New in streaming July 2023: Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, NOW, Prime Video, BBC iPlayer
From the culinary world of The Bear, season 2, with Jeremy Allen White to the spiritual return of Good Omens, starring David Tennant, here's the best streaming TV in July
NOW release date: Friday 7 July
Writer Ben Chanan demonstrated his love for escalating circumstances with The Capture, an Orwellian BBC thriller that pokes into weird, deep fake spaces. Toning down the dystopia but keeping the insanity, Chanan’s new comedy thriller Then You Run follows a teen summer holiday to Rotterdam that keels over into catastrophe.
Tara (Leah McNamara) and her close-knit London mates visit her wealthy, estranged father to have a good time. But in a surreal turn of events, they discover his body, steal three kilos of heroin, and go on the run from a notorious gangster who also happens to be Tara’s uncle. Yeah, it’s a lot. Vivian Oparah (I May Destroy You), Yasmin Monet Prince (Hanna) and newcomer Isidora Fairhurst also star.
The Bear, season 2, Disney+
Disney+ UK release date: Wednesday 19 July
Christopher Storer’s Chicago-set culinary series was a sleeper hit in the US, exploding like a frying-pan fire across the country and then, eventually, around the world. The UK has to wait an entire month before returning to the award-winning chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) as he endures the maintenance of a basic sandwich shop. But we should probably count our blessings – season one dropped on our Disney+ last October, so we haven't had to wait (too) long to resume.
The
Bear takes a slightly different
vibe for its second season. After the miraculous discovery at the end
of season one – provided by a much-mourned sibling – Carmy, Sydney (Ayo
Edebiri) and Richard (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) work to renovate their shop into a
famous spot in the city.
They Cloned Tyrone, Netflix
Netflix UK release date: Friday 21 July
John Boyega’s post-Star Wars career is worth keeping two eyes on. After starring in the African historical drama The Woman King, the Sundance hostage thriller 892 and the Steve McQueen police film Small Axe: Red, White and Blue, Boyega’s now joined Juel Taylor’s bizarre, pulpy conspiracy movie They Cloned Tyrone. He plays a hustler in the strange, shape-shifting city known as The Glen. It seems like a normal place: there’s a fried chicken spot, a hair salon, a church and a club. But certain buildings start to change; time is elastic.
With entrepreneurial pimp Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx) and working woman Yo-Yo
(Teyonah Parris), Tyrone (Boyega) discovers a nefarious laboratory in which he
discovers limp versions of himself. Epically confused, these three unlikely investigators
search for answers.
Good Omens, season 2, Prime Video
Prime Video UK release date: Friday 28 July
Neil Gaiman’s influence over fantasy spreads into several mediums: not only in literature, but also in cinema (Stardust, Coraline), theatre (The Ocean at the End of the Lane), radio (Neverwhere) and – crucially – television (The Sandman, American Gods). The latter is especially promising: it’s the most reliable way to translate Gaiman’s numerous worlds and characters. And Good Omens is perhaps the best example: pairing Michael Sheen as an angel with David Tennant as a demon, both of whom enjoy a frenemy relationship. They enjoy living among the mortals on Earth, specifically in Soho.
Season two moves beyond the original book, co-authored by Terry Pratchett, which ended with Aziraphale (Sheen) and Crowley (Tennant) preventing the Rapture. Now, an even stranger problem materialises. The Archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm), a former heaven-based adversary, suddenly appears in Aziraphale’s bookshop without any memory of who or what he is. Relying on each other once again, angel and demon unite to solve the mystery.
Read our five-star review of season one
Dreaming Whilst Black, BBC iPlayer
BBC iPlayer release date: late July
Photo: Multitude Media
Since streaming took off, the lines between ‘TV show’ and ‘web series’ began to blur. However, there is an obvious difference: the former has reputable financial backing while the latter is more independent. The journey of Dreaming Whilst Black is like a fantasy scenario: beginning as a popular web series in 2018 before being acquired by the BBC and turned into a six-part TV show.
