VOD News | On 16, Aug 2025

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 2025 UK TV highlights – what’s worth watching and where you can stream it online in the UK.

Week 1

 

Chief of War: Season 1

Creating by Momo and Thomas Pa‘a Sibbett, the series follows the unification and colonisation of Hawai‘i from an indigenous perspective. Amid the beautiful backdrop of the islands, the nine-episode series is based on true events and follows warrior Ka‘iana (Jason Momoa), as he tries to unify the islands before Western colonisation in the late 18th century. The first two episodes land together – followed by new episodes weekly until 19th September.

Eyes of Wakanda: Season 1

Wakanda’s secrets span centuries. This four-part animated series explores them in more depth.

Platonic: Season 2

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne return for this genuinely funny comedy about college mates Will and Sylvia that celebrates the value of friendship between men and women – and makes you want to be friends with them too.

Wednesday: Season 2, Part 1

Here we woe again. Tim Burton’s live-action series inspired by the Addams Family stars Jenna Ortega in the title role, alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzman as Gomez, Gwendoline Christie and Christina Ricci. The sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charts Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Season 2 will premiere in two parts, with the first part on 6th August and the second part on 3rd September.

Week 2

 

Ridley: Season 2

In Season 2 of ITV’s detective drama, Ridley, Adrian Dunbar returns to the title role to solve more crimes in the north of England. The retired detective turned police consultant resumes his partnership with former protégée, DI Carol Farman, played by Bronagh Waugh (The Suspect, Unforgotten, The Fall), who is now in charge of investigations. Ridley is written and created by Paul Matthew Thompson (Vera) and co-created by Jonathan Fisher (Blood, Hollington Drive, Penance).

Resident Alien: Season 4

This charmingly sweet and darkly funny sci-fi comedy follows Harry, an alien on a mission to destroy the human race, who winds up stranded on Earth and has to work out how to live from one day to the next.

In Flight

Crime drama with Katherine Kelly. When her son is jailed for murder in Bulgaria, flight attendant Jo enters a murky world of drug smuggling and will stop at nothing to save him. Landing on 12 August.

Alien: Earth

From creator Noah Hawley, Alien: Earth is set in 2120, two years before the events of Ridley Scott’s original film, Alien. Five corporations – Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold – wield the power of nations, and proprietary advancements in technology provide the promise of a new tomorrow. When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat. The first two episodes arrive together, followed by the remaining six episodes weekly.

Butterfly

Daniel Dae Kim stars in this character-driven spy thriller that explores complex family dynamics within the treacherous world of global espionage.

One Night

Jodie Whittaker stars in this story of three women whose bond was destroyed by a trauma night 20 years ago – only for one of them, a novelist, to publish the story and bring the trauma, truth and fiction back to the surface. After originally being a Paramount+ UK title, before being pulled from the platform, it now makes its debut on ITVX. All episodes arrive together.

Week 3

 

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

An eight-part series inspired by the story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her journey to set herself free. Episodes 1 and 2 arrive together, followed by episodes weekly.

Hostage

When the British prime minister’s husband is kidnapped and the French president starts receiving threats, both leaders must face an impossible choice. Written by Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies) and starring Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy.

Long Story Short

From the creator of BoJack Horseman comes this animated comedy is about a family over time, following siblings from childhood to adulthood and back again.

Invasion: Season 3

From Simon Kinberg, this sci-fi thriller follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. In season three, those perspectives collide for the first time, as the series’ main characters are brought together to work as a team on a critical mission to infiltrate the alien mothership. Episodes arrive one a a time weekly.

Peacemaker: Season 2

John Cena is back as the Peacemaker in this action-packed new season of the sci-fi comedy from James Gunn. In Season 2, Peacemaker discovers an alternate world where life is everything he wishes it could be. But this discovery also forces him to face his traumatic past and take the future into his own hands.

Week 4

 

King & Conqueror

A clash that defined a country, and a continent, for a thousand years. James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau star in this epic retelling of the events of 1066, and the brutal battle for a kingdom.

Upload: Season 4

Created by Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks and Recreation), the show is set in a technologically advanced future where humans can choose to be “uploaded” into a virtual afterlife. Season 4 will see sentient AI rapidly turn evil, threatening to wipe out Lakeview (and the world!). On top of greedy executives, lingering mysteries, plus heartbreak in VR and IRL, our characters are tested like never before. The only way they can get through it all and save humanity from deletion is by teaming up one last time.

The Terminal List: Dark Wolf

Co-created by The New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List, Jack Carr, and Season One creator-showrunner David DiGilio, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf is a prequel series with an origin story that follows “Ben Edwards” (Taylor Kitsch) throughout his journey from the Navy SEALs to the clandestine side of CIA Special Operations. The series is an espionage thriller that explores the darker side of warfare and the human cost that comes with it. It also features Chris Pratt reprising his role as James Reece.

Atomic

They’re on the run, and trouble’s not far behind. When the path of free-spirited drug smuggler Max (Alfie Allen) collides with JJ (Shazad Latif), an enigmatic outsider on the run, an unlikely friendship is formed. They’re swept into a chaotic, high-stakes mission they never signed up for — trafficking highly enriched uranium across North Africa and the Middle East, with the CIA, MI6, and a global web of opposing forces closing in fast. Leading the charge? Highly skilled scientist and a Non-Official Cover (NOC) officer Cassie Elliott (Samira Wiley).

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