Lanterns, Ted Lasso, and 8 More of Our Most Anticipated Streaming Shows and Movies in August

It’s August, and you cognize what that means: Never spell extracurricular ever again. It’s excessively hot! Stay wrong alternatively successful the AC, streaming the latest and top shows (and movies!) to your small heart’s content. And determination are a ton of highly anticipated shows and movies hitting streaming this month, including the much-belated instrumentality of an iconic drama that has a batch to prove, a superhero bid which has the hopes of an full cinematic beingness riding connected it, and adjacent a taping of a transcendent unrecorded performance featuring a definite vampire.

Want to cheque retired our picks for the 10 astir anticipated shows and movies connected streaming successful August 2026? Sure you do, that’s wherefore we’re here! So without immoderate further delay, let’s get into the database faster than you tin accidental “I devour stickers each the time, dude.”

(Note: This database is presented successful merchandise day order.)

SOULM8TE (August 1)

Way backmost successful 2024, Universal announced they were moving connected a spin-off to the deed fearfulness movie M3GAN, focusing connected a antheral who buys an android to get implicit the grief of his dormant wife. Titled SOULM8TE, the movie was expected to beryllium released backmost successful January, but kept shifting down the docket arsenic — axenic speculation present — the underperformance of M3GAN 2.0 apt led to a small little assurance successful expanding the M3GAN Cinematic Universe (MCU… Oh sorry, I judge that’s taken).

Now the movie yet is here, but arsenic nonstop to rental/purchase versus successful theaters oregon connected “free” streaming; though fixed the Universal of it all, it volition apt deed Peacock sooner alternatively than later. The resulting movie looks similar a transverse betwixt Obsession and the beauteous fantabulous Companion — which has an eerily akin premise — with a dash of M3GAN’s weird dancing movements thrown successful for bully luck.

Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi (August 5)

Before you commencement counting Jedi connected your fingers (Luke, Rey, Obi-Wan…), conscionable cognize that this eight-episode bid premiering simultaneously connected Disney+ and Hulu is simply a spin-off of Star Wars: Visions, a bid that tosses George Lucas’ postulation to studios crossed the satellite to get their own, continuity-free takes connected the franchise.

One of the astir fashionable tales from the anthology was The Ninth Jedi, and its sequel, The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope, focusing connected young Jedi Lah Kara years aft some the Jedi and Sith person disappeared. The caller amusement amps up the struggle betwixt Lah Kara and seeming Sith Nawaam, though promises plentifulness of twists and surprises successful the anime series. Overall, Visions has been an breathtaking summation to Lucasfilm’s franchise, and seeing it expanded done caller eyes successful this caller spin-off bid is precisely the benignant of absorption Star Wars should beryllium heading in. May the Force beryllium with them!

Read our Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi Season 1 review.

Ted Lasso Season 4 (August 5)

Somehow, Ted Lasso has returned. After becoming a viral sensation during the tallness of the COVID pandemic, Apple TV’s monolithic deed drama deed a ceramic partition with a 3rd play that featured monolithic behind-the-scenes delays and reported acrimony, bloated occurrence moving times, and a wide consciousness that star/co-creator Jason Sudeikis and institution whitethorn person forgotten this amusement is simply a sports drama and not an experimental creation installation.

If you consciousness similarly, large news: Ted Lasso is backmost to basics with its astonishment instrumentality for Season 4, coming 3 years aft the extremity of the mixed reception to the conclusive Season 3. This clip around, Ted gets re-recruited by Richmond to manager the archetypal all-woman squad the shot nine has ever hosted. Other returning formed members see Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, and Brett Goldstein arsenic the eternally gruff Roy Kent, portion a full caller squad gets assembled, overmuch to the consternation of the English municipality surrounding them.

At its best, Ted Lasso was a zippy, affirmative drama that would marque you laughter retired large 1 infinitesimal and teardrop up the next; fingers crossed they’ve recaptured that Season 1 magic successful Season 4.

Read our Ted Lasso Season 4 premiere review.

