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Though summer may not technically be upon us yet, it’s time to start thinking about all the television coming our way in the next few months. You’ll want to schedule as much time in the comfort of a nice, air-conditioned living room as possible, so you won’t miss out on all of the TV shows premiering this summer. As has been the case for a while now, broadcast networks, cable channels, and streaming services keep programming coming year round, and summer is certainly no exception.

This May, there will be plenty of new shows worth checking out, like Showtime’s Patrick Melrose miniseries, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as the return of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why. But the month also brings HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 (which, yes, is technically a movie, but I’m going to list it here because I want to), PBS’ Little Women, and Amazon’s Picnic At Hanging Rock. Things heat up in June (sorry), with a new season of Luke Cage, the series premiere of Succession, and the series finale of Sense8.

Additionally, Kevin Costner will be making his way to television with Paramount Network’s Yellowstone, which hails from Sicario (as well as its amazingly titled sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado) and Hell or High Water writer Taylor Sheridan, and should be one to keep an eye on. That’s also true of Amazon’s Jack Ryan series, which premieres at the end of August, but is so anticipated a second season has already been ordered.

So there you have it, though not as jam packed as the fall television season, there’s plenty of entertainment on tap for everyone this summer. That way, you’ll have your pick of excuses to stay indoors.

MAY

Thursday, May 10

Safe — Netflix

Friday, May 11

Rocky and Bullwinkle — Amazon

Bill Nye Saves the World — Netflix

Spirit Riding Free — Netflix

Saturday, May 12

TOP PICK:
PATRICK MELROSE — SHOWTIME, 9PM
“Based on the acclaimed “Patrick Melrose” series of semi-autobiographical novels written by Edward St. Aubyn. This five-part limited series hilariously skewers the upper class as it tracks the protagonist’s harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery. In a tour de force role, Cumberbatch plays the titular character who struggles to overcome the damage inflicted by a horribly abusive father and the mother who tacitly condoned the behavior. Academy Award nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight) and Screen Actors Guild® winner Hugo Weaving (The Matrix trilogy) also star as the parents of Patrick Melrose. Rounding out this accomplished cast are Anna Madeley (The Crown), Blythe Danner (Meet the Fockers), Allison Williams (Girls), Pip Torrens (The Crown), Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife), Prasanna Puwanarajah (Doctor Foster), Holliday Grainger (Bonnie & Clyde), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) and Celia Imrie (Bridget Jones’s Baby). Each episode, devoted to one of the five novels, is written for television by BAFTA Award nominee David Nicholls (Far from the Madding Crowd, One Day) and directed by celebrated film director Edward Berger (Deutchland 83, Jack). A co-production between SHOWTIME and Sky Atlantic, this gripping and humorous saga encompasses the South of France in the 1960s, New York in the 1980s and Britain in the early 2000s.”

Sunday, May 13

Little Women — PBS, 9pm

Friday, May 18

Inspector Gadget — Netflix

13 Reasons Why — Netflix

Saturday, May 19

Fahrenheit 451 — HBO

Sunday, May 20

Joe Pera Talks With You — Adult Swim, 12am

Tuesday, May 22

Mob Psycho 100 — Netflix

Wednesday, May 23

Explained — Netflix

Thursday, May 24

Fauda — Netflix

Friday, May 25

TOP PICK:
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK — AMAZON
“Based on Joan Lindsay’s iconic Australian novel of the same name, Picnic at Hanging Rock is a limited series surrounding the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and one teacher on Valentine’s Day in 1900. The series revolves around the subsequent investigation and the event’s far-reaching impact on the students, families and staff at Appleyard College, and on the nearby township. The series has already received critical acclaim following its recent premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival and has been selected for the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival this month.”

