Your guide to streaming, including The Hawk, Elle, a new Little House on the Prairie, Lucky and FuriousThe Hawk: Will Ferrell as golf legend Lonnie Hawkins. Photograph: Colleen E Hayes/Netflix Wed Jul 01 2026 - 05:15 • 5 MIN READElleFrom Wednesday, July 1st, Prime VideoNow, class: hands up who has watched the movie Legally Blonde and thought, wouldn’t it be great if someone made a prequel TV series chronicling the protagonist’s adventures in high school? All of you? Okay: here it is. Lexi Minetree stars as a younger version of Elle Woods, the hapless Harvard law student played by Reese Witherspoon in the hit film from 2001. She’s living the fabulous life of a rich Los Angeles teen in the mid-1990s, a ditzy blonde in Barbieland, but when her family unexpectedly moves to Seattle she finds herself a brightly coloured fish among a school full of grungy, black-clad sharks. How can she fit in with her classmates and prove she’s not just a vapid valley girl? Elle soon learns that blending in is more than just sporting a Nirvana T-shirt. SiloFrom Friday, July 3rd, Apple TVThe dystopian sci-fi drama starring Rebecca Ferguson has been a huge hit for Apple TV. The third series promises to answer many mysteries for the 10,000 people living underground after a global apocalypse. It will also pose some additional questions, such as how much time the silo dwellers have before their luck runs out. Ferguson stars as Juliette Nichols, who we meet again following an attempted rebellion in the silo, and after she has been forcibly “cleaned”, resulting in memory loss. The series follows a second timeline centuries earlier, when the world faces total annihilation. “The end of the world cannot be stopped. It can only be survived,” one ominous voice says in the trailer. Apple has announced a fourth and final series, so strap in for more mind-blowing future shocks.TryingFrom Wednesday, July 8th, Apple TVEsther Smith and Rafe Spall are back as the adoptive parents Jason and Nikki in the fifth series of the acclaimed comedy created by Andy Wolton. The series tracks their journey through a challenging adoption process as they try to convince authorities that they’re a suitable couple to adopt, and try to win over the children they hope to adopt, the siblings Princess and Tyler. This involves Jason, a Spurs fan, making the sacrifice of switching his allegiance to Arsenal, the team Tyler supports. But Nikki and Jason face another challenge, as Princess and Tyler’s biological mother, Kat, appears, bringing chaos and upending the painstakingly achieved equilibrium.Little House on the PrairieFrom Thursday, July 9th, NetflixGrowing up in Ireland in the 1970s, Little House on the Prairie was a Sunday staple, like Mass or boiled cabbage. Is Netflix streaming that original series for our nostalgic delight? Not a bit of it. This new adaptation of the semi-autobiographical books by Laura Ingalls Wilder features a new cast and a wider perspective, looking at the tough challenges facing people seeking a new life in the American west in the 1800s, and the tension and conflict between the settlers and the indigenous Osage Nation, who considered the prairie their territory. The series, which was created by the longtime Little House fan Rebecca Sonnenshine, stars Alice Halsey as Laura Ingalls, Skywalker Hughes as her older sister Mary, and Luke Bracey and Crosby Fitzgerald as parents Charles and Caroline Ingalls. Get that cabbage on the boil and get settled back in with your favourite prairie family. Ride or DieFrom Wednesday, July 15th, Prime VideoYou think you know your friends, but then your best mate turns out to be Spider-Man or an alien who hitch-hikes around the galaxy, and your life is never the same again. In this new comedy thriller series, Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham are best friends Debbie Claybourne and Judith Burton, but what Debbie doesn’t know is that Judith is actually an international assassin. When a hit goes pear-shaped, however, Judith’s secret is out, and soon the pair are doing a Thelma and Louise, hitting the road and heading across Europe with police, criminals and highly trained assassins hot on their heels. Bill Nighy costars as the shadowy operative known as The Director. LuckyFrom Wednesday, July 15th, Apple TVAnya Taylor-Joy is a con artist trying to escape her criminal past in this high-octane thriller series based on the bestselling novel by Marissa Stapley. Spoiler alert: her past proves a lot harder to shake off than she thought. Her name may be Lucky, but when a multimillion-dollar heist goes wrong, it looks as if her luck is about to run out. With serious people on both sides of the law looking to track her down, Lucky needs to use all the resources she can muster and find a way to beat the odds against her. Timothy Olyphant and Annette Bening costar. The HawkFrom Thursday, July 16th, NetflixWill Ferrell, making his small-screen acting debut, is Lonnie “the Hawk” Hawkins, a golf legend making his comeback against all the odds, hoping to nail one last tournament win to complete the golfing grand slam and secure his place in the pantheon of greats. Back in 2004 the Hawk was the world’s number one, but now his career is on the back nine, and his son, Lance (Jimmy Tatro), has taken over as golf’s golden boy. No one – his son, his ex-wife, Stacy (Molly Shannon), his longtime rival Golden Fisk (Luke Wilson) – believes for a minute that Lonnie can recapture his form, but the Hawk is determined to prove he can still be the Goat. Pompeii: Out of TimeFrom Thursday, July 23rd, Disney+Tom Hiddleston is used to jumping around in time as the Marvel anti-hero Loki, and in this new series, which is part historical documentary and part scripted drama, Hiddleston goes back to the era of ancient Rome, and to the popular seaside town of Pompeii. You could say he’s picked a bad time to arrive, just hours before the town is engulfed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. He’s joined by a team of archaeologists, geologists, historians and people with expertise in natural disasters to tell the story of Pompeii and the real people caught up in the cataclysm. Star Trek: Strange New WorldsFrom Thursday, July 23rd, Paramount+Trekkies everywhere are waiting with anticipation for Paramount to beam them back on to the USS Enterprise for a new series of outer-space adventures with an old-school sensibility. Strange New Worlds makes more than a nod to the original 1960s series, and this fourth series promises to “boldly go one step closer to where it all began”, whatever that means. Anson Mount is back as Capt Christopher Pike, with Ethan Peck as Spock and Rebecca Romijn as Number One. Paramount isn’t giving away many plot details, but we’re assured there’ll be no shortage of new planets, new threats, weird characters and scary aliens.FuriousFrom July 27th, Disney+Alice Black is an FBI agent on the trail of a mysterious serial killer called Catherine, who targets wealthy men. In a highly charged cat-and-mouse game, an intense relationship builds up between the law-enforcement agent and her quarry, until the lines between right and wrong become very blurred indeed. Sounds as if we’ve got our new Killing Eve for summer 2026. Emmy Rossum is Alice, with the Irish actor Lola Petticrew as Catherine, and Scoot McNairy as the seasoned NYPD detective Danny. The series is created and produced by Liz Meriwether, loosely based on the 1987 film Black Widow, which starred Debra Winger and Theresa Russell.IN THIS SECTION