Everything British Worth Streaming in July 2025

July has been an odd month in the entertainment landscape ever since the streaming wars began in the mid-2010s. Before that, despite the prevalence of cable, July and August were still the quietest months on the docket, as long-time television executives had grown up with the idea of a "summer off season" and while a few cable channels would do summer premieres of high end series, it was still mostly the land of reality shows and summer reruns.

Netflix changed all that in 2015, as it began to rev up its original series, and within a couple of years was releasing as many new series in July and August as the other ten months of the year, and its competitors soon followed suit. Of course, that all came to a crashing halt when the pandemic wasn't over in ten weeks in 2020, and then hit a second wall in 2023 when the actors' strike joined the already ongoing writers' strike. Since 2024, traditional networks have returned to a more relaxed approach to the summer months, with only a handful of releases, most of which are American. However, it is truly a sign of how much the old normal has become new again, as Netflix's list is actually smaller this month than BritBox's.

Of course, some networks are missing from this list because they only do one British show at a time (Apple TV+, HBO), and they are in the middle of it (The Gilded Age, The Buccaneers), much like Masterpiece and PBS with Grantchester and Patience. Also, Netflix does have the ongoing Trainwreck anthology, none of which are worth making this list. So let's run down everything British streaming and airing around the apps for July 2025.

The Madame Blanc Mysteries Season 4

Sally Lindsay returns as the titular Jean White in The Madame Blanc Mysteries, now with Steve Edge as her boyfriend, Dom Hayes. Acorn TV held the Christmas episode from December 2024 to be part of the double episode premiere for the first time this year, bringing a holy jolly holiday in the south of France to American viewers in the doldrums of summer before returning to its usual one mystery-via-antiques-of-the-week schedule through the end of the month. Two episodes debut on Monday, July 7, 2025, with one episode to follow each week.

Summertide Season 1

Acorn TV has achieved massive success with Murdoch Mysteries, with Season 18 concluding this month on the service. With few other programs running two dozen episodes a year, it has been hard for the streaming service to find a show to fill the August-January gap left by the show's absence from the schedule. Most years, Acorn TV assembles a string of cozy crime shows to get through the six months, but for 2025, it's trying something different: Summertide, a South African soap opera that runs 52 episodes a year. Acorn will debut the series on Monday, July 28, 2025, with the first five episodes before moving it to one episode a week for the foreseeable future.

Foundation Season 3

Since The Buccaneers has the actual British-style period drama slot, the only new series Apple TV+ will debut in July is the British-ish Foundation. Jared Harris leads a revolving cast of British and American actors (the show jumps 100 years at a time each season) with Star Trek alum Alexander Siddig joining the roster for the show's third outing. The series will debut on Friday, July 11, 2025, with new episodes released weekly, every Friday, through mid-September.

QI (V) Season 23

Britbox was faithfully bringing over episodes of QI when it was first launched back in 2017, as part of its initial mandate to be the legal way for British ex-pats to watch their favorite BBC shows without having to resort to VPNing iPlayer. However, the streaming service dropped it for a while when it didn't gain traction, and it began focusing on originals. However, since being acquired wholly by the BBC, game shows have once again been debuting on the service, and QI Series V is no exception. All 12 episodes will arrive in time for the American holiday on Friday, July 4, 2025.

The Ex-Wife Season 2 

The first season of The Ex-Wife was honestly terrible, and the fact that it's getting a second season would probably not rate mentioning, save for one small detail. One of the characters has been completely recast with a new actor, Darren-on-Bewitched style, and it's none other than.... The Ex-Wife of the series title. Will that actually make the show better? It certainly can't hurt, nor will Britbox's decision to release the four-episode series weekly this time, instead of a binge like it did with Season 1. The Ex-Wife debuts on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 and will follow with one episode a week on Tuesdays through the end of the month.

