June 2026 on Shudder, AMC+, Acorn TV and HIDIVE – Acorn TV highlights include Harry Wild, Summertide and Van der Valk.
June 2026 on Shudder, AMC+, Acorn TV and HIDIVE – AMC+ highlights include The Vampire Lestat, The Vampire Lestat: After Dark Series, I Think You’re Overthinking It and This is Poly.
June 2026 on Shudder, AMC+, Acorn TV and HIDIVE – Shudder highlights include Smothered, Find Your Friends, The Voices of Our Mother and Tales From the Crypt.
June 2026 on Shudder, AMC+, Acorn TV and HIDIVE – HIDIVE highlights include Yowayowa Sensei, Kirio Fan Club and The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior.
ACORN TV
Harry Wild – Acorn TV Exclusive Series
Season 5 Two-Episode Premiere Monday 22 June on Acorn TV and AMC+
Harry, Fergus, and Charlie are pulled into their most dangerous and complex cases yet. With the help of new pathologist Pierce Kennedy, the team take on undercover operations, chilling murders, and relentless criminals who push them to the edge.
Summertide
Season 1 Part 2 Episodes Premiere Mondays Exclusively on Acorn TV and AMC+
New South African drama centered on renowned marine biologist Martin Field (Frank Rautenbach) who, after losing his beloved wife Julia (Amalia Uys) to tragedy, 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?
Van der Valk
Season 3 Premiere Monday 4 May on Acorn TV and AMC+
in this fast-paced procedural that explores complex crimes set against the backdrop of Amsterdam’s contrasting worlds. Marc Warren (The Good Wife) returns as Dutch Detective Piet Van der Valk. And it’s a new day and a new dawn as he welcomes two new Sergeants to the team – the hotshot but impulsive Eddie Sueman and the technical whiz Citra Li. Meanwhile, Piet’s ex, Lena comes back into his life – will they get a second chance?
AMC+
The Vampire Lestat – AMC+ Exclusive Series
New Season Premieres Sunday 7 June on AMC+
In the new rock and roll centric season, the Vampire Lestat (Sam Reid) goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population. The series also stars Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle.
The Vampire Lestat: After Dark Series – AMC+ Exclusive Series
New Episodes Premieres Every Sunday on AMC+
Hosted by writer, producer and podcast host Lizzie Bassett (What Went Wrong), the After Show will take fans behind the scenes of each weekly episode of The Vampire Lestat, featuring interviews with series cast and producers, including Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles, Executive Producer Mark Johnson and Executive Producer and Showrunner Rolin Jones.
I Think You’re Overthinking It – AMC+ Exclusive Series
New Vodcast Series Premieres Sunday 31 May on AMC+
Comedian and Podcast pioneer Chris Hardwick relaunches the I Think You’re Overthinking It podcast which focuses on pop culture, movies, TV, music, comedy and more, all through the lens of overthinking.
The audio and video podcast, which tapes in Los Angeles, features weekly guests, including Billy Magnussen (The Audacity, Lilo & Stitch), Alison Brie (Glow, Community) Nathan Fillion (The Rookie, Castle), Jason Ritter(Matlock, Captain Fall), Eli Roth (Ice Cream Man, Borderlands), and Lamorne Morris (New Girl, Fargo) with more to be announced.
The deep-dive, free-flowing conversations explore the intersection of personal hobbies, life lessons, and the obsessive side of fandom—all while attempting to navigate the beautiful, neurotic mess of overthinking everything.
This is Poly – AMC+ Exclusive Series
New Series, Episodes Every Friday on AMC+ Until the Season Finale July 17
A new, unscripted series exploring the real lives of modern polyamorous relationships. The 8-episode series takes a first-of-its-kind look at the world of polyamory, following the lives of five wildly different polycules, interconnected groups of people in polyamorous relationships.
As they build lives and families outside traditional norms, the series dives into the emotional realities of jealousy, commitment, communication, and trust, testing every rule of love and redefining what it means to be a family.
SHUDDER
Smothered – Shudder Original Film
New Film Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 29 May
Alif is a micro-painting artist who has an accident and loses part of his memory. After returning home, an old woman appears claiming to be his mother, but Alif doesn’t recognize her and is suspicious of her intentions. Starring Rio Dewanto, Faradina Mufti and Vonny Anggraini.
Find Your Friends – Shudder Original Film
New Film Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 12 June
Amber and her four best friends flee Los Angeles for a girls’ trip in Joshua Tree, only to find themselves unwelcome in a desert town simmering with quiet hostility. As isolation sets in and encounters with aggressive locals grow more threatening, festering resentments within the group begin to surface.
