James R | On 30, May 2016

With Game of Thrones past its halfway point, Sky and NOW Entertainment Membership customers will be reaching the point where they start looking for things to justify their subscription fee. May offered many answers, from the brilliant Billions to the return of Gomorrah, Veep, Penny Dreadful and Silicon Valley, but June has a couple of other eye-catching offerings, from Wayward Pines to Outcast.

Sky Movies (and NOW NOW Cinema Membership) users, though, are in for a much bigger treat, thanks to a packed line-up that includes Spy, Love & Mercy and Straight Outta Compton.

Here’s what’s coming soon to Sky and NOW in June 2016:

Keep checking back for more updates.

TV

Outcast – 7th June (FOX UK, 10pm)

Based on the Skybound/Image comic title by The Walking Dead creator Kirkman and artist Paul Azaceta, Outcast follows Kyle (Patrick Fugit), a man who has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. Now, with the help of Reverend Anderson (Philip Glenister), he will embark on a journey to find answers to obtain a normal life. Glenister and Fugit are joined by Boardwalk Empire’s Wrenn Schmidt, House of Cards’ Reg E. Cathey and Kate Lyn Sheil, plus The Killing’s Grace Zabriskie and The X Files’ Melinda McGraw.

Don’t want to wait until then? You can watch Episode 1 of Agatha Raisin already on-demand here.

Agatha Raisin: Season 1 – 7th June (Sky 1, 9pm)

Based on the books by M.C Beaton, Ashley Jensen returns to Sky 1 for a full eight-episode run of stories about the Cotswold-dwelling amateur sleuth.

Don’t want to wait until then? You can watch Episode 1 of Agatha Raisin already on-demand here.

Wayward Pines: Season 2 – 8th June (FOX UK, 9pm)

Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) is on a mission to locate two missing federal agents, and his search leads him to the idyllic town of Wayward Pines, Idaho. Battered and bruised from a recent car accident, could he just have concussion or is there something seriously sinister about this picture-perfect town? That was the set-up for Season 1 of M Night Shyamalan’s psychological thriller. Season 2 continues the story…

Chicago Fire: Season 4 – 9th June (Sky Living, 9pm)

NBC’s drama, created by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt, comes back to UK screens for another bout of fire-fighting, courtesy of the Rescue Squad and Paramedics of Chicago’s Firehouse 51.

Unforgettable: Season 4 – 17th June (Sky Living, 9pm)

CBS and now A&E’s crime procedural sees Poppy Montgomery return for a fourth season as police detective Carrie Wells, who has hyperthymesia, a rare condition that means she visually remembers everything.

Guitar Star – 14th June (Sky Arts, 8pm)

New Contestants. New Star. Guitar Star returns for an all-new series.

Ray Donovan: Season 1 to 3 – 1st June

Liev Schreiber is on fine form as everyone’s favourite LA enforcer and fixer. With Season 4 heading to the UK in July, here’s a chance to catch up with the first three seasons..

Inside Amy Schumer: Season 1 to 3 – 1st June

Who is Amy Schumer and why is everything talking about her? The first three seasons of her laugh-out-loud comedy series will answer all your questions.

Desperate Housewives: Season 1 to 8 – 1st June

ABC’s drama gradually moved from American Beauty to trashy soap, but there’s much to enjoy in this satirical look behind the USA’s perfectly, white picket fences – especially when the catty cast includes Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Dana Delany and Eva Longoria.

Absolutely Fabulous: Season 1 to 5 – 1st June

With the BBC comedy heading to the big screen this summer, the original TV show arrives on Sky on-demand, giving you the chance to become acquainted with Jennifer Saunders’ immature mum and PR woman, Patsy, and Julia Sawalha as her sensible daughter, Saffron.

Big Time in Hollywood, FL: Season 1 – 1st June

Alex Anfanger and Dan Schimpf’s Comedy Central series, produced by Ben Stiller, wasn’t renewed for a second season, but still has giggles to offer in its tale of two delusional brothers and self-proclaimed filmmakers, who are kicked out of their parents’ home.

 

Movies

Spy – 3rd June

Melissa McCarthy stars in Paul Feig’s comedy about a CIA desk analyst who is sent on her first mission after Jude Law’s super-agent is fatally compromised while tracking arms dealers in Europe. Watch out for a scene-stealing Jason Statham.

Fantastic Four – 10th June

Missed opportunity of misunderstood? Chronicle director Josh Trank’s reboot of the Fantastic Four franchise (starring Miles Teller, Kata Mara, Michael B Jordan and Jamie Bell) was divisive when first released – here’s your chance to catch up away from the bubble of hype and backlash.

Mistress America – 10th June

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach team up once again for this superb comedy about hip New York urbanite Brooke, who takes her wide-eyed future stepsister (Mozart in the Jungle’s Lola Kirke) under her wing. Witty, warm and quietly satirical, this is a hilarious, endearingly scathing look at life, identity and success in the modern world.

American Ultra – 10th June

The Bong Ultimatum? Adventureland’s Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart reunite for this stoner comedy about a shop attendant who discovers he’s a sleeper government agent with sick martial arts skills.

Straight Outta Compton – 17th June

This Oscar-nominated drama charts the rise and fallouts of controversial legendary hip hop group N.W.A, who burst out of LA’s Compton gangland in the 1980s. Future Jack Bauer successor Corey Hawkins is on stellar form as Dr Dre.

Love & Mercy – 10th June

John Cusack and Paul Dano deliver astounding performances in this biopic of Brian Wilson, which captures the early years and later struggles of the legendary Beach Boys musician.

Paper Towns – 24th June

Hot on the heels of The Fault in Our Stars, John Green’s Paper Towns gets the big screen treatment, starring Cara Delevigne and Nat Wolff as a teenage girl who reunites with her childhood neighbour, only to disappear.

Irrational Man – 24th June

Joaquin Phoenix is the latest star to join forces with Woody Allen in this comedy-drama about a hard-drinking womanising philosophy professor, who attracts the attentions of student Emma Stone and fellow lecturer Parker Posey.

 

Other films coming soon to Sky Movies and NOW in June 2016:

3rd June
Dope
The Exorcism of Molly Hartley
Road to Paloma

17th June
Captive
Close Range
Step Dogs

24th June
The Runner
The Frankenstein Theory

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