Simply if you thought the withdrawal signs from the top of prime HBO reveals like Barry and Succession had been solely going to get stronger, August is coming in scorching with some absolute bangers. Netflix’s adaptation of the acclaimed manga/ anime One Piece is well the saving grace this month, the place an bold pirate with a straw hat heads out on an epic voyage, looking each inch of the huge blue seas for a fabled treasure. The ten-episode collection captures the introductory chapters — East Blue Saga — and units sail on August 31 (shut name for the month). Every week earlier than that, Ahsoka Tano is lastly getting her standalone live-action collection, headlined by Rosario Dawson, as she investigates an rising menace to a susceptible galaxy. Ahsoka premieres August 23 on Disney+ Hotstar.
Jimmy Sheirgill-led Choona fires issues up on the Indian originals finish, tracing a revenge drama with an astrological twist, the place an unlikely group of six band collectively to take down a corrupt politician’s empire. Described as a heist comedy set in Lucknow, Choona is out August 3 on Netflix. Then, Sony Liv has obtained a local weather thriller lined up for us — delving into the exploitation of pure assets for human greed, which results in some deadly penalties for the denizens of the mining state of Orissa. The Jengaburu Curse — created by Nila Madhab Panda (Kadvi Hawa) premieres August 9.
Different notable releases this month embody the third season of Solely Murders within the Constructing, which picks up from theatre actor Ben Glenroy’s (Paul Rudd) dying, as our trio of true crime-obsessed podcasters are whisked into one other homicide case. Whereas the season premiere is ready for August 8, Disney+ Hotstar in India could or could not delay the discharge by a few days — as we noticed with The Bear season 2. You’ll be able to learn extra about all these TV reveals and extra beneath — and be happy to find the entire checklist of upcoming net collection at our leisure hub.
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With that, here is our TV information to August 2023, masking releases on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+ Hotstar, Netflix, and Sony Liv.
Bodily season 3
When: August 2
The place: Apple TV+
It is a bit baffling to see Apple TV+’s Bodily not getting the eye it deserves, as a result of that is the place Rose Byrne places ahead her finest efficiency. Tormented housewife Sheila Rubin (Byrne) is headed on a wholesome path to restoration, having established her aerobics video class and thriving in her enterprise’ success — increasing into meditation programs, Lamaze, and pottery lessons. Sheila is on the precipice of one thing big, that’s till Kelly Kilmartin (Zooey Deschanel), a brand new health teacher on the rise begins stealing the thunder, threatening to remove every thing she’s labored for. Given Sheila’s previous together with her internal demons, you would possibly as effectively count on this new character to sometimes invade her thoughts, stirring doubts about her health empire and self-image.
The world of aerobics was a supply for Sheila to seek out launch and empowerment, and with this new menace rising on the floor, she digs deep to uncover any secrets and techniques that might hurt Kelly’s repute — beginning together with her arrest data, adopted by a face-to-face confrontation that solely screams hassle. This unhinged season marks the ultimate chapter of Bodily, which remains to be poised to go away some issues open-ended for its followers. A lot of the unique solid reprise their roles, together with Rory Scovel (Babylon) as Sheila’s husband Danny Rubin, Paul Sparks (Home of Playing cards) as her lover John Breem, and Dierdre Friel as her sensible buddy Greta Hauser.
The primary two episodes of Bodily season 3 are out August 2 on Apple TV+, after which it’ll comply with a weekly launch schedule — dropping each Wednesday — till September 27.
Choona
When: August 3
The place: Netflix
Jimmy Sheirgill (A Wednesday!) performs Shukla, a corrupt politician obsessive about astrology, on this heist comedy from Pushpendra Nath Misra, as he navigates his plan to overthrow the federal government and turn out to be the following CM of his state. Nevertheless, he has a quirk — his day-to-day actions are rigorously deliberate based mostly on whether or not the celebrities and planets align in his favour, which additionally determines whether or not it is the suitable time for him to commit an act of violence. In his meteoric rise to the highest, Shukla has created a bunch of enemies, all of whom had been in some way wronged by him, now on the lookout for revenge by conjuring a disorganised plan to steal Rs. 600 crore from beneath his nostril.
