Apple TV+ has announced the programming that is coming to the streaming service next month. The Apple TV Plus June 2024 lineup includes the thriller series Presumed Innocent, the documentary Bread & Roses, the dramatic series Land of Women, the animated series WondLa, and the film Fancy Dance.
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APPLE TV PLUS JUNE 2024 HIGHLIGHTS
AVAILABLE JUNE 12
Presumed Innocent (Drama Series)
“Presumed Innocent” is an eight-part limited series starring and executive produced by Jake Gyllenhaal, hailing from multi-Emmy Award winners David E. Kelley and executive producer J.J. Abrams. The star-studded ensemble cast also includes Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, O-T Fagbenle, Chase Infiniti, Elizabeth Marvel, Nana Mensah, Renate Reinsve, Peter Sarsgaard, and Kingston Rumi Southwick.
The first two episodes will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, June 12. They will be followed by a new episode every Wednesday through July 24.
Based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Scott Turow, the gripping series takes viewers on a journey through the horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich (played by Gyllenhaal) is suspected of the crime. The series explores obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.
“Presumed Innocent” hails from Bad Robot Productions and David E. Kelley Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, where Bad Robot is under an overall deal. Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich executive produce for Bad Robot.
Kelley serves as the showrunner and executive producer through David E. Kelley Productions alongside Matthew Tinker. Dustin Thomason, Sharr White, and Gyllenhaal also serve as executive producers. Turow and Miki Johnson serve as co-executive producers.
Anne Sewitsky serves as executive producer and directs the first two episodes and episode eight. Emmy Award winner Greg Yaitanes executive produces and directs episodes three through seven.
AVAILABLE JUNE 21
Bread & Roses (Documentary)
Feature documentary “Bread & Roses” is an acclaimed Cannes Film Festival selection and Cannes Golden Eye nominee that reveals the powerful resistance of Afghan women against the Taliban.
The film is produced by Excellent Cadaver’s Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi, alongside Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights advocate and executive producer Malala Yousafzai’s production company Extracurricular, and renowned director Sahra Mani (“A Thousand Girls Like Me”).
“Bread & Roses” offers a powerful window into the seismic impact that the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021 had on women’s rights and livelihoods. The film follows three women in real-time as they fight to recover their autonomy. Mani captures the spirit and resilience of Afghan women through a raw depiction of their harrowing plight.
“Bread & Roses,” an Eyan Foundation presentation in association with Extracurricular, is produced by Lawrence and Ciarrocchi with Mani, alongside executive producers Yousafzai and Farhad Khosravi. Mani directs the film.
AVAILABLE JUNE 26
Land of Women (Drama Series)
“Land of Women” is a six-episode dramedy starring and executive produced by Golden Globe nominee Eva Longoria. The series also stars star legendary film and television star Carmen Maura and newcomer Victoria Bazúa.
The show will debut with two episodes on Wednesday, June 26, and new episodes will be released every Wednesday through July 24.
“Land of Women” stars Longoria as Gala, a New York empty nester whose life is turned upside down when her husband implicates the family in financial improprieties. She is forced to flee the city alongside her aging mother (Maura) and teenage daughter (Bazúa).
To escape the dangerous criminals to whom Gala’s now vanished husband is indebted, the three women hide in the same charming wine town in northern Spain that Gala’s mother fled 50 years ago, vowing never to return. The women seek to start anew and hope their identities will remain unknown, but gossip in the small town quickly spreads, unraveling their deepest family secrets and truths.
Hailing from Apple Studios and inspired by award-winning author Sandra Barneda’s bestselling novel La tierra de las mujeres, Land of Women is created by Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira, and Paula Fernández and is directed by Iris Award winner Carlos Sedes.
The series is produced by Bambú Producciones and executive produced by showrunner Campos, Neira, Sedes, Iris Award winner Teresa Fernández-Valdés, Ben Spector, Sandra Condito, and Longoria via her award-winning production company UnbeliEVAble Entertainment.
AVAILABLE JUNE 28
WondLa (Animated Series)
The first installment of the animated adventure trilogy WondLa comes from Skydance Animation and is based on the New York Times bestselling book series The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi. Showrun and executive produced by Bobs Gannaway and featuring a star-studded voice cast, the seven-episode first season will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, June 28.
“WondLa” centers around Eva, voiced by Jeanine Mason (“Roswell, New Mexico”), a curious, enthusiastic, and spirited teenager being raised in a state-of-the-art underground bunker by Muthr, a robot caretaker, voiced by Emmy Award nominee Teri Hatcher (“Desperate Housewives”). On her 16th birthday, an attack on Eva’s bunker forces her onto the Earth’s surface, which is now inhabited by aliens and covered with otherworldly fauna, and there are no other humans to be found.
In fact, it’s no longer called Earth, but Orbona. Otto, a lovable giant waterbear with whom Eva shares telepathic powers, voiced by Emmy Award winner Brad Garrett (“Everybody Loves Raymond”), and Rovender, a cantankerous alien with a troubled past, voiced by Gary Anthony Williams (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows”), join Eva as she leads the team on a dangerous quest to find humans, her home and her true destiny.
Also lending their voices to the cast are Chiké Okonkwo (“The Birth of a Nation,” “La Brea”) as Besteel, the greatest hunter in all of Orbona; D.C. Douglas (“Sharknado 2: The Second One,” “Black Ops”) as Omnipod, Dynasty Corporation’s sentient hand-held device, issued to every human at the age of six; and Emmy Award nominee Alan Tudyk (“Resident Alien”) as Cadmus Pryde, founder of Dynastes Corporation.
DiTerlizzi and Gannaway executive produce the series alongside Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, Julie Kane-Ritsch, and Skydance Animation’s John Lasseter, David Ellison, and Dana Goldberg. Tony Cosanella also produces it.
Apple and Skydance Animation previously partnered to release the Apple Original Films animated feature film Luck.
AVAILABLE JUNE 28
Fancy Dance (Feature Film)
“Fancy Dance” is the acclaimed Sundance Film Festival selection from Confluential Films. It stars “Killers of the Flower Moon” award-winning and Academy Award-nominated lead actress Lily Gladstone and marks Erica Tremblay‘s feature directorial debut. Tremblay also co-wrote and produced the film.
Gladstone stars alongside Isabel Deroy-Olson, Ryan Begay, and Crystle Lightning, with Audrey Wasilewski and Shea Whigham. “Fancy Dance” will premiere in select theaters on June 21, 2024, ahead of its global debut on Apple TV+ on June 28, 2024.
Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax (Gladstone) has cared for her niece Roki (Deroy-Olson) by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow.
At the risk of Jax losing custody to Roki’s grandfather, Frank (Whigham), the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world while at the mercy of a failed justice system.
“Fancy Dance,” a Confluential Films and Significant Productions/AUM Group production, introduces director Tremblay, who also serves as screenwriter alongside Miciana Alise.
The film is produced by Deidre Backs, Tremblay, Heather Rae, Nina Yang Bongiovi, and Tommy Oliver, with Bird Runningwater, Gladstone, Forest Whitaker, and Charlotte Koh serving as executive producers.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills to provide the latest news on streaming, movies, and TV shows. He previously created the websites ComingSoon, SuperHeroHype, and ShockTillYouDrop.