Summer lovin’: All the hottest new shows premiering in June
It’s officially summer, which means you should probably go soak up the sun and be social and wear cute outfits to the beach and all that nonsense. But if you’ve got any sense, you won’t let all those sunshine good times get in the way of your TV schedule. There are a lot of amazing shows premiering this month and you’re going to get in on the ground floor with a lot of them. Trust us on this. Here’s our ranking of the ten hottest new shows premiering in June that you’ll want to start watching immediately.
10. Five Points (June 4, Facebook Watch)
This teen drama from executive producer Kerry Washington (Scandal) follows the lives and secrets of five different students as they each encounter a momentous change in their lives. The series premiered on June 4, 2018, and chronicled five Chicago high school students on the South Side whose paths collide around one pivotal event. Two seasons were produced before the show wrapped, giving viewers a complete arc told through shifting viewpoints.
Where to Watch Five Points Today
Seasons 1 and 2 remain available for streaming on the show’s official Facebook page. The platform that first hosted the series no longer produces new scripted originals, which means fans looking to revisit the show will find the episodes preserved on that same social destination rather than on an active streaming hub.
Impact of the Facebook Watch Shutdown on Original Series
Meta scaled back scripted programming on Facebook Watch as early as 2020 and formally discontinued originals in 2023. The decision redirected resources toward short-form and unscripted content, leaving early series like Five Points as legacy titles whose availability now rests on archival social pages rather than a dedicated streaming catalog.
Kerry Washington's Post-Scandal Producing Work
Washington executive produced through her Simpson Street banner, and the project was announced in 2017 shortly after Scandal ended. The move marked an early step in her expansion beyond acting into producing, a lane she has continued to pursue with subsequent scripted and documentary projects.
Multi-Perspective Storytelling in Teen Dramas
The series uses different points of view to reveal the truth about a pivotal event, a structure that lets each episode reframe what viewers think they know. This approach mirrors a tactic seen in other prestige teen dramas that treat high school as a pressure cooker where one incident can fracture an entire community.
Five Points arrived at a moment when social platforms were still experimenting with long-form scripted fare, and its two-season run captured a snapshot of that brief window. The Chicago South Side setting grounded the story in a specific community while the multi-viewpoint format kept the focus on how one life-altering moment ripples outward. Kerry Washington’s involvement added industry weight, signaling that a major name was willing to back an emerging platform’s ambitions. Today the episodes sit quietly on the original Facebook destination, a reminder of how quickly platform strategies can shift and how quickly a show can move from hot new arrival to archival title. For anyone compiling a June watch list years later, the series still offers a compact, character-driven look at how secrets surface when five teenagers are forced to confront the same turning point from their own angles.
