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WHAT TO WATCH
AUGUST
TV Series
Horror
Ryan Murphy is keeping the story of the 10th season of his horror anthology series close to his chest, other than to say that it’s split over two parts, one by the sea and one by the sand. The cast includes Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Billie Lourd. Macauley Culkin, Matt Bomer and Finn Wittrock.
August 26
American Horror Story S10
Drama/History
TV Series
August 11
Anne Boleyn
Comedy/Action
TV Series
August 26
Archer
Drama/Action
Movie
August 13
Beckett
Comedy
TV Series
August 13
Brooklyn Nine-Nine S8
Drama
Movie
August 13
Coda
Drama/Thriller
TV Series
August 6
Cruel Summer
Documentary
TV Series
August 2
First Ladies S1
Drama
TV Series
August 11
Five Bedrooms S2
Reality
TV Series
August 18
Hard Quiz S6
Comedy/Drama
Movie
August 27
He's All That
Romance
TV Series
August 13
Modern Love S2
Comedy/Drama
TV Series
August 6
Mr Corman
Drama/Mystery
TV Series
August 20
Nine Perfect Strangers
Comedy/Crime
TV Series
August 31
Only Murders in the Building
Comedy
TV Series
August 4
Rosehaven S5
Documentary
Movie
August 1
Tall Poppy: A Skater's Story
Drama
TV Series
August 15
The Newsreader
Drama/Crime
TV Series
August 20
Truth Be Told S2
Comedy
Movie
August 27
Vacation Friends
Sci-fi
TV Series
August 18
War of the Worlds S2
Documentary
TV Series
August 18
What Does Australia Really Think About? S1
Action
TV Series
August 11
What if...?
Comedy/Crime
TV Series
August 11
Why Women Kill S2
Crime/Drama
TV Series
August 24
Wentworth S8B
Comedy/Crime
TV Series
August 11
Two Weeks to Live
Comedy/Drama
TV Series
August 20
The Chair
Comedy/Crime
TV Series
August 10
Reservation Dogs
Comedy/Drama
TV Series
August 30
My Life is Murder S2
Comedy
TV Series
August 27
Kevin Can F**k Himself
Comedy/Drama
TV Series
August 6
Hacks
Comedy
TV Series
August 11
Everyone is doing Great
Drama/Mystery
TV Series
August 25
Clickbait
Reality
TV Series
August 10
Back to Nature
Horror
TV Series
August 26
American Horror Story S10
TV Series
Drama/History
By casting a black actor, Jodie Turner-Smith, as one of England’s most memorable and controversial Queens, the three-part miniseries aims to have a different conversation about power in a social and political structure that punishes women and outsiders.
August 11
Anne Boleyn
Comedy/Action
TV Series
Rude, crude and unapologetic about it, animated series Archer has won legion of fans because there are few lines it won’t cross. What started as a series about an inept spy agency morphed into a bold, genre-hopping experiment. This upcoming season will be the final one for Jessica Walter, who died earlier this year.
August 26
Archer S10
Reality
TV Series
Actor Aaron Pedersen and author Holly Ringland are your hosts on this factual series about the almost otherworldly landscapes of Australia. Each episode, the pair visit a different part of the country – accessible from a nearby city – to experience nature on our doorsteps. Guests include Poh Ling Yeow, Missy Higgins and John Williamson while destinations include Springbrook National Park, the Gondwanan rainforest and Otways.
August 10
Back to Nature
Drama/Action
Movie
Beckett looks to be taking its cues from classic man-on-the-run thrillers with John David Washington as an American tourist whose holiday turns into a nightmare when he’s involved in a car accident and becomes the target of corrupt cops and a political conspiracy. Also stars Alicia Vikander and Vicky Krieps.
August 13
Beckett
Comedy
TV Series
The fact we got an extra three seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine – after its initial cancellation and then immediate revival on a different TV network – is a gift. But now, it really is the end with the Nine-Nine team bowing out after the 10 episodes of the eighth and final season.
August 13
Brooklyn Nine-Nine S8
Drama/Mystery
TV Series
When Nick Brewer disappears, his family is shocked to see him resurface on the internet, in a video in which he has clearly been beaten and is holding up a card that says he’s an abuser. There’s also the promise that once the video hits 5 million views, he’ll be killed. Starring Adrien Grenier, Zoe Kazan and Daniel Henshall, Clickbait was produced and filmed in Melbourne.
