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10 of the best TV shows to watch this June

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28.05.2025

From the final series of Netflix’s gruesome dystopian thriller to the return of the Emmy-winning series set in a Chicago restaurant – and Owen Wilson in a golf comedy.

Golf has been the source of some goofy, wildly popular films, with Bill Murray in Caddyshack, and Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore and next month's Happy Gilmore 2. But Owen Wilson veers toward the sincere, feel-good route in this comic series, as a one-time professional golfer nicknamed Stick, who has since been divorced by his wife and lost his job at a sporting goods store. When he spots a talented 17-year-old golfer, he decides to mentor the boy and give his life new meaning. "The game takes and it takes. The game's finally giving me something back," he says in the trailer. Marc Maron, Judy Greer and Timothy Olyphant have supporting roles, and real-life pro golfers will make cameo appearances, although you'll probably have to be a serious fan to recognise them (no Tiger Woods announced). Whatever your taste for warm, fuzzy sports stories, Wilson, recently seen as an agent of the Time Variance Authority in the Marvel spinoff series Loki, is always fun to watch.

Stick premieres 4 June on Apple TV internationally

Scandalous aristocratic British siblings the Mitford sisters are endlessly fascinating, offering something for everyone: Nancy the witty novelist of manners; Diana the great beauty who married the fascist leader Oswald Mosely; Unity, who became Hitler's pet; Jessica the Communist. Emily Mortimer's recent The Pursuit of Love offered a fictional version based on Nancy's best-known novel. Outrageous focuses on the late 1930s leading up to World War Two. You can imagine the family tensions. Bessie Carter (Prudence Featherington in Bridgerton) is perfectly cast as Nancy, the central character and narrator. Joanna Vanderham is Diana, with Anna Chancellor as their mother – Muv in Mitford-speak – and James Purefoy as their father, Farve. The glamour of the Bright Young Things years still glitters, especially in the wealthy Diana's fabulous dresses and jewels, even as the world spirals toward war and the sisters find themselves on opposite sides of the moral battle. Through it all, Nancy's piercing observations hold this engaging show together.

Outrageous premieres 18 June on BritBox in the US and UKTV in the UK, and later this year on BritBox in Australia

In this thriller based on the 2014 bestselling YA novel by E Lockhart, a group of great-looking, mostly privileged teenagers gathers every summer on a private island owned by the wealthy Sinclair family. The setting alone is a recipe for trouble. The show starts with Sinclair grandchild Cadence (Emily Alyn Lind) left for dead on the beach. Her voiceover explains that she has no memory of that traumatic night and no one will tell her what happened, but that she is determined to find out. The story then flashes back to follow Cadence, her two cousins Mirren and Johnny and family friend Gat (Esther McGregor, Shubham Maheshwari and Joseph Zada), a mischievous bunch the family calls the Liars, as they flirt, swim and head toward disaster. The grown-up actors include David Morse as Cadence's grandfather, Mamie Gummer and Caitlin Fitzgerald.

We Were Liars premieres 18 June on Prime Video internationally

The fizzy series about young 19th-Century Americans searching for aristocratic British husbands is back, in all its candy-coloured, pop-music-infused style. Nan St George, now the Duchess of Tintagel, schemes to arrange matches for other American girls, even though her own marriage has its issues. She is married to Theo, but is in love with his best friend, Guy. Her sister Jinny, a pregnant and abused wife, tries to flee her husband and the country. And their mother (Christina Hendricks) is ready to divorce their father,........

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