET on FX

The disease that struck New York City is growing stronger, as more and more people fall to the vampires in Season 2 of the scary Guillermo del Toro drama.

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Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll

Thursday, July 16, at 10 p.m. ET on FX

Denis Leary created and stars in this comedy, about a washed-up former rock star who tries to get his band back together 25 years after their initial success (and subsequent breakup over cheating and drug problems).

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Wet Hot American Summer

Adventure! Sunburns! A talking can of vegetables? Camp Firewood boasts all that and Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, and Paul Rudd, who reprise their roles as dysfunctional staffers in this prequel to the 2001 cult flick. "The series starts at the beginning of summer 1981, so you'll see where it all began," showrunner and star Michael Showalter tells Us. "Along with first day jitters, there are seeds of love planted." Guest stars Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig add to the sleepaway silliness. 

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I Am Cait

Sunday, July 26 at 9 p.m. ET on E!

Formerly known as The Bruce Jenner Project, this E! docuseries will follow Olympian Caitlyn Jenner as she introduces herself to the world.

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August and Beyond

Just because fall TV starts up in September doesn't mean there's nothing good debuting in late summer. Bachelor in Paradise will premiere on Aug. 2, while USA's comedy Playing House bows Aug. 4 and Walking Dead spinoff Fear the Walking Dead will hit airwaves on a date TBD.