What begins as fun and reckless escape spirals into a violent struggle for control and survival, as past wounds and present dangers collide in a night that turns their trip into a revenge-fueled nightmare. Starring Bella Thorne (Divinity), Chloe Cherry (Euphoria), Helena Howard (Madeline’s Madeline), Sophia Ali (Uncharted), and Zion Moreno (Gossip Girl).
The Voices of Our Mother– Shudder Original Film
New Film Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 19 June
The Voices of Our Mother follows Harriet Scaflen (Sheila McCarthy, Women Talking, The Umbrella Academy) after the death of her mother at the age of 95. Harriet then has an unexplainable health scare, bringing her four estranged children to the family home to care for her.
As their past animosities and secrets are revealed, they soon realize their mother’s health issues may be supernatural, and the awoken evil inside her is seeking revenge on her children for her own survival. Directed by and starring Mark O’Brien (The Righteous, Ready or Not, Halt and Catch Fire).
Tales From the Crypt – Shudder Exclusive Series
Seasons 6 & 7 Premiere Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ 5 June and 12 June, Respectively
Tales from the Crypt, the popular 90s horror anthology series inspired by the 1950s EC Comics, is back exclusively streaming on Shudder! Each episode is a self-contained story often featuring well-known talent and directors – and hosted by the Crypt Keeper (John Kassir), a wisecracking corpse known for his macabre puns.
With its signature unrestricted gore, profanity, and dark irony, the show’s episode styles range from comedy to drama and deliver twisted moral lessons where “bad people” meet poetically horrific ends – and issues like greed, lust, and moral decay lead to tragic consequences.
The series features a long list of A-list guest stars including Brad Pitt, Demi Moore, John Lithgow, Christopher Reeve, Catherine O’Hara, Steve Buscemi, Brooke Shields and many more.
Several episodes have been directed by well-known talent including Rober Zemeckis, Tobe Hooper and William Friedkin, as well as acclaimed actors such as Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael J. Fox.
HIDIVE
Yowayowa Sensei – HIDIVE Exclusive
Dub Premiere Wednesday, 24 June on HIDIVE
All the love and laughs of this season’s hit rom-com series Yowayowa Sensei can soon be enjoyed in English dub as well starting June 24 with new dub episodes every Wednesday thereafter in June. High school homeroom teacher Hiyori Hiwamura is known as the “Scary Teacher,” and if you offend her, she’ll put a curse on you!
Or at least that’s what everyone believes. She’s secretly a total softy who’s deeply misunderstood, and once you see her sweet side, she’ll put a different kind of spell on you… Unfortunately, one of her students, Akihito Abikura, has accidentally discovered her secret. Yowayowa Sensei is directed by Hiroshi Ishiodori together with series composition by Yukinori Fukushima and production by Brain’s Base.
Kirio Fan Club – HIDIVE Exclusive
Season 2 Dub Premiere Wednesday, 10 June on HIDIVE
Spring’s fan favorite rom-com series Kirio Fan Club and all its hilarity can soon be relished all over again in English dub beginning June 10 and followed by new dub episodes every Wednesday all this June. Aimi and Nami don’t have much in common, with one glaring exception: Kirio, the boy they both have a crush on!
The battle to prove who loves him more has begun, leading to such deep philosophical questions as, “Would you still love him if he had farts that broke the sound barrier?” and the classic “Would you still love him if he was a worm?”
But as the girls’ friendship deepens, they find themselves wondering if their shot at love is as important as their hilarious and heartwarming friendship. Kirio Fan Club is directed by So Toyama together with writing by Aya Satsuki and production by Satelight.
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (HIDIVE Exclusive)
Season 2 Dub Premieres Wednesdays in June
Fans of this spring’s hit series The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior can now experience all the fantasy and romance of Season 2 in English dub with new dub episodes every Wednesday throughout June, following its premiere last month on May 20.
Pride Royal Ivy is an eight-year-old princess. One day she realizes something: in her previous life she had been an ordinary girl born into a typical Japanese family—nothing special, just a normal child.
But now, she has been reborn as the cruel and merciless final-boss queen in the otome game Kimi to Hitosuji no Hikari o(“A Ray of Light With You”). Realizing this, she now decides to rely on her memories of having played the game and achieve something only she can do: avoid the coming tragedies and create a world where every character can find happiness.
Thus begins a fantasy about a highly capable villainess princess striving to avoid becoming the final boss. The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior Season 2 is directed by Norio Nitta together with writing by Deko Akao and production by OLM Team Yoshioka.
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June 2026 on Shudder, AMC+, Acorn TV and HIDIVE
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