It’s not exactly Christmas in July but it’s close.
So much new and returning TV will be coming your way this month that we do feel like celebrating. Like the rest of the marshmallows, we are most excited about the return of Veronica Mars on Hulu on July 26. We are cautiously optimistic that Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black can become can’t miss TV again when it comes back for its seventh and final season also on July 26 (don’t make any plans for that day—TV is going to keep you busy.) We will be all over the Suits spin-off Pearson when it hits USA on July 17 and there’s no way we’d miss the Stranger Things kids when they come back on July 4 (who needs fireworks when you have Netflix?). Oh and there will be tears when the CW’s Jane the Virgin bids farewell on July 31.
But, as always, we don’t want you to miss anything. So here are the five new shows to also keep an eye out for in July.
1. The Disappearance
Executive Producers: Normand Daneau, Genevieve Simard, Jean-Marc Casanova, JoAnn Alfano and Kristen Del Pero
Stars: Peter Coyote, Camille Sullivan, and Aden Young
Premiere Date: July 9 at 10 p.m. on WGN America
Aden Young, so compelling and terrific in Rectify, chose this as one of his first projects after the Peabody Award winning series ended. In The Disappearance, Young plays Luke Sullivan the father of Anthony (Michael Riendau), a boy who goes missing during his tenth birthday party. The six-episode series follows Luke, his wife Helen (Camille Sullivan) and Anthony’s grandfather Henry (Peter Coyote) as they try to unravel what happened to Anthony and what part long held family secrets might have played.
2. Love Island
Executive Producers: David George, Adam Sher, David Eilenberg, Simon Thomas, and Mandy Morris
Stars: Arielle Vandenberg and some lucky (or unlucky depending on your perspective) reality contestants
Premiere Date: July 9 at 8 p.m. on CBS
The good news? You’ll get to stay at a posh villa in Fiji. The bad news? Participation in this reality series that has been a huge hit in Britain will do a number on your self-esteem. Somehow people still haven’t learned that perhaps (just perhaps) reality TV isn’t the place to find the love of your life. Hope (and the desire for fame) spring eternal. In Love Island, participants must couple up or risk being sent home and somehow the viewing audience gets to participate in all the shenanigans. It’s bound to be an uncomfortable but highly watchable disaster.
3. South Side
Executive Producers: Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle and Michael Blieden Stars: Sultan Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle, Sultan Salahuddin and Chandra Russell
Premiere Date: July 24 at 10:30 p.m. on Comedy Central
