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Catching up with the returning summer dramas:

“Magic City” (Friday, 9 p.m., Starz)

Apparently, the Miami prison system in 1959 included grooming and sunbathing, because Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Ike looks fantastic in his cell block after being arrested in the first season’s finale. And if you think a silly thing like a murder charge could hold this hotelier, you haven’t watched enough mob dramas. Fortunately, it appears that the beautiful Vera (Olga Kurylenko) will snag more screen time this season as she asserts herself in the boardroom and in her struggle to keep Ike out of the arms of his former sister-in-law (Kelly Lynch).

“True Blood”(Sunday, 9 p.m., HBO)

Stephen Moyer, last seen when Bill was being grossly reincarnated in a pool of blood, directs the sixth season opener of the vamp opera, which lost creator Alan Ball as show runner this year. Don’t expect that whole human-vampire conflict brewing last season to be resolved any time soon.

“Copper”(Sun., June 23, 10 p.m., BBC America)

Considering the amount of duplicity revealed by the end of the first season — from his wife’s and partner’s betrayals to the Confederate tendencies of his best friend’s fiancé (which he doesn’t even know about yet) — our hero Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones) faces an uphill battle heading into the second season of this violent cop drama that leaps ahead one year to 1865. But he’ll have to put all that aside to hunt down the season opener’s villain, who resembles Daniel Day-Lewis’ Bill the Butcher so much, it distracts from an otherwise fantastic return to Civil War-era New York City.

“Burn Notice”(Thursday, 9 p.m., USA)

The spy drama’s final season premiere was last week, but it really felt more like a summary of what the gang had been up to since Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) ditched them to go deep under cover as a CIA agent again. This 100th episode of this summer staple is the one you should tune in for, as it provides at least one reunion for Michael, as well as the origin story of his romance with Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar).

“Franklin & Bash”(Wednesday, 9 p.m., TNT)

Mama would never typically recommend the Maxim magazine-fueled law series, but perennial favorite Heather Locklear arrives to take command of the firm, so it’s worth at least checking out if she can still rock those suits like she did when her Amanda took over “Melrose Place.”