2010 Summer Season Premieres

This is a look at TV shows returning in the summer of 2010.

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SUNDAY 2010 SUMMER SEASON PREMIERES

Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
2nd Season Premiere Sunday, June 6, 9pm
A beautiful diva gets a second chance at life in the body of an average, plus-size attorney.

Entourage (HBO)
7th Season Premiere Sunday, June 27, 10:30pm
The boys are back. Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) is still in Hollywood with his entourage buds Eric (Kevin Connolly), Drama (Kevin Dillon) and Turtle (Jerry Ferrara).

Expedition Great White (National Geographic)
2nd Season Premiere Sunday, June 6, 9pm
Travel the oceans vicariously through Christ Fischer along with Captain Brett McBride and crew on the MV Ocean as they search the depths for great white sharks to bag, tag and release.

HGTV Design Star (HGTV)
5th Season Premiere Sunday, June 13, 10pm
Hopeful designers compete for their own design show on HGTV.

Hung (HBO)
2nd Season Premiere Sunday, June 27, 10pm
Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane) is a divorced, middle-aged high school basketball coach who is down on his luck. Just when he thought things couldn't get any worse his house catches fire. In a last attempt to change his bad luck to good, Ray decides to exploit his best asset.

Ice Road Truckers (History)
4th Season Premiere Sunday, June 6, 9pm
It's not easy driving a big rig across the ice.

Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami (E!)
2nd Season Premiere Sunday, June 13, 10pm
Can you keep up with the Kardashian girls as they take over South Beach Miami!

Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC)
9th Season Premiere Sunday, June 22, 10pm
Joining the cast of Criminal Intent is Saffron Burrows who will portray Detective Serena Stevens, a highly educated single parent. Also coming on board is Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Captain Zoe Callas. Jeff Goldblum continues on in his role as Detective Zach Nichols while 3 others will say goodbye to the show.

Leverage (TNT)
3rd Season Premiere Sunday, June 20, 9pm
Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton) and his con team are out to settle the scores for those who have been victimized by the wealthy and powerful. A good con team consists of a mastermind (Ford/Hutton), a grifter (Sophie Devereaux/Gina Bellman), a retrieval specialist (Eliot Spencer/Christian Kane), a gadget and technology wizard (Alec Hardison/Aldis Hodge) and a seasoned thief (Parker/Beth Riesgraf).

Mad Men (AMC)
4th Season Premiere Sunday, July 25, 10pm
Follow the men and women of New York's Madison Avenue advertising in the 1960s.

The Next Food Network Star (Food)
6th Season Premiere Sunday, June 6, 9pm
Twelve new hungry chefs are competing for the next Food Network title.

The T.O. Show (VH1)
2nd Season Premiere Sunday, July 11, 10pm
It's all about football star Terrell Owens. Need I say more?

True Blood (HBO)
3rd Season Premiere Sunday, June 13, 9pm
Vampires have been given a new lease on life with the invention of synthetic blood which takes human blood off their menu, but some people are still leery about walking side-by-side down the street with letting vampires. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is 'cursed' with the ability to read thoughts and understands the outcast feeling. She also has a thing for the vampire down the street, Bill Compton (Stephen Myer).

MONDAY 2010 SUMMER SEASON PREMIERES

Dance You're A** Off (Oxygen)
2nd Season Premiere Monday, Jun 7; preview June 6, 11pm
Overweight contestants are trained by professional dance partners for a weekly stage performance to shake their booty and loose that excess weight. Contestants are judged on their weight loss and their dance routines to determine who will be sent home each week.

Dating in the Dark (ABC)
2nd Season Premiere Monday, August 9, 10pm
A new twist in the dating world comes with "Dating in the Dark." Contestants date each other in total darkness. Want to be a contestant? Click on the embedded link.

Last Comic Standing (NBC)
7th Season Premiere, Monday, June 7, 8pm
Comics from all over the country vie for a chance at the $250,000 prize and an exclusive contract with NBC.

Lie to Me (Fox)
2nd Season Premiere Monday, June 7, 8pm
It's not east to lie to the face of the world's leading deception expert.

Make it or Break it (ABC Family)
2nd Season Premiere Monday, June 28, 10pm
The Rock gymnasts will be back this summer with more moves, more drama and more romance.

Minute to Win It (NBC)
2nd Season Premiere Monday, August 16, 9pm
America's newest favorite wacky game show is back for a second season this summer! Tune in to see what wacky new games will be played for a chance at the big money.

Scream Queens (VH1)
2nd Season Premiere Monday, August 9, 10pm
Contestants compete for a chance to scream their way into stardom in a blockbuster horror film. Can they stomach the fake blood and guts, the bugs and demons in this intense boot camp for horror actors?