August 25
Clickbait
Drama
Movie
Apple bought Sian Heder’s movie straight out of Sundance, where it premiered to rave reviews. It’s the story of a hearing teenager born to two deaf parents. When a teacher recognises her talent for singing, she must choose between music school and helping her family.
August 13
Coda
Drama/Thriller
Movie
The addictive teen drama that made Americans obsessive fans finally lands in Australia this month. It’s the story of two teenage girls – one who was abducted and rescued and the other who is accused of having seen it and not reported it. It’s a she-said-she-said scenario that had audiences divided over who over is to be believed.
August 6
Cruel Summer
Comedy
TV Series
Created, written and directed by One Tree Hill stars James Lafferty and Stephen Colletti, the duo plays two actors and former teen heart-throbs (taking a page out of their own lives) whose TV show ended five years ago. The offers have dried up, fame fades and everything is a mess.
August 11
Everyone is Doing Great
Documentary
TV Series
A docuseries that looks at the lives and White House agendas of six of the most famous recent American First Ladies – Michelle Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jackie Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Reagan and Lady Bird Johnson.
August 2
First Ladies S1
Drama
TV Series
When Channel 10 relaunches its paid streaming service as Paramount+, the second season of Five Bedrooms is its Australian exclusive original. It continues the story of five single people who met at a wedding and decides to pool their money together to buy into Australia’s competitive housing market. Expect lots of drama – renovations, pregnancies, exes and a tragedy.
August 11
Five Bedrooms S2
Drama/Comedy
TV Series
Even if you knew nothing else about Hacks, the fact that Jean Smart is the lead would be reason enough to devour all of it. Happily, there’s also a ripper story to go with that starpower with Smart as a legendary comic whose tired Las Vegas residency is challenged when she hires a snarky 25-year-old writer.
August 6
Hacks
Reality
TV Series
At this point, you know what Hard Quiz is going to deliver – Tom Gleeson being a cheeky scamp, simultaneously ribbing his guests while also clearly being quite fond of their passion for their esoteric expertise subjects. It’s a hard line to walk but Gleeson pulls it off.
August 18
Hard Quiz S6
Comedy/Drama
Movie
A gender-swapped She’s All That sees the most popular girl in school accepting a challenge to turn the least popular boy in school into a prom king. And it wouldn’t be tradition if that boy (Cobra Kai and Designated Survivor’s Tanner Buchanan) wasn’t already hot. Classic.
August 27
He's All That
Comedy
TV Series
If you’re sick of the manchild sitcom husband whose lack of ambition and sloppy personal hygiene is somehow no obstacle to being worthy of a wife way out of his league, so is Kevin Can F**k Himself. This comedy starring Schitt’s Creek’s Annie Murphy is centred on that fed-up wife, and uses the antiquated conventions of the multicam sitcom (canned laughter etc) as she tries to take charge of her unhappy life. It’s treatise on gender expectations and how they’ve been framed by pop culture.
August 27
Kevin Can F**k Himself
Romance
TV Series
The second season of anthology series Modern Love has a world-class cast featuring Tobias Menzies, Anna Paquin, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Dominique Fishback and Jack Reynor. Each episode is a story inspired by the New York Times’ famed column, an exploration of love – romantic, platonic, familial – in the modern world.
August 13
Modern Love S2
Comedy/Drama
TV Series
Written and directed by the multi-talented Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mr Corman is a series about a thirty-something school-teacher who takes stock of his life and realises his singledom and debt is not where he thought he would be: as a famous musician. Co-stars Jamie Chung, Arturo Castro, Juno temple and Hugo Weaving.
August 6
Mr Corman
Comedy/Drama
TV Series
Lucy Lawless’s quippy detective is trading Melbourne for her hometown of Auckland, with the second season of the crime dramedy moving countries and platforms. The shift to New Zealand means a slew of Kiwi guest stars including Jay Ryan, Martin Henderson but also a couple of international names, William Shatner and Bill Bailey.
August 30
My Life is Murder S2
Drama/Mystery
TV Series
It’s the buzzy drama with the marquee cast we’ve been waiting for since Hollywood A-listers Melissa McCarthy, Bobby Cannavale and Michael Shannon landed in Australia to film the series with Nicole Kidman. Based on a Liane Moriarty book, it’s set in a wellness resort run by a mysterious woman who’s said to work miracles with broken people.
August 20
Nine Perfect Stranger
Comedy/Crime
TV Series
If there’s one complaint about laugh riot Only Murders in the Building, it’s that we have to wait until the very of the month. Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez – yes, we want this combo – play three residents of a building who become sleuths and true crime podcasters when one of their neighbours is murdered. They’re convinced the killer is in their midst. Guest stars include Amy Ryan, Sting, Jane Lynch and Nathan Lane.
