As we move into July 2026 and another UK heatwave, we’re faced with two clear choices: go out and attempt to enjoy the sunshine, or bunker down, draw the curtains, crank up the AC (if you’re lucky and/or rich enough to have it), turn on the TV and watch something amazing on your favourite streaming service.
Look, we don’t make the rules. That’s just how it is.
Luckily, for those of us that eschew flip-flops and bucket hats and pick the second option, there are lots of things vying to be the best new TV shows and films coming to streaming services this month. From the Old West to a vintage version of Gotham City, here’s where streaming is taking us in July 2026.
Silo
The penultimate season of Apple’s sci-fi headscratcher has a great deal to explain, and not much time left to do it. After surviving her forced ‘cleaning’, Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) is back inside – with her memories of the outside world wiped clean. A second timeline set centuries earlier begins unpicking the conspiracy behind the silos’ creation.
S3 / Apple TV, 3 July
Little House on the Prairie
Forty-odd years on from the original series, Netflix’s reimagining of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier saga pitches itself as something considerably grittier than its predecessor: part survival epic, part family drama, part origin story of the American West. The real prairie was tougher than Michael Landon and co. made it look, and this version intends to show it.
S1 / Netflix, 9 July
The Westies
In 1980s Hell’s Kitchen, Eamon Sweeney, ageing patriarch of the titular Irish crime family, finds that his uneasy truce with the Italian mafia is about to crack. A huge construction project has brought a windfall worth fighting over, along with the kind of internal power struggles that tend to end bloodily for everyone involved.
S1 / MGM+, 12 July
Lucky
Reformed criminal Lucky Armstrong (Anya Taylor-Joy) is forced to pull off the proverbial “one last job”. But when this multi-million-dollar heist goes awry, the inappropriately named grifter becomes a full-on fugitive. With both the FBI and a merciless mob boss (Annette Bening) nipping at her heels, Lucky must draw on her con artist wiles to stay alive. Adapted from Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel, Lucky leans heavily into the particular pleasure of watching a smart person forced to out-think everyone around them.
S1 / Apple TV, 15 July
The Hawk
Will Ferrell stars as Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins: formerly the world’s top golfer, but now a middle-aged loser convinced that he still has what it takes to complete the Grand Slam. His body, his family and his recent form all disagree. It’s a Netflix comedy, so we’re expecting some big swings and the occasional slice out of bounds.
S1 / Netflix, 16 July
Heartstopper Forever
Nick and Charlie have become inseparable, which makes it all the more painful when the former heads off to university and the couple’s relationship goes long-distance. The much-loved LGBTQ+ coming-of-age series concludes with a (doubtless tear-jerking) feature-length finale, Olivia Colman returning to the cast alongside some heavyweight new additions.
Film / Netflix, 17 July
The Dink
This month’s second comedy about a washed-up former sports pro, The Dink stars Jake Johnson as a tennis prodigy forced out of the game by injury. Reluctantly taking up the low-pace pensioner pastime of pickleball by way of rehab, he discovers he enjoys it far more than he’d like. Look out for cameos from some real-life tennis champs.
Film / Apple TV, 24 July
Batman: Caped Crusader
This moody vintage Batman returns for a second helping of pulpy 1940s noir, with a seriously stacked rogues’ gallery lined up against him. The Joker, teased last season, finally arrives alongside the Riddler, Scarecrow and a reimagined female Mad Hatter, plus a Robin-esque newcomer in Carrie Kelley. All ten episodes drop at once, so clear your evening.
S2 / Prime Video, 31 July
