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.
An expansive guide to Everything New on Streaming in August 2026, detailing daily arrivals acrossNetflix, Paramount+, HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu, and Prime Video, including new series, films, season premieres, and a flood of catalog titles that underscore the crowded, competitive streaming landscape.
Pitchfork highlights nine notable new album releases this week, including Ariana Grande’s Petal; the Durutti Column’s Renascent; Arca’s XXXXX; Trashcan Sinatras’ Ever the Optimist; Davido’s Oriadé; Moliy’s Baddies <3 Moliy; Shannon Lay’s Past the Veil; Shearwater’s The New World; and Leo’s Cicada Burnt, with streaming options and brief notes on each artist’s direction.
A comprehensive roundup of 20 newly released watches from Seiko, Swatch, Citizen, Casio and more, spanning affordable daily wear to luxury collectibles and limited editions, including the MoonSwatch, Nomos Tetra 27, Panerai Luna Rossa models, and pieces from Doxa, Shinola, Bell & Ross, G-Shock and Yema.
A 26-watch roundup spanning affordable Casio and Seiko releases to luxury pieces from IWC, Panerai, Hublot, Vacheron Constantin and more, highlighting updated divers, GMTs, and notable collaborations and limited editions across the market.
Xbox One owners are in for a surprisingly busy July 2026, with 12 notable releases: Hyperwired (Jul 2); Palworld 1.0 (Jul 10) with World Tree endgame and new Pals, Tower Dominion (Jul 10); Denshattack! (Jul 15, day-one Game Pass) and Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit (Jul 15); four titles on Jul 16—including Ratatan (delayed to Oct 15), Farlands, Moss: The Forgotten Relic collection, and Streetdog BMX; Ova Magica (Jul 21); Gothic Classic (Jul 28); and Leafy Corner (Jul 30). More titles may be announced and Game Pass updates could add additional Xbox One releases.