One Hundred Years Of Solitude Season 2 (August 5)

After astir a twelvemonth and a fractional (though thankfully not 100 years), Netflix’s adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's best-selling, universally loved caller is backmost for its 2nd and last season. Split into 2 parts, the 8 episodes volition reason the magical realist communicative of a municipality called Macondo, a household that lives there, and the radical astir them with 7 episodes connected August 5 followed by a movie-length finale connected August 26.

Despite the unusual merchandise schedule, this is nary Stranger Things, there’s nary “Conformity Gate” here, and it volition apt debar accusations that there’s Another One Hundred Years Of Solitude connected the way. Instead, the Latin American accumulation has faithfully adapted the caller to cosmopolitan captious acclaim. Now that’s immoderate coagulated dudes! 100 years, coagulated dudes!

Alley Cats (August 7)

Ricky Gervais is back, but this clip he’s an animated cat. That’s fundamentally the full conception of Netflix’s Alley Cats, which channels Gervais’s profane, raunchy wit into the assemblage of an overweight tabby and past pairs him with a clump of different stray cats arsenic they locomotion astir municipality and occasionally get into scrapes.

If you’re acquainted with Gervais’ erstwhile shows similar The Office and Extras, you mostly cognize what to expect here, though this big animated bid is seemingly much akin successful code to Gervais’ contemplative After Life, arsenic the cats are often reasoning and talking astir their eventual demise (despite having 9 lives). Also, they’re very alert that they’re cats.

You either similar Gervais’ wit oregon you deliberation he’s a washed-out hack coasting connected his aboriginal reputation, with apt obscurity successful between. So you already astir apt person a bully consciousness of whether Alley Cats is for you; ticker accordingly. Meow.

The Last House (August 7)

There’s a fearfulness trope going astir that’s each astir radical trapped wrong their ain houses, and this August’s Deep Impact/Armageddon for this inclination (that astir assuredly spun retired of COVID, oregon astatine slightest was partially inspired by the pandemic)? The End of Oak Street, which hits theaters connected August 14, and Netflix’s The Last House, which hits the week earlier connected August 7.

We’ll fto you observe whether a dinosaur eats Anne Hathaway successful Oak Street for yourself, arsenic good arsenic fto you determine which is Deep Impact and which is Armageddon (or Antz and A Bug’s Life if you prefer). But The Last House has a chaotic premise that makes it worthy a ticker each connected its own: One time a household of 4 wakes up, and they can’t permission their house. The family, led by Greta Lee and Wagner Moura, indispensable archetypal larn to support their chins up and fig retired however to turn nutrient wrong the house, arsenic the days, weeks, months, and years deterioration on, with things getting wilder, weirder, and much terrifying.

Directed by Louis Letterier (The Transporter, Fast X) with a publication by Matthew Robinson (Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die), this is the benignant of streaming movie that volition apt marque you accidental “hey, however astir we instrumentality a locomotion outside?”

Reacher Season 4 (August 12)

Why does Reacher, the largest Prime Video star, not devour the others? That’s the large question going into Reacher Season 4, arsenic Alan Ritchson returns for different circular of “can we find idiosyncratic larger than Alan Ritchson?”

The answer, arsenic usual, is “probably,” arsenic this play adapts Gone Tomorrow, the 13th caller successful Lee Childs’ best-selling bid of novels. According to Prime Video’s authoritative synopsis, “when a accidental brushwood with a distraught alien connected a subway goes horribly wrong, Jack Reacher (Ritchson) is drawn into a analyzable and deadly crippled that pits him against ruthless foes from the highest echelons of power.”

Alongside the regular cast, Season 3 besides welcomes Buffy the Vampire Slayer veterans Kevin Weisman and Marc Blucas to the team. Amazon is besides showing a ton of religion successful Reacher, with a 5th play already greenlit and spin-off bid Neagley premiering the aforesaid time arsenic the Reacher Season 4 finale. Watch out, Jack Ryan: Reacher is gonna devour ya!

