The New York Times Mike Hale lists 34 TV shows to look out for this summer.

LONGMIRE (A&E Mondays ) This dark modern western starring Robert Taylor as a burned-out Wyoming sheriff was one of last summer’s pleasant surprises. As Season 2 starts, Walt Longmire and his combative deputy, Vic Moretti (Katee Sackhoff), are as amusingly irritated with each other as ever.

PRISONERS OF WAR (Hulu -Tuesdays ) The second season of the Israeli series that inspired one of the best shows on American TV, “Homeland,” becomes available online.

WIZARDS VS. ALIENS (the Hub June 1) Russell T Davies, the driving force behind the modern “Doctor Who,” is a creator of this children’s series about two 16-year-old British boys — one a wizard — battling aliens who look like a cross between Klingons and members of the “Cats” chorus.

THE KILLING (AMC June 2) A co-production deal with Netflix saved the show from cancellation, and so Season 3 begins a year after the conclusion of the Rosie Larsen case, with the former detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) working on a ferry dock. Among the central cast, only Ms. Enos and Joel Kinnaman, as Linden’s once and future partner, Holder, return.

THE FOSTERS (ABC Family June 3) The producing team behind the flight-attendant reality series “Fly Girls” turns to fiction with this new teenage drama about lesbian moms raising a family of foster and biological children. Teri Polo and Sherri Saum play the mothers; Jennifer Lopez is an executive producer.

MISTRESSES (ABC, , June 3) In this prime-time soap, based on a British series that ran from 2008 to 2010, extramarital sex is the premise rather than a bonus. Alyssa Milano, Yunjin Kim (of “Lost”), Rochelle Aytes and Jes Macallan are the quartet of friends in this third- or fourth-generation descendant of “Sex and the City.”

BURN NOTICE (USA, June 6) Season 7 will be a wrap for this long-running (by cable standards) spy dramedy.

GRACELAND (USA, June 6) This heavily hyped new series is a crime show that combines “The Real World” (seven strangers in a design-catalog beach house) with “Point Break” (uptight rookie and Zen-master veteran sharing surfing lessons and bonfires). Created by Jeff Eastin, creator of USA’s “White Collar,” it’s based on a sand grain of a true story about undercover agents from different federal agencies sharing a Southern California house.

PRIMEVAL: NEW WORLD (Syfy, June 8) This Canadian spinoff of the British series “Primeval” moves the angry-time-traveling-dinosaur action from England to Vancouver, British Columbia, and has an almost entirely new cast, led by Niall Matter, who played the bad boy Zane on Syfy’s “Eureka.”

SAM & CAT (Nickelodeon, June 8) Sam Puckett (Jennette McCurdy) of “iCarly” and Cat Valentine (Ariana Grande) of “Victorious” get their own show in this double spinoff. The preternaturally mature Sam and the ditsy Cat will meet, become friends and start a baby-sitting service.

KING & MAXWELL (TNT, June 10) Jon Tenney, so dapper as an F.B.I. agent in TNT’s “Closer” and “Major Crimes,” goes scruffy to play a former Secret Service agent turned Washington-based private eye on the channel’s latest lightweight summer crime series (not to be confused with “Rizzoli & Isles”). Rebecca Romijn plays his partner-antagonist.

PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER (HBO, June 10) HBO’s summer documentary series begins with Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s film about the Russian punk band and cause célèbre, which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

INSPECTOR LEWIS (PBS, June 16) With 27 feature-length episodes, Lewis (Kevin Whately) is closing in on his former guv’nor in the Thames Valley police, Inspector Morse, who logged 33. But this summer’s three cases, which lead off the “Masterpiece Mystery!” season, may be Lewis’s last (signals are mixed). “Mystery!” will continue with the Morse prequel “Endeavour,” a new adaptation of “The Lady Vanishes” and the long-awaited seventh season of “Foyle’s War.”
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TRUE BLOOD (HBO, June 16) The “Peyton Place” of erotic supernatural fantasies enters its first season without the daily attention of its creator, Alan Ball, who stepped down as showrunner after Season 5.

FUTURAMA (Comedy Central, June 19) This venerable (it made its debut in 1999) and reliably funny animated sitcom begins its final season, having been canceled for the second time.

CROSSING LINES (NBC, June 23) The title of this crime drama is doubly apt: The show is about a team of globe-trotting investigators at the International Criminal Court, and it’s an American-German-French production. Donald Sutherland and William Fichtner star.

