Overview
In the modern world of entertainment, content can feel a little bit non-stop. There are always new things to watch, but a lot of it is better than ever. Each month, we're cutting through the streaming noise and helping you figure out what's worth bingeing on release day and what you can save for some downtime later in the year. Here are the new seasons and series we'll be watching in August.
Prefer something with a longer runtime? Check out our guide to the movies releasing in theatres and on streaming this month instead.
House of the Dragon: Season Three — Fantasy, Drama
Things never de-escalate smoothly in Westeros. House of the Dragon, the Emmy-winning prequel to Game of Thrones, is is nearing its conclusion. Recounting the succession war between Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy) and her half-brothers Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) and Aemond (Ewan Mitchell). Rhaenyra now has a tense hold on the throne, but with her brothers in the wind, allies on the fence and enemies in every shadow, it's unlikely that this season will end quietly.
Streaming weekly on HBO Max now.
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe — Comedy, Sci-Fi
If you had told us back in 2019 that the first sequel to The Big Bang Theory was going to be a multiversal apocalypse-prevention adventure starring comic book store owner Stuart (Kevin Sussman), his girlfriend Denise (Lauren Lapkus) and best friend Bert (Brian Posehn) — we'd have said you were crazy. But this is 2026, and what was once insane is now completely sane, and the TV show we just described is currently unfolding its first season on HBO Max.
Streaming weekly on HBO Max now.
Colin From Accounts: Season Three — Australian, Comedy
Australia's favourite meet-cute, involving a pedestrian crossing, nipple flash and vehicular dog assault, has led to a beloved ongoing will-they-won't-they between brewery owner Gordon (Patrick Brammall) and medical student Ashley (Harriett Dyer). Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and Colin From Accounts' third season is its final. Some time has passed since season two's fatally awkward failed proposal, and the two have drifted apart, but it's not too late for happily ever after to still come true.
Streaming weekly on Binge now.
President Curtis — Animation, Comedy
It was only a matter of time before Adult Swim's smash-hit sci-fi Rick and Morty got a proper spinoff. Sure, there's the distant cousin of Solar Opposites, but President Curtis shines the limelight on a pre-existing character, Keith David's President of the United States and frequent frenemy of the Sanchez family. It turns out he, helped by highly strung secret service agents and a cybernetically enhanced chief of staff, deals with threats and problems, nonsensical and otherwise, just as often as his rival.
Streaming weekly on HBO Max now.
The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season Three — Horror, Action
Be it through its own near-endless runtime or its spinoffs, the definitive zombie television drama universe is fittingly undead. In this particular spinoff, mainline TWD antagonist Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and protagonist Maggie (Lauren Cohan) have left the mainland behind, lost in the concrete jungle of the dead that is post-apocalyptic Manhattan. Three seasons in, Negan and Maggie are leaving their past hostilities behind to work towards turning Manhattan's isolated and feudal communities towards the greater good.
Streaming weekly on Stan now.
The Bombing of Pan Am 103 — Miniseries, True Events
In 1988, transatlantic passenger plane Pan Am 103 exploded in mid-air and crashed in Scotland, marking the worst airline disaster in history at that time. In this limited series inspired by the real story, local police and international investigators band together and uncover that the crash was deliberate. What starts as a tragic mystery becomes a manhunt for mass murderers, and agents and officers around the world scramble to find the perpetrators before they can attack again.
Streaming on Netflix now.
Lioness: Season Three — Espionage, Action
One of the more popular examples of action/espionage television is finally returning, with the Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman-starring Lioness kicking off on Paramount+ this August. Joe (Saldaña) has been resolute as the leader of the Lioness program, the CIA's tip of the spear in the war on terror, but in season three she begins to realise that the agency's enemies have been wearing away at them in covert and overt warfare. Now, she scrambles to keep up as the threats she faces abroad begin to bleed into her life at home.
Streaming weekly on Paramount+ from Sunday, August 2.
Sterling Point — Mystery, Family Drama
When NYC-born-and-raised siblings Annie and Connor find out their grandfather passed, they're not too torn up, having never known him after their mother died during their childhood. So imagine their surprise that not only did he leave them land on an island in Canada, cottage included, but they have a sister that they've never met. It seems straight off the pages of a Wattpad story, but it's all unfolding in the debut of Sterling Point on Prime Video.
Streaming weekly on Prime Video from Wednesday, August 5.
Ted Lasso: Season Four — Sports, Feel-Good
Never has there been a television debut as perfectly timed as Ted Lasso. Arriving in the depths of the pandemic and bringing some much-needed sunshine and sweet storytelling with its story of an American football coach taking over the downtrodden AFC Richmond in London. Season three was billed as its final, but Coach Lasso is back across the pond for a surprise fourth season, this time coaching Richmond's women's football team, backed up by the AFC Richmond crew and fans once again.
Streaming weekly on Apple TV from Wednesday, August 5.
The Shards — High School, Murder Mystery
1980's Los Angeles would have been a hell of a place to grow up. The glitz, the glamour, status that people could, would and did kill for. It's the sun-baked powder keg where this new series takes place, adapting the murder-mystery novel of the same name by the author of American Psycho. In The Shards, a group of privileged high school students navigate their futures, sexualities, social circles and more as a deadly serial killer starts to strike around the city.
Streaming weekly on Hulu via Disney+ from Thursday, August 6.
Reacher: Season Four — Action, Thriller
Bigger isn't always better, but at a certain point it can be a good problem solver. If you're retired cop Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson), you're almost always the biggest guy in the room. With brawn like that, Reacher's been punching his way through crooks and killers for years, but in season four he's going up against a nation. Suddenly tangled in a political conspiracy that goes to the top, he and his utterly titanic musculature better brace to face mercenaries, feds and spies en masse.
Streaming weekly on Prime Video from Wednesday, August 12.
Outer Banks: Season Five — Finale, Adventure
Since its pandemic debut, Outer Banks has quickly become a tentpole series of the "this show is insane and I can't get enough of it" genre of TV. Teen drama at its most over-the-top, somehow covering globe-trotting mysteries, class-divided romances and military manhunts all at once. Now, heading into its fifth and final season, the Pogues are looking to settle their final score, getting revenge for a tragic death close to home, and tracking down their biggest treasure score yet.
Streaming on Netflix from Thursday, August 20.
Dark Matter: Season Two — Sci-Fi, Thriller
Based on the bestselling novel by Blake Crouch, Dark Matter isn't your average multiverse story. In season one of the Apple TV series, quantum physicist Jason Dessen is kidnapped and forced into a mysterious box, plunging him into a multiversal odyssey to battle alternate versions of himself and make it home alive. Season two expands on the story of the original novel, picking up on the Dessens after they find a seemingly safe world to live in, now debating destroying the box to prevent mysterious forces and other Jasons from hunting them down.
Streaming weekly on Apple TV from Friday, August 28.
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