Summer TV Preview 2024: 15 Shows You Won’t Want to Miss

​Remember when summer TV was all about reruns? With streaming giants in the mix, those doldrums are a thing of the past. Along with backyard cookouts and beach days, mark your calendar for these 15 top-flight premieres.

The Beach Boys (May 24, Disney+)

The big documentary on the band the Beatles wanted to beat features new interviews with bandmates Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks and Bruce Johnston, as well as Lindsey Buckingham, Janelle Monáe and Don Was, plus archival interviews with the late Carl and Dennis Wilson. The film’s soundtrack will be available to stream or download, their 1964 album Shut Down Volume 2 (with “Fun, Fun, Fun” and “Louie Louie”) was reissued March 29, and there’s a new book available, The Beach Boys by the Beach Boys.

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(Left to right) Gaby Hoffmann and Benedict Cumberbatch in "Eric."

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Eric (May 30, Netflix)

In scary 1980s New York, a puppeteer with a TV show (Benedict Cumberbatch) freaks out when his 9-year-old disappears on the way to school, and gets obsessed with his son’s drawing of a blue monster puppet.

Mayor of Kingstown, Season 3 (June 2, Paramount+)

Jeremy Renner, 53, was nearly crushed to death by a snowplow in 2023, — but he’s back, portraying a convict-turned-civic leader in a town whose business is prisons. In the new season of this show from Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone), the Russian mob invades Kingstown, and a drug war erupts behind bars and outside.

Note: Paramount+ provides a discount to AARP members and pays AARP a royalty for the use of its intellectual property.

Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse (June 2, Magnolia Network, Max, Discovery+)

Chip and Joanna Gaines celebrate 10 years of their hit home improvement show with a tough challenge: a rather time-worn 1960s home that urgently requires their genius.

(Left to right) Jacki Weaver, Ed O'Neill and Cleopatra Coleman in "Clipped."

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Clipped (June 4, FX/Hulu)

Ed O’Neill, 77, plays LA Clippers former owner Donald Sterling in a miniseries about his spectacular downfall, with Laurence Fishburne, 62, as the Clippers’ coach, Cleopatra Coleman as the mistress who brought him down, and Jacki Weaver, 76, as the wife who triumphed over the mistress.