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Premiere dates for new and returning shows and specials
New (
) and returning shows, TV movies, miniseries, and specials (including streaming exclusives) with announced premiere dates are listed below. All times are both ET/PT unless otherwise indicated. Items available to buy or rent through digital outlets (VOD, Prime Video, iTunes, etc.) are marked with a ($).
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July premieres - VIEW UPDATES FOR SHOWS DELAYED BY COVID-19
| FRI / July 24 | |||
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50 Shades of Sharks  |
Reality | Nat Geo, 10p | |
Amulet  Trailer |
Horror/Thriller | ($) Rent | |
| Animal Crackers |
Animation/Family |  |
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| Babysplitters Trailer |
Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Conundrum: Secrets Among Friends |
Drama/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Days of the Whale |
Foreign/Drama | ($) Virtual theaters | |
| Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing |
Animation/Family | |
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| Fisherman's Friends Trailer |
Comedy/Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| French Biryani |
Foreign/Drama | Prime Video | |
| The Greatest #AtHome Videos | Reality |  8p |
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| Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful |
Documentary | ($) Virtual theaters | |
| Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist Trailer |
Comedy special | Prime Video | |
| The Kissing Booth 2 Trailer |
Rom-com | |
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| Most Wanted Trailer |
Drama/Thriller | ($) Rent | |
| Offering to the Storm (Ofrenda a la tormenta) |
Foreign/Thriller | |
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| Radioactive Trailer |
Drama | Prime Video | |
| Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley star as Marie and Pierre Curie in a biopic about the two Nobel Prize-winning scientists that failed to impress critics on the festival circuit last fall. Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) directs the adaptation of Lauren Redniss’s award-winning graphic novel. | |||
| Raven About Bunk'd |
Comedy | Disney, 8p | |
| The Rental Trailer |
Horror/Thriller | ($) Rent | |
| Dave Franco makes his directorial debut with a thriller about two couples on an oceanside getaway that takes a turn for the worse. Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen White, and Sheila Vand star. | |||
| Retaliation Trailer |
Drama/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Rogue Trip Trailer |
Reality | Disney+ | |
| Room 104 Trailer | Drama/Anthology |  11p |
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| The final season of the anthology series from the Duplass brothers features Ron Funches, Erinn Hayes, Jillian Bell, Linda Lavin, Kevin Nealon, Dave Bautista, Melissa Fumero, and more. | |||
| Sing On! Spain |
Reality competition | |
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| The Wrong Cheerleader |
Drama | LMN, 8p | |
| SAT / July 25 | |||
| NBA Countdown |
Sports/Talk |  8p |
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| Pit Bulls & Parolees | Reality | Animal Planet, 9p | |
| Stalked by My Husband's Ex |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Surviving Joe Exotic Trailer |
Reality | Animal Planet, 10p | |
| Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won't Trailer |
Documentary | Syfy, 11p | |
| SUN / July 26 | |||
Helter Skelter  |
Reality | Epix, 10p | |
| Rescheduled from June 2020. | |||
| Her Deadly Groom |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| John Lewis: In His Own Words |
News | BET, 7:30p | |
| Love in Harmony Valley |
Drama | UP, 7p | |
| Raging Bull Shark |
Reality | Nat Geo, 8p | |
| Wynonna Earp Trailer | Drama | Syfy, 10p | |
| The delayed fourth season of Syfy's supernatural series is finally here—though only in part. Thanks to a pandemic-induced production shutdown, the unfilmed second half of the season won't air for quite some time (likely not until 2021). | |||
| MON / July 27 | |||
| Bad Ideas With Adam Devine Trailer |
Reality | Quibi | |
| Canada's Drag Race |
Reality competition | Logo, 8p | |
| Don't Look Deeper Trailer |
Sci-fi/Drama | Quibi | |
| Into the Unknown |
Reality | Travel, 11p | |
| Rebecka Martinsson Trailer | Foreign/Drama | Acorn TV | |
| Sharks of the Bermuda Triangle |
Reality | Nat Geo, 10p | |
| TUE / July 28 | |||
| An Accidental Studio |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| American Catastrophe: How Did We Get Here? |
News | 9p |
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| City Dreamers Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Deep Blue Sea 3 Trailer |
Action/Thriller | ($) Buy | |
| Last Chance U: Laney Trailer | Sports/Reality | |
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| InstaBand Trailer |
Documentary/Music | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Legacy of Lies Trailer |
Drama/Thriller | ($) Buy | |
| Maxxx |
Comedy |  |
