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What to watch this summer: Here are the TV shows we're looking forward to
Clockwise from top left: Industry, My Lady Jane, The Bear, The Umbrella Academy, Clipped and House of the Dragon
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It looks like we are in for a very hot summer. If you find yourself stuck inside looking for your next show, our critics can help — they’ve scanned the broadcast and streaming horizons to find the shows you should check out in June, July and August. Take a look:
June
Clipped | Official Trailer | Laurence Fishburne, Jacki Weaver, Cleopatra Coleman, Ed O’Neill | FX
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Clipped, June 4, FX on Hulu
It sounds like a dated Saturday Night Live parody: a drama on the explosive impact of racist statements by then–Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, leaked to the public in 2014. But the elevated cast — Laurence Fishburne as Clippers coach Doc Rivers, Ed O’Neill as Sterling and LeVar Burton as himself — hints at more. Ultimately, the show explores class, race, sports and modern striving with surprising quality, including a meditation on how Black stars handle rage, which should get its own Emmy Award. — Eric Deggans
Fantasmas | Official Trailer | Max
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Fantasmas, June 7, Max
Created, written, starring and directed by Julio Torres (Problemista, Los Espookys), this six-episode comedy series offers a queer (in every sense of the word) perspective on life in NYC. The plot: Torres loses an earring and goes looking for it. The execution: high weirdness, exquisitely wrought, as the loose narrative wanders through the lives of random New Yorkers whom Torres stumbles across on his quest. Smart, funny and scathing when it wants to be, Fantasmas is bracingly and idiosyncratically itself. — Glen Weldon
Queenie | Official Trailer | Hulu
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Queenie, June 7, Hulu
There is something magnetic in watching a powerfully awkward protagonist stumble through life — especially Queenie, a 20-something Jamaican British woman caught between life as the daughter of immigrants and a painful breakup with a white boyfriend coddling vaguely racist relatives. Based on a bestselling novel, Hulu’s series offers a deeply revealing urban comedy centered on a strong Black woman in London struggling to process her past so she can build a better future. Like most of us. — Eric Deggans
Presumed Innocent — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
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Presumed Innocent, June 12, Apple TV+
Presumed Innocent, a bestselling legal thriller by Scott Turow, became a Harrison Ford movie in 1990. Now, more than 30 years later, Jake Gyllenhaal steps in to lead a new TV adaptation for Apple. Gyllenhaal plays Rusty Sabich, a lawyer whose obsessive affair with a woman in his office becomes an existential threat to him after she turns up murdered. His mortified wife, played here by Ruth Negga, is forced to face the possibility that he murdered his lover and the fact that he had one. — Linda Holmes
The Boys – Season 4 Official Trailer | Prime Video
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The Boys, Season 4, June 13, Prime Video
This cartoonishly violent and sexualized series — starring corporate-designed superheroes who are secretly psychopaths — evolved over three seasons from jabbing at the Marvel/DC comic industrial complex to satirizing media and MAGA-style conservatism. The new episodes amp up the dynamic, with a new hero who comes off like Lauren Boebert in a cape, supported by a propaganda-filled TV channel and a twisted Superman-like team leader whose detachment from humanity may be the world’s biggest threat. — Eric Deggans
House of the Dragon Season 2 | Official Trailer | Max
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House of the Dragon, Season 2, June 16, HBO, Max
Yeah, that first season was very uneven. But it did what it had to do, introducing us to the individual chess pieces and carefully arranging them on the sides they’re playing for: Team Black (Rhaenyra and her sweet-natured, albeit illegitimate sons) vs. Team Green (Alicent and her brood of monstrous sociopaths). But with the arrival of Season 2, the war known as the Dance of the Dragons is finally underway, and the whole dang chessboard is about to get engulfed in gouts of fiery breath. — Glen Weldon
2024 Tony Award Nominations Announcement
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The 77th Tony Awards, June 16, CBS, Paramount+
Always. Watch. The Tonys. Haven’t taken in any Broadway this year? Doesn’t matter. Where other award shows devolve into pompous self-congratulation, the Tonys broadcast is aimed squarely at us, as we sit on our couches at home. It’s a collective siren song sent out by thousands of professional, desperate, try-hard theater people with one objective: to get us to haul our butts to NYC to see a show. As such, it’s painstakingly engineered to entertain and enrapture. Always. Watch. The Tonys. — Glen Weldon
