Here is the list of the programming options to expect on TV this week:
On July 22, the season finale of The Code will air at 9 PM on CBS.
The new Netflix drama Another Life will debut online on July 25. The series centers on astronaut Niko Breckinridge (Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica fame) who is focused on searching for alien intelligence. As she leads a young crew on a mission to explore the genesis of an alien artifact, they face unimaginable danger on what might very well be a one-way mission. Selma Blair will play Harper Glass, a 21st-century influencer who uses journalism, social media and keen intelligence in an attempt to break one of the biggest stories in human history. The cast also includes Tyler Hoechlin (Supergirl and Teen Wolf), Justin Chatwin (Shameless), Jessica Camacho (The Flash), Elizabeth Faith Ludlow (The Walking Dead) Alex Ozerov (Orphan Black), Jake Abel (Supernatural) and Barbara Williams (Rookie Blue).
On July 26, the Amazon streaming series The Boys will debut online. This series is a fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes – who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods – abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about The Seven, and Vought – the multi-billion dollar conglomerate that manages these superheroes and covers up all of their dirty secrets. The Boys are Hughie (Jack Quaid from The Hunger Games), Billy Butcher (Karl Urban from Star Trek), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso from Detroit), Frenchie (Tomer Capon from Hostages), and The Female (Karen Fukuhara from Suicide Squad). Simon Pegg (“Mission: Impossible – Fallout”) guest stars as Hughie’s father. The cast also includes Anthony Starr (Banshee), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Dominique McElligott (Hell on Wheels), Elisabeth Shue (CSI), Erin Moriarty (Jessica Jones) and Jessie T. Usher (Survivor’s Remorse)
The second season of the Hulu thriller series Light As A Feather will premiere online on July 26. That same day the series finale of Orange Is The New Black will air on Netflix.
On July 27, the Lifetime original mini-series debut of V.C. Andrews’ Heaven Casteel Saga: Heaven will air at 8 PM.
This movie introduces the infamous Casteel family, the least regarded of all the families living in the poverty-stricken foothills of the mountains of West Virginia. Yet the eldest daughter, Heaven Leigh Casteel (Annalise Basso from The Red Road), was still the smartest girl in the backwoods and determined to redeem her family name. However, her dreams become deferred the day her stepmother flees and her selfish father Luke (Chris William Martin from Cedar Cove and The Vampire Diaries) sells her and her four siblings to different families. Heaven is sent to live in the home of Luke’s deranged ex-lover, Kitty (Julie Benz from Dexter), who torments Heaven as Kitty’s husband, Cal (Chris McNally from When Calls the Heart) lures Heaven into a forbidden relationship while she fights to reunite her siblings.
The HBO original movie Share will debut on July 27 at 10 PM. Based on the prize-winning short of the same name by Pippa Bianco, this movie is a cautionary tale about social media, following 16-year-old Mandy (Rhianne Barreto from Hanna), who, after discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, must figure out what happened — and how to navigate the escalating fallout. The includes Charlie Plummer (Boardwalk Empire), Poorna Jagannathan (The Night Of and Big Little Lies), J.C. MacKenzie (Dark Angel and Madam Secretary), Nicholas Galitzine (Chambers), Lovie Simone (Greenleaf) and Danny Mastrogiorgio (Instinct).
Also on July 27, the new movie Rome in Love will debut on Hallmark Channel at 9 PM. When an unknown actress (Italia Ricci from Designated Survivor) lands the role of a lifetime in Rome she paired with an American journalist (Peter Porte from The Young and the Restless) writing a profile, she will discover surprises about love and life in the eternal city.
The new TV One thriller Deadly Dispatch will debut on July 28 at 8 PM. The film chronicles the tragic murder of Shawn (Rapper Bone Crusher), a well-liked owner of a struggling taxi company. Tiffany (Tamala Jones from Castle) is a local salon owner and Shawn’s longtime, high-school best friend who becomes intertwined in the puzzling circumstances surrounding his death. Unsatisfied with the police’s classification of the case being a “robbery gone wrong,” Tiffany becomes suspicious of Shawn’s grieving widow Amber (Dominique Perry from Insecure). Motivated to find out what really happened to her friend that fateful day, Tiffany embarks on a quest that will not only endanger her strained marriage, but her life as well. Will she be able to come to terms with a deep secret shared between her and Shawn while seeking justice?
Also on July 28, the new EPIX drama Pennyworth will debut for 70 minutes at 9 PM. The 10-episode drama is based on Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon from Endeavour and Medici), [the future legendary butler extraordinaire of Bruce Wayne], a former British SAS soldier in his 20s, who forms a security company and goes to work with a young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge from Reign and Fleabag), who’s not yet Bruce’s father, in 1960s London. The cast includes multi-award-winning recording artist Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ryan Fletcher (Outlander), Hainsley Lloyd Bennett (Eastenders), Emma Paetz (Gentleman Jack), Polly Walker (The Mentalist and Rome) and Emma Corrin (The Crown).
Mark your calendars!
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