The 10 Most Anticipated TV Shows to Stream in July

The upwind is getting hot, and you cognize what that means: clip to never, ever permission your aerial conditioned location arsenic you binge truthful overmuch television. Thankfully, we’ve got a slew of caller and returning TV shows (and movies) for you to devour implicit the people of July 2026.

In fact, wherefore not see this period 1 agelong Saturday morning, arsenic determination are truthful galore cartoons to ticker successful July, ranging from highly anticipated returns similar X-Men ’97 Season 2 to a brand-new riff connected the classical Ghost successful the Shell.

Don’t interest if you’re not a large animation fan, due to the fact that there’s tons of live-action amusement to enjoy, from the sci-fi apocalypse of Silo connected Apple TV, to returning seasons for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and The Walking Dead: Dead City. Hey, there’s adjacent the weirdest Big Bang Theory spin-off you tin imagine!

Basically, there’s thing for everyone this period careless of your watching habits. So let’s get into it with a breakdown of the 9 shows and 1 movie you request to ticker successful July 2026.

(Note: This database is presented successful merchandise day order.)

Enola Holmes 3 (July 1)

First of all, it’s an tremendous missed accidental not to rubric this movie 3nola Holm3s. Second of all, Millie Bobby Brown is backmost successful this threequel arsenic the rubric character, younger sister of the iconic Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill). Everything seems to beryllium going swimmingly arsenic Enola prepares for her wedding to Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge), erstwhile shockingly, Sherlock goes missing! Tthe wedding gets enactment connected clasp and Enola is connected the case.

Also starring Himesh Patel arsenic Dr. Watson and Helena Bonham Carter arsenic the matriarch of the Holmes family, the archetypal 2 films were a twisty, fourth-wall breaking delight arsenic Brown portrayed the diametric other of the monosyllabic, dormant superior Eleven from Stranger Things. Brown has been and continues to beryllium an tremendous prima for Netflix, and portion immoderate results whitethorn alteration — spot The Electric State — she’s besides reliable astatine delivering amusement for the streamer.

Slightly confusing matters, portion writer Jack Thorne returns to accommodate yet different caller successful Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes Mysteries series, manager Harry Bradbeer (who directed the archetypal two) has been swapped retired for Philip Barantini, who is amended known for his enactment connected Stephen Graham big nail-biters similar Boiling Point and Adolescence. Can those skills construe to the lighter, sillier satellite of Enola Holmes? We’ll find retired erstwhile the Malta-set 3rd movie debuts connected Netflix.

X-Men '97, Season 2 (July 1)

To me, my X-Men! The deed Disney+ bid returns for a 2nd play aft 2 years away, and the stakes could not beryllium higher. No, we’re not talking astir the 3 timelines wherever baddie Apocalypse is antagonizing Marvel’s merry mutants, but alternatively with large shake-ups down the scenes (showrunner Beau DeMayo was fired earlier the Season 1 premiere) and the MCU’s prime level remaining a highly debated subject. All eyes are turning to Xavier’s unit to spot if they tin prevention the location that Tony Stark built.

Outside pressures aside, this isn’t the archetypal clip the animated adventures of the X-Men person battled backmost to effort and prevention a satellite that hates and fears them, arsenic the instrumentality of the archetypal X-Men: The Animated Series formed succeeded beyond each expectations successful Season 1. That’s a precocious barroom to wide for Season 2, but already aboriginal reviews (hey, we gave it a 9 retired of 10!) are glowingly positive. And with our heroes trapped passim time, caller iconic characters from the comic books popping up, and storylines that look to accommodate everything from The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix to Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s game-changing New X-Men, it seems similar X volition people the spot erstwhile again.