Orphan Black: Echoes | Official Trailer feat. Krysten Ritter | Premieres June 23 | AMC+
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Orphan Black: Echoes, June 23, AMC, AMC+, BBC America
Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter leads another Comic-Con-friendly franchise, a spinoff of Canadian science fiction series Orphan Black. Ritter is one of several women with missing memories who fear they are the product of a mysterious process wielded by a secretive organization. But don’t worry — it’s set nearly 40 years after the first show’s conclusion, and most viewers won’t need to know much about the mothership series to keep up with this tale of sisterhood, science and runaway progress. — Eric Deggans
My Lady Jane – Official Trailer | Prime Video
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My Lady Jane, June 27, Prime Video
A breezy, girlboss alt-history take on Lady Jane Grey, who, in our world, ruled England for nine days before being imprisoned and beheaded as a traitor. In the world of the series — as in the novels it is based on — Jane lives to fight, and frolic, another day. Are there schemes and plots and twists? You betcha. It’s the sort of quippy, performatively quirky show (this version of England is teeming with magical shape-changers) that goes down like an ice-cold Pimm’s cup on a hot summer afternoon. — Glen Weldon
The Bear | Season 3 | Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach | FX
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The Bear, Season 3, June 27, FX on Hulu
The Bear has already put out two exceptional seasons and is so strong now that even when Jeremy Allen White is on the sidelines, the rest of the cast hits home run after home run. As the show returns, Carmy (White) and Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) are opening their new restaurant, and Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) is fresh off some tremendous training in service. It’s not easy to keep churning out season after season that’s absolutely top quality, but if anybody can, it’s this team. — Linda Holmes
July
Rashida Jones in Sunny.
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Sunny, July 10, Apple TV+
Rashida Jones stars as Suzie, an American expat living in Kyoto, Japan, when her husband and son go missing following a plane crash. She’s gifted a domestic robot named Sunny (Joanna Sotomura), and the two form a bond as Suzie processes her loss. The series is based on Colin O’Sullivan’s novel The Dark Manual and looks like it has the potential to grapple with complicated questions around tech and human connection in our current era of AI paranoia. — Aisha Harris
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Tulsa King, Season 2, July 14, Paramount+
This show’s first-season success always seemed like a happy accident — an implausible dramedy about an exiled New York mobster rebuilding his life in Oklahoma, buoyed by star Sylvester Stallone’s watchable charm and unlikely comedic skill. The new season adds another watchable actor — Justified alum Neal McDonough — but also sees former showrunner Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos) step down. Let’s hope all that change adds up to more coherent stories the second time around. — Eric Deggans
Jon Stewart is back as one of the hosts of The Daily Show, which will be on the road at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.
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The Daily Show and The Late Show at the RNC and DNC, week of July 15 (RNC) and week of Aug. 19 (DNC), CBS, Paramount+, Comedy Central
Two of TV’s biggest political comedy shows gate-crash the electoral process. Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, reportedly with part-time host Jon Stewart, heads to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention and to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show goes live from New York for the RNC but broadcasts on the road for Democrats in Chi-Town. Pray to the comedy gods for a Colbert-Stewart tag-team ambush interview of Donald Trump and/or Joe Biden. — Eric Deggans
Those About To Die | Official Teaser | Peacock Original
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Those About to Die, July 18, Peacock
It’s tough to know why the streaming service known for Poker Face and Bel-Air greenlit an epic, $140 million limited series about corruption and violence in ancient Rome’s gladiator contests. But it has Anthony Hopkins as a Roman emperor, Independence Day director Roland Emmerich as a co-director and lots of allusions to entertaining the public with bloody combat. So let the games begin. — Eric Deggans
Natalie Portman (left) and Moses Ingram in Lady in the Lake.
