Series to Watch: August 2025

Series to Watch: August 2025


By DQ
July 31, 2025

Ones to Watch

DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this August, from a John Grisham legal thriller and an Outlander prequel to a political thriller starring Suranne Jones and the first TV series based on the Alien film franchise.

Chief of War
From: US
Original broadcaster: Apple TV+
Producers: Fifth Season, Chernin Entertainment
Starring: Jason Momoa, Luciane Buchanan, Temuera Morrison, Te Ao o Hinepehinga, Cliff Curtis, Kaina Makua, Moses Goods, Siua Ikale‘o, Brandon Finn, James Udom, Mainei Kinimaka, Te Kohe Tuhaka and Benjamin Hoetjes
Launch date: August 1
Starring, written and executive produced by Jason Momoa, this nine-part series is based on true events and features a predominantly Polynesian cast. It follows warrior Ka‘iana (Momoa) as he tries to unify the islands before Western colonisation in the late 18th century.
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Wednesday S2
From: US
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producers: MGM Television, Tim Burton Productions, Millar Gough Ink, Toluca Pictures
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Steve Buscemi, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Luis Guzmán, Hunter Doohan, Billie Piper, Isaac Ordonez, Victor Dorobantu, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, Noah Taylor and Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo
Launch date: August 6 (Part 1, with Part 2 arriving on September 3)
The eagerly anticipated return of this Addams Family series sees Ortega reprise the title role of Wednesday Addams, who must navigate family, friends and old adversaries within the halls of Nevermore Academy, propelling her into another year of delightfully dark and kooky mayhem and a new bone-chilling supernatural mystery to solve.
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Outlander: Blood of my Blood
From: US
Original broadcasters: Starz (US), MGM+ (worldwide)
Producer: Sony Pictures Television
Starring: Hermione Corfield, Jeremy Irvine, Harriet Slater, Jamie Roy, Tony Curran, Séamus McLean Ross, Sam Retford, Rory Alexander and Conor MacNeill
Launch date: August 9
A prequel to the original Outlander series, this is a romantic saga that unfolds across time, from the battlefields of the First World War to the rugged Highlands of 18th century Scotland. It centres on two fated couples – the parents of Outlander’s Claire Randall, Julia Moriston (Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Irvine), and those of Outlander’s Jamie Fraser, Ellen MacKenzie (Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) – who must defy the forces that seek to tear them apart, unfolding in unforeseen ways.
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Alien Earth
From: US
Original broadcasters: FX/Hulu (US), Disney+ (worldwide)
Producer: FX Productions
Starring: Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark, Erana James, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El and Sandra Yi Sencindiver
Launch date: August 12 (US), August 13 (worldwide)
In the year 2120, Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this corporate era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids – humanoid robots infused with human consciousness. The first hybrid prototype, named Wendy (Chandler), marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. When Weyland-Yutani’s mysterious deep-space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands in Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter mysterious lifeforms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.
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In Flight
From: UK
Original broadcaster: Channel 4
Producer: Buccaneer Media
Distributor: Fremantle
Additional broadcasters: ProSieben (Germany), SBS (Australia), TVNZ (New Zealand)
Starring: Katherine Kelly, Stuart Martin, Ashley Thomas, Bronagh Waugh, Harry Dadby, Corinna Brown and Ambreen Razia
Launch date: August 12
This crime thriller stars Kelly as a flight attendant whose life is turned upside down when she is blackmailed into drug smuggling after her son is imprisoned in Bulgaria for a murder he swears he did not commit.
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The Rainmaker
From: US
Original broadcaster: USA Network
Producers: Lionsgate, Blumhouse
Starring: Milo Callaghan, John Slattery, Lana Parrilla, Madison Iseman, PJ Byrne, Dan Fogler, Wade Briggs and Robyn Cara
Launch date: August 15
Based on the novel by John Grisham, this 10-parter introduces Rudy Baylor (Callaghan) who, fresh out of law school, joins a legal firm led by his boss Bruiser and her dishevelled paralegal, Deck. When they uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client’s son, he faces going head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond – as well as his law school girlfriend, Sarah.
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The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox
From: US
Original broadcasters: Hulu (US), Disney+ (worldwide)
Producers: 20th Television in association with The Littlefield
Starring: Grace Van Patten, Sharon Horgan, John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico and Roberta Mattei
Launch date: August 20
A limited series inspired by the story of how Amanda Knox (Van Patten) was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her journey to set herself free.
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Hostage
From: UK
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producers: Netflix with Binocular
Starring: Suranne Jones, Julie Delpy, Corey Mylchreest, Lucian Msamati, Ashley Thomas, James Cosmo, Martin McCann and Jehnny Beth
Launch date: August 21
When the husband of the British prime minister (Jones) is is kidnapped and the visiting French president (Delpy) is blackmailed, the two political leaders face unimaginable choices. Forced into a fierce rivalry where their political futures – and lives – might hang in the balance, can they work together to uncover the plot that threatens them both?
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The Terminal List: Dark Wolf
From: US
Original broadcaster: Prime Video
Producers: Amazon MGM Studios and MRC/Civic Center Media
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Tom Hooper, Luke Hemsworth, Dar Salim, Rona-Lee Shimon, Shiraz Tzarfati, Robert Wisdom, Jared Shaw and Chris Pratt
Launch date: August 27
Co-created by the author of The Terminal List, Jack Carr, and showrunner David DiGilio, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf is a prequel series to The Terminal List with an origin story that follows Ben Edwards (Kitsch) throughout his journey from the Navy SEALs to the clandestine side of CIA Special Operations.
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King & Conqueror
From: US/UK/Iceland
Original broadcaster: BBC (UK)
Producers: The Development Partnership, Rabbit Track Pictures, Shepherd Content, RVK Studios and CBS Studios, in association with the BBC
Distributor: Paramount Global Content Distribution
Starring: James Norton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emily Beecham, Clémence Poésy, Eddie Marsan, Juliet Stevenson, Elander Moore, Clare Holman, Luther Ford, Bo Bragasanand Geoff Bell
Launch date: August
It’s described as the story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for 1,000 years. Harold of Wessex (Norton) and William of Normandy (Coster-Waldau) were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 – two allies with no design on the English throne, who found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown.
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