What's Showing On Sky And NOW This June: House Of The Dragon Breathes Fire At The Isle Of Wight Festival With SpongeBob SquarePants While Calling The Black Phone 2!

Sky breathes fire with House Of The Dragon season 3. The line-up features the Isle Of Wight Festival, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Search For SquarePants, and The Black Phone 2 this June.

This June, Sky serves up an unmissable line-up packed with epic returns, gripping true stories, and blockbuster entertainment for every mood.

The highly anticipated third season of House of the Dragon ignites Sky Atlantic. It plunges viewers back into a world of power, betrayal, and fire-breathing spectacle.

Music fans can soak up the atmosphere of the iconic Isle of Wight Festival on Sky One and Sky Arts. This brings the UK’s biggest live moments straight to your screen. Meanwhile, Sky Cinema delivers family fun and edge-of-your-seat thrills with The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: The Search for SquarePants and the chilling sequel Black Phone 2.​​​​​​

House of the Dragon – Season 3

There will be no doubt who the gods have chosen to rule. Based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,” the series is set 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones.” It tells the story of House Targaryen. The third season stars Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, and Rhys Ifans.

Isle of Wight Festival 2026

Sky presents Isle of Wight Festival 2026, once again coming to you live from Seaclose Park. This year, the biggest party of the summer proudly features an incredible lineup! Lewis Capaldi will bring his soulful voice, Calvin Harris will keep the dance floor alive, and the legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, The Cure, will deliver an unforgettable performance. Don’t miss out! You can also expect supporting sets from an amazing line-up. Notably, there will be appearances from Wet Leg, Teddy Swims, The Kooks, Tom Grennan, Sex Pistols (ft Frank Carter), Perrie, Two Door Cinema Club, Rita Ora, The Last Dinner Party, Five, Anastacia, David Gray, Rick Astley, KT Tunstall, and so much more!

Fire Country – Season 4

Max Thieriot returns as Bode Leone, a young convict seeking a shortened prison sentence by joining a prison release firefighting program in Northern California. There, he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires across the region. Now Bode walks as a free man. He continues his journey toward redemption in his small hometown with Cal Fire. In the aftermath of the Zabel Ridge fire, Station 42 faces internal turmoil. However, they must rally together for a high-stakes rescue that tests their strength, loyalty, and the future of the firehouse.

Rosa Elettrica

A new original crime thriller from Sky Italia, based on Giampaolo Simi’s bestselling novel of the same name. Maria Chiara Giannetta stars as a young undercover agent recently transferred to the Witness Protection Unit. On her first assignment, she finds herself paired with Cocìss (Francesco Di Napoli), an unpredictable Camorra “baby-boss” desperate to escape his life. Targeted by a rival clan, he has made the risky decision to cooperate with the police to ensure his survival. As they work together, Rosa questions what made her the chosen one for this precarious mission. However, she doesn’t have time to let her uncertainties hold her back. In fact, she is determined to protect Cocìss at all costs. She doesn’t stop even when she realizes there’s a flaw in the system. Now she knows that, not only is her career at risk, but her life as well.

James Dean: The Emotional Man

Dead at the age of 24 after starring in only three films, James Dean remains the icon par excellence, whose influence endures 70 years after he passed away. More than just a face and an attitude, he transformed the perception of masculinity, embracing his flaws, his doubts, his fragility, his loves, forging himself into an anti-hero. His life continues to inspire, making him a timeless legend and a paragon of freedom.

COMING TO SKY CINEMA

The Spongebob Movie: The Search for Squarepants

SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom friends set sail in their biggest, all-new, can’t miss cinematic event ever… The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. Desperate to be a big guy, SpongeBob sets out to prove his bravery to Mr. Krabs by following The Flying Dutchman – a mysterious swashbuckling ghost pirate – on a seafaring comedy-adventure. The adventure takes him to the deepest depths of the deep sea, where no Sponge has gone before.

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Patrick Star (Bill Fagerbakke) and SpongeBob SquarePants (Tom Kenny) in The Spongebob Movie: Search For Squarepants from Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon.

