Best shows coming to Binge, Stan, Paramount+, Disney+, Prime Video, AppleTV+ and Netflix this July
From the return of an award-winning Aussie legal drama, to a Gladiator on steroids and a reimagined ‘80s classic, it’s a feast of shows to stream in July.
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We’ve sifted through the latest offerings from TV and streaming platforms to find the best shows you should be watching this coming month.
BINGE
THE TWELVE
JULY 11
The first season of this homegrown legal thriller was one of the best shows of 2022, winning that year’s AACTA and Logie Awards for Best Miniseries and the most popular actor Logie for its star, Sam Neill. The veteran Kiwi actor reprises his role as defence lawyer Brett Colby, but the action moves from Sydney to small-town Western Australia. He’s back in the fancy robes doing what he does best when two ex-lovers – one of whom stands to gain $20 million – are accused of murdering a local landowner and respected town matriarch. An all-new jury, all with their own stories, will decide their fate and of course nothing it at is seems.
EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK
JULY 15
Set in the high-flying worlds of politics and academia, and adapted from Stephen L. Carter’s bestseller of the same name, Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker plays powerful and respected judge Oliver Garland – whose nickname gives this thriller its title. When the judge dies of an apparent heart attack, he leaves behind a son whose quiet life as a law professor is shattered and a journalist and conspiracy theorist daughter who believes more sinister forces might be behind his death. The deeper they dig they more they discover that the judge, who’d had to resign from the bench, had ties to a shady and very dangerous arms dealer that might endanger them all.
ALSO SHOWING:
Junior Bakeoff – July 5
Secrets of the Hells Angels – July 7
All American Homecoming Season 3 – July 9
Million Dollar Listing LA Season 15 – July 11
The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 18 – July 12
STAN
A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER
JULY 1
Holly Jackson’s beloved 2019 young adult mystery thriller is finally getting the six-part small-screen treatment. Wednesday werewolf Emma Myers (doing a rather smashing English accent) stars as teen sleuth Pip who is unconvinced that the killing of a local schoolgirl – supposedly at the hands of another student who then killed himself – was investigated properly. Under the guise of a school project, she takes it upon herself to clear the accused’s name and find the real perpetrator with the help of his younger brother – but most of the village seems to want her to just let sleeping dogs lie.
THE KILLING KIND
JULY 5
In this adaptation of Irish crime author Jane Casey’s 2021 novel of the same name, Emma Appleton stars as successful barrister Ingrid Lewis who successfully defends a client against stalking charges – and then becomes romantically involved with him. A year after their short-lived romance flames out badly, he comes back into Ingrid’s life, warning that she’s in danger. While her friends and family pleading for her to stay away, a colleague is fatally run down by a car, leaving her to wonder if there might be something to his dire predictions.
ALSO SHOWING:
Friends – July 1
Menendez Brothers: Murder By Media – July 7
The Serpent Queen Season Two – July 12
PARAMOUNT+
FAKE
JULY 4
Seven-time Logie-winner Asher Keddie adds the title of co-producer to her many talents for this homegrown eight-part thriller inspired by a true story and set in a thoroughly modern world of online fakes, liars and phonies. She plays magazine writer Birdie Bell, who seems to have found the man of her dreams on a dating app. The ever-reliable David Wenham brings a compelling blend of charm and menace to her would-be suitor, successful grazier Joe Burt (David Wenham), leaving Birdie torn between her intensifying feelings, her instincts, and the warnings of those around her.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE: I’M NOT BROKEN
JULY 10
For this two-part docuseries, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge returns to her hometown of Leavenworth, Kansas, which is also home to one of the biggest prisons in the US. Galvanised by the 172,000 women incarcerated in the country – about half of whom are recovering from substance abuse – and letters she gets from five female residents of the Topeka Correctional Facility she resolves to write a song and put on a concert for them. Having lost a son to opioids, Etheridge is acutely aware of how addictions can shatter lives and aims to be “a beacon of light that holds these people up and says – you matter”.
ALSO SHOWING:
Kamp Koral: Spongebob’s Under Years Season 2 – July 10
Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards – July 14
SpongeBob SquarePants Season 14 – July 15
Mafia Spies Season One – July 17
Monster High Season Two – July 17
Reno 911 Season 8 – July 18
PRIME VIDEO
SAUSAGE PARTY: FOODTOPIA
JULY 11
Eight years after the hilariously gross adult animated movie Sausage Party introduced the world to Seth Rogen’s Frank the Sausage, Kristen Wiig’s Brenda Bunson and Edward Norton’s Sammy Bagel Jr., the sentient grocery items are back with an eight-part series. Now the foul-mouthed foodstuffs have risen up against the humans to become the dominant species on the planet. But when a flood wreaks havoc and they lose the Steve-Hawking like genius piece of chewing gum that helped them create their Foodtopia, they have to learn to live with ones who used to eat them.
