Summer TV preview: Meet the new shows

SUMMER TV: THE COMPLETE LIST | FALL TV PREVIEWS

Summer TV season, you used to be a lazy thing, satisfied with reruns and minor-league variety shows, happy to kick back until fall. Now you are a busy one, teeming with series ephemeral and serious. “Breaking Bad” begins in you, and so does “Louie.”

Here’s a guide to your new series, Summer 2012. Or most of them.

Sigourney Weaver plays a former first lady who becomes the secretary of State in this any-resemblance-to-persons-blah-blah-blah miniseries. Ciaran Hinds is her womanizing ex-POTUS husband. Unbelievable!  (Evan Agostini / Associated Press)