Everything British Worth Streaming in June 2025

We've reached June, which is a moment of reset for the world of television. Despite awards shows like The Golden Globes and the TV BAFTAs moving to a calendar year eligibility (January to December) in recent years, as the advent of streaming upended the traditional TV season, the American Emmy Awards have held firm to a June-May schedule, forcing the entire industry to stick to the old ways, when June through August were a write off during which new shows began filming for September to May broadcast.

With May 31st still technically the end of the year for American networks, but the summer no longer anything close to an off-season, June functions as a strange outlier where streaming services either premiere stuff that hasn't a prayer of awards attention OR the new season of whatever hit is up for nominations for the previous year, to remind critics how much they love that series, and putting it top of mind when voting starts. (FX's The Bear is notorious for using the latter method quite effectively.)

So, where PBS's schedule for June typically has to divide between the end-of-the-year pledge and the beginning-of-the-year series debuts, the rest of the streaming world ends up as a bit of a mish-mosh, a combination of high-profile shows and stuff we won't remember come July. Let's run down everything British streaming and airing around the apps for June 2025.

Art Detectives 

Stephen Moyer stars as DI Mick Palmer in Acorn TV's latest "older TV star anchors cozy crime series," Art Detectives, where weekly murders connect to the world of art and antiques, from Old Master paintings, to Banksy street art, medieval manuscripts, and collectible vinyl. But Mick's art knowledge stems from his dirty secret: his father is Britain’s most notorious forger. The series debuts on Acorn TV with two episodes on Monday, June 9, 2025, followed by one episode a week on Mondays.

Inside/Bariau Season 1

Acorn TV continues its Welsh programming pick-ups with Inside/Bariau, its first to arrive with both language options. A gritty and realistic drama set within the harsh confines of a contemporary Welsh prison, based on testimonies from real-life prisoners and prison guards, the series explores the complex interplay between four central characters on both sides of the law. All episodes will be available as a binge on Acorn TV starting Monday, June 23, 2025. Season 2 is expected to follow in 2026.

Nautilus

Inspired by Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Nautilus was initially commissioned and entirely produced by Disney+ before tossing the results overboard, only for AMC Networks to go full bottom-feeder and pick it up on the cheap. Shazad Latif stars as Capt Nemo, on a mission to enact revenge on the East India Mercantile Company, who took everything from him. The new series premieres on Sunday, June 29, 2025, on AMC and AMC+ at 9 p.m. ET with one a week to follow.

The Buccaneers Season 2

Apple TV+'s success with Severance at the top of the year may have been the win the streaming service needed to reprieve it from the threatened bloodbath coming for its critically adored shows, which no one knew existed. That includes The Buccaneers, the lavish and gorgeous reimagining of Edith Wharton's best-selling novel, though the real test is whether it lands a Season 3. Season 2 debuts on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, with a new episode to follow each week through the beginning of August.

Mr. Loverman

After being criminally passed over by American streaming services just because the story of a bisexual Caribbean immigrant in the U.K. trying to balance his marriage against the love of his life didn’t speak to a bunch of wealthy white dudes, BritBox finally brings Mr. Loverman to the U.S., even if it took winning two topline BAFTAs to make it happen. The limited series debuts with two episodes on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, and will stream two installments a week on Wednesdays through the end of the month.

Richard Osman’s House of Games

As previously noted, BritBox is gradually introducing panel and game shows to its lineup, as it expands its library to include shows that were once considered too British for Americans to handle. The latest arrival is the hit quiz series Richard Osman’s House of Games. (This is almost certainly due to the forthcoming The Thursday Murder Club on Netflix, which is based on Osman’s best-selling novel.) All 15 episodes of the show’s inaugural season arrive on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

Outrageous

However, BritBox’s most significant original series debut for June is, hands down, the star-studded series Outrageous. Led by Bridgerton’s Bessie Carter (daughter of Downton Abbey’s Jim Carter and The Crown’s Imelda Staunton), the new series traces the lives of the U.K.’s notorious Bright Young Things, the Mitford Sisters, whose escapades helped invent U.K. tabloid culture as it is known today. The series premieres with two episodes on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, with one episode airing weekly on Wednesdays through July.

(The levels of marketing in comparison to anything else the streaming service has debuted is... well... see the title.)

The Good Ship Murder Season 2

The Good Ship Murder was a surprise hit in 2023, starring Shayne Ward as police detective-turned-cabaret-singer, Jack Grayling, who finds himself solving murders on board the luxury Mediterranean cruise ship where he works with the help of the ship’s First Officer (Catherine Tyldesley). Season 1 belatedly appeared on BritBox in 2024; Season 2 only made fans wait six months after its January debut on Channel 5. The series premieres on Thursday, June 26, 2025, and will stream weekly through August.

Ocean with David Attenborough

At 99 years old, David Attenborough is running out of time to get the planet on board with his "save the climate" idea*. After the BBC was accused of censoring some of his more strident (but factual) statements in his TV series Wild Isles, Attenborough took this project to National Geographic, which is part of the Disney collective. The result is Ocean, a feature film that celebrates our seas even as Attenborough begs viewers to save them. The film will land on streaming on Saturday, June 7, 2025.

(*You'd think we'd be more easily convinced.) 

The Gilded Age Season 3

The show on our list that is blatantly trying to pull a "The Bear" by releasing Season 3 right before voting on Season 2 closes is HBO (and the once and future HBO Max), which debuts The Gilded Age this June, despite the series debuting in winter for its first two outings. The awards play comes as HBO executive Casey Bloys barely managed to renew the series by the skin of his teeth, and he's hoping hardware (even if it's just for the hats) will help make Season 4 a reality*. Season 3 debuts on Sunday, June 22, 2025, on HBO and soon-to-be-HBO Max again at 9 p.m. ET, with one episode a week to follow through August.

(*The truth is, the only way Season 4 happens is if WBD CEO David Zaslav has been shamed enough by his Max naming debacle to butt out. Unfortunately, survey says the man has no shame.)

The Survivors

One of the shortest Netflix lists in memory, the only real series worth watching on Netflix this month is the Australian mystery series The Survivors. When a young woman's body turns up with no indication of how she died, it dredges up a cold case from 15 years ago, when a storm killed three teenagers in the coastal town of Evelyn Bay while two younger teens escaped. But were those deaths the result of nature or something else? All episodes drop Friday, June 6, 2025.

Trainwreck Anthology

This British series of documentaries about weird and frivolous pop culture ephemera, Trainwreck, first debuted in 2022 as a three-part standalone series about Woodstock '99. Now, Netflix revives the format, releasing new installments weekly starting Tuesday, June 10, 2025, and streaming them all summer long. Most won't be worth watching unless you really need to know all the gory details about things that are better off left in the wastebin of history, but we won't judge if you check them out. (Much.)

The 78th Annual Tony Awards

The sheer amount of British talent nominated for the 78th Tony Awards, celebrating the 2024-2025 theater season, is the only reason this live event made the cut. Most of the time, we wouldn't note it (other than Cynthia Erivo performing because good GOD is she spectacular). However, considering that we have Louis McCartney, Laura Donnelly, Sarah Snook, Tom Francis, Jak Malone, Sam Mendes, Kip Williams, Jamie Lloyd, plus David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts for Operation Mincemeat, all nominated for top-line hardware, it seemed worth covering. The live event streams on Paramount+ at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, June 8, 2025.