Stream It This Week: TV Premieres July 6–12, 2026

If you haven’t yet seen The Onion and Tim Heidecker’s takeover of Alex Jones’ InfoWars, treat yourself to a laugh today. Of course, it helps to be familiar with the conspiratorial world of self-styled “journalists” like Jones who’ve spread bullshit for cash for decades on the internet and AM radio (it still exists), but the funny is there. Me, I could really go for a Green-flavored HogWater right about now …

Inspector Ellis (Acorn TV) Season 2 premiere: DCI Ellis (Sharon D. Clarke) and DS Harper (Andrew Gower) are dispatched to investigate heretofore unsolvable murder cases across Northern England in the British series Inspector Ellis. First, for us Yanks, DCI stands for Detective Chief Inspector, and DS is Detective Sergeant (thanks to Foreign Crime Drama for the assist). Second, imagine the professional animosity when Ellis and Harper show up because the local cops suck at their job: “Oh look, it’s these fookin’ wankers.” Inspector Ellis S2 trailer

Attack of the Samurai Sharks (Nat Geo, Hulu, Disney+) SharkFest special

World’s Biggest Mako (Nat Geo, Hulu, Disney+) SharkFest special

Backrooms (VOD rent/buy) Movie streaming premiere: Kane Parsons’ indie sci-fi/horror film Backrooms has been a blockbuster hit in theaters, but if you’re among the apparent few who’ve been waiting to watch it in the “comfort” of home, good luck with the mind-bending interior terror in a personal space smaller than your local megaplex. Backrooms falls squarely in the “can’t explain it; gotta see it” subsection of movies, the kind of abstract waking nightmare that could only come from the internet corridors of creepypasta. Maybe don’t watch it alone. Backrooms trailer

[July 7 Update: The VOD release of Backrooms has been pushed back to a later date]

Dark Side of the Ring (Vice) Season 7 premiere: You can’t call yourself a true pro wrestling fan if you haven’t watched Dark Side of the Ring, a stylized docuseries that chronicles the ugly underbelly of an entertainment genre that thrives on kayfabe (the practice of maintaining the illusion that staged events are real, at all costs). I’ll freely admit that I’ve been a casual pro wrestling fan since first discovering Georgia Championship Wrestling on ye olde WTBS SuperStation as a kid, and that I have no moral high ground in mocking reality TV like The Real Housewives, which is basically the same thing. (I will, however, continue to mock them.) This season kicks off with a three-parter about Jeff Jarrett and the TNA Wrestling franchise—IYKYK. Dark Side of the Ring S7 trailer

The Ghost in the Shell (Prime Video) New anime series reboot: The “cyberpunk” Japan depicted in the original 1989–1991 The Ghost in the Shell manga series was set in the far-off year of 2029, as is this new Amazon adaptation, released in the far-nearer 2026. What I’m saying is, let’s all continue to forget that Scarlett Johansson’s live-action 2015 movie Ghost in the Shell ever happened. The Ghost in the Shell trailer

Shark vs. Giant Croc (Nat Geo, Hulu, Disney+) SharkFest special

Summer Sparks (Roku Channel) Movie premiere

Jeff Arcuri: Nice to Meet You (Netflix) Standup comedy special

Better Late Than Single (Netflix) Season 2 premiere

VOD movies rent/buy: Black Box (2026; horror/sci-fi), The Leaching (2026; horror), Passenger (2026; horror), Where the Horses Heal the Soul (2026; documentary)

Wardriver (Paramount+) Movie streaming premiere: Says the synopsis, “Forced into a million-dollar cyberheist, a hacker gets caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse where every line of code could be his last.” Sounds like Swordfish to me, but the trailer (linked below) has a Baby Driver vibe, so I’m not sure what to make of Wardriver. Fun facts I do know: Wardriver was partially filmed in Utah (I recognize several downtown Salt Lake City locations); costar Sasha Calle was Supergirl in 2023’s The Flash (the toxic DC fanboys loudly prefer her over Milly Alcock); and designated villain Jeffrey Donovan really hasn’t done much since Burn Notice ended in 2013 (reboot it!). Wardriver trailer

