July's Best 16 TV Premieres Start With a "WHAM!"

From the director of the Fyre Festival documentary comes this behind-the-scenes look at the rise of WHAM! with exclusive access to the archives of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, plus interviews and concert footage. 

Dolores (Justine Machado) is fresh out of prison when she begins a massage business out of her friend's empanada shop. When one client gets out of hand, Dolores is suddenly covering up a crime and the meat pies now contain more than the usual recipe. This comedy series is inspired by "Sweeney Todd" and was previously a popular Gimlet Media podcast. 

You may think your in-laws are something else, but what if they were bank robbers? In this new comedy action film starring Adam Devine, Nina Dobrev, Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin, things get awkward when worlds collide. 

After the success of the “Flowers In the Attic” films, Lifetime is adapting Andrews’ other series. In it, Dawn grows up in a hardworking family only to have everything torn apart. 

This adventure series follows Jenkins, a travel journalist trekking the globe. Through his journeys, he tests his physical abilities and challenges perceptions of the abilities or bigger bodied people. 

Another after-party means another murder for Det. Danner (Tiffany Haddish) to investigate. This time, it’s a wedding gone awry, and the groom is dead. Like last season, each episode will shift in genre according to a different character’s point of view. 

In this twisty, spiderwebbed series from Steven Soderbergh, a Manhattan teen’s kidnapping reverberates to other pockets of the globe due to his family’s hidden connections to Guyana. The all-star cast includes Claire Danes, Timothy Olyphant, Zazie Beetz, Jharrel Jerome, Dennis Quaid, CCH Pounder, Sheyi Cole and Jim Gaffigan. 

This is the second reboot for this reality series on movie making. Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani and Gina Prince-Bythewood selected a director from a pool of first-timers  – this time all women. When the winner is picked, the real fun begins, with a lot of film-making drama, too. The finished movie will stream on Max as well. 

Based on Michelle Buteau’s autobiographical essay collection, this comedy series also stars Buteau. It follows Mavis, a struggling stylist, fresh off a breakup. As she tries to launch a body-positive fashion line, she also hits the dating scene, with the support of her friends. 

Take a deep breath and watch this documentary about the extreme sport of free diving. Competitors dive without SCUBA gear to see who can go the deepest and the longest without oxygen, sometimes with deadly results. The film specifically follows diver Alessia Zecchini and her safety diver (and boyfriend) Stephen Keenan as they try navigating an 85-foot-long underwater tunnel. 

A trio (John Boyega, Teyonah Parris and Jamie Foxx) uncover a government conspiracy affecting their neighborhood in this sci-fi comedy film. 

One of Taylor Sheridan’s follow-ups to "Yellowstone" is this series about young women in the CIA who go deep undercover to infiltrate terrorist groups. Based on a real-life CIA program, the series stars Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Morgan Freeman and Nicole Kidman. 

A group of strangers (including Ellie Kemper as a newly divorced woman) come together to hike the Appalachian trail in this film based on the romance novel of the same name by Katherine Center. 

"Deadpool" writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick penned this adaptation of the Playstation video game series of the same name. Anthony Mackie plays an amnesiac charged with delivering a mystery package through a post-apocalyptic world, but only if he can fight off marauders in other vehicles, including a killer clown in an ice cream truck (Will Arnett). 

With an unrecognizable Zach Galifianakis in the lead role, this film goes behind the scenes of the Ty Corporation, makers of Beanie Babies, and shows what we may have not known about where these stuffed animals really came from. 

Jackie Chan and John Cena revive the buddy action-comedy in this film where two ex-special forces soldiers escort a group of civilians along Baghdad’s “Highway of Death.”