The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family)
3rd Season Premiere Monday, June 7, 8pm
How does the Juergens' family cope with family life when mother (Anne/Molly Ringwald) and daughter (Amy/Shaileen Woodley) each have baby months apart? Can having a baby cause a guy (Ricky/Daren Kagasoff) to lose his bad-boy rep and become a reliable father figure? Is bad-girl Adrian (Francia Raisa) pregnant with another of Ricky's babies? Tune in to season 3 to find out; meanwhile get the low down on Secret Life here.

The Closer (TNT)
6th Season Premiere Monday, July 12, 9pm
Kyra Sedgwick will reprise her role as Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson who now heads a LAPD homicide unit.

Weeds (SHO)
6th Season Premiere Monday, August 16, 10pm
Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) found the grass isn't necessarily greener on the other side of the fence (or south of the border) in her search for true love. Is she really pregnant and whose baby is it?

TUESDAY 2010 SUMMER SEASON PREMIERES

America's Got Talent (NBC)
5th Season Premiere Tuesday, June 1, 8pm
The wacky people of summer are back on America's Got Talent. What talent could you show off for a chance at a million dollars? Howie Mandel joins Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne as AGT judges; hosted by Nick Cannon.

Hawthorne (TNT)
2nd Season Premiere Tuesday, June 22, 9pm
Christian Hawthorne (Jada Pinkett Smith) is the Chief Nursing Officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital; that is she was until she and several coworkers were transferred to the failing James River hospital. Once there Christina does what she does best - butts heads with those in authority, in this case it is James River's head ER nurse Gail Strummer (Vanessa Bell Caloway).

Hell's Kitchen (Fox)
7th Season Premiere Tuesday, June 1, 8pm
Talented chefs go head-to-head in a weekly completion led by Chef Gordon Ramsay for chance to become the head chef at high class restaurant.

The Little Couple (TLC)
3rd Season Premiere Tuesday, June 1, 10pm
Little people Bill Klein and Jen Arnold, both under 4' tall, are just starting their lives together.

One Big Happy Family (TLC)
2nd Season Premiere Tuesday, June 1, 9pm
Watch as the Cole family learns to deal with their obese household.

Rescue Me (FX)
6th Season Premiere Tuesday, June 29, 10pm
Follow the lives of the men crew of Truck 62 of the New York City firehouse.

Shaq vs (ABC)
2nd Season Premiere Tuesday, August 10, 9pm
Shaq takes on professional athletes in their own sport!

Warehouse 13 (Syfy)
2nd Season Premiere Tuesday, July 6, 9pm
Warehouse 13, like many other TV series, left viewers hanging at the end of season one. Is Artie really gone? (No way. He is one of the lead characters on the show.) What happened to Claudia and Mrs. Frederic's? Was that really Leena who helped MacPherson escape? With 13 new episodes of Warehouse 13 on the horizon this summer, maybe some of these questions will be answered. If you are new to Warehouse 13, read an overview of the show here and the finale recap of season one.

White Collar (USA)
2nd Season Premiere Tuesday, July 13, 9pm
Con artist Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) finds himself in an unlikely partnership with FBI Agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) after Burke finally nabs him after years of playing cat and mouse.

Wipeout (ABC)
3rd Season Premiere Tuesday, June 22; preview June 1, 8pm
America loves to watch others Wipeout on the big red balls! Contestants of all shapes and sizes tackle this extreme obstacle course for the chance to win $50,000.

WEDNESDAY 2010 SUMMER SEASON PREMIERES

Dark Blue (TNT)
Season Premiere Wednesday, August 4, 10pm
Carter Shaw (Dylan McDermott) leads an undercover team in tracking down LA's worst criminals. Carter's team includes Ty Curtis (Omari Hardwick), Dean Bendis (Logan Marshall-Green) and Jaimie Allen (Nicki Aycox).

Ghost Hunters Academy (Syfy)
2nd Season Premiere Wednesday, June 2, 9pm
So you want to be a ghost hunter? Get trained by the best paranormal investigators, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango by attending "Ghost Hunters Academy."

Ghost Hunters International (Syfy)
3rd Season Premiere Wednesday, July 14, 9pm
"Ghost Hunters International" is a spin-off of "Ghost Hunters" who take their paranormal investigations global. This season the paranormal investigators will visit Peru, Singapore, Sweden and the Philippines.

Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals (HBO)
6th Season Premiere Wednesday, August 11, 10pm
Go inside the locker room with the Cincinnati Bengals as they prepare for the upcoming football season.

I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant (TLC)
2nd Season Premiere Wednesday, June 9, 9pm
How could a woman possibly be pregnant and not know it? It's happened more than once. Find out how in "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant."

Pros vs Joes (Spike)
5th Season Premiere Wednesday, July 14, 10pm
Average Joes get to take on Pros. In a special competition this summer, Pros vs Pros will have NFL stars taking on NBA stars on the court.

