TV on the Movie Screen: The Daily W: Wmagazine.com

Soon enough, we’re all going to get over poor Lane Pryce, and forget that Hannah Horvath got peed on in the shower. It’ll be midsummer, and your favorite TV shows, to which you’ve shown undying devotion, have abandoned you. Sunday nights, sigh, are just not what they used to be.

But! No need to fret. Not all of your favorite small-screen friends have run off until fall. In fact, many of them will be in movie theaters. Herewith, eight of your favorite TV actresses on the big screen this summer.

AUBREY PLAZA
Parks & Recreation’s eye-roll specialist April Ludgate gets her first lead in Safety Not Guaranteed, a time-travel comedy with Mark Duplass out now.

KATHERINE MCPHEE
Smash’s Karen Cartwright, aka everyone’s second choice for Marilyn, makes a cameo in Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding (out now), starring Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, and Elizabeth Olsen.

LEIGHTON MEESTER
Gossip Girl’s Blair Waldorf in Adam Sandler’s That’s My Boy (June 15). Synopsis: Every Adam Sandler movie, ever.

GILLIAN JACOBS
Community’s Britta goes apocalyptic in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (June 22). Also featuring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley as lovers. (Our keyboard almost broke typing that.)

KELLY MACDONALD
Boardwalk Empire’s morally strident Margaret Schroeder voices the lead of Pixar’s latest, Brave (June 22).

MICHELLE DOCKERY
Downton Abbey’s Lady Mary gets Shakespearean in the BBC film version of Henry IV (end of June). Technically, it’s still television. But it’s also, technically, more Mary Crawley in period dress.

BLAKE LIVELY
Gossip Girl’s Serena van der Woodsen in a love sandwich between Aaron Johnson and Tim Riggins in Oliver Stone’s Savages (July 6). Co-starring guns, drugs, Salma Hayek.

RASHIDA JONES
Parks & Recreation’s sweet Ann Perkins breaks up with Andy Samberg in the romcom Celeste and Jesse Forever (August 3).

Photos: Dockery and MacDonald: Steve Eichner/WWD; all others: Fairchild Archive