I’m Not Afraid (Netflix) New series

Salcedo, Leather & Boogaloo (Netflix) New series

Kitchen Chaos (Food Network, HBO Max) New reality series

Nothing to Lose (Netflix) Movie premiere

Trying (Apple TV) Season 5 premiere

The Five-Star Weekend (Peacock) New series: When celebrity food influencer Hollis Shaw (Jennifer Garner) suffers a heartbreaking loss, she invites a group of friends to a weekend at her opulent Nantucket vacation home—all of which suggests that loss wasn’t demonetization. Also, those friends (played by D’Arcy Carden, Regina Hall, Gemma Chan, and Chloë Sevigny) represent different eras of Hollis’ past, and they don’t know each other. Besides that awkwardness, each of the women is going through their own personal crises, making for a luxury porn tearjerker that screams based on a breezy beach-read novel (it is: Erin Hilderbrand’s The Five-Star Weekend). Your mom should be calling to ask for your Peacock account login any day now. The Five-Star Weekend trailer

Little House on the Prairie (Netflix) New series: The 1974–1983 NBC series Little House on the Prairie is a beloved American TV institution that doesn’t need a reboot—so leave it to Netflix to do just that. In the plus column, this new Little House leans more heavily on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s original 1930s books than on the NBC series, depicting the harsh survival realities of the new Western frontier with a more dramatic, authentic grit (but not so much that this Little House on the Prairie could be called a “gritty reboot”). All eight episodes stream on July 9. Little House on the Prairie trailer

The Man Will Burn (HBO, HBO Max) New docuseries: Director Jehane Noujaim (The Vow) takes a four-part historical dive into the infamous Burning Man desert fest, now in its 40th—yes, 40th—year. Your weird uncle should be calling to ask for your HBO Max account login any day now. The Man Will Burn trailer

Press Your Luck (ABC, Hulu) Season 7 premiere

Celebrity Family Feud (ABC, Hulu) Season 12 premiere

The Real Housewives of Orange County (Bravo, Peacock) Season 20 premiere

Project Runway (Freeform, Hulu) Season 22 premiere

Big Brother (CBS, Paramount+) Season 28 premiere

Faces of Death (Shudder) Movie streaming premiere: A website content moderator (Barbie Ferreia) accidentally clicks on a series of videos that seemingly reenact death scenes from the 1978 snuff film Faces of Death—but are they real? Naturally, she investigates, and things go bloody wrong, bloody quickly, proving that there actually is a fate worse than being a website content moderator (been there; I know). Faces of Death trailer

The Long Walk (HBO Max) Movie streaming premiere

Ikka (Netflix) Movie premiere

Miguel Angel Blanco: The 48 Hours That Changed Spain (Netflix) Documentary premiere

The Night Everything Changed (LMN) Movie premiere

Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea (Netflix) Documentary premiere

Escape to the Country (BritBox) Season 33 premiere

VOD movies rent/buy: Corporate Retreat (2026; horror/comedy), Hot Girl Summer (2026; comedy), The Isolate Thief (2026; western/thriller), Mockbuster (2026; documentary), The Outer Threat (2026; sci-fi/thriller), The Third Degree (2026; drama/thriller)

O Little Christmas Market (Hallmark) Movie premiere: In case you thought I was kidding last week that Hallmark is soft-launching Christmas in July, nope. The new O Little Christmas Market has been lovingly spit out of the Hallmark Holiday Plotline Generator™: Small-town artist Olivia (Katherine Barrell) runs her late father’s Christmas market, but an evil corporate developer has plans to tear it down. Then, Olivia learns that the handsome architect she just met-cute at the train station works for said evil corporate developer. Can she rally the townsfolk to save her market and convince the architect to quit and stick around to jingle her single bells? Just play along. O Little Christmas Market trailer

The Apartment Job (Netflix) New series

He Couldn’t Let Go (Lifetime) Movie premiere

Iyanu: The War of Twin Princes (Cartoon Network, HBO Max) Movie premiere

The Real Murders of Atlanta (Oxygen) Season 4 premiere

The Westies (MGM+) New series: The latest MGM+ original that’ll be discovered years from now on Netflix or another less-obscure streaming service is The Westies, a 1980s-set crime drama following the violent New York City turf war between a scrappy Irish gang known as the Westies (the … heroes? … here) and the better-funded, way-better-armed Italian Mafia. The eight-episode series, from Narcos creator Chris Brancato and Godfather of Harlem writer Michael Panes, stars heavyweight scenery-chewers J.K. Simmons as the Westies’ leader and Titus Welliver as a power-mustachioed Hell’s Kitchen police officer. As much as I’d hoped Welliver would be cast as a Westie so he could dust off his hilariously stilted Irish brogue from Season 2 of Sons of Anarchy, he plays a solid cop (you know, being Bosch and all). The Westies trailer

The Salisbury Poisonings: The Sly Next Door (CNN) Documentary premiere

Someone’s Always Watching (Lifetime) Movie premiere

Susana & Elvira: No Plan B (Netflix) Movie premiere

Married at First Sight (Peacock) Season 20 (!) premiere