The CW Announces Summer Premiere Dates for ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘Significant Mother’ and More

The CW has announced premiere dates for its summer shows, including the network’s returning series Beauty and the Beast, and premiere dates for a few new shows as well.

In addition to Beauty and the Beast, returning shows include Penn and Teller:Fool Us, America’s Next Top Model and Masters of Illusion.

New shows that fans should keep an eye out for are comedy Significant Mother, Dates and reality show A Wicked Offer.

You can read The CW’s summer schedule, and more about the new series’ coming to the network, below:

Thursday, May 21

8:00-9:00pm “Beauty and the Beast” (Season Premiere)

Monday, July 6

8:00-9:00pm “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” (Cycle Premiere)

9:00-9:30pm “Whose Line is it Anyway?” (New Night)

9:30-10:00pm “Whose Line is it Anyway?” (Encore)

Thursday, July 9

8:00-9:00pm “Beauty and the Beast” (Original Episode)

9:00-9:30pm “Dates” (Series Premiere)
The series explores the issues, intricacies, romance, and danger of modern relationships and the thrills, calamities, lies, and truths of first dates. Featuring a cast that largely changes with each episode, DATES includes such stars as Oona Chaplin (“Game of Thrones”), Ben Chaplin (“Thin Red Line”), Andrew Scott (“Sherlock”), Katie McGrath (“Dracula”), Amanda Hale (“The White Queen”) and Gemma Chan (“Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”).

9:30-10:00pm “Dates” (Original Episode)

Friday, July 10

8:00-8:30pm “Masters of Illusion” (Cycle Premiere)

8:30-9:00pm “Whose Line is it Anyway?” (Encore)

9:00-10:00pm “The Messengers” (Original Episode)

Monday, August 3

8:00-9:00pm “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” (Original Episode)

9:00-9:30pm “Whose Line is it Anyway?” (Original Episode)

9:30-10:00pm “Significant Mother” (Series Premiere)
Budding Portland restaurateur Nate’s (Josh Zuckerman) world is turned upside down when he comes back from a business trip to find his lothario best friend and roommate, Jimmy, is now dating his recently separated mother, Lydia (Krista Allen). To make matters worse, Nate’s previously disinterested dad, Harrison (Jonathan Silverman) is now determined to win Lydia back and isn’t afraid to use Nate to get what he wants. Stuck between his family feud and his best friend’s first serious relationship, Nate’s “new normal” forever changes his relationships with his parents, and severely handicaps his own dating life.

Wednesday, August 5

8:00-9:00pm “America’s Next Top Model” (Cycle Premiere)

9:00-10:00pm “A Wicked Offer” (Series Premiere)
Couples are presented with a series of Faustian bargains, as they must decide to complete a series of scandalous and controversial tasks involving their unsuspecting friends, families and co-workers for cash prizes. With each challenge testing the couple’s moral and ethical boundaries, the couples must weigh the potential havoc wreaked on their relationship with each other and everyone involved. As each task is completed, the stakes and the cash value are raised, forcing the couple to decide how far they’re willing to go for money.

All Times ET

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