What to Watch in August: Your Guide to 130+ Premieres Across Broadcast, Cable and Streaming

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📺 Built in Birmingham: Brady & The Blues (Prime Video, five-episode binge)

American football legend and minority owner Tom Brady stars, as Birmingham City fights to instill winning culture.

📺 The Chi Season 7 finale (Paramount+ Premium)

📺 Chief of War (Apple TV+, two-episode premiere)

Jason Momoa plays a warrior who tries to unify the Hawaiian islands before Western colonization in the late 18th Century.

🎥 My Oxford Year (Netflix movie)

An ambitious young American woman (Sofia Carson) sets out for Oxford University to fulfill a childhood dream and meets a charming and clever local who profoundly alters both of their lives.

📺 10 pm Naming the Dead (NatGeo)

The investigative series captures the relentless pursuit of truth by a dedicated team of genealogists, detectives, coroners and journalists to identify the remains of unmourned and unnamed bodies. (All six episodes drop Sunday on Disney+.)

🎥 8 pm If I Run (Lifetime movie)

The Terri Blackstock adaptation follows a fugitive (Kat Graham) framed for her best friend's murder, and a war-weary investigator (Evan Roderick) who uncovers a far more complex truth.

🎥 8 pm Providence Falls (Hallmark Channel, three-week event)

A thief (Lachlan Quarmby) is transported from 1844 Ireland to the present day to correct the timeline by helping a modern reincarnation of his lost love (Katie Stevens) fall for the man (Evan Roderick) she was originally destined to marry.

📺 8 am 1,000 Ways to Dine (A&E)

Michael Yo goes off the beaten path and showcases the most exciting, unique and outrageously delicious restaurants in the world.

📺 9:30 am Tim Rex in Space (Nickelodeon)

The preschool series follows a Tyrannosaurus Rex named Tim, his big brother Tommy, little sister Tia, and triceratops bestie Kai, as they tackle kid-shaped adventures with dino-sized solutions in space.

📺 9 pm The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 1 finale (TNT)

🎥 10 pm Atomic People (PBS documentary)

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first (and only) atomic bombs used in warfare, the film captures firsthand testimony of the last Japanese survivors of the blast.

📺 Capturing Their Killer: The Girls on the High Bridge (Hulu, three-episode binge)

The docuseries reexamines the 2017 murders of two young women in the bucolic town of Delphi, Ind.

📺 SEC Football: Any Given Saturday (Netflix, seven-episode binge)

Follow college football's most elite players and coaches in this unfiltered documentary series that goes behind the scenes of the 2024 SEC season.

🎥 The Pickup (Prime Video movie)

Mismatched armored truck drivers (Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson) are ambushed by a cunning criminal mastermind (Keke Palmer).

📺 Demascus (Tubi, six-episode binge)

A Black man (Okieriete Onaodowan) embarks on a reality-bending journey of self-discovery with the help of experimental technology; Janet Hubert and Martin Lawrence co-star.

📺 Taurasi (Prime Video, three-episode binge)

The docuseries chronicles the journey of basketball legend Diana Taurasi, whose relentless pursuit of greatness has transcended the boundaries of sport.

📺 Ted Bundy: Dialogue With the Devil (Hulu, six-episode binge)

The docuseries features never-before-heard interviews from 1984, when Bundy offered to help investigator Robert Keppel catch The Green River Killer.

📺 9 pm Necaxa (FXX, two-episode premiere)

Club Necaxa fights to reclaim greatness, win the hearts of Aguascalientes and prove their greatest days are ahead, with the help of investor Eva Longoria.

📺 8 pm Outlander: Blood of My Blood (Starz)

The prequel is set in two distinct timelines that tell the parallel love stories of Jamie and Claire's parents.

🎥 Stolen: Heist of the Century (Netflix documentary)

Antwerp, 2003. A gang of thieves rob the impenetrable Diamond Center. Who was behind one of the world's biggest heists -- and how did they pull it off?

🎥 8 pm Finding Faith (Lifetime movie)

After the sudden death of her husband, a woman (Paula Patton) struggles with grief and a shattered belief in God; Loretta Devine and Keith David co-star.