THOSE ABOUT TO DIE
JULY 19
From master of disaster Roland Emmerich – the main behind Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow – you just know there’s going to be nothing subtle about this 10-part sword and sandals series that looks like Gladiator on steroids. Iwan Rheon (best known as the thoroughly despicable Ramsay Bolton from Game Of Thrones) stars as Tenax, a mover and shaker in the complex and corrupt world of chariot racing and arena combat in ancient Rome. With ever more spectacular games needed to keep the bored and restless populace happy, he must negotiate the rich and powerful factions. Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins lends a thin veneer of respectability as the Emperor Vespasian.
ALSO SHOWING:
Divorce In the Black – July 11
My Spy: The Eternal City – July 18
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – July 25
DISNEY+
BRATS
JULY 5
Back in the 1980s, the Brat Pack was everywhere – that young and hot band of actors that ruled the box office in rom-coms, angsty dramas and comedies. Director Andrew McCarthy, of St Elmo’s Fire and Pretty In Pink fame – has reunited the key players including Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Jon Cryer, Lea Thompson and Timothy Hutton (no Breakfast Clubbers Molly Ringwald or Judd Nelson though), to reminisce on good times and bad, friendships and feuds, and what it was like to be a part of the group that helped shape a generation of film lovers.
DESCENDANTS: THE RIDE OF RED
JULY 12
After three hit musical movies beloved by tweens and teens, the Disney princess adjacent franchise centred around the children of classic baddies such as 101 Dalmations’ Cruella DeVil, Aladdin’s Jafar, Snow White’s Evil Queen and Sleeping Beauty’s Malificent, now has a spin-off that expands the VK (Villains’ Kids) universe. Kylie Cantrall and Malia Baker star as the rebellious Red and perfectionist Chloe, the daughters of the Queen of Hearts (Rita Ora) and Cinderella (Brandy) respectively. The two pair up at Auradon Prep and travel back in time to try to prevent the evil actions of Red’s vengeance-fuelled mother.
ALSO SHOWING
Red Swan – July 3
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted Season 4 – July 3
Family Guy Season 22 – July 10
Wicked Tuna Season 13 – July 10
American Dad Season 19 – July 17
Futurama: Season 12 – July 29
APPLETV +
THE LADY IN THE LAKE
JULY 19
Oscar-winner Natalie Portman stars in this trippy-looking seven-part noir thriller, based on the 2019 novel of the same name and inspired by a true story, playing well-heeled but frustrated 1960s housewife Maddie Schwarz, who leaves her husband to pursue her dream of becoming an investigative journalist. She becomes with obsessed the death of Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram from The Queen’s Gambit), a struggling mother who was entangled in the political underbelly of Baltimore while trying to advance the city’s black community. The deeper her investigation goes, the more dangerous it becomes as the misogyny and racism of the era are starkly exposed.
TIME BANDITS
JULY 24
What We Do In the Shadows comrades and long-time friends and collaborators Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement have teamed up again to reimagine the much loved 1981 adventure film of the same name as a 10-part series. The rollicking, family-friendly fun follows an 11-year-old nerd called Kevin, who encounters a rag-tag band of thieves – led by Lisa Kudrow’s Penelope – when they burst through a magical portal and into his bedroom. His encyclopaedic knowledge of history proves invaluable as they pinball through space and time – from prehistoric times to Prohibition era America – on a quest to save his parents, and the world.
ALSO SHOWING
Sunny – July 10
Me – July 12
Omnivore – July 19
Women In Blue – July 31
NETFLIX
SPRINT
JULY 2
With the Olympics just weeks away, and continuing Netflix’s run of quality sports documentaries, comes this new series from the team behind Drive To Survive that goes deep into the world of elite sprinting, where competitors train for years for events that are over literally in seconds, and where the tiniest of margins can mean the difference between success and failure. It traces the journeys of some of the top names in the sport – including Sha’Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles, and Shericka Jackson – from last year’s World Championships to the Paris Games.
THE DECAMERON
JULY 25
Based – extremely loosely by the looks of it – on a collection of short stories by 14th century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, this eight-part black comedy follows a group of nobles and their servants who retreat to a remote country villa to escape the Black Death as it ravages Europe in 1348. Bored and isolated, they find solace in plentiful wine and sex until they begin to grow thoroughly sick of each other and pure survival becomes a priority. In the wake of the Covid pandemic, creator Kathleen Jordan said she wanted to explore how the chasm between the haves and have-nots become wider in times of crisis and has described it as “like Love Island – but back in the day”.
ALSO SHOWING
The Man With 1000 Kids – July 3
Receiver – July 10
Vikings: Valhalla Season 3 – July 11
Exploding Kittens – July 12
Cobra Kai Season 6 – July 19
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