Black Phone 2

Four years ago, 13-year-old Finn killed his abductor and escaped, becoming the sole survivor of The Grabber. But true evil transcends death… and the phone is ringing again. Four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke returns to the most sinister role of his career as The Grabber seeks vengeance on Finn (Mason Thames) from beyond the grave by menacing Finn’s younger sister, Gwen (Madeleine McGraw). At 17, Finn grapples with the aftermath of his captivity. Meanwhile, the determined 15-year-old Gwen answers urgent calls in her dreams from the black phone, accompanied by unsettling visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp called Alpine Lake.

Determined to solve the mystery and end the torment for both her and her brother, Gwen persuades Finn to visit the camp during a winter storm. There, she uncovers a shattering intersection between The Grabber and her own family’s history. Together, she and Finn must confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

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The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) in Black Phone 2, directed by Scott Derrickson.

The Choral

1916. As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire, has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral’s ambitious committee, determined to press ahead, decides to recruit local young males to swell their ranks. They must also engage a new chorus master, and despite their suspicions that he has something to hide, their best bet seems to be Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) – driven, uncompromising, and recently returned from a career in Germany. As conscription papers start to arrive, the whole community discovers that the best response to the chaos that is laying waste to their lives is to make music together.

Bugonia

Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Tense satire from the Academy Award-nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Aidan Delbis.

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(L to R) Emma Stone as Michelle, Aidan Delbis as Don, and Jesse Plemons as Teddy in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ BUGONIA, a Focus Features release. Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.

Carolina Caroline

Desperate to escape her small West Texas town, Caroline Daniels (Samara Weaving, Ready or Not) runs away with a charismatic con man who takes her on a romantic crime spree through the American South. But as confidence games escalate into more elaborate heists, Caroline transforms into a criminal icon and notorious bank robber, ultimately internalizing the central truth of every con: There’s no lie more convincing than the one you tell yourself.

Sisu: Road to Revenge

Action-packed sequel to the 2023 word-of-mouth sensation. Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, “the man who refuses to die” (Jorma Tommila) dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the Red Army commander who killed his family (Stephen Lang) comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues – a fight to the death, full of clever, unbelievable action set pieces.

Sisu: Road To Revenge Sees Jorma Tommila Return as Aatami Korpi Alongside Stephen Lang And Richard Brake

BEST OF SKY ON DEMAND

World Cup Shmurld Cup

As the World Cup takes over living rooms across the nation, not everyone is glued to the action. If you count yourself among the many World Cup Widows, this summer offers the perfect chance to dive into TV that’s just as dramatic – and arguably far more satisfying. And now Sky includes Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney+ (and Paramount+ too if you have a Sky Cinema subscription), you’re spoiled for choice. Escape somewhere sunny with The White Lotus; fly into a mystery with The Flight Attendant; enjoy fashion, romance, and zero stress with Emily in Paris; fit in ‘just one more episode’ of the twisted Yellowjackets – anything you need to get you through the next 39 days. In fact, make the most of it… England could bow out at any moment.

Emily in Paris. (L to R) Eugenio Franceschini as Marcello, Lily Collins as Emily in Emily in Paris. Cr. Giulia Parmigiani/Netflix © 2025

All the Drama… no VAR

Or maybe you actually like the drama that comes with sport – the rivalry, the will to win, the desire to better yourself – but you don’t necessarily want to subject yourself to the tedious bits. The 0-0 draws, races with nowhere to overtake, games where they won’t just PLAY THE DAMN BALL FORWARD! Luckily, we’ve got a library full of series that capture all the excitement that comes from the world of sport with none of the filler. Check out great stories behind the game like Lionesses: How Football Came Home, Schmeichel, Hill, Game of Throws: Inside Darts, and so much more, like Welcome to Wrexham, Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Sunderland ‘Til I Die, and Last Chance U available on Disney+ and Netflix through your Sky subscription.

COMING SOON

Sweetpea – Series 2

Possession

‌‌The Five-Star Weekend

The Good Daughter

Fightland

Savage Mountain

Crystal Lake

Gemma Collins: Four Weddings and a Baby

The Trip to the Northern Lights

Katie Price: Nothing to Hide

Yaga

WAR

Force & Majeure

‌Portrait Artist of the Year 2026

The Day of the Jackal – Series 2

‌‌Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom

Will You Dare To Climb The Savage Mountain With The Newly Announced Sky Documentary?

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