Adjani
Salmon’s comedy follows Kwabena (Salmon), a recruitment worker who’s desperate
to become a filmmaker. He takes the first step to achieve his dreams, but he’s
thrown into a personal struggle between love, money, and his own sense of reality. Also
stars Isy Suttie and Jessica Hynes.
The full Streaming in July slate:
Saturday 1 July
New Amsterdam, season 3 (Prime Video)
Monday 3 July
Unknown: The Lost
Pyramid (Netflix)
Tuesday 4 July
The King Who
Never Was (Netflix)
Tom Segura:
Sledgehammer (Netflix)
Around the World
with 30 Kilos (Paramount+)
Sugar
(Paramount+)
Wednesday 5 July
Kizazi Moto:
Generation Fire (Disney+)
The Watchful Eye
(Disney+)
Back to 15
(Netflix)
WHAM! (Netflix)
Thursday 6 July
The Effects of Lying (ITVX)
Jonathan Ross: Must Watch Films (ITVX)
Olivia Attwood: Getting Filthy Rich (ITVX)
Gold Brick
(Netflix)
The Lincoln
Lawyer, season 2 (Netflix)
A Thin Line
(Paramount+)
Friday 7 July
Hack My Home
(Netflix)
The Out-Laws
(Netflix)
Then You Run
(NOW)
Wife Like
(Paramount+)
The Horror of Dolores
Roach (Prime Video)
Saturday 8 July
Big Nate, season 2
(Paramount+)
Monday 10 July
Unknown: Killer
Robots (Netflix)
Tuesday 11 July
Nineteen to
Twenty (Netflix)
Wednesday 12 July
The Afterparty,
season 2 (Apple TV+)
Bluey (Disney+)
Marvel’s Cloak
and Dagger (Disney+)
The Company You
Keep (Disney+)
The Secrets of
Hillsong (Disney+)
Quarterback
(Netflix)
Sugar Rush: The
Baking Point (Netflix)
Thursday 13 July
Boris Becker: The Rise and Fall (ITVX)
Survival of the
Thickest (Netflix)
Quantum Leap
(Paramount+)
Friday 14 July
Foundation, season
2 (Apple TV+)
Imagine Dragons: Live
in Vegas (Disney+)
The Great, season
3 (Lionsgate+)
Bird Box:
Barcelona (Netflix)
The Summer I
Turned Pretty, season 2 (Prime Video)
Saturday 15 July
Too Hot to Handle, season 5 (Netflix)
Sunday 16 July
World on Fire, series 2 (BBC iPlayer)
Monday 17 July
Unknown: Cave of
Bones (Netflix)
Wednesday 19 July
The Bear, season 2
(Disney+)
Dave, season 3
(Disney+)
The Deepest Breath (Netflix)
Wynonna Judd:
Between Hell and Hallelujah (Paramount+)
Thursday 20 July
All American, series 5 (ITVX)
Sweet Magnolias,
season 3 (Netflix)
Friday 21 July
Stephen Curry:
Underrated (Apple TV+)
They Cloned
Tyrone (Netflix)
Special Ops:
Lioness (Paramount+)
Fifteen-Love
(Prime Video)
Monday 24 July
Unknown: Cosmic
Time Machine (Netflix)
Tuesday 25 July
Jim Gaffigan:
Dark Pale (Prime Video)
Wednesday 26 July
Drag Me to Dinner
(Disney+)
Thursday 27 July
Laura Whitmore Investigates (ITVX)
The Lady of
Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders (Netflix)
Paradise
(Netflix)
Ghosts of Beirut
(Paramount+)
Friday 28 July
The Beanie Bubble
(Apple TV+)
Captain Fall
(Netflix)
D.P., season 2
(Netflix)
How to Become a Cult Leader (Netflix)
Miraculous:
Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie (Netflix)
A Perfect Story
(Netflix)
Good Omens, season
2 (Prime Video)
Monday 31 July
BASTARD‼ -Heavy
Metal, Dark Fantasy-, season 2 (Netflix)
TBC
Dreaming Whilst Black (BBC iPlayer)