The heist staff contains an astrologer (Atul Srivastava), a previous love curiosity (Monika Panwar), a mute man (Chandan Roy), a shape-shifting informer (Namit Das), a small-time criminal and pupil chief (Aashim Gulati), an alcoholic contractor (Vikram Kochhar), and a demoted police officer (Gyanendra Tripathi). Just one drawback although – Shukla’s celebration workplace is closely fortified with armed males, over 100 physically-fit goon-ish staff, and CCTV cameras on each nook. Our band of infiltrators, however, are odd townsfolk with no expertise ziplining from a window, forcing them to depend on astrology to idiot or relatively, apply choona to the person.
All eight episodes of Choona drop August 3 on Netflix.
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Jimmy Shergill (centre) in a nonetheless from Choona
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Heartstopper season 2
When: August 3
The place: Netflix
Having simply come out to his mom within the season finale of Heartstopper, Nick (Equipment Connor) is able to discover his newly-forged relationship with Charlie (Joe Locke), which he nonetheless finds a bit bizarre contemplating they began out as finest pals. With exams on the horizon and a faculty journey to Paris — could not be extra romantic — powerful, footballing jock Nick should determine what it means for him to be bisexual, as he grapples with the load of getting to disclose his sexuality publicly. Charlie, being the involved boyfriend that he’s, needs to make sure that his companion’s popping out expertise is not as traumatic as his personal, promising a fairytale romance in season 2.
Let’s not ignore their shut pals both, significantly Elle (Yasmin Finney) and Tao (William Gao), who battle to maintain their pleasant relationship platonic, whereas Tara (Corinna Brown) and Darcy (Kissy Edgell) face unexpected challenges of their relationship. Charlie is a bit envious of the latter although, as Nick’s inkling to take care of a public picture as a straight sportsperson prevents them from brazenly reciprocating their love for one another. It is good that Alice Oseman, the one who wrote and drew the unique Heartstopper webtoons and graphic novels, is the lead author on the Netflix present as effectively — guaranteeing that her true imaginative and prescient is portrayed on the display.
Season 2 brings a bunch of returning characters, together with Tobie Donovan because the quiet child Isaac, Sebastian Croft because the misguided Ben, and Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman (The Favorite) as Nick’s accepting mom Sarah Nelson.
The Misplaced Flowers of Alice Hart
When: August 4
The place: Amazon Prime Video
When Alice Hart (Alycia Debnam-Carey) was little, she was concerned in a mysterious but tragic hearth accident, dropping her dad and mom within the course of and being moved to reside together with her estranged grandmother June (Sigourney Weaver) on the Thronfield flower farm. Rising older and creating a wierd reference to the Australian native flowers, she learns some revealing secrets and techniques about herself and her household’s previous — a betrayal of her belief that causes her to go away and carve out her personal story. It’s implied that June’s farm is, the truth is, a refuge for traumatised individuals, who just like the nine-year-old Alice had been damaged.
The Misplaced Flowers of Alice Hart attracts from the eponymous 2018 novel by Holly Ringland, which makes use of the huge open areas of central Australia to convey a moody survival thriller that is shot in atmospheric high quality. It is a story spanning twenty years, transcending between flashbacks of Alice’s time together with her violent father, some good reminiscences together with her mother on the seashore, and a celestial crater within the central desert. The seven-episode collection additionally stars Alyla Browne because the younger Alice Hart, Asher Keddie (9 Excellent Strangers) as a involved girl on the farm Sally Morgan, Leah Purcell (Wentworth) as Twig North, and Frankie Adams (The Expanse) as Sweet Blue.
