My Top 14 Choices for July TV

Can you believe we are halfway through the year already? Where has the time gone? Thank goodness there is a lot of TV to watch to fill all that time.

As for July, just like every month so far this year, there is a lot of TV to watch from dramas – whether they are new, returning or coming to an end – to made-for-TV and box office movies airing via streaming.

My top choices for next month include the following:

STREAMING AND MADE-FOR-TV MOVIES

Chris Pratt is coming to the streaming screen in the Amazon thriller The Tomorrow War that will debut on July 2. The premise of the movie has time travelers, from the year 2051, coming back in time to deliver an urgent message: 30 years in the future mankind is losing a war against an alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians to be transported to the future to join the fight. Determined to save the world for his daughter, Dan Forester (Pratt) teams up with a scientist and with his estranged father (J.K. Simmons). Chuck alum Yvonne Strahovski is among the cast.

A nearly all-female cast will be featured in the Netflix assassin drama Gunpowder Milkshake that is set to debut on July 14. Karen Gillan, Carla Gugino, Lena Headey, Freya Allan, Michelle Yeoh and Angela Bassett all star in the movie that finds a dangerous assassin reunited with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen in order to protect an 8-year-old girl. Paul Giamatti co-stars.

On July 18, the feel-good UPtv movie Love in Whitbrooke will debut at 7 PM. Hallmark movies alum Brittany Bristow will star as a project manager, who is offered the opportunity of a lifetime in London; but when she returns to her hometown and meets the perfect guy (Corey Sevier), her passion and talent for painting is rekindled, giving her a new outlook on life and love.

The Netflix romantic drama The Last Letter From Your Lover will debut online on July 23. The movie chronicles what happens when a journalist sets out to solve a mystery of a secret affair after she finds a trove of love letters from the 1960s. Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner and Joe Alwyn also star.

BOX OFFICE MOVIES (ON THE SMALL SCREEN)

The following movies will be released in the theatres, but you can also see them on the small screen at home thanks to Disney+:

Black Widow on July 7, starring Scarlett Johansson as the Marvel Universe character

Jungle Cruise on July 30, starring Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson in the remake of the classic film

RETURNING TO THE FOLD

Among the shows returning with a new season or new episodes in July are:

Virgin River on July 9 on Netflix
Superman & Lois on July 13 on The CW at 9 PM
Never Have I Ever on July 13 on Netflix
Burden of Truth on July 30 on The CW at 8 PM

FINALE TIME

The following shows will air their finales in July:

Loki on July 14 on Disney+
Kung Fu on The CW at 8 PM on July 21

COMING BACK FOR MORE

Leverage ran for 5 seasons from 2008 through 2012 on TNT; and the show will be back for the first 8 episodes of its 16 episode season on IMDb TV on July 9 under the guise of a slightly new name – Leverage: Redemption. The series picks up Eight years after the original series, once again finding Sophie (Gina Bellman), Parker (Beth Riesgraf), Eliot (Christian Kane), and Hardison (Aldis Hodge) going after the rich and powerful. This time they are joined by Harry (Noah Wyle), a corporate lawyer looking for redemption after realizing he’s been on the wrong side of the table his entire career, and Hardison’s sister Breanna (Aleyse Shannon), who has a knack for computers, robotics, and getting into trouble.

Our full July TV calendar – featuring returning, debuting and ending dramas as well as plenty of movies – went live on Sunday. Check it out and mark your calendars!