Everything British Worth Streaming in June 2024

Most people think of June as the end of the year or the end of a season, mainly due to a dozen years of mass public education which runs from September until the middle of June. But in the world of TV, June is not the end, it is the beginning. For Emmys, the TV BAFTAS, the TCA Awards, and many others, the calendar of shows in a given year of eligibility runs from June-May. That makes June 1 the top of the Jewish year for TV series debuting, and anything that's leftover from May is just stragglers trying to keep Emmy voters' attention until the voting window closes on the 28th.

On our PBS June streaming list, that clean slate was real, with everything beginning anew. Out in the rest of the world, it's not quite as clean a break, especially for shows like Bridgerton, where Netflix can't admit that its binge model failed yet and thusly insists on dividing the season into two parts as if that solves anything. (Spoiler alert: It does not.) But between June being Pride Month, June being Wedding Season, and June being the end of the school year, what we end up with is a weirdo mish-mash of stuff, some of which deserves more attention than it will get, and the rest getting far more attention than it deserves.

It also means the list is short; no filler here; it's all bangers all the time. let's run down what British shows are arriving which will be worth watching in June across the streaming landscape.

Snowpiercer Season 3

Considering that most experts assume AMC Networks is going to eventually fold and be absorbed into a more prominent streamer like WarnerBros Discovery's Max, it's not without a small amount of irony that AMC Networks was the one that shelled out to rescue Snowpiercer from the waste pile of perfectly good content the streamer has consigned all its decent British series. The first two seasons of the Sean Bean-Jennifer Connelly-starrer are immediately available as a binge on Saturday, June 1, and the previously completed-but-binned-before-airing Season 3 arrives one week later on June 8 on AMC+.

My Life Is Murder Season 4

Lucy Lawless returns as Alexa Crowe in the fourth season of My Life is Murder and eight new mysteries, co-starring Ebony Vagulans as Madison and Chowder the Cat presiding. The popular New Zealand mystery of the week will debut with two episodes the week after Harry Wild ends, on Monday, June 17, exclusively on Acorn TV, with one episode a week to follow.

Orphan Black: Echoes

It's been almost a decade since BBC America accidentally fell backside over teakettle into the cult hit Orphan Black, making Tatiana Maslany a name that could wind up a Marvel A-lister. Now, they're hoping to reverse engineer the process for a sequel starring former Marvel star Krysten Ritter and co-starring Keeley Hawes. The series premieres on AMC+, AMC, and BBC America simultaneously on Sunday, June 23, and will air/stream one episode a week.

Domino Day

The BBC Three supernatural series Domino Day would have once been home on BBC America, along with Being Human et al., but is now buried on Sundance Now. Siena Kelly stars as the titular witch with extraordinary powers; Domino desperately seeks a community that can help her understand who she is, but she doesn't need to look far, as a coven of witches is already tracking her every move. The series premieres on both Sundance and AMC+ on Thursday, June 27, with two episodes, followed by one a week.

Changing Ends Season 1

Alan Carr’s semi-autobiographical sitcom Changing Ends focuses on the comedian’s upbringing in Northampton in the 1980s as the son of a professional football manager with Oliver Savell as young Alan Carr. Against the backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain, Alan experiences sexual awakenings, battles with bullies, and navigates the highs and lows of fourth-division football. All six episodes arrive on Thursday, June 6, 2024.

Blue Lights Season 2

The critically acclaimed Belfast set Blue Lights returns, with Sian Brooke, Katherine Devlin, and Nathan Braniff growing as police officers. However, nothing can prepare them for the turmoil they face every day dealing with a major gangland feud in the city. New hire Shane Bradley (Frank Blake) is drafted in to help, but his motivations are unclear. Two episodes premiere Thursday, June 13, followed by two a week until the beginning of July.

Northern Lights Season 1

BritBox's less heralded debut for June is Northern Lights, set in Dublin North City Centre’s Capel Street and Northside Quays; the new series tells the story of two grieving strangers, Lloyd (Stephen Jones) and Áine (Elva Trill) become beacons of light for one another when they need it most. All six episodes arrive on Wednesday, June 26, 2024.

Queenie

Hulu's Onyx Collective scooped up Queenie, the Channel 4 adaptation of Candice Carty-Williams' novel of the same name. Dionne Brown stars as the titular 20-something, living in south London, straddling two cultures with her upper-class journalism job and her Jamaican roots and slotting neatly into neither. All episodes arrive on Hulu (and under the Hulu tile on Disney+) on Friday, June 7, 2024.

Wreck Season 2

Hulu also scooped up several U.K. LGBTQ+-oriented series for Pride Month, including the UK's first-ever gay dating show, I Kissed a Boy, Kylie Minogue's special An Audience with Kylie, and the second season of horror-comedy Wreck, which only gets bloodier and sillier as it goes along. The latter's the best of the batch and arrives Tuesday, June 11, 2024, with all episodes.

House of the Dragon Season 2

The spinoff of the series that made British-ish sci-fi/fantasy shows a massive thing for the last 15 years and counting, House of the Dragon Season 2 returns you to your regularly scheduled Targaryen Civil War in which everyone from Matt Smith to Eve Best is cursed to wear terrible looking wigs. The series debuts on HBO and Max on Sunday, June 16, and airs weekly until mid-August.

Bridgerton Season 3, Part 2

For once, Netflix only has the bangers. Bridgerton Season 3, Part 2, will return with the latter half of the series' eight installments, where hopefully Colin and Pen will do more than play around in a carriage, and we'll actually meet Francesa's future love interest instead of the spouse she's going to marry. The back four episodes arrive Thursday, June 13, 2024.

Supacell

Former Doctor Who companion Tosin Cole does the only sensible thing a man in his position can do after touring all of time and space in a small blue box: He is going to become a superpowered person in Supacell and wander around saving the world (or at least his girlfriend), with the help of a few superpowered found family friends. Supacell debuts with all episodes in the back half of June.

Olympic Trials & Such

The 2024 Summer Olympics debut in Paris in July, but Peacock is going all out the way it was initially supposed to for the 2020 Games when it originally launched. (Better late than never!) That means tons of trials and chances to preview just how superhuman some of these single-mindedly trained athletes can be. The trials stream all month, so just turn on the streaming service and check out what's on day to day.

My Lady Jane Season 1

My Lady Jane is very loosely based on the book of the same name, which itself is very loosely based on the tragic tale of Lady Jane Grey, the young Tudor noblewoman who was Queen of England for nine days and then beheaded in 1553. That is to say, it's not in the slightest bit historically accurate, and it likes it that way. So will you. All episodes will arrive on Thursday, July 27, 2024.