Summer Show List and Dates

We are not including everything, because some stuff looks bad, but here are some important shows and dates that we will/might/could look forward too.

• So You Think You Can Dance - Tonight. This reality competition has been running for a long time, and it’s a favorite of Leeard’s
• Rookie Blue - Tonight. Leeard loves this cop drama, and its third season is just now starting. 
• Workaholics - May 29. This show is in its third season, and you can check out episodes on Instant Netflix. Three guy friends got this show based off of shorts they made about their partying, sad lives. It’s actually pretty funny, if for a very narrow crowd.
• Melissa & Joey - May 30. The second season of this show is (inexplicably) happening this summer. Leeard watches it (don't judge) for strictly nostalgic reasons.
• Breaking Pointe - May 31. This is a documentary series following a real-life ballet company. We love ballet, so this should be good. Maybe there will be some drama to go with it.
• Drop Dead Diva - June 3. Leeard watches this Lifetime body-swap show, which is starting its third season this year.
• The Glades - June 3. Yes, this is still on. And Leeard is still watching.
• Longmire - June 3. A new show that’s a modern take on Westerns and crime thrillers. It could be right up Ern’s alley (Deadwood, Justified, Breaking Bad), or it could be lame.
• Teen Wolf - June 3. Season two of this underrated MTV show begins. Leeard likes it and Ern is still considering catching up. Maybe.
• Pretty Little Liars - June 5. Season three starts and we wouldn’t miss it for the world. The previews look fantastic, and we expect nothing less from this wonderful show.
• Jane By Design - June 5. Ern to Leeard: Do you still watch this show? Leeard: Duh
• Rizzoli and Isles - June 5. This show is starting its third season. Leeard watches it, because she's a sucker for police procedurals. (Ern sidenote: Then watch Southland, dammit.)
• Franklin and Bash - June 5. Season two premiere. The first season was amusing, so we'll stick around for another.
• Necessary Roughness - June 6. We don't know how USA does it, but it's basically Leeard's beacon of hope during the summer months. This isn't the best show on the channel, but it's watchable and has Max Medina in it.
• Saving Hope - June 7. This new Canadian show reminds us of A Gifted Man. Hopefully it’s better and more entertaining.
• True Blood - June 10. Season five needs to be better than seasons three and four is all we are saying. This show has languished in the quagmire of suckitude for too long. Still, it’s probably the best show on during the summer until Breaking Bad starts, so we’ll watch it.
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager - June 11 (a week after its season 4 finale). This show is in its FIFTH season, if you can believe it.  One of us will hate this show forever.
• Bunheads - June 11. Amy Sherman Palladino reunites with Emily Gilmore and grabs Sutton Foster along the way to create this new show about a small-town ballet instructor. This. looks. Awesome.
• Suits - June 14. This show was a nice surprise for Leeard and we’re looking forward to its second season.
• Falling Skies - June 17. We remember watching a little of the first season and not thinking it was terrible, but it wasn’t something we just had to watch either. Whether we catch up and then tune into season two is going to depend greatly on how bored we are.
• Baby Daddy - June 20. Unless this gets rave reviews or you guys overwhelmingly recommend it, we will stick with Raising Hope rather than check out this new copy.
• Inside Men - June 20. This new show sounds cool. It’s from BBC America and follows three men planning a heist.
• The Newsroom - June 24. Aaron Sorkin and a decent cast on HBO? Sign us up for this new show.
• Wipeout - June 25. We’ll catch a little of season five, because this show will never stop being hilarious.
• Anger Management - June 28. Like a train wreck, we won’t be able to look away from Charlie Sheen’s new show…for a few episodes anyway.
• Awkward. - June 28. We’re glad this show got a second season and one of us still needs to catch up in time! Leeard is glad Ern is going to catch up, because this show (along with Teen Wolf) is a shockingly good summer show with a really great finale.
• Louie - June 28. We’ve heard so many wonderful things about this show that we may need to catch up in time for season two of this comedy as well.
• Brand X with Russell Brand - June 28. Maybe you, like just about everyone else, are sick of Russell Brand. Ern isn't yet, so she will check his talk show out from time-to-time.
• Weeds - July 1. We can’t believe this show is in its eighth season. It’s time to see Nancy’s chickens come home to roost. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: We think Esteban is still alive and that he shot Nancy.
• Episodes - July 1. Ern feels like she’s the only person enjoying this show, but screw all you guys. Season two is going to rock, because Matt is STILL on it.
• The Glee Project - June 2. We love this show more than the actual Glee. If you haven’t tuned in to the most interesting, least cruel reality show on TV, check it out. The kids last year were real, talented, polarizing, and entertaining. Ryan Murphy knows how not to crush their little spirits, and we are eager to see a new group get the opportunity to make Glee a little less lame (or be transformed into lameness by being on Glee. Cough. Damian. Cough.)
• Web Therapy - July 2. Lisa Kudrow is a genius and a second season of her celebrity-ridden, funny project is just what the summer needs.
• Dance Moms - June 5. Stop laughing. This returning reality show is funny and those kids can really dance. If only they would stop them from doing the oversexualized dance routines in two-pieces. They are like nine, seriously.
• Perception - July 9. This sounds terrible. It’s an FBI procedural with Rachel Leigh Cook, also starring Eric McCormack as a schizophrenic professor whose delusions help him solve crimes. Since it’s a new show, we may at least watch the pilot.
• White Collar - July 10. Is Matt Bomer still on the show? Yes? Good, then Leeard will tune in for the fourth season to lust over him. She would watch anything featuring that gorgeous man.
• Covert Affairs - July 10. Season three begins. Leeard enjoys it, mainly because this show fills a little of the Alias-sized hole in her heart.
• Damages - July 11. This will be the fifth and final season.
• Big Brother - July 12. Leeard loves this show and Ern has never seen it. Maybe this year….
• Political Animals - July 15. What intrigues us about this new show is its cast. We don’t think Sigourney Weaver, Carla Gugino, Ellen Burstyn, Adrian Pasdar and James Wolk would all have signed on for a lemon.
• Breaking Bad - July 15. The first half of season five reportedly begins right where season four left off. Ern is dying with anticipation. This show is one of the best ever created.
• Degrassi: The Next Generation - July 16. This is one of Leeard's favorite shows. It's definitely worth watching if you're a fan of teen drama and angst.
• Warehouse 13 - July 23. This Syfy show is starting its fourth season, and apparently it’s a hit. We’ve never seen it, but after watching what Syfy did with Being Human, we might check this out.
• Hell on Wheels - August 12. Season two starts, and Bohannon still hasn’t found those Union soldiers he hates. Ern will need something to distract her from waiting for bar exam results, so while this series isn’t as good as we hoped it would be, it’s still worth a look.
• Boss - August 17. Based on word of mouth, it’s time for us to give this show another chance. Season two, we will see you in a couple of months.
• Copper - August 19. This is BBC America’s first original series. It’s set in the 1860s and is about an Irish-American cop in the Five Points neighborhood. We sense awesomeness potential, believe it or not.

We will save this in the cloud link under "-dates" if you need to refer back throughout the summer.