Silo, Season 3 (July 3)

The wildest, weirdest sci-fi amusement connected TV is backmost for a 3rd play successful beforehand of the already filmed 4th and last season, and determination is simply a lot going connected with the Apple TV post-apocalypse epic. Set successful a monolithic underground bunker hundreds of years successful the aboriginal wherever 10,000 radical person ne'er seen the extracurricular satellite different than done a camera successful the cafeteria, Season 2 ended — and spoilers past this point — with the adventurous Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) and her antagonist Bernard (Tim Robbins) trapped successful a enclosure and astir to beryllium flash-fried. Then the enactment jumped backmost hundreds of years to before the apocalypse with a young Congressman named Daniel (Ashley Zukerman) going connected what helium thought was a day with Helen (Jessica Henwick), but who turned retired to beryllium a writer asking him astir a soiled weaponry successful the nation’s capital.

How does this past pb up to the post-apocalyptic aboriginal of Silo? You’ll find retired successful Season 3 arsenic the 10 episodes leap backmost and distant betwixt timelines, fundamentally vacillating betwixt a taut governmental thriller and a sci-fi rebellion story, with wild, insane swerves throughout. Trust us, you won’t spot wherever this 1 is going close up until the jaw-dropping last episode. And with lone 1 play to go, this is simply a large clip to get locked into Silo.

The Ghost successful the Shell (July 7)

Looks similar cyberpunk is backmost connected the menu, boys, and this clip it’s thankfully Scarlett Johansson-free, arsenic Prime Video is releasing what’s meant to beryllium a faithful anime adaptation of the iconic manga bid by Masamune Shirow.

While determination person been aggregate animated adaptations and spin-offs already astir cyborg cybercrime-fighter Motoko Kusanagi (as good arsenic the maligned live-action mentation hinted astatine above), this 1 comes from Science SARU, the folks down (among different things) the monolithic 2024 hit, Dandadan. Can they instrumentality a cyberpunk franchise from the distant aboriginal of [checks notes] the mid-2020s and marque it inactive consciousness similar thing retired of this world? We’ll find retired soon enough.

The Hawk (July 16)

It feels similar it’s been a portion since we’ve seen Will Ferrell successful a straight-up comedy, and indeed, if you skip past Apple TV’s vacation movie Spirited, the past truly goofy Ferrell flick was 2020’s Eurovision. Well, present he’s backmost connected The Hawk, a Netflix bid astir a washed-up golfer trying to get immoderate of his mojo backmost by heading backmost connected the tour.

If that sounds a small similar Apple TV’s Stick, which stars Owen Wilson successful a akin scenario, let’s marque matters much confusing by telling you that The Hawk co-stars Luke Wilson. But different than play and a Wilson brother, these 2 shows look to veer successful antithetic directions, with Stick much grounded and The Hawk an over-the-top laugh-fest successful the mode of Happy Gilmore (but with Ferrell alternatively of Adam Sandler).

The amusement besides stars Molly Shannon arsenic Ferrell’s ex-wife, Jimmy Tatro arsenic his younger rival, Chris Parnell, and Fortune Feimster. Curiously, the bid was antecedently being developed by Ferrell, Ramy Youssef, and Josh Rabinowitz, with the second 2 leaving owed to the classical “creative differences.”

King of the Hill, Season 15 (July 20)

That lad continues to not beryllium close arsenic the astonishment deed instrumentality of the animated bid continues successful Season 15 with different 10 all-new episodes connected Hulu.

Set years aft the archetypal amusement successful sort-of existent time, Bobby Hill (Pamela Adlon) is present mostly grown up, moving arsenic a chef, and dating Connie (Lauren Tom), overmuch to the chagrin of their parents. In the caller season, erstwhile Bobby ends up connected a cooking contention TV show, things get adjacent much complicated.

Meanwhile, Hank (Mike Judge) and Peggy (Kathy Najimy) are dealing with their retirement, arsenic good arsenic what that means for their inactive evolving relationship. And someway successful there, they each find clip to caput to a comic convention.

Read our erstwhile season 14 reappraisal of the revival (we gave it a 10!).

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 4 (July 23)

Is it wholly unfair to telephone this a lame duck play of Paramount+’s Star Trek prequel series? With Starfleet Academy canceled, and 1 abbreviated last play coming aft Strange New Worlds Season 4, a batch seems successful flux with the storied franchise, which is possibly excessively overmuch to enactment connected the shoulders of a bid that sometimes has its characters bursting into opus oregon exploring a Hollywood enigma connected a proto-holodeck.

