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Alphas (Syfy)
Please be better than Heroes, please be better than Heroes, please be better than Heroes.
This is the latest entry in TV's superfriends derby, and the cast is certainly promising. Amazing actor David Strathairn plays the Professor Xavier of a group of humans with brain anomalies that imbue them with unusual powers. Malik Yoba and Azita Ghanizada costar.
Premieres: July 11, 10 p.m.
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America's Got Talent (NBC)
Nick Cannon hosts the variety show that features snooty Brit Piers Morgan, saucy Brit Sharon Osbourne and general-purpose bald personality Howie Mandel.
Airs: Tuesdays, 8 p.m.
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Big Brother (CBS)
This show, which is a ridiculous psychodrama about human peacocks trapped in a house together, isn't for everyone, but what fans it does have tend to be incredibly loyal and passionate.
Premieres: July 7, 9 p.m.
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Breaking Bad (AMC)
Mad bad and dangerous to know chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and promising young hoodlum Jesse (Aaron Paul) continue to cook meth and cause trouble in Albuquerque, N.M.
Premieres: July 17, 10 p.m.
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Burn Notice (USA)
Coby Bell is a regular this season as Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) join forces with Grant Show's character, a former CIA operative, as well as guest stars Lauren Stamile and Friday Night Light's Matt Lauria, who are also playing one-time crooks.
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The Closer (TNT)
This season of The Closer will set up Kyra Sedgwick's exit from the show, either by something dark like death, or maybe a happy ending like a baby with Fritz?
Premieres: July 11, 9 p.m.
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Covert Affairs (USA)
We love you, Piper Perabo! Auggie (Chris Gorham) gets out of the lab more this season, too. Win-win-win.
Premieres: June 7, 10 p.m.
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Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
Celebs Nick Zano and LeAnn Rimes play themselves in the premiere, while Mario Lopez, Wendy Williams and Paula Abdul also guest star in season three.
Premieres: June 19, 9 p.m.
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Franklin & Bash (TNT)
This legal dramedy costars lovable cuties Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar. Resistance is futile. Just sit back, watch and enjoy!
Premieres: June 1, 9 p.m.
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay is everywhere! Look for his Master Chef series on Fox beginning in June, and then the premiere of Hell's Kitchen next month.
Premieres: June 6, 8 p.m. & July 19, 9 p.m.
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Hawthorne (TNT)
Isn't it nice to see all the adults in Jennifer Lopez's family gainfully employed on television? First J.Lo landed that little American Idol gig, and now Marc Anthony joins Jada Pinkett Smith in her hospital drama.
Premieres: June 14, 10 p.m.
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent (USA)
Sniff. We'll miss this series, and we're so glad that Kathryn Erbe and Vincent D'Onofrio were willing and able to return for this final season. We just have one final request: Kiss, kiss, kiss!
Premieres: May 1, 9 p.m.
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Leverage (TNT)
Short of The Closer, this caper series is the smartest show on TNT, and the castmembers are charmers from top to bottom. If you haven't seen it yet, it's the perfect summer snack!
Premieres: June 26, 9 p.m.
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Memphis Beat (TNT)
This show is getting a much-needed rework before season two opens. We'll give it a second shot, because hey, who doesn't love Jason Lee and the bluesy vibe of Memphis?
Premieres: June 14, 9 p.m.
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Necessary Roughness (USA)
Callie Thorne leads this football drama as a shrink who is recruited by a pro football team to help players work out psychological issues that are holding them back on the field. Hotties Marc Blucas and Mehcad Brooks play two of the jocks.
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The Nine Lives of Chloe King (ABC Family)
She's a girl! She's a cat! She's a girl with cat-like superpowers who might be the last hope of her race of creatures with cat-like superpowers, whoo-hoo!
Premieres: June 14, 9 p.m.
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Rizzoli & Isles (TNT)
Best lesbian detective agency show ever! OK, that's not officially what it's about, but come on. Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander's chemistry make this series sparkle, even when the writing gets particularly ridiculous.
Premieres: July 11, 10 p.m.
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Rookie Blue (ABC)
Gregory Smith returns for season two of this totally non-gritty Canadian cop drama. Everything is so pretty and clean in Canada, but they still manage to find a few crimes to solve for our entertainment.
Premieres: June 23, 9 p.m.
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Royal Pains (USA)
Mark Feuerstein as Hamptons concierge doc Hank Lawson is just plain the best. Paulo Costanza costars as his flaky little brother, and Henry Winkler is their con artist daddy. This cast is great, Hank's solutions to the medical mysteries are MacGyver funtimes, and it's just one of USA's most lovable series.
Premieres: June 29, 9 p.m.
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So You Think You Can Dance (Fox)
Always the best reality competition of the summer, and often one of the best reality series on television, period. Cat Deeley hosts, and looks fantastic doing it, too.
Airs: Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
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Switched at Birth (ABC Family)
Two girls who were—wait for it—switched at birth discover the truth about their origins and try to get to know each other for their parents' sake. One of of the girls is a rich bitch, and one of the girls (from the other side of the tracks, natch) is deaf as a consequnce of a childhood bout of meningitis.
Premieres: June 6, 9 p.m.
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Suits (USA)
Patrick J. Adams and Gabriel Macht costar in this legal drama about a college-dropout grifter who finds a place working on cases at a white-shoe law firm.
Premieres: June 23, 10 p.m.
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True Blood (HBO)
Yay, vampire porn is back! Wait, does that sound pervy? Let's take the more romantic angle then: Yay, the Sookie-Bill-Eric-Alcide love polygon is back! May they all have sex with each other. (Damn. Still pervy.)
Premieres: June 26, 9 p.m.
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Warehouse 13 (Syfy)
Our favorite ravenous supernatural closet continues to demand more yummy spooky food, and Joanne Kelly and Eddie McClintock are still on staff to devotedly feed the little beast.
Premieres: July 11, 9 p.m.