Summer TV Preview: 15 New Shows to Watch

For children, summer always seems full of endless possibility. The breaks from school, the family trips, the time spent at camp or reading books and watching movies.

These days, the closest thing we have is summer entertainment — the cultural distraction from otherwise having fewer breaks, shifting travel (wedding season!), and maybe not as many of those life-changing adventures that a lot of summertime stories seem to be based on. Summer movies offer a chance to go out and cool down while summer TV is the best way to wind down and stay in after days of work, travel, and relentless heat.

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Along with detailed monthly previews (here’s May), IndieWire pulled together a summer TV preview with 15 brand-new shows premiering over the next couple months. Some are pulled from existing material — Star Wars, “Sausage Party,” novels, a true story about the L.A. Clippers — while others defy categorization (Welcome back, Julio Torres). Some we fell for in just a sentence; Jake Gyllenhaal plays a prosecutor suspected of murder, Taika Waititi tackles Monty Python, rich people try to outlive a plague (in the 14th century). Some of them don’t even have official release dates — but we’re hoping the wait isn’t too long, because they sound good enough to binge right now.

Here are 15 new TV shows to watch in summer 2024.

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