As opposed to erstwhile seasons — which alternated goofy one-offs mostly astir Spock (Ethan Peck) being highly horny with bigger mythology episodes astir the menace of the reptilian Gorn — and based simply connected the trailer for the upcoming 4th season, it seems similar things are erring connected the broadside of superior (your random abstraction dragon aside). That makes a benignant of consciousness too, arsenic Strange New Worlds has progressively leaned into its relation arsenic prequel to The Original Series, dilatory shuffling the non-canon characters to the broadside successful favour of the Kirk (Paul Wesley) led unit uncovering their footing connected an Enterprise presently captained by the doomed Pike (Anson Mount).

Regardless of walking america up to the archetypal occurrence of the archetypal show, oregon extracurricular pressures astir whether there’s any aboriginal for Gene Roddenberry’s imaginativeness of the aboriginal astatine Paramount connected the tiny screen, it’ll inactive beryllium bully to person the unit backmost successful action. Punch it.

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe (July 23)

Is this the weirdest TV spin-off successful history? Maybe, possibly not, but it’s surely an unexpected swerve for the Big Bang Theory Cinematic Universe (BBTCU), which frankincense acold has delivered a Wonder Years-esque Young Sheldon and the sitcom shenanigans of Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage since the originating series.

Instead, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe focuses connected respective supporting characters — Kevin Sussman’s Stuart Bloom, Brian Posehn’s Bert Kibbler, Lauren Lapkus’ Denise, and John Ross Bowie’s Barry Kripke — arsenic they effort to halt the upcoming demolition of the multiverse. Seriously.

The bizarre azygous camera sci-fi drama volition face the characters with post-apocalypse versions of themselves, fascist regimes, and overmuch much arsenic they interact with different supporting players from the BBTCU (Bazingaverse, perhaps?), including Wil Wheaton, Christine Baranski, Riki Lindhome, and others. Whatever this amusement ends up being, you can’t accidental they didn’t instrumentality a large plaything with this one.

The Walking Dead: Dead City, Season 3 (July 26)

Speaking of franchises that whitethorn beryllium connected their past legs, The Walking Dead Universe — which came adjacent to play episodes astatine 1 constituent connected AMC and AMC+ — is present down to the last play of Daryl Dixon aboriginal this twelvemonth and this 3rd play of Dead City, which has yet to denote a follow-up.

That said, we’re pulling for the 3rd play of the Escape From New York-esque series, which finds Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) erstwhile again teaming up to effort and propulsion Manhattan backmost from the borderline of chaos. This play besides features a caller showrunner successful franchise stalwart Seth Hoffman, truthful here’s hoping the muddy disorder that ended up infusing past play tin beryllium swept distant similar truthful overmuch walker detritus, and we tin get backmost to the bully stuff… meaning Negan and Maggie being full bad-asses and whupping zombie butt.

Batman: Caped Crusader, Season 2 (July 31)

It’s clip for DC’s least-heralded character, a feline named “Batman,” to yet get his owed successful the 2nd play of Prime Video’s animated series. More seriously, this amusement was initially pitched arsenic benignant of a redo of the classical Batman: The Animated Series by co-creator Bruce Timm. The darker, much big bid picked up with Batman aboriginal successful his vocation encountering wholly caller versions of villains for the archetypal time.

This clip around, Hamish Linklater’s Bruce Wayne/Batman, who does not dependable wholly dissimilar from H. Jon Benjamin’s Bob Belcher, is tangling with The Riddler, Scarecrow, Mad Hatter, and a deadly superior mentation of The Joker archetypal introduced successful the Season 1 finale. Time to caput backmost to Gotham erstwhile again.

Will you beryllium watching immoderate of these bid this month? What other are you looking guardant to that we didn’t get to? Vote successful our canvass and let’s sermon successful the comments!

You tin chat with Alex Zalben connected BlueSky @azalben.bsky.social, oregon find him regularly yapping connected the Comic Book Club podcast.