Premiering TV Shows in July 2024

Those About to Die

Season 1 Starts 18th July // Peacock // Period

Official Synopsis: "Set within the spectacular, complex, and corrupt world of gladiatorial sports in Ancient Rome, an ensemble of characters from all corners of the Roman Empire collide at the explosive intersection of sports, politics, and dynasties."

Why you should watch it: Starring Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Vespasianf, with gladiators, directed by the over the top Roland Emmerich, this could be the train wreck thats impossible to stop watching!

Time Bandits

Season 1 Starts 24th July // Apple TV+ // Fantasy

Official Synopsis: "A comedic journey through time and space with a ragtag group of thieves and their newest recruit: an eleven-year-old history nerd."

Why you should watch it: A reimagining of the 1981 film of the same name directed by Terry Gilliam, who returns as an exec producer. The show is co-written by Taika Waititi, who directs most of the episodes, and stars as a supreme being. Lisa Kudrow stars as Penelope.

Emperor of Ocean Park

Season 1 Starts 14th July // MGM+ // Drama

Official Synopsis: "Set in the worlds of politics, Ivy League academia, and the beaches of Martha's Vineyard, Talcott Garland, an Ivy League law professor whose quiet life is shattered when his father, Judge Oliver Garland, dies of an apparent heart attack. The nature of the judge's death is questioned by Tal's sister, Mariah, a former journalist and inveterate conspiracy theorist, who believes that the judge, a failed Black nominee to the Supreme Court, met with foul play."

Lady in the Lake

Season 1 Starts 19th July // Apple TV+ // Drama

Official Synopsis: "In 1960s Baltimore, an investigative journalist working on an unsolved murder clashes with a woman working to advance the agenda of the city's black community. Maddie Schwartz ditches her doting husband and big Pikesville home to pursue a career as a newspaper reporter. She becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery of two separate killings: eleven-year-old Tessie Fine and a bartender named Cleo Sherwood."

Why you should watch it: Natalie Portman stars as Maddie Schwartz

A Good Girl's Guide To Murder

Season 1 Starts 1st July // BBC Three // Crime

Official Synopsis: "Follows the murder of schoolgirl Andie Bell, a crime that everyone in the quintessentially English town decided was carried out by Sal Singh five years ago. But Pippa Fitz-Amobi - the smart, slightly square heroine - isn't so sure and she's determined to prove it, with many trying to prevent her from finding the truth."

Why you should watch it: Emma Myers, who plays Enid Sinclair in Wednesday, stars as Pippa

Me

Season 1 Starts 11th July // Apple TV+ // Drama

Official Synopsis: "It's a season of change for 12-year-old Ben Vasani when he discovers that he can transform into anyone he meets. As a shapeshifter, Ben must figure out who he is and who he wants to be."

Sunny

Season 1 Starts 10th July // Apple TV+ // Comedy

Official Synopsis: "The life of an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As consolation, she is given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband's electronics company."

The Decameron

Season 1 Starts 25th July // Netflix // Drama

Official Synopsis: "The eight episode drama takes place in 1348, as the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence. A handful of nobles are invited to retreat with their servants to a grand villa in the Italian countryside and wait out the pestilence with a lavish holiday. But as social rules wear thin, what starts as a wine-soaked sex romp in the hills of Tuscany descends into an all out scramble for survival."

Women in Blue

Season 1 Starts 31st July // Apple TV+ // Crime

Official Synopsis: "In 1971, four women defy ultra-conservative norms and join Mexico's first female police force - only to discover that it's a publicity stunt to distract the media from a serial killer. As the body count grows, they make a pact to bring the killer to justice."

Returning TV Shows in July 2024

Snowpiercer

Season 4 Returns 21st July // Network: TNT // Science Fiction

Official Synopsis: "Snowpiercer is set in 2021, seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland, and follows the remnants of humanity who have taken shelter on a perpetually moving luxury train. Designed and built by the eccentric billionaire Mr. Wilford, the train consists of 1,001 carriages and circles the globe 2.7 times per year. The constant motion of the train provides energy and prevents the passengers from freezing as well. Since the catastrophe, the train's population has become rigidly separated by class, caught up in a revolutionary struggle against the strictly imposed social hierarchy and unbalanced allocation of limited resources."

Futurama

Season 9 Returns 29th July // Network: Hulu // Animation

Official Synopsis: "When Fry, a somewhat dim-witted 25 year-old pizza delivery boy for Panucci's Pizza is asked to make a drop at Applied Cryogenics, it's the beginning of a journey that will take him more than a thousand years into the future. Fry falls into one of the company's capsules and doesn't emerge until the dawn of the year 3000. Here he befriends a beautiful one-eyed alien called Leela (a worker at the New York based cryogenics factory) and a degenerate robot named Bender. The trio track down Fry's great-great-great-etc. nephew, Professor Farnsworth, who hires the three to work for his intergalactic delivery service. Together they traverse the cosmos delivering goods for Planet Express, Leela serves as the ship's captain and Bender indulges in his love of booze, large cigars and pornography. "

Star Trek: Prodigy

Season 2 Returns 1st July // Network: Paramount+ // Science Fiction

Official Synopsis: "In 2383, after the events of Star Trek: Voyager, a motley crew of young aliens in the Delta Quadrant find an abandoned Starfleet ship, the USS Protostar. Taking control of the ship, they must learn to work together as they make their way towards the Alpha Quadrant."

Cobra Kai

Season 6 Returns 18th July // Network: Netflix // Action

Official Synopsis: "Cobra Kai takes place 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament and finds Johnny Lawrence on the hunt for redemption by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai karate dojo. This reignites his old rivalry with the successful Daniel LaRusso, who has been working to maintain the balance in his life without mentor Mr. Miyagi."

Vikings: Valhalla

Season 3 Returns 11th July // Network: Netflix // Action

Official Synopsis: "Set one hundred years after the events of Vikings, as tensions between the Vikings and the English royals reach a bloody breaking point and as the Vikings themselves clash over their conflicting Christian and Pagan beliefs. Leif Erikson, Freydis Eiriksdottir and Harald Hardrada begin an epic journey that will take them across oceans and through battlefields, from Kattegat to England and beyond, as they fight for survival and glory. The series shows the end of the Viking Age, marked by the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066."

The Serpent Queen

Season 2 Returns 12th July // Network: Starz // Period

Official Synopsis: "Considered an immigrant, common and plain, Catherine de Medici is married into the 16th century French court as an orphaned teenager expected to bring a fortune in dowry and produce many heirs, only to discover that her husband is in love with an older woman, her dowry is unpaid and she is unable to concieve. Yet, only with her intelligence and determination, she manages to keep her marriage alive and masters the bloodsport that is the monarchy better than anyone else, ruling France for 50 years."

The Ark

Season 2 Returns 17th July // Network: Syfy // Science Fiction

Official Synopsis: "100 years in the future, planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive."

Marvel's Hit-Monkey

Season 2 Returns 15th July // Network: Hulu // Animation

Official Synopsis: "After a high-profile political assassination goes sideways, an injured hitman hides out amongst a tribe of snow monkeys in the mountains of Japan."