David Farnor | On 18, Aug 2024

Netflix. Amazon Prime Video. BBC iPlayer. NOW. Apple TV+. Paramount+. All 4. There’s so much TV to watch these days in so many places that it can be hard to keep up. Every month, we boil down what’s on the box to the essentials you need in your streaming queue.

We’ve sorted through All The TV to bring you your August 2024 UK TV highlights – what’s worth watching and where you can stream it online in the UK.

Week 1

 

Batman: Caped Crusader

Welcome to Gotham City, where the corrupt outnumber the good, criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear. Forged in the fire of tragedy, wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne becomes something both more and less than human—the BATMAN. His one-man crusade attracts unexpected allies within the GCPD and City Hall, but his heroic actions spawn deadly, unforeseen ramifications. The series is a reimagining of the Batman mythology through the visionary lens of executive producers JJ Abrams, Matt Reeves and Bruce Timm. All episodes arrive at once.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

In the third spin-off series of the seminal apocalyptic survival series The Walking Dead, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) washes ashore in France, struggling to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. In the opening episode, Daryl’s unexpected arrival sets off a violent chain of events that inadvertently puts a young boy at the heart of a growing religious movement in danger; Daryl agrees to help shepherd the boy to safety in exchange for help returning to America. All episodes arrive together.

Fantasmas

Writer, director, and comedian Julio Torres spins a fantastical six-part tale of when he lost a gold oyster earring. In his search to find the precious object, Julio reflects on the offbeat characters he encounters in introspective, often eerie, and always comedic vignettes set in a dreamy, alternate version of New York City. All episodes arrive together.

Interview With The Vampire: Season 2

BBC Two takes a second bit out of AMC’s sumptuous reinvention of Anne Rice’s epic tale of seduction, blood and immortality, starring Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid.

Week 2

 

Vienna Blood: Season 4

Matthew Beard and Jurgen Maurer for the fourth chapter of this period crime drama that follows a brilliant young doctor taking on mysterious cases in bohemian Vienna.

The Umbrella Academy: Season 4

Season 4 picks up with the Hargreeves siblings scattered after the climactic showdown at the Hotel Oblivion led to a complete reset of their timeline. Stripped of their powers, each is left to fend for themselves and find a new normal — with wildly varying degrees of success. Yet the trappings of their uncanny new world prove too hard to ignore for very long. A mysterious association known as The Keepers holds clandestine meetings believing the reality they’re living in is a lie and a great reckoning is coming. Can they finally set things right?

Slip

Zoe Lister-Jones stars in this mind-boggling comedy that follows Mae through a surreal journey of parallel universes, married to different people, trying to find a way back to her partner, and ultimately, herself.

The Mallorca Files: Season 3

Set on the sun-drenched and glamorous island of Mallorca, The Mallorca Files centers around ambitious British detective Miranda Blake (Elen Rhys, Consent, The One That Got Away) and her laidback German partner Max Winter (Julian Looman, The Ibiza Affair, Constellation) who make up the perfect team – if only they could see it. In Season 3, amid high-stakes adventures, treasure hunts, arson, kidnappings, and murders, Max and Miranda’s personal tensions and odd-couple partnership are put to the test. All episodes arrive at once.

Week 3

 

Bad Monkey

This 10-part comedy tells the story of Andrew Yancy (Vince Vaughn), who has been bounced from the Miami Police Department and is now a health inspector in the Keys. But after stumbling upon a case that begins with a human arm fished up by tourists, he realises that if he can prove murder, he’ll be back in. He just needs to get past a trove of Floridian oddballs and one bad monkey. Based on Carl Hiaasen’s New York Times bestselling novel, with Bill Lawrence as showrunner. Episodes 1 and 2 arrive together, followed by weekly episodes until the finale on 9th October.