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Lady in the Lake, July 19, Apple TV+
Not to be confused with the Raymond Chandler story of a similar name, this miniseries is based on a novel by Laura Lippman about a homemaker turned investigative reporter who becomes preoccupied with the separate murders of a white girl and a Black woman in 1960s Baltimore. The subject matter alone is intriguing, but a cast led by Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit) seals the deal. — Aisha Harris
Kenan Thompson and Kevin Hart team up for Olympic highlights
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Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson, July 26, NBC, Peacock
For those only marginally interested in the Olympics, Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg made must-see TV out of side-splitting Games commentary in 2021. NBCUniversal is amping up that strategy this year, pairing Hart with SNL‘s Kenan Thompson over an eight-episode Peacock series, while featuring SNL alum and superfan Leslie Jones in their coverage of the Paris events. I can’t wait to see some of comedy’s sharpest talents take on the biggest — and most rigid — sports establishment of them all. — Eric Deggans
August
The Umbrella Academy | Final Season | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix
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The Umbrella Academy, Season 4, Aug. 8, Netflix
All six episodes of this deeply, profoundly, ecstatically weird series’ fourth and final season drop on the same day. I’ll be there with a bowl of popcorn — and a phone open to the show’s wiki to help me reorient myself. Look, any series that features fractious superpowered siblings, branching timelines, a masked assassin played by Mary J. Blige and a kugelblitz (look it up) would be a lot to deal with, but The Umbrella Academy’s consistently wry, absurdist tone keeps it all grounded(ish). I’ll miss it. — Glen Weldon
Myha’la Herrold as Harper Stern in Industry.
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Industry, Season 3, Aug. 11, HBO, Max
A show with this much dry and confusing finance jargon shouldn’t be this gripping; it stands as a testament to the great cast (especially Myha’la Herrold and Ken Leung) and well-paced drama that it is. When the series last left off, some primary players were in shambles because of exposed secrets, and power structures were realigned yet again. Succession may be long over, but at least we’ve still got the chaotic ecosystem of London’s cutthroat Pierpoint investment bank. — Aisha Harris
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How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Andy Richter
Andy Richter has found his place.
The Chicago area native previously lived in New York — where he first found fame as Conan O’Brien’s sidekick on “Late Night” — before moving to Los Angeles in 2001. Three years ago, he moved to Pasadena. “Now that I live here, I would not live anywhere else,” he says.
There are some practical benefits to the city. “I am such a crabby old man now, but it’s like, there’s parking, you can park when we have to go out,” Richter says. “The notion of going to dinner in Santa Monica just feels like having nails shoved into my feet.”
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But he mostly appreciates that Pasadena is “a very diverse town and just a beautiful town,” he says.
For Richter, most Sundays revolve around his family. In 2023, the comedian and actor married creative executive Jennifer Herrera and adopted her young daughter, Cornelia. (He also has two children in their 20s, William and Mercy, from his previous marriage.)
Additionally, he’s been giving his body time to recover. Richter spent last fall training and competing on the 34th season of “Dancing With the Stars.” And though he had no prior dancing experience, he won over the show’s fan base with his kindness and dedication, making it to the competition’s ninth week.
He hosts the weekly show “The Three Questions” on O’Brien’s Team Coco podcast network and still appears in films and TV shows. “I’m just taking meetings and auditioning like every other late 50s white comedy guy in L.A., sitting around waiting for the phone to ring.”
This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for length and clarity.
7:30 a.m.: Early rising
It’s hard for me at this advanced age to sleep much past 7:30. I have a 5 1/2-year-old, and hopefully she’ll sleep in a little bit longer so my wife and I can talk and snuggle and look at our phones at opposite ends of the bed, like everybody.
Then the dogs need to be walked. I have two dogs: a 120-pound Great Pyrenees-Border Collie-German Shepherd mix, and then at the other end of the spectrum, a seven-pound poodle mix. We were a blended dog family. When my wife and I met, I had the big dog and she had a little dog. Her first dog actually has passed, but we like that dynamic. You get kind of the best of both worlds.
8 a.m.: Breakfast at a classic diner
Then it would probably be breakfast at Shakers, which is in South Pasadena. It’s one of our favorite places. We’re kind of regulars there, and my daughter loves it. It’s easy with a 5-year-old, you’ve got to do what they want. They’re terrorists that way, especially when it comes to cuisine.
