The New Sprummer Scripted TV Season

It has become apparent that the broadcast networks have designed a two part season that begins in earnest September/October and ends April/May with a mid-year mini-shift that occurs January/February. This is the Fall/Winter Season and appears to be about 9 months long and which I now name Fallter, pun intended.

The cable networks appear to have designed a season that begins April/May and ends September/October with a mid-season mini-shift that occurs somewhere in the middle. This is the Spring/Summer Season and appears to be about 6 months long and is what I now name Sprummer.

Obviously the two seasons overlap as we don't have a 15 month year. And the cable networks tend to show half of the seasons episodes of a show beginning in the Sprummer airing the second half beginning around the first of the calendar year during Fallter, when the broadcast networks are fumbling to get replacements for their faltering shows.

So we have a new Sprummer Season already under way. Based on available information the cable channels, with little help from the broadcast networks, will give us a solid scripted show lineup. While the following list is not complete, and certainly many shows are far from potential Emmy winners, it is pretty impressive given what Summer TV offerings used to be like:

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Day	Series Title	Premier
Network		Status
SUNDAY
AMC	Breaking Bad	Currently Airing
AMC	Mad Men	Not Scheduled
HBO	No.1 Ladies Detective Agency	Currently Airing
HBO	In Treatment	Currently Airing
HBO	True Blood	June 14
Lifetime	Army Wives	June 07
Lifetime	Drop Dead Diva	July 12
NBC	Merlin	June 21
USA	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Currently Airing
USA	In Plain Sight	Currently Airing
MONDAY
ABC Family	Secret Life American Teenager	June 22
ABC Family	Make It or Break It	June 22
Showtime	Weeds	June 08
Showtime	Nurse Jackie	June 08
TNT	The Closer	June 08
TNT	Raising the Bar	June 08
TUESDAY
ABC Family	10 Things I Hate	July 07
ABC Family	Ruby & the Rockets	July 21
ABC Family	Lincoln Heights	August 04
FX	Rescue Me	Currently Airing
Syfy	Warehouse 13	July 07
TBS	My Boys	Currently Airing
TNT	Saving Grace	June 16
TNT	HawthoRNe	June 16
WEDNESDAY
ABC	The Goode Family	May 27
ABC	Surviving Suburbia (from hiatus)	May 27
ABC	The Unusuals (from hiatus)	May 27
NBC	The Philanthropist	June 24
TNT	Leverage	July 15
TNT	Dark Blue	July 15
THURSDAY
NBC	The Listener	June 04
USA	Burn Notice	June 04
USA	Royal Pains	June 04
FRIDAY
BBCA	Hotel Babylon	Not Scheduled
Fox	Mental	May 22
Syfy	Eureka	July 10
USA	Monk	Not Scheduled
USA	Psych	Not Scheduled
SATURDAY
BBCA	Primeval	May 16
BBCA	Robin Hood	Not Scheduled
BBCA	Torchwood	Not Scheduled