August 31
Only Murders in the Building
Comedy/Crime
TV Series
Created by Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo, the wry comedy is centred on young people on a Native American reservation, committing petty crimes to save enough money to go to California. Through humour, the series explores an under-represented group and their stories.
August 10
Reservation Dogs
Comedy
TV Series
When it comes to gentle Australian comedies, Rosehaven won our hearts years ago. Now it’s the final season and we’re not sure we’re ready to say goodbye. Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola created the perfect small stakes series about two friends whose daily exploits revolve around a small town real estate agency and their oddball community.
August 4
Rosehaven S5
Documentary
Movie
If you’ve been watching the skateboarding events at the Olympics, wowed by the athleticism of these youngsters, now’s the chance to learn a bit more about one in particular: Poppy Olsen, Australia’s only representative in the skateboarding park events. The doco tracks her story as a young teen pulling the big moves surrounded by men to becoming an Olympian.
August 1
Tall Poppy: A Skater’s Story
Comedy/Drama
TV Series
When a prestigious university’s English department is mired in scandal, it promotes Dr. Kim to be the chair. But the job may be a poisoned chalice with rivals galore and her own feelings for a controversial teacher threatening to blow everything up. The Chair has an amazing cast including Sandra Oh, Jay Duplass and Holland Taylor while Amanda Peet is the writer.
August 20
The Chair
Drama
TV Series
Set in the mid-1980s, in a tumultuous time that includes the Challenger explosion and Lindy Chamberlain’s release from prison, The Newsreader is centred on Anna Torv’s Helen, a newsreader determined to be taken seriously, and her colleague, an ambitious young producer played by Sam Reid.
August 15
The Newsreader
Drama/Crime
TV Series
The second season of this anthology series sees Octavia Spencer’s true crime podcaster character investigate a different case, this time involving a media mogul who is also her childhood friend. As more secrets are unearthed, her lifelong friendship will be challenged. The series also stars Kate Hudson, Mekhi Phifer and Ron Cephas Jones.
August 20
Truth Be Told S2
Comedy/Crime
TV Series
A young woman raised off-the-grid by her paranoid survivalist mother is pranked by a couple of strangers who tell her the world is ending in two weeks. With what she thinks is a limited countdown clock on humanity, she sets out to avenge her father’s death at the hands of crime boss. The comedy-thriller stars Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams and Fleabag’s Sian Clifford.
August 11
Two Weeks to Live
Comedy
Movie
Marcus and Emily are a normal couple with an appropriate appetite for hijinks. When they meet a wild and uninhibited couple on holidays in Mexico, with whom they have some bonkers adventures, the last thing they expected was they would ever see them again. Especially at their wedding weekend. It stars Lil Rel Howery, John Cena, Yvonne Orji and Meredith Hagner.
August 27
Vacation Friends
Sci-fi
TV Series
The alien invasion is moving into a different phase and the remaining humans on Earth have to contend with more than just their extra-terrestrial enemies. At the heart of it is Daisy Ridley’s Emily – who’s side is she on?
August 18
War of the Worlds S2
Crime/Drama
TV Series
After almost 10 years, Australian TV institution Wentworth is wrapping up. The final batch of episodes will drop this month with the promise of shocks, twists and dangers for the women of Wentworth.
August 24
Wentworth S8B
Documentary
TV Series
This three-part docuseries wants to challenge the prevailing views Australians have about disabled, old and obese people. Featuring the likes of Kurt Fearnley, Noni Hazlehurst and Casey Donovan, it will strive to reveal the many facets of discrimination and offer a path forward.
August 18
What Does Australia Really Think About?
Action
TV Series
Now that we know the multiverse exists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it puts a different spin on animated series What If…? It’ll tell different stories featuring familiar characters but not as we know them. For example, what if Peggy Carter had taken the super soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers? The series includes the voice talents of MCU stars such as Samuel L. Jackson, Hayley Atwell, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Josh Brolin and so many more. It’s also Chadwick Boseman’s final performance, which he recorded before his death last year.
August 11
What If…?
Crime/Comedy
TV Series
The first season told three different stories over three time periods about women whose husbands led them to violence, but the second season is more focused, with a single story set in the 1940s. Starring Lana Parilla and Allison Tollman, it’s about a friendless housewife who wants nothing more than to join the glamorous garden club – but the social Queen Bee won’t have someone so “frumpy” among their ranks.
August 11
Why Women Kill S2