Everything British Worth Streaming in July 2025

July has been an odd month in the entertainment landscape ever since the streaming wars began in the mid-2010s. Before that, despite the prevalence of cable, July and August were still the quietest months on the docket, as long-time television executives had grown up with the idea of a "summer off season" and while a few cable channels would do summer premieres of high end series, it was still mostly the land of reality shows and summer reruns.

Netflix changed all that in 2015, as it began to rev up its original series, and within a couple of years was releasing as many new series in July and August as the other ten months of the year, and its competitors soon followed suit. Of course, that all came to a crashing halt when the pandemic wasn't over in ten weeks in 2020, and then hit a second wall in 2023 when the actors' strike joined the already ongoing writers' strike. Since 2024, traditional networks have returned to a more relaxed approach to the summer months, with only a handful of releases, most of which are American. However, it is truly a sign of how much the old normal has become new again, as Netflix's list is actually smaller this month than BritBox's.

Of course, some networks are missing from this list because they only do one British show at a time (Apple TV+, HBO), and they are in the middle of it (The Gilded Age, The Buccaneers), much like Masterpiece and PBS with Grantchester and Patience. Also, Netflix does have the ongoing Trainwreck anthology, none of which are worth making this list. So let's run down everything British streaming and airing around the apps for July 2025.