All seven episodes of The Misplaced Flowers of Alice Hart are directed by Glendyn Ivin (Protected Harbour), and so they’ll be out there to stream August 4 on Amazon Prime Video.
Solely Murders within the Constructing season 3
When: August 8
The place: Disney+ Hotstar
Solely Murders within the Constructing season 3 picks up precisely the place we left off, with Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd) dying on stage in the course of the opening evening of Oliver’s (Martin Brief) Broadway play. Together with his main man not alive, the one method to proceed his present can be to as soon as once more staff up together with his true crime-loving podcast group — Mabel (Selena Gomez) and Charles (Steve Martin) — and discover the killer. Each solid member’s photograph is pinned up on a wall, turning all of them into suspects within the whodunnit thriller, which might often soar again in time to disclose their relationships with Ben. Prolific Academy Award nominee Meryl Streep is becoming a member of the solid this time as Loretta, who’s had some friction with Ben for being a nasty performer at desk reads. She needs the half within the theatre play, however Ben wished her out, giving her the motive to kill.
Then there’s the TikTok-addicted starlet Kimberly (Ashley Park) who’s accused of doing it as a part of an web meme, and an unnamed documentarian performed by Jesse Williams (The Cabin within the Woods) who appears means too within the homicide investigations proceedings — to the purpose the place he goes on a date with Mabel. There’s loads to unpack on this new season, from dance and musical performances to a collapsing theatre, to Charles and Oliver fighting Gen-Z phrases, and even Mabel displaying up in a marriage costume.
The primary two episodes of Solely Murders within the Constructing season 3 are at present set to drop August 8 on Disney+ Hotstar, albeit this might get delayed by a number of days going by previous file. The remaining eight episodes will comply with a weekly launch schedule — each Tuesday — till October 3.
The Jengaburu Curse
When: August 9
The place: Sony Liv
There’s one thing amiss concerning the small city of Jengaburu, Orissa, which lately began receiving offers price tons of of crores, turning it right into a lavish metropolitan hub. Priya Das (Faria Abdullah), a London-based monetary analyst, who returned residence when her father went lacking, finds the development fairly perplexing and will get dragged right into a darkish worldwide conspiracy surrounding an unlawful mining operation. Round 3,000 ft beneath the bottom, an company appears to have excavated unusual radicals which are tied to a secret nuclear operation, with its unsuspecting miners struggling deaths in tons of resulting from radiation publicity.
It is a bit arduous to determine what The Jengaburu Curse’s plot is, however it’s implied that the Bondriya tribe was worn out from the map to take advantage of assets from their unique dwelling. Nila Madhab Panda’s — finest recognized for Kadvi Hawa — climate-fiction collection delves into how the notion of how exploitation of pure assets to fulfill human greed might have deadly penalties. The present additionally stars Nassar (Ponniyin Selvan: I), Makarand Deshpande (The Fame Sport), and Sudev Nair (Monster).
All seven episodes of The Jengaburu Curse shall be out there to stream August 9 on Sony Liv.
Unusual Planet
When: August 9
The place: Apple TV+
Unusual Planet is ready in a whimsical pastel panorama of cotton sweet pink and lightweight purple, the place a gaggle of lanky beings discover the absurdity of on a regular basis human life. A variety of it goes over their heads although, from the idea of consuming ‘jitter liquid’ (espresso), understanding what irony means, or why anybody would trash their place with confetti for celebrations. Different occasions, they’re going to embark on epic adventures hovering round in a scorching air balloon and remaining bizarrely calm when their flight crash-lands into the ocean, all whereas coming to phrases with their existence’s ruleset the place each good and dangerous moments will move by finally.
The ten-episode present relies on creator Nathan W. Pyle’s eponymous graphic novel and social media posts, providing a perceptive have a look at a distant world just like ours. He additionally serves as co-creator on the present, partnering with Dan Harmon, finest recognized for making Rick and Morty. It stars the voices award nominees Danny Pudi (Neighborhood), Lori Tan Chinn (Turning Pink), Hannah Einbinder (Hacks), and Tunde Adebimpe (Rachel Getting Married).