Psych (USA)
5th Season Premiere Wednesday, July 21
Shawn and Gus (James Roday & Dule Hill) are back to help the Santa Barbara PD solve cases with Shawn's "Psychic" abilities, which are really his incredible powers of observation. Henry Spencer (Corbin Bernsen) is Shawn's father and the person who instilled the eye for detail into Shawn as a young child. Carlton Lassiter (Tim Omundson), or Lassie as he's affectionately called by Shawn, is the skeptical detective whom Shawn inevitably ends up help despite his protests.

Raising Sextuplets (WE)
2nd Season Premiere Thursday, June 24, 10pm
Raising six toddlers is not all sugar and spice for Jenny & Bryan Masche.

She's Got the Look (TV Land)
3rd Season Premiere Wednesday, August 25, 10pm
Model and TV reporter Roshumba Williams and TV personality Brooke Burke will join season 3 of "She's Got the Look."

So You Think You Can Dance (Fox)
7th Season Premiere Thursday, May 27, 8pm
Dancers show off their skills to become America's Favorite Dancer.

Toddlers & Tiaras (TLC)
3rd Season Premiere Wednesday, June 2, 10pm
Follow families on their quest for big titles, lots of cash, and, oh yes...the sparkly crown for their toddler.

Top Chef D.C. (Bravo)
7th Season Premiere Wednesday, June 16, 9pm
This season 17 cheftestants will be heading to our nation's capitol to face challenges such as taking over the concessions at the Washington National's stadium, go inside CIA headquarters and receive an out-of-this-world challenge from a NASA astronaut.

Tyler Perry's House of Payne (TBS)
6th Season Premiere Wednesday, June 2, 8pm
How does a man cope when his nephew and his kids move in with him putting 3 generations under one roof?

Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (TBS)
3rd Season Premiere Wednesday, June 2, 10pm
Leroy Brown misunderstands his father's dying wish and opens a home for seniors when all his dad really wanted was for him to take care of his beloved Thunderbird.

THURSDAY 2010 SUMMER SEASON PREMIERES

Burn Notice (USA)
4th Season Premiere Thursday, June 3, 9pm
Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) has been "Burned" by the spy business. The US government has frozen his bank accounts, and flagged him on every government agency list they can find. His new and personal mission is to find out who issued the burn notice on him.

Futurama (Comedy Central, Animated)
6th Season Premiere Thursday, June 24, 10pm
It's 1999 when pizza delivery guy Philip J. Fry is accidently flash-frozen and doesn't wake up until the 31st century. Together with his new robot buddy and love interest Leela, Fry travels the universe discovering strange alien life forms, freaky mutants and intergalactic conspiracies.

Jersey Shore (MTV)
2nd Season Premiere Thursday, July 29, 10pm
They say there's more to these 8 tan and buff young individuals (4 girls and 4 guys) than their hair gel. Seaside Heights, New Jersey is where they have decided to spend their summer. Tune in to see what they will get into this summer.

Penn & Teller: Bulls*** (SHO)
8th Season Premiere Thursday, June 10, 10pm
Master visual manipulators Penn & Teller are here to tell the truth behind the magic as well as other perplexing operations. The wool that has been pulled over the public's eyes by cult leaders, televangelists, zealots, miracle workers and more will be removed to reveal the real truth.

Royal Pains (USA)
2nd Season Premiere Thursday, June 3, 10pm
"Royal Pains" was a hit for the USA Network in its' premiere last summer. Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) has stalled his medical career in New York City. When his brother Evan (Paulo Costanzo) convinces Hank to take a weekend trip to the Hamptons it turns into a permanent place to live as Hank suddenly finds himself in the role of the local concierge doctor.

FRIDAY 2010 SUMMER SEASON PREMIERES

Eureka (Syfy)
4th Season Premiere Friday, July 9, 9pm
There's never a dull moment in Eureka! Last season left viewers asking a lot of questions. Will Zoe and Lucas attend Harvard together? Will Carter move to Australia to be with Tess? Or will Tess find another job in Eureka! in order to stay with Carter? Hopefully these questions and more will be answered in season 4 of Eureka! Before season 4 begins, refresh your memory of what last happened in Eureka by reading this recap of season 3.

Whale Wars (Animal Planet)
3rd Season Premiere Friday, June 4, 9pm
One brave group (the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) stands between a 750-ton whale killing machine and its prey.

SATURDAY 2010 SUMMER SEASON PREMIERES

Being Human (BBC America)
2nd Season Premiere Saturday, July 24, 10pm
A new season of "Being Human" follows the season finale of Dr. Who in July. Stay tuned after The Doctor to see how a werewolf (George/Russell Tovey), a vampire (Mitchell/Aidan Turner) and a ghost (Annie/Lenora Crichlow) try to lead normal lives despite their dark secrets.

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