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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 eightepisode 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)