A star-powered new film debut, a rare three-part crossover event, and the return of a brutal Manhattan showdown headline a stacked week of TV across Sky’s major platforms from Saturday, July 5 through Friday, July 11.
The centrepiece is Wicked, premiering Friday, July 11 on Sky Cinema Premiere and NOW. The big-budget fantasy sees Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande step into the gravity-defying roles of Elphaba and Glinda. The story, built on the bones of Oz’s most infamous characters, follows two students at Shiz University who forge a fraught alliance before spiralling into destiny-altering choices. Universal’s push to bring the musical to screen comes with top-tier casting and major commercial weight behind it.
Over on Sky Witness, Chicago’s finest unite for the first One Chicago crossover since 2019. The three-hour block begins with Chicago Fire at 8pm, followed by Chicago Med at 9pm and Chicago PD at 10pm on Friday, July 11. The event centres on a high-rise explosion and an underground crisis that pulls every unit into the same life-or-death rescue.
On Sky Max, The Walking Dead: Dead City returns Thursday, July 10 for season two, also streaming via NOW. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are now on opposing sides of a power struggle in post-apocalyptic Manhattan. With war looming and uneasy alliances forming, the new season drops all episodes at once.
Saturday, July 5 brings new psychological horror Strange Darling to Sky Cinema Premiere and NOW, while Sunday, July 6 sees the platform debut of I Don’t Understand You, a tense European thriller following an American couple stranded in rural Italy.
Documentary series 7/7: Homegrown Terror wraps on Sky Documentaries and NOW Sunday, July 6 with its final episode charting the failed second wave of attacks and the fatal police shooting that followed.
Additional highlights include the season 2 finale of Poker Face on Sky Max (Thursday, July 10), the latest episode of And Just Like That… on Sky Comedy (Friday, July 11), and new instalments of The Gilded Age and Elsbeth on Sky Atlantic and Sky Witness respectively.
