The USA Network has announced a summer schedule featuring six original scripted shows—including two new shows, which will air together on the same night. The four returning shows are Royal Pains, returning for its sixth season Tuesday, June 10; Covert Affairs, returning for its fifth season Tuesday, June 24; Suits, beginning its fourth season Wednesday, June 11; and Graceland, beginning its second season also on June 11. The rational, human response to this news is “Jesus Christ, Royal Pains has been on for six seasons?” so don’t worry if that was your initial reaction. (Another rational human response is to make a joke about how Suits is about suits, even though it’s not and actually an enjoyable show.) Also, we absolutely did not realize Graceland had been renewed for a second season, and we a.) liked that show, b.) pay attention to this stuff for a living, and c.) covered the entire first season. So there you go.
The two new shows will both launch Thursday, July 17, in a risky gambit on the part of USA to see just how many televisions in the United States are perpetually tuned to USA. Of the two shows, Rush sounds the most like a USA show, given that it’s a show about a “medical fixer” who works among the most powerful in Los Angeles. A show about a fixer in L.A. has a whiff of Showtime’s hit Ray Donovan, but, also, most of us just call “medical fixers” doctors, so it really isn’t all that impressive. The other is Satisfaction, which examines a modern American marriage. It sounds like USA making a desperate stab at critical relevance, but if you watch the trailer (which we won’t embed here because it autoplays and you could just watch it over at Deadline anyway), you’ll see that it actually involves fights that spill into pools and people staring lustily at each other. So it’s Dynasty, basically.