
ABC, CBS, and Fox have joined NBC in releasing their Summer schedules in recent days, and while we're still waiting on The CW, this already gives us a pretty good sense of how the season will look. There's a lot of reality, of course, but at least one cool scripted series is also on the schedule. Here are some of the goodies:
- Swingtown, the CBS series about '70s swinger couples, will finally see the light of day! It's scheduled to air Thursday nights at 10 starting June 5.
- So You Think You Can Dance will be the centerpiece of Fox's Summer schedule again (yay!), following last year's pattern of performance shows on Wednesdays and results shows on Thursdays. The show will also have a two-night premiere starting Thursday, May 22, and continuing the following Wednesday.
- NBC is touting this as its All-American Summer, thanks to the August broadcast of the Summer Olympics. Apparently, a big part of that is American Gladiators, which returns May 12.
- The High School Musical reality show, now called High School Musical: Summer Session, will begin airing July 20, taking over both Sundays and Mondays for three weeks and ultimately airing on Mondays until the grand-prize winner is chosen.
- ABC's two big reality franchises, The Bachelorette and The Mole, both kick off in May: The Bachelorette starts May 19, while the new edition of The Mole starts May 26.
- Last Comic Standing, meanwhile, returns to NBC May 22.
As for other reality shows, there's a ridiculous-sounding crop in the works — many of which were in my spot the fake pilot quiz. To check out a list, just read more.
- CBS has Greatest American Dog (dogs and their owners competing on various tasks), Million Dollar Password (like the old-school game show but with celebrities and Regis Philbin as host), and Jingles (contestants have to write jingles pitching products, sports teams, or entertainment options).
- ABC has Wipeout (the falling-down game show), I Survived a Japanese Game Show (which ships contestants to Japan and judges them on how best they adapt to the culture, which just sounds odd), and Dance Machine (which pits regular people against each other in "dance-offs" to popular songs).
- NBC has two we've already talked about, but they're so crazy I have to mention them again: The Baby Borrowers (teenage couples are entrusted with raising children) and Celebrity Circus (exactly what it sounds like). Luckily, ABC has canceled its own celeb-circus show.
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What happen to summer reruns?...I see my "Mr. Belvedere" VHS tapes will be getting their usual summertime run!!!
1guess i wouldnt b watching that much tv this summer..... cause everything listed above = NOT INTERESTED
2I'll give Swingtown a chance, only because it has Jack Davenport, but the commercials haven't appealed to me much.
3Grrrrr. . .the SugarGoddesses ate my post. ((Humph.))
4wow...and that doesn't even include what possible nonsense the CW and Fox will put out.
5Swingtown does not sound good
6I am looking forward to So You Think You Can Dance.
They forgot to mention Big Brother 10.
7Yes Marisol--so excited about So you Think you can Dance and as always excited for BB10! Plus I'll probably watch Bachelorette!
8Weeds is back in June!!!
9huh. i guess i'll be watching episodes of shows i missed during the last year or so, since those look bad.
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