THE LAZARUS PROJECT

Sundays beginning June 4 on TNT NEW SERIES!

It’s like Groundhog Day all over again in this gripping, heartbreaking, time-traveling drama. Paapa Essiedu, from HBO’s I May Destroy You, stars as George, an average guy who finds himself in an extraordinary situation when he starts to relive the same few weeks over and over again.

George learns he’s a “time jumper” and gets recruited by The Lazarus Project, a top-secret multinational organization dedicated to preventing and undoing mass extinction events through diplomatic or scientific means. In other words, their job is to save the world from destroying itself at all costs — even if it means going back in time and changing things to do so.

“We shot this show during peak lockdown back in January 2021, so it was like no one was allowed to leave their house, a real sense of existential threat in the world,” Essiedu tells us. “This show was initially called Extinction, so it felt apt to be jumping headfirst into it. I fell in love with this script from the first page, from the first episode. … The writer, Joe Barton, has a very unique, idiosyncratic, genre-spanning and genre-jumping voice.”

While The Lazarus Project is willing to reset the clock after events like the dropping of an atomic bomb, civil wars and worldwide viruses, it refuses to help George when things get personal.

“You’ve got to remember that this is a super-normal dude. He’s an app developer who finds himself in a very extraordinary situation. He’s riding high off of [being recruited into this group], until something happens that takes something away from him, that personally affects him. And he’s put in a position of, basically, do you do your job, or do you look after your personal life?

“When you’re forced to choose between the people that you love and your sense of responsibility for the world at large, it’s super, super hard,” Essiedu concludes. “We see George go on a roller-coaster journey of chaos until we finally get an answer to on what side of the line he lies.”

Put your seat belts on, and remember, turning back time is not always a good thing! — Barb Oates

The Bachelorette

Mondays beginning June 26 on ABC SEASON PREMIERE!

Fan favorite Charity Lawson from Season 27 of The Bachelor returns to reality TV this summer in Season 20 of The Bachelorette, which will make its debut during a new time slot. Lawson is a family therapist from Columbus, Georgia. Although she did not get a ring from Zach Shallcross during her season on The Bachelor, in The Bachelor: The Women Tell All special, host Jesse Palmer surprised her backstage with the news that she would soon be the new Bachelorette under the guise that they were shooting a promotional game segment.

“I’ve waited forever to find the love of my life, and it blows my mind that I could meet my person and be engaged and literally have my happily ever after,” she explained during an interview. “I’m feeling so many emotions. I’m so happy, so grateful, and I am so ready to get engaged to the right person.” We’ll keep our fingers crossed!

8superfan

Fridays beginning June 9 on CBS NEW SERIES!

Six music greats bestow the honor of Superfan to their most fervent follower in this one-hour unscripted series. Contestants square off in multiple rounds to prove they’re the artist’s most devoted stan and win a once-in-a-lifetime prize. Former NFL wide receiver Nate Burleson and Entertainment Tonight correspondent Keltie Knight serve as hosts. “You will dance, laugh and even cry by the end of each episode,” Burleson says. “But more importantly, you’ll walk away a superfan yourself.” The Superfan artist lineup features:

LL Cool J (June 9)

Shania Twain (June 16)

Gloria Estefan (June 23)

Little Big Town (June 30)

Pitbull (July 7)

Kelsea Ballerini (July 14)

Extraordinary Birder With Christian Cooper

Saturdays beginning June 17 on NAT GEO WILD NEW SERIES!

Following a special preview back in March, Extraordinary Birder premieres in its Saturday night time slot on Nat Geo Wild this month. Lifelong birder Christian Cooper — who was president of the Harvard Ornithological Club during his college days and is currently vice president of New York City Audubon — hosts and is a consulting producer on this series in which he takes viewers into the wild, wonderful and unpredictable world of birds. Whether navigating rocky lava terrain in Hawaii to spy elusive honeycreepers, trekking into rainforests in Puerto Rico seeking parrots or scaling a bridge in Manhattan to glimpse a peregrine falcon, Cooper does whatever it takes to learn about these incredible feathered creatures and show us their world in the sky above.

HAILEY’S ON IT!

Thursdays beginning June 8 on DISNEY CHANNEL NEW SERIES!

Being a teenager is tough enough without having the fate of humankind on your shoulders. This new animated series follows the adventures of Hailey (voice of Moana’s Auli‘i Cravalho), who

Save My Skin

gets some shocking news from a time traveler. Hailey is told that she has to complete every task in her My Big List of Things I’m Totally Gonna Do notebook in order to prevent the apocalypse. With her best bud, Scott (Manny Jacinto), and the future’s most advanced artificial intelligence, Beta (Gary Anthony Williams) — who’s been hard-wired into a cuddly animatronic teddy bear — Hailey must conquer her fears in order to save the future.

Wednesdays beginning June 14 on TLC SEASON PREMIERE!

There’s a new pimple popper on TLC. Fans of unsightly skin diseases and life-changing procedures will welcome a trip overseas to follow London dermatologist Dr. Emma Craythorne. Dr. Emma helps patients with extreme skin ailments that range from uncontrollable psoriasis, disfiguring keloids and massive lipomas to the more mysterious. And, if you are into the pop, there’s no shortage of pus and pinching, as she uses cuttingedge technology and tried-and-tested methods of popping, slicing and squeezing to help achieve life-changing results.