TVx3 E326: Summer TV Preview 2016

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On episode 326, Amrie (@mytakeontv), Jason (@theTVaholic) are joined by Kyle (@kyool) from NoReruns.net (@NoReruns) to talk some cancelation and renewal news and then preview the 2016 Summer TV Schedule followed by a discussion of the first season finale of The Detour and the second season premiere of UnREAL. Plus, some TV recommendations at the end. (Start times of each segment)

News (00:01:04)

We talked about the following five TV news stories:

• Good Witch Renewed For Third Season By Hallmark Channel
• Deadbeat Canceled By Hulu After 3 Seasons
• UnREAL Renewed For Season 3 By Lifetime
• Cleverman Renewed For Season 2 By SundanceTV & Oz's ABC
• George Lopez Comedy Renewed For Second Season By TV Land

Summer TV Preview 2016 (00:03:18)

We went over the 2016 Summer TV Schedule, Sunday through Saturday, and talked about what is returning and when in June, July and August. Then we talked a bit about which shows we are most looking forward to watching for each day and the ones we had a chance to watch ahead of time with a focus on the shows mentioned below.

• Sunday – Returning shows FX's The Strain and TNT's The Last Ship and new shows CMT’s Still the King, HBO's Vice Principals and Showtime's Roadies. (00:04:04)
• Monday – Returning shows FOX's So You Think You Can Dance, Lifetime's Devious Maids and UnREAL and new shows Freeform's Guilt, tbs' Angie Tribeca and TNT's Rizzoli & Isles. (00:11:52)
• Tuesday – Returning shows CBS' Zoo and Hulu's Casual and new shows ABC's Uncle Buck, AMC's Feed the Beast, Freeform's Dead of Summer, tbs' Wrecked and TNT's Animal Kingdom. (00:25:34)
• Wednesday – Returning shows DirecTV's Kingdom, FOX's Wayward Pines and USA Network's Mr. Robot and Suits and new shows CBS' American Gothic and SundanceTV's Cleverman. (00:44:21)
• Thursday – Returning shows The CW's Beauty and the Beast, FX's Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll and NBC's Aquarius and new shows BBC America's Thirteen and USA Network's Queen of the South. (00:55:04)
• Friday – Returning shows Netflix's Marco Polo and Orange Is the New Black and Syfy's Dark Matter and Killjoys and new shows Cinemax's Outcast and Netflix's Stranger Things. (01:01:30)
• Saturday – Returning show AMC's Hell on Wheels. (01:08:58)

Get the Printable Summer TV Schedules over at TVaholic.com.

Primetime (01:11:00)

We used the specific episodes listed below as a jumping off point to discuss the following two TV shows:

• The Detour – S.1 Ep.9, “The Track,” & Ep.10,”The Beach” (Season Finale) (01:11:11)
• UnREAL – S.2 Ep.1, “War” (Season Premiere) (01:16:57)

TV Recommendations (01:24:26)

• Amrie recommended Hulu's Casual, which has its second season premiere on Tuesday, June 7th.
• Jason and Kyle recommended Syfy's Dark Matter – Official Site – Watch episodes via Amazon Video, Blu-ray, DVD, iTunes or Netflix.

What shows are you most looking forward to for Summer 2016? Do you enjoy the first season of tbs' The Detour as we did? Have you been watching Lifetime's UnREAL? Did you enjoy this week's episode? Let us know in the comments, send us an eMail, connect via Twitter @TVtimesThree, or Like us on Facebook.