No matter how fine the weather may be, you just can’t stay outdoors all summer. Who could handle all that sun block and fresh air?
So it’s good news indeed that the networks continue to crank out new shows amid the usual warm-weather reruns, in stark contrast to years gone by when TV took the sort of leisurely summer holiday you wish you could score.
Go ahead: work on your tan, fire up the barbecue or take the kids to the park. But here are 10 summer shows worth coming indoors for:
• “Magic City,” Starz, season premiere Friday at 9 p.m. Ike Evans is the tough, charismatic pasha of the Miramar Playa Hotel in glamorous 1960s-era Miami Beach. He’s got it all: fancy lifestyle, loving family, gorgeous wife, great tan. But he’s also got problems: how to get the mob off his back and out of his business. Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars in this posh period drama.