The primary three episodes of Unusual Planet are out August 9 on Apple TV+, adopted by new episodes each Wednesday till September 27.
Ahsoka
When: August 23
The place: Disney+ Hotstar
Following her transient look in The Mandalorian, Rosario Dawson returns as Ahsoka Tano, the Togruta Jedi on the prowl for an even bigger fish – Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) – who’s certain to return as inheritor to the Galactic Empire. The ladies of Star Wars: Rebels take centre stage within the collection, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead (10 Cloverfield Lane) assuming the position of ace pilot normal Hera Syndulla and Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Weapons Akimbo) because the Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren. The latter has a strained historical past together with her grasp Ahsoka, who deserted her mid-training, similar to Anakin Skywalker did to the Togruta years in the past. Talking of which, Hayden Christensen is reprising his position because the mentioned Jedi Knight, who would finally be referred to as Darth Vader.
No matter their private emotions for one another, the trio launch into the galaxy far, distant to stop one other warfare. Lucasfilm is not too eager on offering plot particulars for Ahsoka, although I actually hope it solutions the burning query of how the aforementioned Sabine, who was as soon as in possession of the Darksaber, misplaced it to Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito). We might even be handled to a cinematic lightsaber battle between Ahsoka and Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson), ally to Thrawn and grasp to the darkish Power consumer Shin (Ivanna Sakho). Marking Stevenson’s first launch since his demise in Might, Ahsoka is being delivered to the small display by showrunner and author Dave Filoni, who’s been concerned in just about each Star Wars TV undertaking with Jon Favreau.
Ahsoka debuts August 23 with a two-episode premiere on Disney+ Hotstar. It can then comply with a weekly launch schedule, with new episodes dropping each Wednesday till October 4.
One Piece
When: August 31
The place: Netflix
Let’s be trustworthy, Netflix hasn’t had the perfect observe file relating to adapting anime to a live-action medium, with key examples of failure being Cowboy Bebop and Demise Observe. A One Piece adaptation has been gestating for years now, with the streamer ordering a 10-episode first season that will chronicle the East Blue Saga — which seems to be wackily promising. In it, you comply with Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), an enthusiastic loudmouthed pirate possessing a rubber-like physique, on a quest to seek out the final word titular treasure. However earlier than setting sail on a deadly journey throughout the Grand Line, he should discover a ship and extra importantly, assemble a crew of adept pirates — or relatively, comrades — whom he might belief blindfolded.
We’ll meet the green-haired triple swordsman Roronoa Zoro (Mackenyu), the enigmatic thief Nami (Emily Rudd), the crafty Usopp (Jacob Romero Gibson), and the uber-talented romantic chef Sanji (Taz Skylar), who seeks the fabled All Blue, which holds fish from all 4 seas. The villainous Buggy the Clown (Jeff Ward) may even make an look, having the ability to break up his physique into items and command every half to do his bidding. You may encounter extra such out-of-the-box characters, who’ve consumed the Satan’s Fruit to achieve superhuman skills — one among them being Luffy himself, who can stretch his appendages like rubber to carry out wildly dynamic ending strikes just like the notorious Gum-Gum Pistol assault.
Sure, because of this loads of the combat sequences shall be reliant on heavy CGI work, which if not detailed sufficient is usually a level of criticism for followers. To not point out, Netflix is condensing the primary 100 chapters of the East Blue Saga manga right into a mere 10 episodes, which might omit a piece of character growth. Solely time would be the decide of how the One Piece live-action collection performs out, although the unique mangaka Eiichiro Oda remarked that numerous reshoots had been finished till he obtained what felt real to his imaginative and prescient.
All 10 episodes of the One Piece live-action collection are out August 31 on Netflix.