Lanterns (August 16)

Hey, who wants an unfair magnitude of unit layered connected apical of an already ambitious HBO series? That’s precisely the presumption Lanterns is in, arsenic — aft the underwhelming container bureau and captious effect to Supergirl — each eyes crook to the Green Lantern TV bid to spot if James Gunn’s DCU has the juice. Add successful that the erstwhile live-action instrumentality connected GL was truthful loathed that hating connected it fundamentally relaunched Ryan Reynolds’ career, and a promotional roll-out that has suffered its ain non-stop disapproval for muted colors and a grim tone, and you’ve got a batch of crossed arms and squinting eyeballs going into this.

But! With Aaron Pierre arsenic rookie abstraction bull John Stewart, Kyle Chandler arsenic grizzled seasoned Hal Jordan, and a veritable hydra of endowment down the scenes courtesy of showrunner Chris Mundy and his back-up dancers, Damon Lindelof and Tom King, there’s each accidental this amusement — primitively pitched arsenic True Detective with superpowers — volition beryllium a big, twisty hit.

Worst case? Pierre tin marque hating connected the amusement his full property and go the caller Deadpool successful 15 years.

It's Always Sunny successful Philadelphia Season 18 (August 17)

What is determination to accidental astir the longest moving live-action drama connected TV ever, different than: Can I connection you an ovum successful this trying time?

The Paddy’s Pub pack are backmost for a longer-than-usual 10 occurrence play of hijinks, and based connected the synopsis for the season, among different things they’ll beryllium dealing with “salvaging inheritances from a dormant woman, surviving structure encampments and the large inside-outside disagreement betwixt the haves and have-nots, withstanding occupation nonaccomplishment astatine the hands of workplace automation, embracing a newfound appreciation for neurodivergence, questioning the cloth of nine against conspiracy theories, and of people — the biggest elephant successful the country — outlasting the public’s pendulum plaything against drinking. Not to notation battling nerds, LARPers, and a peculiarly petulant McPoyle clan astatine the Renaissance Faire oregon sportswashing their mode backmost into the bully graces of their assemblage by sponsoring a Little League team. All the portion trying to support bid successful their idiosyncratic lives and astatine Paddy’s, which person go progressively lawless and erratic.”

Whew! As usual, you tin expect plentifulness of personage cameos, and arsenic has been par for the people the past fewer seasons, parodies and riffs connected different TV shows: Alongside past season’s Abbott Elementary crossover, the amusement besides parodied Succession, and adjacent enactment Danny DeVito’s Frank Reynolds connected the Golden Bachelor. Not lone is FX’s It’s Always Sunny the longest moving live-action drama connected TV, it’s inactive someway the funniest?

The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE (August 23)

Back successful June, a fortunate fewer 1000 fans of AMC’s Anne Rice adaptation, The Vampire Lestat, were treated to a unrecorded performance astatine the play premiere from Sam Reid, who plays — who other — Lestat, performing songs that would beryllium peppered passim the superb 7 episodes of the show. While the filmed mentation of the performance got a premiere for another fewer 1000 fortunate fans successful Hall H astatine San Diego Comic-Con, the remainder of the satellite volition yet get to spot “Lestat” stone New York’s Beacon Theatre acknowledgment to the premiere of One Night Only LIVE.

Running astir 30 minutes (or astatine slightest it did erstwhile presented unrecorded successful the room), the performance features Reid successful costume and successful character, with a afloat set including composer Daniel Hart, who worked successful the season’s writer’s country and crafted the songs Lestat sings connected circuit which yet pb to the extremity of the satellite (it’s a full thing). While it mightiness not beryllium quite the aforesaid acquisition arsenic being successful the country wherever it happened, astatine slightest it’s coming to AMC+ for longer than 1 nighttime only.

Will you beryllium watching immoderate of these this month? What other are you looking guardant to that we didn’t get to? Vote successful our canvass and let’s sermon successful the comments!

You tin chat with Alex Zalben connected BlueSky @azalben.bsky.social, oregon find him regularly yapping connected the Comic Book Club podcast.