DEVIOUS MAIDS (Lifetime, June 23) Last year ABC passed on this show, technically a spinoff of “Desperate Housewives,” but Lifetime stepped in with a 13-episode order. Edy Ganem, Ana Ortiz, Dania Ramírez, Judy Reyes and Roselyn Sánchez play an unusually attractive group of Beverly Hills domestics.

UNDER THE DOME (CBS, June 24) A town in Maine finds itself cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible dome, which is apparently a bad thing, in this mini-series based on a Stephen King novel.

DEXTER (Showtime, June 30) Michael C. Hall’s honorable serial killer reaches the end of the line — one way or another — as this Showtime bellwether enters its eighth and final season.

RAY DONOVAN (Showtime, June 30) Showtime’s new Emmy-bait drama feels a lot like “The Sopranos” on Sunset Boulevard: a Hollywood fixer who lives in suburban Calabasas makes deals and dispenses violence while coping with his highly strung wife, young children, troubled brothers and menacing gangster father. Liev Schreiber leads an impressive cast that includes Jon Voight, Elliott Gould, Katherine Moennig and Eddie Marsan. The pilot telegraphs the ambitions of the show’s creator, Ann Biderman (“Southland”), with a scene that pays homage to a Gould film that is one of the classics of Southern California noir, Robert Altman’s “Long Goodbye.”

MOONE BOY (Hulu, July 10) Chris O’Dowd of “Bridesmaids” and “Family Tree” created this series for the British network Sky; it will have its American premiere online at Hulu. Mr. O’Dowd plays a young Irish boy’s imaginary friend.

CAMP (NBC, July 10) Rachel Griffiths (“Brothers and Sisters,” “Six Feet Under”) plays a summer camp director in this new drama, an American production filmed in Australia.

THE BRIDGE (FX, July 10) The latest dark Nordic thriller adaptation, this serial-killer tale shifts the action from the Denmark-Sweden frontier to the United States-Mexico border. Diane Kruger and Demián Bichir play the lead cops.

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (Netflix, July 11) Jenji Kohan, creator of “Weeds,” hops on the Netflix bandwagon with a dark comedy about a Brooklyn woman (Taylor Schilling, of NBC’s “Mercy”) sentenced to a year in federal prison. The series is based on the memoir of the same title by Piper Kerman.

BEING HUMAN (BBC America, July 13) With its original ghost, werewolf and vampire gone, this story of supernatural friendship returns for a final season with several new cast members. (Lenora Crichlow, who played Annie the ghost, can be seen on the new ABC sitcom “Back in the Game” this fall.)

THE NEWSROOM (HBO, July 14) Aaron Sorkin’s much maligned drama about romance and idealism in a television newsroom returns for a second season.

HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO (TLC, July 17) Again.

TEEN BEACH MOVIE (Disney, July 19) Disney’s latest candidate for movie-musical franchisehood zaps two teenagers (Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell) into an alternate dimension where they’re inside a beach party movie that looks a lot like “Grease.”

DEBBIE MACOMBER’S CEDAR COVE (Hallmark, July 20) The channel’s first original scripted series, based on one of Ms. Macomber’s series of novels, stars Andie MacDowell as a small-town judge.

UNFORGETTABLE (CBS, July 28) Canceled and then resuscitated, this murder mystery series rejoins CBS’s schedule more than 14 months after its first season ended. It’s a good thing its heroine, Carrie Wells (Poppy Montgomery), has perfect memory.

BROADCHURCH (BBC America, Aug. 7) This contemporary murder mystery set in a seaside resort was a hit in Britain, where its eight-episode first season averaged more than nine million total viewers. David Tennant (“Doctor Who”) stars as a senior detective.

THE WHITE QUEEN (Starz, Aug. 10) The summer is low on new costume dramas, increasingly a staple feature of the TV schedule, but Starz is offering this 10-part British production set during the Wars of the Roses and based on historical novels by Philippa Gregory. James Frain plays Warwick, the Kingmaker, and Rebecca Ferguson, Amanda Hale and Faye Marsay play noblewomen fighting for power.

BREAKING BAD (AMC, Aug. 11) Walter White’s ruthless and improbable progress from high school chemistry teacher to international drug lord reaches its final eight episodes.

LOW WINTER SUN (AMC, Aug. 11) The eighth drama of AMC’s modern period (“Mad Men” and after) is a dirty-cops story based on a seven-year-old British mini-series.