The Toys That Made Us — Netflix

Trollhunters: Part Three — Netflix

Sunday, May 27

The Break With Michelle Wolf — Netflix

Tuesday, May 29

100 Code — WGN, 9pm

Animal Kingdom — TNT, 9pm

Queen Sugar — OWN, 10pm

Wednesday, May 30

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — Netflix

American Ninja Warrior — NBC, 8pm

MasterChef — FOX, 8pm

Reverie — NBC, 10pm

JUNE

Friday, June 1

C.B. Strike — Cinemax, 9pm

Saturday, June 2

FLCL: Progressive — Adult Swim, 11:30pm

Sunday, June 3

Pose — FX, 9pm

Succession — HBO, 10pm

Monday, June 4

Dietland — AMC, 9pm

Whose Line Is It Anyway? — The CW, 9pm

Tuesday, June 5

Humans — AMC, 10pm

Younger — TV Land, 10pm

Teachers — TV Land, 10:30pm

Wednesday, June 6

TOP PICK:
CONDOR — AUDIENCE NETWORK, 10PM
“It’s present day. Joe Turner (Max Irons) has always been conflicted about his work for the CIA. But when something he’s discovered gets his entire office killed, leaving Joe as the only survivor and forcing him to go on the run, the theoretical reservations he’s always harbored turn into all-too-real moral dilemmas. Under life or death pressure, Joe will be forced to redefine who he is and what he’s capable of in order to discover who’s behind this far-reaching conspiracy, and stop them from completing their deadly objective that threatens the lives of millions. Inspired by Paramount’s Sydney Pollack 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor.”

Thursday, June 7

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger — Freeform, 8pm

Nashville — CMT, 9pm

American Woman — Paramount Network, 10pm

Friday, June 8

Sense8 — Netflix

Sunday, June 10

Claws — TNT, 9pm

To Tell The Truth — ABC, 10pm

Tuesday, June 12

The Bold Type — Freeform, 9pm

Thursday, June 14

Strange Angel — CBS All Access

Marlon — NBC, 9pm

Girlfriend’s Guide To Divorce — Bravo, 10pm

Friday, June 15

Voltron — Netflix

Goliath — Amazon

Tuesday, June 17

The Affair — Showtime, 9pm

Shades of Blue — NBC, 10pm

Wednesday, June 20

Young & Hungry — Freeform, 8pm

TOP PICK:
YELLOWSTONE — PARAMOUNT NETWORK, 9PM
“Yellowstone stars world-renowned actor and Oscar®-winner Kevin Costner, who serves in the lead role, and is written and directed by critically-acclaimed, Oscar®-nominated screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (“Hell or High Water” and “Sicario,”). Costner stars as John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders — land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park. It is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny — where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world’s largest oil and lumber corporations. Where drinking water poisoned by fracking wells and unsolved murders are not news: they are a consequence of living in the new frontier. It is the best and worst of America seen through the eyes of a family that represents both.”

Thursday, June 21

The Gong Show — ABC, 8pm

Queen of the South — USA, 9pm

Shooter — USA, 10pm

Detroiters — Comedy Central, 10pm

Friday, June 22

Luke Cage — Netflix

Sunday, June 24

Preacher — AMC, 10pm

Monday, June 25

Penn & Teller: Fool Us — The CW, 8pm

Friday, June 29

GLOW — Netflix

Masters of Illusion — The CW, 8pm

JULY

Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits & Monsters (truTV, TBD)

Paid Off With Michael Torpey (truTV, TBD)

Sunday, July 1

Mostly 4 Millennials — Adult Swim, 12am

Power — Starz, 9pm

Tuesday, July 10

The Outpost — The CW, 8pm

Heathers — Paramount Network, 10pm

Wednesday, July 11

Harlots — Hulu

Burden of Truth — The CW, 8pm

Thursday, July 18

Trial and Error — NBC, 9pm

Snowfall — FX, 10pm

Friday, July 20

Outcast — Cinemax, 10pm

Wednesday, July 25

TOP PICK:
CASTLE ROCK — HULU
“A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King’s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The series stars André Holland, Melanie Lynskey, Sissy Spacek, Billy Skarsgård, Jane Levy and Scott Glenn.”

Tuesday, July 31

Casual —Hulu

Making It — NBC, 10pm

AUGUST

Sunday, August 12

Get Shorty — Epix

Wednesday, August 22

Mr. Mercedes — Audience Network, 10pm

Friday, August 24

The Innocents — Netflix

Friday, August 31

TOP PICK:
JACK RYAN — AMAZON
“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” follows an up-and-coming CIA analyst thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time. The series follows Ryan (Krasinski) as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale.”

SEPTEMBER

Sunday, September 9

The Bad Seed — Lifetime, 8pm

You — Lifetime, 10pm

Dear @masonos think you might check this one out..

maybe some were missing in my previous lists and it just been posted on a website so I thought it would be cool to bring those over here..

Wow thanks @Rhialto for this. Was Sense8 picked up by Netflix? Didn't know that, thought it was cancelled. Good news!