Pigs

A cute companion to BritBox's ongoing hit Outrageous, Pigs is a short film that was released independently earlier in 2025, starring Outrageous' Bessie Carter performing alongside her father Jim Carter (Downton Abbey) and Olivia Williams (who co-starred alongside her mother, Imelda Staunton, in The Crown) The short film debuts Wednesday, July 16, 2025 the same day as Outrageous' finale episode.

Code of Silence

BritBox's next big hit after Outrageous will be Code of Silence, a series with a fresh spin on the amateur-professional odd couple crime-solvers genre. Rose Ayling Ellis (Ludwig) stars as a deaf canteen employee at a police precinct yanked into a high-stakes investigation into a criminal gang due to her lip-reading abilities. The show was a critical darling in the U.K. and has already been renewed for Season 2, so mark your calendars to watch this one when it debuts. The series premieres Thursday, July 24, 2025, with two episodes, followed by one a week on Thursdays through mid-August.

Such Brave Girls Season 2

Kat Sadler and Lizzie Davidson are back as two of TV's most undertherapized sisters in Such Brave Girls Season 2. The surprise breakout hit, which was critically adored in the U.K. and undermarketed in the U.S., has earned a genuine push by Hulu to make American viewers aware that one of the most brutal comedies of the decade is returning this summer to punch us all in the face. All episodes of Such Brave Girls Season 2 debut Monday, July 7, 2025.

Washington Black

Sterling K. Brown is taking his decade of success on This Is Us and built up clout to get personal projects made, starting with Washington Black, an adaptation of the novel by Esi Edugyan. Brown stars as George Washington "Wash" Black, born on a Caribbean plantation and whisked away to the U.K. when his master discovers he's a scientific genius. The period piece spans the globe, but everyone (except Brown) who is in it is British, so it falls entirely within our purview. All eight episodes of Washington Black arrive on Hulu on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.

Dope Girls

FINALLY! One of the series we have been anxiously waiting to cross the pond, the interwar period-set crime series Dope Girls, has an American distributor and a release date. Hulu scooped up the six episode series inspired by Marek Kohn’s nonfiction book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground, the series puts two trailblazing women on a collision course: Kate Gallaway (Julianne Nicholson), who refuses to return to hearth and home now that's she's discovered her true calling of running a nightclub and Violet Davies (Eliza Scanlen), part of the first wave of female officers to join the Metropolitan Police. All six episodes debut on Monday, July 28, 2025.

The Sandman Season 2

The second and final season of Netflix's adaptation of the seminal comic The Sandman was supposedly already decided long before disgraced author Neil Gaiman's most recent behaviors came to light, and considering how much of the comic it covers, that does seem to have been the case. The more irritating part of it is Netflix's continued refusal to admit bingeing doesn't work, so instead, they've split the 11-episode season into three "Batch releases" with Part 1 (Episodes 1-6) on Thursday, July 3, Part 2 (Episodes 7-10) on Thursday, July 24, and the finale episode on Thursday, July 31, 2025. I mean, at that point, why don't you just make it two episodes a week?

Too Much

On the other hand, no one needs more weekly Lena Dunham, whose brand of cringe comedy kept her in the headlines and the controversy cycle for six seasons of HBO's Girls. After moving to the U.K. to break that cycle, Dunham met an English musician whom she eventually married. Now the two of them are collaborating on Too Much, where a gross-out emotional wreckingball of a 30-something moves to the U.K., where she meets... A British musician whom she eventually marries. Funny that. All episodes arrive on Thursday, July 10, 2025.

The Lazarus Project Season 2

Netflix's second rescue from the limbo of the once and future HBO Max, after it successfully turned The Tourist into a hit, is rewarded to The Lazarus Project, one of the best shows to air on TNT in the last decade that no one has any idea exists. The show was fumbled from the beginning, yanked from the lineup ahead of the WBD merger, and completely unmarketed by anyone. Season 2 came out six months later in the U.K., and despite TNT signing on to air it, it simply disappeared. Thankfully, Netflix is finally rectifying this egregious oversight, licensing both seasons from the failing service and officially premiering all episodes of Season 2 on Monday, July 28, 2025.