Tom’s Guide curates 13 new arrivals this weekend across Netflix, Apple TV+, Prime Video, HBO Max and more, including Slow Horses season 6, MobLand season 2, The Traitors: New Blood, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story and a mix of films and TV across genres for every mood.
Xbox Game Pass unveils a broad wave of new titles across cloud, console, and PC, including day-one entries like Gears of War: E-Day and Minecraft Dungeons II, plus Dune: Awakening, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, and more from September into October, along with seasonal updates and some departures from the library.
The New York Times highlights eight new films this week, with Practical Magic 2 singled out for its warmer, more cohesive tone and focus on family heritage and romance, alongside other new releases currently in theaters.
Time Out New York highlights 24 fall releases Goodreads flags as highly anticipated, spanning contemporary and historical fiction, mystery and thrillers, sci‑fi and fantasy, romance and YA, plus notable nonfiction. Highlights include The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon; Taipei Story by R.F. Kuang; Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley; The French Illusion by John Grisham; The Witch by Freida McFadden; Under Story by Chloe Benjamin; Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo; Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison; The Witches of Cambridge by Alice Hoffman; Nightjars by Michael Wehunt; Hawk & Sparrow by Ayana Gray; The Sixth Faction by Veronica Roth; The Last King of Faerie by Cassandra Clare; and nonfiction picks such as Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson and The American Way of Killing by Malcolm Gladwell—selected from early reviews and readers’ Want to Read shelves to forecast the season’s buzziest titles.
Mashable's weekly streaming guide flags what's new this week across Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu and more, including Netflix premieres Death of the Pastor's Wife, Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young, The Whisper Man, Leanne Season 2, Mousetrap, and Penny Lane Is Dead on Shudder, plus Hadestown: The Musical, The Deb, The Undeclared War Season 2 on Peacock, The Last Sunrise on Prime Video, Dark Matter Season 2 on Apple TV, and Adults Season 2 on Hulu/FX.
Gear Patrol highlights 21 new watches across Timex, Blancpain, Grand Seiko and more, ranging from affordable field watches and collaborations to high-end divers and skeletons, with notes on new movements, materials and limited editions.
Tom's Guide highlights three Netflix picks for the Aug 21-23 weekend: the final season of a teen action-adventure series, a tense crime thriller about tracking down a serial killer, and an original spin-off set in the Interview with the Vampire universe, offering diverse thrills as Netflix updates its lineup.
Mashable’s weekly streaming guide highlights a fresh slate across Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Apple TV+, Max, Disney+, Shudder, Paramount+, AMC+, and more, headlined by Outer Banks Season 5 on Netflix; Rosebush Pruning on MUBI; The Audacity on Netflix; Power Ballad on Prime Video; Buffet Infinity on Shudder; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 18 on Hulu; The Dynasty: UConn Huskies on Apple TV+; Conan O’Brien Must Go Season 3 on HBO Max; Mother Mary on Max; Passenger on Paramount+; Toy Story 5 for digital purchase; and The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE on AMC+. A reminder to check Mashable’s by-genre watch guides as you plan your week.
This week’s New Music Friday roundup spotlights a broad slate of new album releases (STELLA LEFTY, Jorja Smith, Paul Heaton, Sam Smith, DMA'S, Weezer, and more), deluxe editions (Girls Aloud) and debuts (Cruz Beckham, Antony Szmierek) alongside a flood of new singles from Jamie T, Fontaines D.C., Chaka Khan, Arielle Free and others, with tour and festival dates in view.
Pitchfork’s New Music Friday rounds up 11 new albums out now, featuring Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend, L’Rain’s Fata Morgana, Djrum’s I Wander, Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal’s Doomed!, Sweeping Promises’ You Say I Romanticize, Laura Veirs’ Temple Songs, Hovvdy’s Big World, Everything Is Recorded’s Cut Off Your Nose, Michael Christmas/Chris Crack/Girl Talk’s Don’t Come to My House Sharing Your Location, The Womack Sisters’ self-titled debut, and James Ellis Ford’s Lost in Another World. The piece spans indie rock, folk, R&B, electronic, and hip-hop, highlighting themes like late-night anxiety, fatigue, relationships, and resilience, while noting streaming availability and purchase options.
Gear Patrol highlights 22 new watches spanning affordable to luxury—from Seiko, Casio and Timex to Breitling and Audemars Piguet—featuring limited editions, collaborations (Unimatic x SF Market, Seiko 145th-anniversary pieces) and specialty divers with charity ties (Christopher Ward supporting ocean conservation). The roundup showcases ongoing industry churn across dive, GMT and tech-forward designs from brands big and small.
Netflix’s August 2026 lineup blends high-profile adaptations with returning favorites and a handful of doc and comedy titles, led by One Hundred Years of Solitude Part 2 + Grand Finale (Aug 5 and Aug 26) and including Best Medicine, Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young, Leanne Season 2, Outer Banks Season 5, The Sex Lives of College Girls Seasons 1–3, Ricky Gervais’ Alley Cats, and a live MLB Field of Dreams game; the piece also flags older Netflix exclusives like Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen and How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, notes August is lighter on brand-new premieres, and suggests exploring other services for a fuller summer slate.
Netflix US kicks off August with a record 75 new titles (63 movies, 12 series), led by A Quiet Place: Day One, a major Fast & Furious marathon, and Hannibal (Seasons 1–3); the week also includes The Kid Detective and A Private Life. Popular charts place 72 HOURS at #1 among movies and Ransom Canyon at the top among TV series, with new docs The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare and The Bombing of Pan Am 103 making splashy debuts.
The Hollywood Reporter previews Netflix’s August 2026 slate, led by Ricky Gervais’s Alley Cats (Aug 7) and The Last House (Aug 1–7 window), plus a Jose Mourinho documentary (Aug 11), Tires: Season 3 (Aug 13), MLB Field of Dreams event (Aug 13), Australian series My Brilliant Career (Aug 13), Outer Banks: Season 5 (Aug 20), and The Whisper Man starring Robert De Niro (Aug 28). The month also adds a wide array of returning and classic titles (e.g., M3GAN, The Fast and the Furious films, Clueless, Zero Dark Thirty) across multiple Aug dates.