Some streamers, like HBO’s Max and Disney+, are having a light August by releasing very few new shows and movies. Paramount +, on the other hand, has lined up a stellar selection of original programming and licensed titles to ensure you’re getting the most out of your subscription.
From another iteration of RuPaul’s Drag Race to the debut of a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, Paramount+ has something for everyone in August. Read further for a complete list below.
Sir Nicholas “Nicky” Winton, a young London broker, rescues over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in the months leading up to World War II. Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter star in the film.
The crimes are real, and the stakes are high. The gripping half-hour series takes viewers into moments of crisis in some of the biggest cases of our time as told by the police officers who worked them.
8/9: Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiere
In the new Paramount+ original series, everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes face new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple.
8/11: SEAL Team final season premiere
The most elite unit of Navy SEALs balance dangerous and high-stakes missions with challenges in their personal lives.
8/16: RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars premiere
Twelve fan favorites from around the world will represent their countries as they compete for the title of “Queen of the Mothertucking World,” a grand prize of $200,000, and a spot in the Drag Race Hall of Fame.
In the misty forests of North America, a Sasquatch family, led by Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, set off on an epic journey, learning how to fight for survival in an ever-changing world.
An East Flatbush mother and daughter, barely surviving in an oxygen-less world, must band together to protect each other when intruders arrive claiming to know their missing father.
Extreme Airport Africa (season 1)
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
8/2: NWSL x LIGA MX Femenil Summer Cup – NJ/NY Gotham FC vs. Chivas
8/2: NWSL x LIGA MX Femenil Summer Cup – Bay FC vs. América
8/3: PGA Tour Originals: Credentials – Travelers Championship
8/3: 2024 World’s Strongest Man Final*
8/3: United Soccer League – Detroit City FC vs. Rhode Island FC*
8/4: Lexus US Open of Surfing Kick-Off*
8/4: PBR – Professional Bull Riders Camping World Team Series Ft. Lauderdale*
8/6: NWSL x LIGA MX Femenil Summer Cup Semifinals
8/10: EFL Championship – Leeds United vs. Portsmouth
8/10: EFL League One – Wrexham vs. Wycombe Wanderers
8/10: The PGA of America REACH Foundation: So All Can Love This Game*
8/10: PGA Tour Originals: One Shot Away*
8/10-8/11: PGA Tour – Wyndham Championship (Third and Final Round Coverage)*
8/11: PBR – Professional Bull Riders Camping World Team Series Brooklyn*
8/12: EFL Championship – Luton Town vs. Burnley
8/13: Carabao Cup – Sheffield United vs. Wrexham
8/14: Carabao Cup – Leeds United vs. Middlesbrough
8/14: UEFA Super Cup – Real Madrid vs. Atalanta
8/17: WNBA – Minnesota Lynx @ Washington Mystics*
8/17: WNBA – New York Liberty @ Las Vegas Aces*
8/18: PBR – Professional Bull Riders Camping World Team Series Nashville*
8/24: NWSL – NJ/NY Gotham FC vs. Portland Thorns FC*
8/24: NWSL – San Diego Wave FC vs. Angel City FC*
8/24: Serie A – Parma vs. AC Milan
8/25: WNBA – Las Vegas Aces @ Chicago Sky*
8/25: PBR – Professional Bull Riders Camping World Team Series Austin*
8/25: NFL Preseason – Arizona Cardinals @ Denver Broncos*
8/29: UEFA Champions League – League Phase Draw
8/30: Serie A – Inter vs. Atalanta
Throughout August: NWSL X LIGA MX Femenil Summer Cup
Throughout August: Argentina Liga Profesional de Fútbol competition
Throughout August: Scottish Professional Football League competition
Throughout August: English Football League competition
* Title is available to Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers.
**All Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers can live stream CBS titles via the live feed on Paramount+. Those titles will be available on-demand to all subscribers the day after they air live.
Dates for library titles are subject to change. Paramount+ Premium subscribers will have access to CBS titles to stream live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service as well as on-demand. Essential tier subscribers have access to these titles on-demand the day after they air.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?