New TV and Streaming This Week: 3–9 August 2026

British viewers have a genuinely packed week ahead, with new TV and streaming arrivals spanning teen drama, prestige literary adaptation, adult animation, gothic horror and true-crime documentary. Between Monday 3 and Sunday 9 August, five major UK streaming and pay-TV services — Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+ and Sky/NOW — are all launching new UK-facing titles. Below is a rundown of seven of the biggest, with dates and full synopses, so you know exactly what to add to your watchlist.

One Hundred Years of Solitude — Part Two

Netflix  |  Streaming from Wednesday 5 August

Netflix’s sweeping adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian classic returns for its second and final instalment, picking up immediately where the first seven episodes left off. Part Two spans the remaining fifty years of the Buendía family saga, following new generations of the clan as the town of Macondo, once a symbol of hope and progress, slides into decay. The curse that has shadowed the family since its founding finally closes in, and the series builds towards a genuinely dramatic, emotionally heavy conclusion. A separate ‘Grand Finale’ event caps the story later in the month on 26 August, but Part Two is where the endgame truly begins, and it’s essential viewing for anyone who has followed the Buendías from the beginning.

My Life with the Walter Boys — Season 3

Netflix  |  Streaming from Thursday 6 August

The hit teen drama returns to Silver Falls for a third, ten-episode run. Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger: Jackie and Cole finally admitted their feelings for one another, only for Jackie’s boyfriend — and Cole’s own brother — Alex to overhear the confession, moments before family patriarch George was rushed to hospital. Season 3 picks up the fallout, as the extended Walter clan works out what actually matters to them. Alex throws himself into a new rodeo riding team to process the betrayal, Cole gets a shot at a racing career after a driver spots his talent, and Jackie pours her energy into building a community space for the town, all while the central love triangle remains unresolved. It’s soapy, warm-hearted young-adult drama built for a single-sitting binge.

Alley Cats

Netflix  |  Streaming from Friday 7 August

Ricky Gervais makes his adult-animation debut with this six-part comedy, each episode a tight fifteen minutes long. The series follows a scrappy gang of feral British cats — voiced by Gervais regulars including Diane Morgan, Jo Hartley, Tom Basden and Andrew Brooke — as they scrap, scavenge and philosophise their way through a chaotic human world. True to form, Gervais mixes broad, near-the-knuckle comedy with sharper social commentary on class, loneliness and companionship, filtered through the eyes of a back-alley cat colony. Early previews suggest it leans into the same unsentimental, quietly melancholic humour that ran through After Life, just with considerably more fur.

Sterling Point

Amazon Prime Video  |  Streaming from Wednesday 5 August

All eight episodes of this new coming-of-age drama land on Prime Video in one go, ready for a full binge. The story centres on 17-year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin), raised in New York City by her twin brother and their loving adoptive father. Annie’s settled world is upended when she unexpectedly inherits a remote island off the coast of Canada from a grandfather she never knew existed. Relocating there to sort out the estate, she stumbles into new friendships, a slow-burn romance and a tangle of long-buried family secrets that force her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about where she came from. It’s pitched as an atmospheric blend of teen romance and mystery, in the vein of shows built for a devoted, bingeable fandom.

The Ninth Jedi

Disney+  |  Streaming from Wednesday 5 August

This Star Wars: Visions spin-off arrives as a complete limited series, continuing the story of young Jedi hopeful Lah Kara. Training under the guidance of Margrave Juro, Kara joins a small fellowship of Jedi-in-training on an ambitious mission to rescue her father, weaving further into the animated Visions universe that has become one of the more inventive corners of the Star Wars franchise. Told in the same striking, internationally-inflected animation style that has defined the Visions strand, the series is a self-contained adventure that doesn’t require deep prior knowledge of the wider saga, making it an accessible entry point for newer fans as well as a treat for longtime followers.

Special Ops: TRUE

Paramount+  |  Streaming from Tuesday 4 August

A new documentary series pulls back the curtain on some of the American military’s most closely guarded missions of the last few decades. Using previously unseen footage and first-hand testimony from the Special Operations Forces personnel involved, Special Ops: TRUE reconstructs operations including the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the chaotic evacuation of allies after the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, the 1993 Black Hawk Down battle in Mogadishu, and the rescue of a captured CIA operative in Panama. It’s a straight-faced, detail-heavy companion piece to the fictionalised military dramas that have proven popular on the platform, aimed squarely at viewers who want the real story behind the headlines.

Possession

Sky Atlantic / NOW  |  Streaming from Thursday 6 August This five-part event series, created and written by Karla Crome, stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Claudia, an ambitious young bi-racial lawyer whose life is upended by a trip to Jamaica. She travels there to challenge an inheritance claim filed by local resident Cudjoe East against wealthy white aristocrat Oliver Connaught, only to discover that the estate at the centre of the dispute, Hope Hill, is the same plantation that has haunted her nightmares for years. Also starring Jonny Lee Miller, Sheldon Shepherd and Bel Powley, and shot across Bristol and Jamaica, Possession folds a supernatural thriller into a story about colonial history, inheritance and reckoning with the past — a moodier, more unsettling addition to Sky’s autumn drama slate.

The Bottom Line

It’s an unusually strong week for new TV and streaming on UK television, with something for nearly every mood: the emotional heft of a literary saga reaching its end on Netflix, teen romance on both Netflix and Prime Video, animated comedy from one of Britain’s best-known comics, a Star Wars adventure for Disney+ subscribers, hard-hitting military documentary on Paramount+, and gothic, history-tinged thriller on Sky and NOW. Whether you’re after comfort viewing or something darker, the week of 3–9 August 2026 is worth clearing some space in the schedule for.