Summer Premiere Dates For Broadcast & Cable TV Shows

Today (5/26) is the beginning of the broadcast television summer season, so it’s time to post our premiere date schedule for broadcast and cable summer TV shows.

I have no illusions about this being a complete and perfect list, but I will update it with additions and corrections that folks note in the comments.

Show Premiere Date Network
Week 1:
So You Think You Can Dance 5/26 Fox
Week 2:
Platinum Hit 5/30 Bravo
Basketball Wives 5/30 VH1
Single Ladies 5/30 VH1
Million Dollar Decorators 5/31 Bravo
America’s Got Talent 5/31 NBC
Destroy Build Destroy 6/1 Cartoon
Dude, What Would Happen 6/1 Cartoon
Haunted Collector 6/1 Syfy
Hollywood Treasure 6/1 Syfy

Week 3:
The Glades 6/5 A&E
Ice Road Truckers 6/5 History
MasterChef 6/6 Fox
Covert Affairs 6/7 USA
White Collar 6/7 USA

Week 4:
101 Ways To Leave A Game Show 6/12 ABC
Gene Simmons Family Jewels 6/14 A&E
Pretty Little Liars 6/14 ABC Family
Rocco’s Dinner Party 6/15 Bravo
Hot In Cleveland 6/15 TV Land

Week 5:
Falling Skies 6/19 TNT
Expedition Impossible 6/23 ABC
Rookie Blue 6/23 ABC
Wipeout 6/23 ABC
Futurama 6/23 Comedy Central
Louie 6/23 FX
Wilfred 6/23 FX
Burn Notice 6/23 USA
Suits 6/23 USA

Week 6:
True Blood 6/26 HBO
Leverage 6/26 TNT
The Marriage Ref 6/26 NBC
Weeds 6/27 Showtime
The Big C 6/27 Showtime
State Of Georgia 6/29 ABC Family
Royal Pains 6/29 USA
Celebrity Rehab 6/29 VH1
Necessary Roughness 6/29 USA
Ugly Americans 6/30 Comedy Central

Week 7:
Big Brother 7/7 CBS
Torchwood: Miracle Day 7/8 Starz

Week 8:
Alphas 7/11 Syfy
Eureka 7/11 Syfy
Warehouse 13 7/11 Syfy
Rizzoli & Isles 7/11 TNT
The Closer 7/11 TNT
Rescue Me 7/12 FX
Damages 7/13 DirecTV
The Franchise: A Season With The San Francisco Giants 7/13 Showtime
Ghost Hunters Int’l 7/13 Syfy
The Green Room With Paul Provenza 7/14 Showtime

Week 9:
Haven 7/15 Syfy
Hell’s Kitchen 7/19 Fox

Week 10:
Same Name 7/24 CBS
Entourage 7/24 HBO

Week 11
Shark Week 7/31 Discovery
Take The Money And Run 8/2 ABC

Week 14:
The T.O. Show 8/22 VH1

haunted collector sounds interesting.