New TV and Streaming This Week: 24 – 30 August 2026
As August draws to a close, the UK’s biggest streaming services are lining up a varied slate of new arrivals, from returning comedies and true-crime documentaries to a revenge-fuelled boxing drama and a run of international thrillers. Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+ and Sky/NOW all have something premiering between Monday 24 and Sunday 31 August 2026, giving viewers plenty of choice for the final stretch of summer. Here is a rundown of the new programmes worth adding to the watchlist, along with what each one is actually about.
NETFLIX
Netflix’s week is dominated by comedy and international drama. Leanne returns for a second season on Thursday 27 August, with comedian Leanne Morgan reprising her role as a Tennessee grandmother rebuilding her life after her husband of thirty years walks out on their marriage. The sitcom mines her attempts to reinvent herself in middle age for warmth as much as laughs.
The following day, Friday 28 August, brings a cluster of new international titles. The Secret Woman, a Danish thriller, follows Louise, whose quiet life on a Norwegian island is upended when a stranger insists she is actually Helene Söderberg, a woman who disappeared from Denmark three years earlier, forcing her to confront a past she does not remember. Mousetrap, a Korean thriller, centres on a reclusive novelist whose orderly existence collapses when a mysterious figure steals both his wealth and his identity. Viewers with a taste for European drama also get All the Truth Behind My Lies, a Spanish series about a group of lifelong friends whose campervan road trip unravels into a reckoning with long-buried secrets, while Turkish crime drama Graveyard returns for a third season following Chief Inspector Önem Özülkü and her underfunded police unit, still relegated to a basement office despite solving the cases nobody else wants.
PRIME VIDEO
Amazon’s Prime Video has a quieter week but two titles stand out. On Wednesday 26 August, The Last Sunrise arrives as a romantic drama following Ry, a college student living with a chronic illness, who escapes to Mallorca for the summer. There she falls for a local love interest, only for family secrets to threaten the relationship before the season is out. Two days later, Meet The Owens launches as a documentary series trailing the football-famous Owen family, focusing on Michael Owen’s horse racing business and how his children balance careers, education and the pressure of the family name while chasing success in one of sport’s most competitive industries.
DISNEY+
Disney+ leans towards documentary and true crime for this stretch. FX’s Adults returns for a second season on Friday 28 August, with all episodes dropping at once. The comedy follows a group of twenty-somethings sharing a house in New York, using their live-in arrangement, cost-effective in theory, emotionally catastrophic in practice, to explore love, work, friendship and family as they stumble through early adulthood together.
At the end of the week, on Monday 31 August, The Killing of Claire Leveque arrives as a two-part documentary offering exclusive access to the trial at Edinburgh High Court over the death of a 24-year-old Canadian woman on the Shetland Islands, following her family through the harrowing days of proceedings and beyond. A day earlier, 20/20: Britain’s Most Notorious Crime Investigations reopens six high-profile UK cases with fresh interviews, for anyone wanting a true-crime deep dive heading into September.
NOW / SKY
The standout drama of the week lands on Sky and NOW. Fightland, executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, premieres on Thursday 27 August with all episodes available on demand. The series opens on the night boxer Duke Kilroy becomes world heavyweight champion, only for his brother Calvin to be killed in a brutal assault hours later. Duke’s response to the tragedy earns him an eight-year prison sentence; on his release, having uncovered a sinister truth about what really happened, he sets out to take revenge on Kingsley Marshall, the criminal kingpin and former promoter he holds responsible. With Kingsley missing, Duke instead infiltrates his old rival’s criminal empire, and finds himself working alongside a cartel angling to control London’s drug trade, and face to face with Joy, Kingsley’s wife and Duke’s former love. Howard Charles leads the cast as Duke, alongside Nicholas Pinnock and Deborah Ayorinde.
PARAMOUNT+
Paramount+ rounds out the week with a reality return rather than a scripted premiere. Teen Mom: UK Next Generation begins its fourth season on Tuesday 25 August, continuing to follow young British parents as they navigate relationships, family pressure and the everyday realities of raising children while still growing up themselves.
WHAT TO WATCH FIRST
Taken together, the last week of August offers something for most tastes: a boxing revenge saga on Sky and NOW, a run of twisty international thrillers on Netflix, documentary features on both Disney+ and Prime Video, and a reality staple continuing on Paramount+. With five services all refreshing their line-ups within days of each other, it is a solid week to catch up before the autumn schedules start to fill out. Whether the appeal is a slow-burn revenge drama, a Scandinavian mystery, or a fly-on-the-wall documentary, there is a new premiere for almost every mood before September arrives.
