2017 Spring-Summer TV Gallery: Feud, Twin Peaks, Iron Fist, The Americans, Game of Thrones, and More
The weather might be getting nicer outside, but upcoming TV options offer more reasons than ever to stay indoors. Have a look at what will premiere in coming months, including Hulu’s chilling dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale; the continuation of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks; Ryan Murphy’s latest FX anthology, Feud: Bette and Joan; Netflix’s Marvel Universe offerings Iron Fist and The Defenders; new seasons of highly acclaimed dramas including The Americans, American Crime, and Underground; and the highly anticipated seventh season of HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Series Premiere: March 1
Paul Finchley is a famous comedian beloved by the public until a rape accusation turns his world upside down.
Season Premiere: March 2
The network’s lauded docu-series, which follows seven innocent participants who enter the dangerous world of incarceration in an effort to expose internal issues and what really happens behind bars, moves to Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail in its third season.
Season Premiere: March 3
A girl creates three robots to aid with her scientific experiments, which she conducts in her dad’s junkyard.
Series Premiere: March 5
A young H.G. Wells uses the time machine he built to chase his friend Dr. John Stevenson, better known as Jack the Ripper, through the decades in an attempt to stop his murder spree.
Season 6 Return: March 5
Your favorite fairy-tale characters populate the small town of Storybrooke—and must defend their home from the threat of Mr. Hyde and the Evil Queen.
Series Premiere: March 5
The first installment of the new FX anthology from Ryan Murphy tells the story of the legendary rivalry between Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) both during their collaboration on the Oscar-nominated thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and well after the cameras stopped rolling.
Season Premiere: March 5
Survivors band together after a deadly virus wipes out the Earth’s population.
Series Premiere: March 5
Three friends (Adam Pally, Yassir Lester, Leighton Meester) find themselves traveling through time via a red duffel bag-turned-time machine (yes, really).
Season Premiere: March 5
A police detective (Jennifer Lopez) is recruited to work undercover for the FBI’s anti-corruption task force that’s investigating her colleagues.
Series Premiere: March 5
An aspiring actress is presented with an arrangement that would link her romantically to a mega-movie star, but sticking to the details of her contract may not be easy.
Series Premiere: March 5
Legal dramas play out in the latest addition to executive producer Dick Wolf’s One Chicago franchise. Justice centers on the state attorney’s team of prosecutors and investigators as they navigate fiery city politics, pursue justice, and take on high-profile cases.
Season Premiere: March 7
Two KGB spies pose as an American married couple living in 1980s Washington, D.C.
Series Premiere: March 7
In this spoof of true crime docu-series a la Making a Murderer and The Jinx, a young New York City lawyer heads to a small Southern town to defend an eccentric poetry professor who’s accused of murdering his beloved wife.
Season 1 Returns: March 8
A lower-level United States Cabinet member is suddenly appointed president after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the line of succession.
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Series Premiere: March 9
Expert survivalists are teamed with pampered counterparts and placed in a forbidden wilderness where they encounter dangerous animals, raging rivers, hunger, and extreme weather in a survival competition series.
Season Premiere: March 8
The epic escape story of the Underground Railroad is told through the point of view of a group of Georgia slaves who band together for a daring, 600-mile journey to freedom.
Season Premiere: March 9
A top-notch private investigator becomes the victim of fraud when she’s conned by her fiancé, who committed the ultimate criminal faux pas: falling for his mark.
Season Premiere: March 10
A vengeance-seeking judge relies on messages from God to right injustices done to his family.
Series Premiere: March 10
Buddy Thunderstruck is the coolest semi-truck racing dog who lives down in race-obsessed Greasepit, a place full of larger-than-life characters and nitro-burning, gear-slamming, tire-squealing, fish-tailing good times.
Series Premiere: March 10
Rapunzel lays aside her crown and puts her impending marriage on hold to seek out epic adventures. Disney Channel original movie Tangled Before Ever After kicks off the series, with Tangled: The Series premiering March 24.
Season Premiere: March 10
Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) and Gus (Paul Rust) tackle the biggest hurdle of their relationship yet: dating.
Season Premiere: March 11
The highly stylized cartoon, about a great warrior who has been hurled into the future by an evil shape-shifting wizard called Aku and is trying to find a portal that will lead back to his own time, is back with new episodes after a 13-year hiatus.
Season Premiere: March 12
In Season 3, North Carolina farmland is the setting for an exploration of forced labor, sex trafficking and drug abuse.
Season Premiere: March 13
A young man unexpectedly becomes a single dad and leans on his family and friends for assistance with raising the baby.
Season Premiere: March 13
A spunky food blogger becomes the personal chef of a young tech entrepreneur.
Season Premiere: March 15
The Greenleaf family runs a Memphis megachurch, but beneath the surface they’re hiding scandalous secrets and lies.
Season Premiere: March 15
A study of the friendship between a white laborer and draft evader (James Purefoy) and a gay black Vietnam War vet (Michael K. Williams) in 1980s East Texas.
Season Premiere: March 16
Critic Forrest MacNeil (Andy Daly) eschews film, food, and art to give his take on real-life experiences in this series.
