6 summer shows to watch while your favorites go on hiatus
If you like “Empire”…you’ll love “Ballers”
(Sunday, June 21, 10 p.m., HBO)Dwayne Johnson, who just conquered the box office with “San Andreas,” now sets his sights on cable TV, where he will play a former football star who reinvents himself as a financial manager for athletes.
Set in a world of yachts, parties and an endless supply of scantily clad girls, it should satisfy those longing for the frothy, glitzy excess of Cookie and Lucious.
If you like “Mad Men”…you’ll love “The Astronaut Wives Club”
(Thursday, June 18, 8 p.m., ABC)Satisfy your hunger for midcentury American drama with this look at the 1960s space race that focuses on the women behind the astronauts.
Based on the nonfiction book by Lily Koppel and with a comely cast that includes JoAnna Garcia Swisher (“Reba”) and Yvonne Strahovski (“Dexter”), it’s packed with colorful period fashions and history for those still mourning the end of Don Draper and Co.
If you like “Broad City”…you’ll love “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp”
(Friday, July 31, Netflix)Missing Abbi and Ilana’s antics? Head to camp — Camp Firewood, that is.
The ridiculous good times and the all-star cast — including Elizabeth Banks, Bradley Cooper, Janeane Garofalo, Christopher Meloni, Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler (who happens to be a “Broad City” executive producer) — from the 2001 movie are back.
The eight-episode series promises to be hilarious, whether or not you’re smoking any contraband in your cabin.
If you like “Orphan Black”…you’ll love “Sense8″
(Now streaming, Netflix)There are just two episodes of “Orphan Black” left, but this ambitious series from Larry and Lana Wachowski, who gave us “The Matrix” and “Cloud Atlas,” should fill the trippy sci-fi void.
The thriller focuses on eight people around the world who become suddenly and mysteriously connected.
“You have seven other selves now,” star Naveen Andrews says ominously in the trailer. “You can access each other’s knowledge, language, skills.”
Sarah from “Orphan Black” could probably relate.
If you like “Homeland”…you’ll love “The Brink”
(Sunday, June 21, 10:30 p.m., HBO)If “Homeland” had a sense of humor, it might be “The Brink,” a fast-paced comedy about a geopolitical crisis involving a US secretary of state with a taste for light bondage (Tim Robbins, in a nod to his role as Nuke LaLoosh in “Bull Durham”).
Jack Black- — as an unpopular peon at the US Embassy in Pakistan willing to pay top dollar for good ganja — and Pablo Schreiber -— as a drug-dealing Navy fighter pilot — also star.
These three guys are instant comedic fools — until they get their wake-up call that the world is about to fall apart.
The show’s two primary locations, Islamabad and Washington, DC, will feel familiar to “Homeland” fans, as will the number of high-level diplomatic meetings in conference rooms.
If you like “Secrets and Lies”…you’ll love “The Whispers”
(Monday, 10 p.m., ABC)Looking for another suburban mystery? In this new show, produced by Steven Spielberg, clueless parents initially don’t think twice when their kids mention their new imaginary friend, Drill, and the games he wants to play with them.
But when said games result in an “accident,” FBI child specialist Claire Bennigan (Lily Rabe) thinks it’s worth looking into, and Drill turns out to be neither imaginary nor friendly.
Kristen Connolly (“House of Cards”) and Milo Ventimiglia (“Heroes”) co-star.
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