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| Rescheduled from June. Six-part British comedy series stars O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid's Tale) as a former boy band star attempting to revive his music career as an adult, while Christopher Meloni plays his manager. Fagbenle also wrote and co-directed the series. All six episodes stream today. | |||
| Nose to Tail |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Opus of an Angel |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Shark vs. Whale |
Reality | Nat Geo, 10p | |
| Stockton on My Mind Trailer |
Documentary | 9p |
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| Yes, God, Yes Trailer |
Drama/Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| WED / July 29 | |||
| Again Once Again |
Foreign/Drama | MUBI | |
| The Hater |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Inside the World's Toughest Prisons | Reality | |
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| The Speed Cubers Trailer |
Documentary short | |
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| The Weight of Gold Trailer |
Documentary/Sports | 9p |
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| What the Shark? |
Reality | Nat Geo, 10p | |
| THU / July 30 | |||
| Frayed Trailer |
Comedy | HBO Max | |
| The 1989-set comedy, a British/Australian co-production, makes its U.S. debut on the streaming service. | |||
| Host |
Horror | Shudder | |
| Filmed during quarantine, Rob Savage's Shudder original depicts a Zoom seance gone wrong. (They rarely go right.) | |||
| Idiomatic | Foreign/Drama | Sundance Now | |
| In My Skin |
Comedy | |
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| Rescheduled from June. The acclaimed Welsh coming-of-age comedy, which follows a teen (Gabrielle Creevy) who attempts to live a normal life while hiding her father's alcoholism and mother's mental health issues, makes its USA debut on Hulu after airing in the UK in the spring. | |||
| In Search of Darkness Trailer |
Documentary | Shudder | |
| Restaurant Impossible: Back in Business |
Reality | Food, 9p | |
| Tamar Braxton: Get Ya Life! Trailer |
Reality | WE, 10p | |
| Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy Trailer |
Anime | |
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| FRI / July 31 | |||
| Black Is King Trailer |
Music | Disney+ | |
| Beyoncé's new "visual album" features music from her recent Disney soundtrack album The Lion King: The Gift. | |||
| Get Even Trailer |
Drama | |
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| A Girl Missing |
Foreign/Drama | ($) Virtual theaters | |
| The Go-Go's Trailer |
Documentary/Music |  9p |
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| The Last Narc Trailer |
Documentary | Prime Video | |
| Latte and the Magic Waterstone |
Animation/Family | |
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| Locked Up: El Oasis |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Martha Knows Best |
Reality | HGTV, 10p | |
| Muppets Now Trailer |
Family/Comedy | DIsney+ | |
| The first new Muppets title for Disney's streaming service is a six-episode, short-form "unscripted" series featuring classic Muppets characters. Non-Muppet guest stars include Aubrey Plaza, RuPaul, Linda Cardellini, and Seth Rogen (who, admittedly, might be part Muppet). | |||
| Rebuilding Paradise Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Virtual theaters | |
| Seriously Single Trailer |
Rom-com | |
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| Sugar Rush Trailer | Reality competition | |
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| Summerland Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent | |
| The WWII-set debut film from award-winning playwright and stage director Jessica Swale (Nell Gwynn) stars Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Courtenay, and Penelope Wilton. | |||
| Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison Trailer |
Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| The Umbrella Academy Trailer | Drama/Sci-fi | |
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| Upside-Down Magic Trailer |
Adventure/Family | Disney, 8p | |
| The Wrong Stepfather |
Drama | LMN, 8p | |
August premieres
| SAT / August 1 | |||
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| Ann Rule's Sleeping With Danger |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Anything Is Possible: The Serge Ibaka Story |
Documentary/Sports | Crackle Plus | |
| Sleeping With Danger |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Super Monsters: The New Class |
Animation/Family | |
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| Syfy Wire After Dark |
Reality | Syfy, 11p | |
| SUN / August 2 | |||
| Ann Rule's A Murder to Remember |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything Trailer |
Documentary | |
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| Radiolab contributor Latif Nasser hosts a six-part science series about surprising connections in the worlds of nature and technology. | |||
| Elizabeth Smart: Finding Justice |
Reality | Lifetime, 10p | |
| Fridge Wars |
Reality competition |  9p |
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| Hiroshima: 75 Years Later |
Documentary | History, 9p | |
