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July streaming calendar: Winona Ryder's TV debut


Streaming highlights from the July release calendars of major streaming and cable on-demand services:

July 1: All or Nothing: A Season With the Arizona Cardinals (Amazon). Can't wait for the return of Hard Knocks, HBO's NFL training-camp documentary show, on Aug. 9? Tide yourself over with this eight-episode, Jon Hamm-narrated series that follows the Cardinals from the draft through the NFC championship game.

Marcella  (Netflix). Pushing Daisies actress Anna Friel  returns to TV as a London detective resuming her career after a divorce who distracts herself by delving back into one of her unsolved cases.

Marco Polo: Season 2 (Netflix). The famed explorer (Lorenzo Richelmy)  continues his adventures in 13th-century China.

Between: Season 2 (Netflix): Former Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy  stars as a pregnant teen in this drama about a town where everyone over the age of 21 has been wiped out by disease.

July 8: Word Party (Netflix). Jim Henson's Creature Shop uses digital puppetry to help build toddlers' vocabularies with the help of four baby animals.

July 11: Jericho (Acorn). Fans of Call the Midwife will want to check out Jessica Raine in this British western set in 1870s Yorkshire. The show takes its name from the rough-and-tumble town where her widowed character, Annie Quaintain, opens a lodging house after selling everything to pay off her late husband's debts.

July 12: Difficult People: Season 2 (Hulu). It's a good thing Billy (Billy Eichner)  and Julie (Julie Klausner)  have each other, because they're too bitter for everyone else to take.

July 15: Stranger Things (Netflix). Winona Ryder  comes to TV as the mother of a missing 2-year-old boy in this supernatural thriller from the writers of Wayward Pines.

Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (Netflix). This documentary on the self-help specialist arrives within a week of news that 30 people were injured walking over hot coals at one of his events.

East Los High: Season 4 (Hulu). It's back to school for this Latino teen drama.

Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street: Season 2 (Amazon). With the word "normal" in the title, you know life on this family show will be anything but.

July 22: BoJack Horseman: Season 3 (Netflix). The washed-up Hollywood horse voiced by Will Arnett  continues his comeback attempt.

Degrassi: Next Class: Season 2 (Netflix). The Canadian high-school drama gets an update, complete with hashtagged episode titles.