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Everything Coming to BritBox & Acorn TV in June 2026

It’s our monthly rundown of everything coming to the British-focused niche streaming services like BritBox, National Theater at Home, and Acorn TV in June 2026.

Ani Bundel

29 May 2026 — 6 min read

Jessica Reynolds in 'A Woman on Substance' (BritBox)

It’s about to be a quiet month in June 2026 on streaming services, especially for British programming. We knew ahead of time that June and July would have less overseas programming than usual; the United States Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) falls on July 4. Every network and streaming service in the U.S. – yes, even BritBox – is getting in on the action, which means we have a lot of American-made and American-focused programming arriving over the next six weeks.

However, the landscape isn’t completely devoid of new arrivals from across the pond. You’re Killing Me and Summerwater both just premiered on Acorn TV and will stream new episodes through the end of June; The Other Bennet Sister and Silent Witness both still have a full half-season to go on BritBox. Also of note: after sitting out last month, National Theater at Home is back on the monthly release roster with an older favorite that everyone should get a chance to check out if they’ve never seen it.

So even though the news may be filled with stories about the 250th anniversary of our nation, and programming will get increasingly patriotic as we head into July, there are still a few escapist series heading our way. We are deeply grateful for their distraction.

Let’s review everything coming to the dedicated niche streaming services in June 2026.

You’re Killing Me and Summerwater aren’t the only shows streaming new episodes on Acorn throughout June. Murdoch Mysteries enters the back half of Season 19, and all 14 episodes of True Crime Story: It Couldn’t Happen Here Season 1 will also debut mid-month.

Wild Spring

David Attenborough is still producing new, groundbreaking nature series, despite having hit triple digits. Still, even BBC America is starting to look ahead to when he’s no longer with us to narrate the wonders of the planet. To that end, AMC Global has produced the network’s first non-BBC Nature special to air on linear and stream on AMC+. Wild Spring isn’t anything groundbreaking, but it doesn’t need to be. It just needs to be wonderfully soothing, and it achieves that in spades.

Wild Spring debuts on Saturday, June 6, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. ET on BBC America and streams with all four episodes as a binge on AMC+. The series will release one episode a week on Saturdays through mid-July.

Doctor Who Seasons 1-13 (Series 27-39)

I rarely include older shows that switch streaming services – if we did list those, these posts would be endless. However, the Doctor Who shift from HBO Max to AMC+ is notable for a couple of reasons. The first is that when the show moved to Disney+, AMC let the rights to the earlier reboot seasons lapse, making HBO Max the only place in the U.S. to stream them. However, this isn’t just AMC+ picking up the rights again now that the Disney partnership is over; HBO Max is actively divesting itself of the series.

Also, and most importantly, this does not mean the new seasons are coming to AMC+.

This is just all the reboot seasons, starting with the Ninth Doctor, running through the end of the Thirteenth. We promise that when the new seasons find a home, we’ll tell you. But this isn’t it.

All 13 seasons of Doctor Who’s reboot era will be available to stream on AMC+ starting on Thursday, June 11, 2026.

Harry Wild Season 5

Acorn TV isn’t abandoning us completely. Harry Wild’s fifth season may be the only major debut for the service in June, but it’s a massive fan favorite. Moreover, the series is taking a page from what Acorn TV learned from Irish Blood and You’re Killing Me: it’s ok to bring the occasional American aboard. In this case, it’ll be Joe Lando, Harry Wild star Jane Seymour’s original love interest from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Let’s hope the addition goes as well for her as it did for Alicia Silverstone and Brooke Shields.

Harry Wild Season 5 premieres on Monday, June 22, 2026, and will stream weekly on Acorn TV through the end of July.

National Theater at Home logo (National Theater)

The Audience

It’s been a decade since Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen brought Peter Morgan’s stage play, The Audience, to Broadway in 2015. A spinoff of Morgan’s hit movie The Queen, Mirren and Sheen reprised their roles as Queen Elizabeth II and PM Tony Blair in a two-hour show that focused on the many Prime Ministers who served her majesty. It was Morgan’s main project that fell between that film’s release and the premiere of his hit Netflix series The Crown, and very much feels like the missing link between the two. But as it was not made into a film, the only way to watch is via the National Theater recording.

The Audience will start streaming on National Theater at Home beginning Tuesday, June 2, 2026.

As with Acorn TV, The Other Bennet Sister and Silent Witness aren’t the only series that stream new episodes in June. BritBox scooped up the rights to both seasons of Ian McKellen & Derek Jacobi’s Vicious, and Jimmy Carr’s bizarre game show, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, will arrive with all episodes of Season 14 mid-month.

Beyond Paradise Season 4

I’ve never been so happy to be wrong about when a show is most likely going to arrive on streaming. After BritBox held Beyond Paradise Season 3 until October 2025, I was genuinely worried we’d be left paradise-less all summer long once Death in Paradise Season 15 concluded in early June. But paradise isn’t staying away – instead, BritBox is course correcting back, and once again streaming Beyond Paradise’s premiere on the same day as the Death in Paradise finale. At this rate, we’ll have paradise until at least August – and maybe more, if Return to Paradise Season 2 directly follows.

Beyond Paradise Season 4 will premiere on BritBox on Tuesday, June 9, and stream weekly episodes through mid-July.

Trigger Point Season 3

It’s been almost a year since Trigger Point got a rushed renewal for Season 4 to accommodate the return of Line of Duty for Season 7, but it’s actually only been a few months since Season 3 debuted on ITV; the Season 4 renewal was just that early. The new season is basically arriving on schedule for BritBox, six months after it concluded in the U.K. We should note, however, that this release will be for U.S. viewers only. Canadians will instead get Blue Lights Season 3, which streamed in the U.S. at the end of 2025.

Trigger Point Season 3 arrives on BritBox in the U.S. on Thursday, June 18, 2026, with two episodes, followed by one a week through the end of July. (Blue Lights will follow the same release schedule in Canada.)

A Woman of Substance

Like Acorn TV is doing with Harry Wild, BritBox is saving its big title for the end of the month. A Woman of Substance is perhaps the most wildly anticipated historical costume drama debut on BritBox since... well, since The Other Bennet Sister. Starring Brenda Blethyn and Jessica Reynolds, the new adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s best-selling rags-to-riches tale of women through the 20th century looks like it could be a major series for BritBox, and we will be watching.

A Woman of Substance will premiere on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, on BritBox with two episodes, followed by weekly releases through the beginning of August.