I’ve lived in Pasadena for about three years now, but I have been going to Shakers for a long time because I have a database of all the best diners in the Los Angeles metropolitan area committed to memory. There’s just something about the continuity of them that makes me feel like the world isn’t on fire. And because of L.A.’s moderate climate, the ones here stay the way they are; whereas if you get 18 feet of winter snow, you tend to wear down the diner floor, seats, everything.
So there’s a lot of really great old places that stay the same. And then there are tragic losses. There’s been some noise that Shakers is going to turn into some kind of condo development. I think that people would probably riot. They would be elderly people rioting, but they would still riot.
11 a.m.: Sandy paws
My in-laws live down in Long Beach, so after breakfast we might take the dogs down to Long Beach. There’s this dog beach there, Rosie’s Beach. I have never seen a fight there between dogs. They’re all just so happy to be out and off-leash, with an ocean and sand right there. You get a contact high from the canine joy.
1 p.m.: Lunch in Belmont Shore
That would take us to lunchtime and we’ll go somewhere down there. There’s this place, L’Antica Pizzeria Da Michele, in Belmont Shore. It’s fantastic for some pizza with grandma and grandpa. It’s originally from Naples. There’s also one in Hollywood where Cafe Des Artistes used to be on that weird little side street.
4 p.m.: Sunset at the gardens
We’d take grandma and grandpa home, drop the dogs off. We’d go to the Huntington and stay a couple of hours until sunset. The Japanese garden is pretty mind-blowing. You feel like you’re on the set of “Shogun.”
The main thing that I love about it is the changing of ecospheres as you walk through it. Living in the area, I drive by it a thousand times and then I remember, “Oh yeah, there’s a rainforest in here. There’s thick stands of bamboo forest that look like Vietnam.” It’s beautiful. With all three of my kids, I have spent a lot of time there.
6:30 p.m.: Mall of America
After sundown, we will go to what seems to be the only thriving mall in America — [the Shops at] Santa Anita. We are suckers for Din Tai Fung. My 24-year-old son, who’s kind of a food snob, is like, “There’s a hundred places that are better and cheaper within five minutes of there in the San Gabriel Valley.” And we’re like, “Yeah, but this is at the mall.” It’s really easy. Also, my wife is a vegetarian, and a lot of the more authentic places, there’s pork in the air. It’s really hard to find vegetarian stuff.
We have a whole system with Din Tai Fung now, which is logging in on the wait list while we’re still on the highway, or ordering takeout. There’s plenty of places in the mall with tables, you can just sit down and have your own little feast there.
There’s also a Dave & Buster’s. If you want sensory overload, you can go in there and get a big, big booze drink while you’re playing Skee-Ball with your kid.
9 p.m.: Head to bed ASAP
I am very lucky in that I’m a very good sleeper and the few times in my life when I do experience insomnia, it’s infuriating to me because I am spoiled, basically. When you’ve got a 5 1/2-year-old, there’s no real wind down. It’s just negotiations to get her into bed and to sleep as quickly as possible, so we can all pass out.
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Bill Cosby Rape Accuser Donna Motsinger Says He Won’t Testify At Trial
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Rape Accuser Says Cosby Won’t Take Stand At Trial
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Bill Cosby‘s rape accuser Donna Motsinger says the TV star can’t be bothered to show up to court for a trial in a lawsuit she filed against him.
According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ. Motsinger says Bill will not testify in court … she claims it’s “because he does not care to appear.”
Motsinger says Bill won’t show his face at the trial either … and the only time the jury will hear from him will be a previously taped deposition.
As we previously reported, Motsinger claims Bill drugged and raped her in 1972. In the case, Bill admitted during a deposition that he obtained a recreational prescription for Quaaludes that he secured from a gynecologist at a poker game.
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Bill also said he planned to use the pills to give to women in the hopes of having sex with them.
Motsinger alleged Bill gave her a pill that she thought was aspirin. She claimed she felt off after taking it and said she woke up the next day in her bed with only her underwear on.
Here, it sounds like Motsinger wants to play the deposition for the jury.
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