Derek Malcolm has been covering the worlds of tech and entertainment for more than two decades.
Before coming to How-To Geek in 2025, Derek was a contributing editor and writer for the A/V and Home Theater section at Digital Trends, where he wrangled and wrote everything from what to watch on Netflix to reviews, explainers, and guides on the latest Bluetooth speakers, turntables, projectors, and other A/V gear.
Based in Toronto, Derek graduated from Humber College’s Journalism program in 1999, after which he started covering the worlds of music, movies, TV, and celebrity for publications such as TV Guide, Hello! magazine, and Inside Entertainment. He then got the bug for covering tech and gadgets in 2006, when he served as editor-in-chief of Canadian tech magazine Connected for more than a decade.
An avid skier, when all the snow’s gone Derek can be found at home spinning vinyl with his daughter or cheering on his favorite F1 team, McLaren.
Apple TV is one of those streaming services where not much happens… until it does. It may not dump dozens of titles each month like the Netflixes and Prime Videos of the world. Still, when it launches something—a Severance, a Pluribus, a white-hot Emmy winner like The Studio—it tends to land like an event that’s traditionally been reserved for the likes of HBO.
With the next few months heating up with some major returns to Apple TV, including a new Ted Lasso season (August 5), Dark Matter (August 28), and Slow Horses (September), July kicks things off with some sizzlers, including the long-awaited return of our favorite dystopian underground mystery, a fresh new con-artist crime romp, and a goofy pickleball comedy. Let’s dig into everything you should watch on Apple TV in July.
I know where I’ll be on the evening of July 3—glued to my TV for the premiere of season 3 of this brilliant dystopian thriller. Silo finally returns after season two’s cliffhanger that saw engineer-turned-savior Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) return from her exile outside Silo 18, but her memory has been wiped clean. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking for the ten thousand people living in the silo as a poisonous purge is counting down that will kill everyone, and Juliette must find a way to stop it. But you want answers, right? Luckily, season 3 will split into two timelines, with one threading back centuries to follow journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) as they uncover the conspiracy behind the silos’ creation.
Based on Hugh Howey’s bestselling trilogy, Silo is one of Apple TV’s best-reviewed dramas.
One of Apple TV’s understated and most beloved comedies, Trying is the story of Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall), who, for the series’ first seasons, were desperate to have a baby before finally deciding to adopt siblings Princess and Tyler. Season 4 jumped the timeline ahead by six years as we find Nikki and Jason a well-oiled parenting machine to teenaged Princess (who goes on a mission to find her biological mother) and 11-year-old Tyler. Season 5 blows everything up as Princess gets her wish and her biological mother, Kat (Charlotte Riley), shows up unannounced, causing all kinds of drama.
From Severance to Ted Lasso — how well do you know Apple TV+’s biggest award winners?
Which Apple TV+ show was the first streaming series to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series?
In Severance, what procedure do employees at Lumon Industries undergo?
What is the name of Ted Lasso’s fictional English Premier League football club?
In The Morning Show, what scandal triggers the central conflict at the start of season one?
In Slow Horses, what is the name of the disgraced MI5 division where the main characters work?
In The Studio, Seth Rogen plays a fictional version of himself in what role at a major Hollywood studio?
In Palm Royale, what does Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons desperately want to achieve in 1969 Palm Beach society?
Gary Oldman won a BAFTA Television Award for his role in Slow Horses — which character does he play?
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Trying has been one of Apple TV’s best-kept secrets, and its 96% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes is proof positive of that. It returns on July 8.
All I have to say about Apple TV’s Lucky is “sign me up.” Anya Taylor-Joy (The Gorge, The Queen’s Gambit), Timothy Olyphant (Alien: Earth, Justified), and Annette Bening (American Beauty, Dutton Ranch, so many more) alone are enough to draw a crowd, but this new seven-part heist series looks like it could be a fun, twisty thrill ride. Taylor-Joy is Lucky Armstrong, a lifelong con artist running from the FBI and a deadly crime boss, played by Bening, who’s looking for her son and her money. To survive and escape her past, Lucky must return to it one last time. Olyphant plays Lucky’s smooth-talking career con-artist dad, John, guiding her along the way.
Adapted from Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel of the same name, and produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine company, Lucky premieres on July 15.
The lone new movie heading to Apple TV in July, The Dink is poised to add some laughs and fun to the lineup. The excellent Jake Johnson (New Girl, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed) stars as washed-up tennis prodigy Dusty Boyd, who finds himself coaching a pack of unruly kids at his father Chuck’s (Westworld‘s Ed Harris) country club. One of the first major pickleball-related movies in 2026 (it took long enough), The Dink follows the tennis purist Dusty as he discovers, with the help of his playing partner Candace (Mary Steenburgen), that he actually loves the game. Ben Stiller and Patton Oswalt also star in the goofball underdog comedy that premieres on Apple TV on July 24.
That’s a stacked month for a service that likes to keep things lean. But as things trickle out over the month, How-To Geek runs weekly guides for Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, and the rest, in our streaming section, so the next thing to watch is never far off.
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