July in Toronto means school’s out, the backyard’s in constant use, and at some point, you’ve run out of excuses not to be outside. That’s fine. But the evenings are still yours.
Here’s what’s worth watching this month.
As always, you can see a full calendar for the entire year here.
What’s New In July
Here’s the lineup of new and returning shows premiering in July 2026 across all the major platforms.
1. Elle
Premiere date: July 1
Where to watch: Prime Video
It’s a Legally Blonde prequel set in 1995, following Elle Woods through high school before she ever set foot at Harvard. The show covers the friendships, the fashion, and the formative moments that shaped her into the character you remember. If you watched the original film with your kids, or just have fond memories of it, this one is built for exactly that audience.
2. Silo Season 3
Premiere date: July 3
Where to watch: Apple TV
Season three splits the timeline. One thread follows Juliette in the present, who survived her cleaning but came back with memory loss, while a second thread goes back to the very origins of the silos. It’s a big swing, and it should answer some of the questions the show has been sitting on. Season four is already confirmed as the final one, so the end is finally in sight if you’ve been along for the whole ride.
3. Trying Season 5
Premiere date: July 8
Where to watch: Apple TV
Nikki and Jason finally have the family they spent four seasons trying to build, and now the biological mother of their kids has shown up at the front door. This season has some actual stakes to work with, which should give the show a bit more tension than usual. Still warm, still easy to binge, but this one isn’t just coasting.
4. Little House on the Prairie Season 1
Premiere date: July 9
Where to watch: Netflix
This is a full reboot, not the original 1970s series. Netflix brought in an executive producer from The Boys and built something closer to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books than the TV show, specifically adapting the third novel in the series. It was already renewed for a second season before the first episode aired, which tells you Netflix has confidence in it. Whether it earns that confidence is another question.
5. The Five Star Weekend
Premiere date: July 9
Where to watch: Peacock
Jennifer Garner plays a food blogger and author who loses her husband and pulls her closest friends together for a weekend in Nantucket to deal with the fallout. D’Arcy Carden, Gemma Chan, Regina Hall, and Chloe Sevigny round out the cast. Based on an Elin Hilderbrand novel, so it’s going for the beach read crowd. The cast is strong enough that it could deliver more than that.
6. Lucky
Premiere date: July 15
Where to watch: Apple TV
Anya Taylor-Joy plays a con artist who botches a heist and ends up being chased by both the FBI and a crime boss she burned. Annette Bening plays the mob leader, Timothy Olyphant plays her father, and Drew Starkey plays her husband. That’s a stacked cast for what is essentially a stylish thriller, and Apple TV tends to know what to do with material like this. Based on a New York Times bestselling novel if that matters to you.
7. The Westies
Premiere date: July 12
Where to watch: MGM+
Set in 1980s Hell’s Kitchen, this follows the Irish-American Westies crime syndicate as construction of the Jacob Javits Convention Center on their turf sets off a chain of internal conflict and FBI pressure. J.K. Simmons and Titus Welliver headline. MGM+ does period crime well, and that cast alone is reason enough to give it a look.
8. Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
Premiere date: July 23
Where to watch: HBO Max
This is the Big Bang Theory spinoff that nobody expected. Stuart accidentally breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard and triggers a multiverse collapse, which leads to alternate universe versions of familiar characters showing up throughout the season. Kevin Sussman, Lauren Lapkus, and John Ross Bowie (Kripke) lead it. It looks deliberately weird in a way that could either be charming or a complete mess. Either way, I’m curious.
9. The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3
Premiere date: July 26
Where to watch: AMC
Maggie, Negan, and Perlie are back in Manhattan, this time focused on actually rebuilding something rather than just surviving. There’s also a standalone episode this season imagining a world where the apocalypse never happened, which is either a fascinating detour or a strange use of forty minutes, depending on how they pull it off. Dead City has been the strongest corner of the Walking Dead universe in a while, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt.
TV Power Rankings
And if any of these make it into regular rotation, they might show up on my Power Rankings: Top 10 TV Shows of 2026.
