Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) meets Beverly (guest star Juliette Lewis) in Fox’s “Wayward Pines.”
The TV networks really wish we’d spend a little more time indoors during the summer.
Ever since cable discovered that people would watch fresh programming in the formerly fallow summer months, all the networks have been dipping their toes a little more aggressively into the water.
That’s why we’ve got new shows this summer starring the likes of Nicole Kidman, David Duchovny, Jennifer Beals, Edward Burns, Matt Dillon and James Wolk.
CBS, undaunted by the relatively modest ratings last summer for the second season of
brings them both back and adds a third new mystery drama, “Zoo,” based on the James Patterson novel.
A few summer shows don’t have dates yet, including a new Seth MacFarlane comedy called “Blunt Talk” on Starz and AMC’s Brit drama “Humans” in June.
AMC plans a late-summer launch for perhaps the summer’s most-anticipated new show, a Los Angeles-based prequel to “The Walking Dead.” It comes from the same creative team that did the original.
So even though we’re more than a month away from the unofficial launch of the summer season, here’s some of what viewers can look forward to.
This spooky M. Night Shyamalan series is Fox’s big summer splash. It stars Matt Dillon, Terrence Howard (yes, same guy who also stars on Fox’s “Empire”) as two of the folks in a town where very very strange things happen.