Series Premiere: March 16
Young twentysomething hustlers accidentally uncover a stash of stolen gold bullion and are swept into the world of organized crime.
Series Premiere: March 17
Billionaire Danny Rand (Finn Jones) returns to New York City after being missing for years, trying to reconnect with his past and his family legacy. He fights against the criminal element corrupting New York City with his kung-fu mastery and ability to summon the awesome power of the fiery Iron Fist.
Season Premiere: March 17
The anthropomorphic adventures of feathered, furry and feral populations of New York City are featured in this animated comedy series.
Season Premiere: March 17
The spin-off of The Vampire Diaries focuses on the original vampire family who return to New Orleans to reclaim the city they helped build that is now under the control of a diabolical vampire named Marcel.
Season Premiere: March 19
The genre-bending martial arts series is very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West. In a land controlled by feudal barons, Into the Badlands tells the story of a great warrior and a young boy who embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment.
Series Premiere: March 21
A reality competition series pits elite costume performers against one another for the chance to win a $10,000 prize.
Season Premiere: March 22
The relationship between a morally compromised undercover cop and a crime boss grows complicated as the detective seeks justice for her slain son.
Season 3 Return: March 22
A music mogul plans for the future of his empire as his three sons and his ex-wife battle each other to become the next heir apparent to the hip-hop throne.
Series Premiere: March 22
A white teenager is killed by a black cop during a police shooting, leading an expert investigator and special prosecutor to examine the case and grapple with media attention, public debate and the social unrest.
Season Premiere: March 23
A hard-luck Harvard grad becomes the court-appointed guardian of a woman under house arrest.
Series Premiere: March 24
Emilia Urquiza (Kate del Castillo) is the first lady of Mexico with big plans to improve conditions for the country through her commitment in fighting for peace.
Series Premiere: March 29
A drama that centers on a brothel owner in 18th-century London as she struggles to raise her daughters while battling a ruthless rival madam.
Series Premiere: March 29
Three actor/comedians still waiting for their big break struggle to make a name for themselves in Hollywood while their friends achieve fame and fortune.
Early Look: March 29; airs Tuesdays, starting April 4
A thirtysomething woman’s life turns to chaos when an imaginary friend she created as a child returns after she begins dating a divorced man with three kids.
Series Premiere: March 31
The late Hannah Baker explains why she committed suicide to her high school peers through a collection of cassette tapes she left behind.
Season Premiere: April 2
The BBC period drama follows a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Season Premiere: April 2
Set in a rural English town on the verge of World War II, two powerful women struggle to put aside their differences in The Women’s Institute, and the community learns to unite amidst the chaos and uncertainty of wartime.
Season Premiere: April 4
A zombie helps Seattle police solve murders by experiencing victims’ memories when she eats their brains.
Event Series Premiere: April 4
The Fox drama’s revival picks up after Michael’s apparent death, with Sara and Lincoln teaming up to investigate clues that point to his still being alive.
Series Premiere: April 5
A decade after a public meltdown, TV’s biggest sports announcer, Jim Brockmire (Hank Azaria), tries to reclaim his career and love life in a small Rust Belt town, calling minor league baseball games for the Morristown Frackers.
Season Premiere: April 5
The latest season moves the animated comedy from FX to FXX and sees international spy-turned-hardboiled private eye Sterling Archer in 1947 Los Angeles pursuing his partner’s killer.
Series Premiere: April 7
The 13-episode docu-series chronicles the life and career of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner.
Series Premiere: April 8
Based on Philipp Meyer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Son tells the story of a Texan family over the course of six generations chronicles America’s rise to power.
Season Premiere: April 10
Season 3 picks up where season 2 left off and sees Chuck with a potentially incriminating tape recording of Jimmy’s confession.
Season 4 Return: April 11
A sitcom following the lives of a group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
Season Premiere: April 14
Comedian Chelsea Handler switches to a weekly one-hour format for the new season of her talk show, in which she sits down with celebrity guests to discuss various topics.
Series Premiere: April 15
Four Coal Hill Academy students have been entrusted with protecting the Earth from sinister forces in this Doctor Who spinoff.
Series Premiere: April 16
Freida Pinto and Babou Ceesay star as a couple who form a radical underground cell in politically explosive 1970s London in this series from John Ridley (American Crime).
Series Premiere: April 16
Drawn from the novel of the same name by Philippa Gregory, The White Princess is a tale of power, family, love, and betrayal, charting one of the most tumultuous times in British history uniquely from the point of view of the women. The tempestuous marriage between Elizabeth of York (Lizzie) and King Henry VII, officially marks the conclusion of The War of the Roses, but the real battle for the throne is far from over.
Season Premiere: April 16
Now an ex-president, Selina Meyer and her staff return for her second act. Julia Louis-Dreyfus has won five consecutive Emmy awards for her starring role.
Series Premiere: April 18
An ordinary college student gets a starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster in this adaptation of Rebecca Serle’s novel of the same name.
