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Blue Skies Ahead

Abby’s got a new attitude—and a fun new love interest on the horizon!—when Chesapeake Shores returns

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Simone Biles leads Team USA to Tokyo—finally—for the Summer Olympics. Here’s your guide to the most compelling competitors going for gold in your favorite sports

Man vs. History

History buffs and Mythbusters alike will love this new series in which professional storyteller Bil Lepp (below) hunts down the truth behind various American legends. The show smartly kicks off with a Wild West outlaw who’s a household name: Billy the Kid.

The Beast Must Die

REVENGE IS A dish best served with a slow burn in a six-part melodrama that puts two broken souls on a search for answers on the scenic Isle of Wight.

Taxi

IF YOU ASKED Marilu Henner for her happiest days on Taxi, she’d likely say Tuesday, September 12, 1978, through Wednesday, June 15, 1983. That’s not the actress’ famous total recall talking but the premiere and finale dates for the Emmy-winning comedy set at Manhattan’s (fictional) Sunshine Cab. Every day on the set was “magical,” says Henner, who played Elaine Nardo, a divorced mom with artsy ambitions and the garage’s only female driver.

Unforgotten

THE PAST UP- ENDS the present whenever cold-case detectives Cassie Stuart (the intensely watchable Nicola Walker) and Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) dig into long-buried crimes in this compelling Masterpiece Mystery! drama, which hits an emotional peak in Season 4.

Schmigadoon!

A loving send-up of the musical’s golden age hits all the right notes

MEET THE COUPLES - Married at First Sight

The Lone Star State gets a little less lonely as Season 13 of the arranged-nuptials sensation heads to Houston. And according to exec producer Montré Burton, the show is “bringing more diversity than ever,” including its first Asian American couple, Bao and Johnny (above), and a cast mostly in their thirties instead of twenties. Here, we introduce the twosomes (matched by Married’s stable of experts) who will permanently altar their future.

Gossip Girl

IF I WERE to text my reaction to sitting through four overlong episodes (50-plus minutes) of this toxic reboot about the over-privileged youth of New York’s Upper East Side, all you’d see would be a series of barf emojis.

Judge Judy

Judith Sheindlin—aka Judge Judy, the sharp-tongued wit we know, love, and fear—didn’t invent the unscripted court show genre. She revolutionized it. Before her series debuted in 1996 (above), one of the only other shows of its kind, The People’s Court, let the squabbling plaintiffs and defendants take the spotlight, while Joseph Wapner presided with a staid style.

Darcey and Stacey

Wonder twin powers, reactivate! Bold, blonde, funny forty-something moms Darcey and Stacey Silva (above, from left)—who first mesmerized us in 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days—are back for Season 2 of their popular spinoff with more emotional turmoil, personal triumph and plastic surgery.

Big Brother

THREE REASONS TO WATCH

Evil

You’ll Scream! You’ll Laugh!

SurrealEstate

SERIES PREMIERE Friday, July 16, 10/9c, Syfy

The Beast Must Die

SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, AMC

Gunpowder Milkshake

Your guide to the very best streaming available now

The White Lotus

The suite life sours in a vacation resort that’s far from Fantasy Island

Naomi Osaka

TUESDAY, JULY 13

History of the Sitcom

Your day-by-day guide to the week’s best television

THE CON IS BACK ON

Noah Wyle joins the den of outlaw do-gooders who reteam to right wrongs on an updated Leverage

Wellington Paranormal

You’ll Scream! You’ll Laugh!

POSTAPOCALYPTIC Y: THELAST MAN

What’s a rudderless young guy to do when he and his pet monkey are suddenly the only mammals with Y chromosomes left on Earth? That’s the problem for Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer) in Y: The Last Man, based on Brian K. Vaughan’s celebrated comics.

TIME TRAVEL: THE TOMORROW WAR

In Prime Video’s flashy new alien-invasion movie, Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy’s Star-Lord) is saving the world— again.

FANTASY ADVENTURE: SWEET TOOTH

Amid a global pandemic that is decimating humankind, a new form of life emerges when women mysteriously begin giving birth to babies with animalistic features.

New Amsterdam: SEASON FINALE 10/9c, NBC

Instead of opting for a typically “flashy” finale, executive producer-director Peter Horton says, the medical drama looked within, creating an episode “all about our characters, making [our fans] fall in love with them again.”

LOKI

In Disney+’s wildest arvel series, Thor’s brother, trickster god Loki, plays hero (maybe)

Blindspotting: SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, Starz

Ashley, played by the effortlessly appealing Jasmine Cephas Jones, is having one unhappy new year: Her partner of 12 years, Miles (Rafael Casal), gets arrested for drug possession, wrecking their almost middle-class life in Oakland.

The Cube: SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, TBS

NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade (above) pivots from boxing out players to boxing them in with this new game show.

Holey Moley 3D in 2D: SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, ABC

Breaking news from the world of extreme mini golf: Uranus, voted fan-favorite hole on this competition series’ outrageous course, will not return this summer.

The Republic of Sarah: SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, The CW

The sleepy New England town of Greylock, awash in autumn rain and color, wants to become its own country to stop a soul-sucking mining corporation from bulldozing it.