What’s new on Netflix, CraveTV and Amazon
A monthly look at changes to the rotations
Netflix delivers prime binge material for the Labour Day long weekend with season 2 of Ozark. Jason Bateman and Laura Linney star as parents who are caught up in money laundering and a dangerous drug cartel in the Missouri Ozarks. In the new batch of episodes, they’re dealing with new, risky partnerships and a ruthless lawyer sent to the town by the crime syndicate.
Somebody’s bound to get burned as Joseph GordonLevitt oversees The Roast of Bruce Willis, the latest edition of Comedy Central’s searing evening of insult comedy. Taped in mid-July, the dais goes deep into Willis’s professional and personal failures to deliver jokes that walk the line of good taste. Guests include Willis’s former Moonlighting co-star Cybill Shepherd as well as Edward Norton and Martha Stewart. The special arrives Aug. 3 on CraveTV.
John Krasinski is the latest actor take a run at playing CIA analyst Jack Ryan. Amazon Prime Video’s new big-budget action series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan puts him in the coveted role portrayed by Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin and Chris Pine. The eight-episode show begins early in the character’s professional career when he comes across suspicious financial transactions that lead to a probe into a terrorist plot aimed at Paris.
Here are the lists of movies and TV shows expected in August. Release dates are subject to change.
NETFLIX
❚ Aug. 1
8 Mile
Along Came Polly Dragonheart
The Huntsman: Winter’s War Julie & Julia
Justice League Dark House of Deadly Secrets The Land Before Time Michael Jackson’s This Is It The Perfect Man Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Public Enemies
Rise of the Guardians Safe House Switched
'Til Death Do Us Part Touch of Evil
❚ Aug. 2
The 100: Season 5
Wild Oats
❚ Aug. 3
Brij Mohan Amar Rahe Cocaine Coast Dinotrux Supercharged (Season 3)
I am a Killer
Like Father
Marching Orders
❚ Aug. 4
Flavors of Youth: International Version
On Children
❚ Aug. 6
I Kill Giants
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Storks
Sully
❚ Aug. 9
A Hologram for the King Perdida
❚ Aug. 10
72 Dangerous Animals: Asia Afflicted
All About the Washingtons The Commuter Demetri Martin: The Overthinker
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Insatiable
La casa de las flores Million Pound Menu Outlander (Season 3)
The Package
The Ponysitters Club Voltron: Legendary Defender (Season 7)
Zion
❚ Aug. 13
Splash and Bubbles (Season 2)
❚ Aug. 15 Adventures in Public School Don’t Breathe Homeland (Season 6) Hurricane Bianca: From Russia With Hate
❚ Aug. 16
Made of Honor
❚ Aug. 17
Den of Thieves Disenchantment
Magic for Humans
The Motive - Netflix Film Pinky Malinky
Spirit Riding Free (Season 6) Stay Here
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
Ultraviolet
❚ Aug. 19
The Investigator: A British Crime Story (Season 2) Aug. 20 Death at a Funeral
❚ Aug. 21
The Sinner
❚ Aug. 22
How to Get Away With Murder (Season 4)
Marlon (Season 2)
❚ Aug. 23
Deadwind
Follow This
In Darkness
❚ Aug. 24
The After Party
Ask the StoryBots (Season 2) Bert Kreischer: Secret Time Downsizing
Ghoul
The Innocents
Trolls: The Beat Goes On! (Season 3)
❚ Aug. 27
The Accountant
The Blacklist: Season 5 When the Bough Breaks
❚ Aug. 31
The Comedy Lineup (Part 2) Inside the Criminal Mind The Laws of Thermodynamics Ozark (Season 2) Paradise PD Ultimate Beastmaster: Survival of the Fittest Coming sometime in August Meteor Garden
CRAVETV
❚ Aug. 3
The Roast of Bruce Willis
❚ Aug. 5
Who is America?
❚ Aug. 10
The Good Doctor (Season 1)
❚ Aug. 17
Good Behavior (Season 2)
❚ Aug. 18
Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow
❚ Aug. 24
Deadliest Catch (Season 13)
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
❚ Aug. 1
I Spy (2002)
Lemur Street
Jaguar Adventure with Nigel Marven
Richard Hammond’s Engineering Connections
❚ Aug. 9
Pistorius
Pushing Dead
❚ Aug. 14
Stinky & Dirty (Season 2B)
❚ Aug. 17 Association of Volleyball Professionals — Live from California: the Manhattan Beach Open
All or Nothing: Manchester City
❚ Aug. 31 Association of Volleyball Professionals — Live from Chicago: The Championships
❚ Aug. 31
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Season 1)