July 2025 on Shudder, AMC+, Acorn TV and HIDIVE – Acorn TV highlights include The Madame Blanc Mysteries, Kostas and Summertide.
July 2025 on Shudder, AMC+, Acorn TV and HIDIVE – AMC+ highlights include The Furry Detectives: Unmasking A Monster, Mama June: From Hot to Not and NOS4A2.
July 2025 on Shudder, AMC+, Acorn TV and HIDIVE – Shudder highlights include Push, Monster Island and Hell Motel.
July 2025 on Shudder, AMC+, Acorn TV and HIDIVE – HIDIVE highlights include Call of the Night.
ACORN TV
The Madame Blanc Mysteries – Acorn TV Original Series
New Series Premieres Exclusively on Acorn TV and AMC+ Monday 2 June
Season four returns to the wonderful world of Sainte Victoire, packed with unusual antiques and objéts d’art, murder, mystery, sunshine and laughter.
Sally Lindsay returns as Jean White, who is navigating a fledgling romance with her sidekick Dom Hayes, played by Steve Edge (Starlings, Murder They Hope,Maxine). Co-writer Sue Vincent (Mount Pleasant,Shameless) stars as mechanic Gloria Beaushaw, while Robin Askwith (Strike,Benidorm) and Sue Holderness (Only Fools and Horses,Still Open All Hours,The Green Green Grass)reprise their roles as eccentric married couple Jeremy and Judith Lloyd James, and Alex Gaumond (Derry Girls, My Dinner With Hervé,Death In Paradise) is back as Chief of Police André Caron. Tony Robinson (Blackadder,Time Team) and Paul Chuckle (Elliott) complete the cast as Dom’s Uncle Patrick, a petty thief turned pub landlord, and Trevor, Gloria’s dad.
Kostas
Series Binge Premieres on Acorn TV and AMC+ Monday 28 July
Athens Homicide Chief Kostas Charistos interrupts his vacation to investigate the discovery of a body after an earthquake on the Greek island where he was staying with his wife, daughter and her boyfriend. But he also has to deal with the murder of a young Albanian couple.
Summertide
New Episode Binges Premiere Weekly on Acorn TV and AMC+ Beginning Monday 28 July
After losing his beloved wife Julia (Amalia Uys) to tragedy, renowned marine biologist Martin Field (Frank Rautenbach) leaves his old life behind and moves his rebellious teenage son and daughter to his childhood home in Simon’s Town to begin again. With Julia’s memory as his driving force, he pours his heart into setting up a conservation trust to protect the marine life along the False Bay coast. Will he find calm in these waters or does his past hide painful secrets beneath the surface?
AMC+
The Furry Detectives: Unmasking A Monster
New Series Premieres Thursday, 17 July Exclusively on AMC+
A riveting true crime docu-series, The Furry Detectives: Unmasking A Monster unpacks the 2018 event known in the Furry community as the “Furry Zoosadist Leaks,” which exposed a horrifying conspiracy of animal abuse lurking beneath the Fandom’s playful exterior. The series follows the pack of dedicated vigilantes who teamed up to bring down the monsters behind the masks. Navigating the line between amateur sleuthing and official police investigation, the Furry Detectives exposed a ring of animal abusers, fought for victims, and defended their community from the evil within.
Mama June: From Hot to Not
Season 7 Premieres Friday 25 July Exclusively on AMC+
Mama June is back and undergoing the most dramatic total body transformation ever. After a series of extensive plastic surgeries and intense workouts, June will debut a new look that will shock the world!
NOS4A2 – AMC+ Original Series
Series Binge Premieres Thursday, 24 July Exclusively on AMC+ and Shudder
Vic McQueen (Ashley Cummings, Citadel) is a young, working-class artist who discovers she has a supernatural ability to track the seemingly immortal Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto, American Horror Story). Manx feeds off the souls of children, then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – a twisted Christmas Village of Manx’s imagination where every day is Christmas day and unhappiness is against the law. Vic must strive to defeat Manx and rescue his victims – without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself.
SHUDDER
Push – Shudder Original Film
New Film Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 11 July
Haunted by the memory of her late fiancé, Natalie Flores (Alicia Sanz, El Cid) finds herself 8 months pregnant and in desperate need of a new start. Determined to regain her sense of self, she moves to America and uses her real estate license to take on a challenging listing. However, she soon discovers her new beginning may be a deadly end when she catches the eye of a sadistic killer (Raúl Castillo, Smile 2) at her open house. After becoming stranded at the property, Natalie falls into premature labor, starting a physiological ticking clock as she must find a way to escape before she gives birth.
Monster Island – Shudder Exclusive Film
New Film Premieres on Shudder and AMC+ Monday 25 July
Based on Malay Folklore and drawing inspiration from Creature From the Black Lagoon, this creature feature is set in World War II. A Japanese ship transporting prisoners of war to occupied territories for slave labor. After being torpedoed by allied submarines, a Japanese soldier and a British POW are stranded on a deserted island and soon discover that they’re being hunted by a ferocious mythological creature, the Orang Ikan. Both the soldier and POW realize that they must work together to survive the unknown, despite their differences. Starring Dean Fukjioka (Fullmetal Alchemist) Callum Woodhouse (All Creatures Great & Small).
Hell Motel – Shudder Original Series
New Episodes Weekly Until Series Finale Exclusively on Shudder, AMC+ Tuesday 29 July
From the creators of Slasher, this all-new horror anthology series, starring Emmy® Award-winner Eric McCormack, sees a group of 10 true crime obsessives invited to the opening weekend of the newly renovated Cold River Motel, the site of a 30-year-old unsolved Satanic Mass Murder. History repeats itself when the guests get stranded and start getting knocked off one by one during a murder spree that grows exponentially more gruesome than the original with each kill.
HIDIVE
Call of the Night
Season 2 Simulcast Premieres 4 July Exclusively on HIDIVE
Summer marks the return of human/vampire love with the highly anticipated second season of Call of the Night, the acclaimed supernatural romance drama set to premiere on July 4 exclusively on HIDIVE. Ko overcomes his confusion about becoming a vampire and decides to “like” Nazuna, while Nazuna resolves to make Ko “fall in love” with her. Without understanding what “love” even is, the two of them spend their nights together in a frenzy.
Meanwhile, Detective Uguisu Anko is closing in with her plot to kill vampires, not just Nazuna. A vampire’s weakness is “anything they were attached to when they were human” and so they all try to get rid of this weakness before it’s too late. But, Nazuna has no memory of her human life. What is Nazuna’s hidden past? Why did Anko start killing vampires? And what is the “secret” that Nazuna and Anko share?
For Ko, Nazuna, Anko, a fun “late night” doesn’t end here… a new “night” begins! Call of the Night Season 2 is directed by Tomoyuki Itamura along with writing by Michiko Yokote, character design by Haruka Sagaw and production by Liden Films.
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July 2025 on Shudder, AMC+, Acorn TV and HIDIVE
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