Pretty Little Liars: Summer School

Season 2 of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin finds the girls facing a fate worse than death: summer school. And Millwood High isn’t the only thing killing the buzz; there’s a new horror villain in town. With dark forces set on wreaking havoc in Millwood, it’s going to be a killer summer…

Emily in Paris: Season 4, Part 1

Get ready to chic things up as Emily heads to Rome for her fourth outing, via the French Alps. Season 4 picks up after Emily found out dramatic news about her on-and-off flirt buddy/neighbor/chef Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) and his on-and-off girlfriend/Emily’s friend Camille (Camille Razat) in Season 3. Now, as Emily and Gabriel work together toward a Michelin star, two big secrets threaten to undo everything they’ve dreamed of. Meanwhile, Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) is forced to confront a thorny dilemma from her past for the sake of her marriage as the Agence Grateau team navigates personnel shake-ups. Part 2 follows on 12th September.

Daddy Issues

When hedonistic 24 year old Gemma (Aimee Lou Wood) discovers she’s pregnant after a random hook-up, she has no choice but to turn to her hapless father Malcolm (David Morrissey) for support.

Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience

This brand-new acquisition, on iPlayer and BBC One, is a collaboration between Moon&Back Media, SM Entertainment, and SM & Kakao Entertainment America. The six-part series will follow Blaise, Dexter, James, Oliver and Reese as they are put through the K-pop training process with the goal of launching Dear Alice, a new boy band on the global stage.

Cameras go behind closed doors at K-pop talent powerhouse SM Entertainment for the first time to witness the band working with the world’s greatest choreographers, singing songs from the best songwriters, and being tutored by some of the most revered experts in the K-pop business.

Week 4

 

We Might Regret This

When tetraplegic artist Freya moves to London for her new lover, her chaotic best mate comes too, making an awkward blended family. Messy, tender comedy from Kyla Harris, who also plays the 30-something Freya. Darren Boyd co-stars as the 50-something Abe, a straight-laced lawyer who thinks he’s the old dog that can learn new tricks.

The Walking Dead: Dead City

Years have passed since we last saw Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan, (Jeffery Dean Morgan) and the old enemies must now form a tenuous alliance in order to carry out a dangerous mission. Maggie and Negan travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. Can the pair work together, or will the traumas of their past prove as great a threat as the dangers of the present?

Pachinko: Season 2

Epic in scope and intimate in tone, the story begins with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga that journeys between Korea, Japan and America to tell an unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning. The eight episodes each arrive weekly until the finale on 11th October.

Week 5

 

Sherwood: Season 2

David Morrissey and Lesley Manville return for the second season of BBC One’s revenge drama, as families in the Nottingham community find themselves entangled with a complex web of local gangs, old rivalries and betrayal. As the proposal for the opening of a new mine creates division, a senseless murder threatens to reignite historic turf wars that plagued the Nottingham of old.

Only Murders in the Building: Season 4

In the fourth season of the hit comedy, our amateur podcasting trio (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) wrestle with the shocking events at the end of Season 3 – leading them all the way to Los Angeles where a Hollywood studio is readying a film about the Only Murders podcast. Episodes arrive weekly.

Paralympics 2024

The Paralympic Games arrive in Paris for the first time, promising 11 days of sporting action, as more than 4,000 athletes will compete across 549 events in 22 sports. Clare Balding presents the opening ceremony, which will be held outside the stadium, using the the Avenue des Champs-Elysees and the Place de la Concorde.

The Last Leg in Paris

The Last Leg returns to its roots as it takes pride of place at the heart of Channel 4’s primetime schedule throughout the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, bringing together top-level sporting action and award-winning entertainment. When the daily sporting action concludes, The Last Leg in Paris takes over, as Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe are live in Paris throughout the Games to reflect and give their unique take on the day’s events – all with their usual comedic twist. Guests for the first episode include comedians Rosie Jones and Josh Pugh, plus former rugby union player and fellow Paralympics presenter Ed Jackson.

KAOS

Jeff Goldblum reigns as Zeus in this epic struggle between gods, humans and everything in between, from the creator of The End of the F***ing World.

Terminator Zero

A new judgment day arrives in this new anime instalment in the sci-fi franchise, which sees a warrior from a post-apocalyptic future travel to 1997 to protect an AI scientist being hunted by an unfeeling — and indestructible — cyborg.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 2

The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Episodes arrive weekly.

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