July TV Highlights: What To Watch This Month

By Brent Furdyk. 2 Jul 2020 10:07 AM

July’s television offerings run the gamut, from a Disney+ revival of “The Muppets” to the latest Tom Hanks feature, “The Greyhound”, along with Amy Schumer’s pregnancy docuseries “Expecting Amy”, the gritty new “Snowpiercer” series, a televised performance of mega-hit Broadway musical “Hamilton”, a virtual “30 Rock” reunion and Beyonce’s new visual album, “Black Is King”.

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'Unsolved Mysteries' - Series Premiere
Netflix
The groundbreaking reality series that hit its stride in the 1980s is back with a new host-free format, exploring unsolved cases and seeking the input of viewers to help solve them.

* Wednesday, July 1
'Warrior Nun' - Series Premiere
Netflix
The latest from "Continuum" creator Simon Barry focuses on 19-year-old Ava (Alba Baptista), who discovers she is part of an ancient order tasked with fighting demons on Earth. Meanwhile, powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her.

* Thursday, July 2
'The Baby-Sitters Club' - Series Premiere
Netflix
The beloved series of YA novels comes to TV with this new series about a group of teen girls who launch their own baby-sitting business.

* Friday, July 3
'Hanna' - Season Premiere
Amazon Prime Video
The second season continues to follow the journey of an extraordinary young girl raised in the forest, as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is.

* Friday, July 3
'Desperados'
Netflix
A panicked young woman ("SNL" alum Nasim Pedrad) and her two best friends (Anna Camp and Sarah Burns) fly to Mexico to delete a ranting email she sent to her new boyfriend. On arrival, they run into her former beau (Lamorne Morris), who soon gets caught up in their frantic scheme.

* Friday, July 3
'Hamilton'

The one-time hottest ticket on Broadway can now be seen from the comfort of your couch, with Disney+ streaming a filmed version of the historical hip-hop musical from creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda.

* Friday, July 3
'Life Size Toys' - Series Premiere
Quibi
This new series for the Quibi streaming service features the "Nitro Circus" gang taking on crazy stunts in life-sized versions of children's toys, from toy cars facing off on a off-the-hook racetrack to an air rocket that can launch a grown man into the sky.

* Monday, July 6
'Stateless' - Series Premiere
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Cate Blanchett is exec producer of this a powerful and timely series about four strangers whose lives collide at an immigration detention centre in the middle of the Australian desert: an airline hostess on the run from a dangerous cult, an Afghan refugee and his family fleeing persecution, a young father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat running out of time to contain a national scandal. Yvonne Strahovski, Jai Courtney, Asher Keddie Fayssal Bazzi, Marta Dusseldorp, Dominic West and Cate Blanchett star.

* Wednesday, July 8
'Tough As Nails' - Series Premiere
CBS
Phil Keoghan ("The Amazing Race") hosts this competition series that celebrates everyday Americans who consider the callouses on their hands a badge of honour. Competitors will be tested for their strength, endurance, agility and mental toughness in challenges that take place in the real world.
'Expecting Amy' - Series Premiere
HBO Max
Amy Schumer's pregnancy journey is chronicled in this four-episode docuseries that finds her juggling a standup comedy special with impending parenthood.

* Thursday, July 9
'Greyhound'
Apple TV+
Tom Hanks stars in this gripping Second World War drama, playing a veteran Navy commander who is tasked with his first wartime mission, to lead a ragtag convoy of merchant ships under attack by Nazi submarines.

* Friday, July 10
'Little Voice' - Series Premiere
Apple TV+
The half-hour coming-of-age drama features original music from Sara Bareilles, following the journey of Bess King (Brittany O’Grady), a uniquely talented performer struggling to fulfill her dreams while navigating rejection, love and complicated family issues.

* Friday, July 10
'The Old Guard'
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Led by an immortal warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile (KiKi Layne), the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary.

* Friday, July 10
'CMA Best Of Fest'
ABC/Mark Levine
This three-hour concert experience is hosted by country music superstar Luke Bryan and features a brand-new, not-to-be-missed performance with Bryan and special guest Darius Rucker, along with vintage performances from past CMA Fests, including such stars as Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and more.

* Monday, July 13
'United We Fall' - Series Premiere
ABC/Mark Levine
Will Sasso and Christina Vidal star as a couple struggling with the demands of parenthood — which become even more complicated when members of their extended family continue to let them know they're doing it all wrong.

* Wednesday, July 15
'Killer Camp' - Series Premiere
The CW
This U.K. reality show gathers a group of contestants who think they're going to be participating in a "Big Brother"-style show set in a summer camp, not realizing they're actually the victims of a homicidal killer intent on knocking them off one at a time. As the campers play games to earn cash during the day, each night one of them will meet their untimely demise in increasingly extreme, hilarious and inventive ways.

* Thursday, July 16
'30 Rock Reunion'
NBC
In this special upfront event to promote NBC's upcoming fall lineup, the cast of "30 Rock" reunite in character for this one-time-only special featuring Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski), Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer), and more.

* Thursday, July 16
'Cursed' - Series Premiere
Netflix
This reimagining of the King Arthur legend is told through the eyes of Nimue, a teenage heroine with a mysterious gift who is destined to become the powerful (and tragic) Lady of the Lake. After her mother's death, she finds an unexpected partner in Arthur, a young mercenary, in a quest to find Merlin and deliver an ancient sword. Over the course of her journey, Nimue will become a symbol of courage and rebellion against the terrifying Red Paladins, and their complicit King Uther.

* Friday, July 17
'Black Is King'
Disney+
Beyonce is star and director of this visual album, described as "a celebratory memoir for the world on the Black experience... a story for the ages that informs and rebuilds the present. A reunion of cultures and shared generational beliefs. A story of how the people left most broken have an extraordinary gift and a purposeful future.”

* Friday, July 31
'Muppets Now' - Series Premiere
Disney+
Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy and the rest of the Muppet gang are back in this limited-run series for Disney+.

* Friday, July 31

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