In between all of the sporting action this month, there’s loads of great stuff on streaming in a year that’s already been packed with huge TV shows. While House of the Dragon Season 3 continues throughout July, you can also catch the finale of Heartstopper with Netflix’s feature-length film Heartstopper Forever, Jennifer Garner’s new drama The Five Star Weekend, and Anya Taylor-Joy in the crime thriller Lucky. Here are the most essential watches for this month:

Elle

25 years after Legally Blonde became a hit (“What, like it’s hard?”), Amazon Prime Video is revisiting the story of Elle Woods with its new prequel series. Elle sees Lexi Minetree take on the iconic role made famous by Reese Witherspoon, with the show following her during her high school years in the 1990s, before she got into Harvard Law School. She’s got much of the sunny optimism, confidence and love of fashion that you’ll remember from the original; this younger version of Elle is still learning how to navigate family expectations and first romances. A coming-of-age comedy, it’s already been renewed for a second season ahead of the premiere and will explore the formative experiences that helped shape the iconic future lawyer.

Releases: 03.07.2026
Watch it on: Amazon Prime

Little House on the Prairie

The classic frontier stories contained in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s original Little House on the Prairie books are being re-adapted for the screen by Netflix this month. This new version (following the popular 70s TV series) follows the Ingalls family as they travel across the American frontier in search of a better life in the 19th century. Alice Halsey stars as Laura, the curious and adventurous young girl based on the author’s own childhood self, while Luke Bracey and Crosby Fitzgerald play her parents, Charles and Caroline. Expect family drama and a fight for survival as the Ingalls family faces harsh winters, difficult journeys and the realities of life in the romanticised yet often harsh frontier.

Releases: 09.07.2026
Watch it on: Netflix

Silo Season 3

Apple TV+’s sci-fi series Silo, which has grown a steady following over the years, is back for season three. Mission Impossible and Dune star Rebecca Ferguson returns as Juliette Nichols, who continues her quest to uncover the truth about the vast underground silos where humanity now lives- and we’ll find out even more about how humans got there. While last season focused on what lies outside the silo walls (particularly the finale), the hook here is the world that existed before civilisation retreated underground. Juliette is suffering from memory loss while the silo inhabitants grow ever more restless, and there’s a parallel narrative set years before the present following Daniel (Ashley Zuckerman) and Helen (Jessica Henwick).

Releases: 03.07.2026
Watch it on: Apple TV

The Five-Star Weekend

Jennifer Garner leads this glossy adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling novel about friendships and long-kept secrets. Garner plays Hollis Shaw, a successful food vlogger whose life is thrown into turmoil following a personal tragedy. Hoping to find comfort and guidance in her grief, she invites four women from different chapters of her life to spend a weekend together at her luxurious Nantucket home. What begins as a chance to reconnect quickly becomes far more complicated, however, as old grievances, long-buried secrets and unresolved tensions begin bubbling to the surface. Also starring Regina Hall, Gemma Chan and Chloë Sevigny, it looks set to be one of the summer’s most bingeable dramas.

Releases: 16.07.2026
Watch it on: Sky Atlantic

Ride or Die

Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham team up for this action-comedy series about two best friends whose lives are turned upside down by the fact that one is leading a double life. Debbie (Spencer) discovers that her seemingly ordinary bestie Judith (Waddingham) is actually a highly trained international assassin, and suddenly the pair are forced to flee across Europe together when they’re attacked. Pursued by dangerous enemies and caught up in an increasingly chaotic international conspiracy, they’re on a race against time to escape their pursuers. There’s plenty of car chases, train fights and action-packed drama, but also wrestles with a key question: can a years-long friendship survive such a head-spinning turn of events? Bill Nighy and Ed Skrein also star.

Releases: 15/07/2026
Watch it on: Amazon Prime

Lucky

Anya Taylor-Joy stars in this Apple TV+ thriller based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel. She plays Lucky Armstrong, a woman who is keen to leave her troubled criminal past behind and build a successful new life for herself. However, when a heist goes wrong, dangerous figures from her former life suddenly re-emerge, and Lucky is forced to confront secrets she hoped would stay buried forever. Now on the run, she must rely on her skills as a master con artist and her considerable wits to keep herself from being arrested- or killed. Alongside Taylor-Joy, the series stars Drew Starkey, Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. We can’t wait.

Releases: 15.07.2026
Watch it on: Apple TV

Heartstopper Forever

Rather than a fourth season, Netflix is bringing the much-loved LGBTQ drama Heartstopper to a close with a feature-length finale. Heartstopper Forever reunites Kit Connor and Joe Locke as Nick and Charlie, whose relationship faces its biggest challenge yet as adulthood begins to pull them in different directions. Nick is preparing to leave for university, while Charlie is becoming increasingly independent, raising difficult questions about what their future together might look like. Meanwhile, the rest of their friendship group is also navigating major life changes of their own. This special feature-length finale promises a heartfelt and emotional farewell to Nick and Charlie, who’ve become two of TV’s most popular characters.

Releases: 17.06.2026
Watch it on: Netflix








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