Season 7 Return: April 18
Four estranged best friends are reunited one year after the queen bee of the group, Alison, goes missing. When they begin to receive disturbing messages from someone named “A,” how far will they go to bury their secrets? It’s the final season of the series, and all secrets will be revealed.
Series Premiere: April 19
Sibling rivalry leads to murder when Ewan McGregor stars as both Emmit Stussy (“the Parking Lot King of Minnesota”) and his slightly younger brother Ray in the third installment of the Fargo series. Mary Elizabeth Winstead and David Thewlis also star.
Series Premiere: April 21
Bill Nye explores the significance of science on modern society, politics and culture while using an objective lens to disprove anti-scientific claims made by hegemonic institutions.
Season Premiere: April 21
Relentless LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) has a new murder to solve — and he’s the prime suspect.
Series Premiere: April 21
Misfit Sophia discovers a passion for fashion, becoming an unlikely businesswoman in the process. As her business grows, however, she has to learn to cope with life as her own boss.
Season Premiere: April 21
This CGI remake tells the story of the five Tracy brothers, Brains, Lady Penelope, Parker, Grandma Tracy, The Hood, Tintin, and many more new characters that make up The Thunderbirds.
Series Premiere: April 23
An ER doctor moonlights as a physician who assists terminally ill patients with ending their lives in this dark dramedy.
Season Premiere: April 23
A series on the evolution of the Northern California high-tech mecca.
Season 3 Return: April 24
An origin story of the great DC Comics superheroes and supervillains, Gotham follows James Gordon’s (Ben McKenzie) rise through the police force of a dangerously corrupt city teetering on the edge of evil, and chronicles the teen years of Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) and the birth of one of the most iconic superheroes of our time, Batman.
Series Premiere: April 25
A mother interns at her daughter’s workplace, a cable-news network, in this comedy that explores mother-daughter relationships.
Season Premiere: April 26
With the era of the Savastano clan seemingly fallen, a power vacuum emerges that threatens to tear brutal Neapolitan crime organization the Camorra apart from the very core.
Series Premiere: April 26
Elisabeth Moss stars as Offred, a woman trapped in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States.
Season Premiere: April 28
An unplanned pregnancy turns a weekend tryst into a serious commitment for a British woman and an American tourist. Series stars Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney.
Series Premiere: April 30
The Old Gods fear irrelevance as their believers die off or are seduced by the money, technology, and celebrity offered by the New Gods. Ex-con Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle). left adrift by the recent death of his wife, becomes bodyguard and traveling partner to conman Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane), who is actually a powerful old deity, on a cross-country mission to build an army and reclaim his lost glory.
Season 2 Return: May 5
Eight twentysomethings around the world discover they have an intimate connection to one another with emotional, mental, and physical implications.
Premiere: May 1
When the devil (Tom Ellis) tires of life in Hell, he materializes in the City of Angels, where he aids the LAPD in rounding up and punishing evildoers in this TV adaptation of the comic book.
Series Premiere: May 12
The story of Anne Shirley, an imaginative, strong-willed orphan who transforms the lives of those she encounters after being sent to live with elderly siblings on Prince Edward Island in 1890.
Series Premiere: May 12
A couple’s relationship unravels as they obsess over a professor named Dick.
Season Premiere: May 19
A woman who lived in a cult for 15 years starts life anew in New York City in this comedy series.
Event Series Premiere: May 21
New mysteries unfold 25 years after the shocking death of homecoming queen Laura Palmer in a quaint northwestern town.
Season Premiere: May 23
A bachelor and his divorced sister raise a teenager together and support each other through the trials of the dating world in this dramatic comedy.
Event Premiere: May 24
A three-hour musical adaptation of the hit 1987 film, the TV event stars Abigail Breslin as Baby Houseman and Colt Prattes as her pro dance partner Johnny Castle. The movie also stars Debra Messing, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Hyland, Nicole Scherzinger, Katey Sagal, and Billy Dee Williams.
Miniseries Premiere: May 26
A look at the Grateful Dead that explores their origins in early 1960s San Francisco and their 30-year career in music.
Season Premiere: May 30
A teen plunges into danger when he moves in with his wild relatives in this crime drama set in a surf community.
Season Premiere: May 30
Drama stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright as a ruthless politician and his equally ambitious wife who navigate Washington’s corridors of power. Patricia Clarkson (pictured) joins for season 5.
Season Premiere: May 31
A raw drama set against the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in Venice, California.
Season Premiere: June 9
Acclaimed comedy from Emmy-winner Jenji Kohan about a diverse group of inmates serving time in a women’s prison.
Season Premiere: June 10
Tatiana Maslany returns for a final season playing multiple parts as clones caught up in a deadly conspiracy.
Season Premiere: June
In this comic book adaptation, a mysterious entity inhabits West Texas preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), causing him to develop a highly unusual power. Ruth Negga costars as Jesse’s badass ex-girlfriend Tulip, and Joseph Gilgun is Irish vampire Cassidy.
Series Premiere: TBA
Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage team up to protect New York City.
Season Premiere: TBA
Winter arrives sometime this summer. (Word on the street says July.) Stay tuned!