| A Murder to Remember |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| The Osbournes Want to Believe |
Reality | Travel, 10p | |
| The Real Housewives of Potomac | Reality | Bravo, 9p | |
| Shark vs. Surfer |
Reality | Nat Geo, 8p | |
| Taskmaster |
Game show | 8p |
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| MON / August 3 | |||
| The Fugitive Trailer |
Drama | Quibi | |
| Immigration Nation Trailer |
Documentary | |
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| Sex Next Door |
Reality | Quibi | |
| TUE / August 4 | |||
| Backyard Envy | Reality | Bravo, 10p | |
| CRSHD Trailer |
Comedy | ($) Virtual theaters | |
| Day 13 |
Horror/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Extreme Unboxing Trailer |
Reality | A&E, 10p | |
| A Go! Go! Cory Carson Summer Camp |
Animation/Family | |
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| House of Hummingbird |
Foreign/Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Malibu Rescue: The Next Wave Trailer |
Comedy | |
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| Mystery Lab Trailer |
Foreign/Reality | |
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| Red Penguins Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| The Resistance Fighter |
Foreign/Drama/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Sam Jay: 3 in the Morning Trailer |
Comedy special | |
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| The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Star Light Trailer |
Horror/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| The Swamp Trailer |
Documentary | 9p |
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| What We Found Trailer |
Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| What's It Worth? Trailer |
Reality | A&E, 9p | |
| WED / August 5 | |||
| Anelka: Misunderstood Trailer |
Documentary | |
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| Big Brother | Reality competition | 9p |
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| Catfish: The TV Show | Reality | MTV, 8p | |
| Coroner |
Drama | 9p |
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| American debut of the first two seasons of the Canadian drama series. | |||
| Marrying Millions | Reality | Lifetime, 10p | |
| True Life Presents: Quarantine Stories Trailer |
Reality | MTV, 9p | |
| World's Most Wanted |
Reality | |
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| THU / August 6 | |||
| An American Pickle Trailer |
Comedy | HBO Max | |
| A late addition to the streaming service (HBO Max acquired the film from Sony when its theatrical release was delayed due to the coronavirus crisis), this film adaptation of Simon Rich's story stars Seth Rogen as an immigrant factory worker in 1920s America who accidentally falls into a vat of pickles at his job—and remains there, in stasis, for 100 years, eventually awakening in present-day Brooklyn. There, his only surviving relative is a nerdy great-grandson, played by Rogen again. | |||
| Christina on the Coast | Reality | HGTV, 9p | |
| Esme & Roy | Animation/Family | HBO Max | |
| Hitmen Trailer |
Comedy | Peacock | |
| The British comedy series stars former Great British Bake Off hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins as best friends—and professional assassins. | |||
| La Llorona Trailer |
Foreign/Horror/Thriller | Shudder | |
| On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries |
Documentary | HBO Max | |
| The Rain Trailer | Foreign/Drama | |
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| The Seven Deadly Sins: Imperial Wrath of the Gods | Anime | |
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| Star Trek: Lower Decks Trailer Opening scene |
Animation/Comedy/Sci-fi | CBS All Access | |
| CBS All Access expands its growing Star Trek universe with the first animated series in the franchise in 46 years. Lower Decks comes from Rick and Morty writer Mike McMahan (who also co-created Hulu's just-debuted Solar Opposites) and centers on a group of low-ranking crew members aboard one of Starfleet's least-important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos. (It's a comedy, in case you were wondering.) The voice cast includes Noel Wells, Jerry O'Connell, Tawny Newsome, Eugene Cordero, Dawnn Lewis, and Jack Quaid. A second season has already been ordered. | |||
| Upright |
Drama | Sundance Now | |
| Musician/actor/comic Tim Minchin stars in this acclaimed, 8-episode Australian road-trip drama, which makes its American debut on Sundance's streaming service. | |||
| FRI / August 7 | |||
| Being Reuben |
Reality | 9p |
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| Berlin, Berlin: Lolle on the Run |
Foreign/Comedy | |
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| Black Water: Abyss Trailer |
Horror/Thriller | ($) Rent | |
| High Seas [Alta Mar] Trailer | Foreign/Drama | |
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| Howard Trailer |
Documentary | Disney+ | |
| I Used to Go Here Trailer |
Comedy | ($) Rent | |
| Kris Rey (fka Kris Swanberg) directs this SXSW entry starring Gillian Jacobs as a writer who is invited to speak at her alma mater, where she is then offered a teaching position by her former professor (Jemaine Clement). Kate Micucci, Hannah Marks, and Jorma Taccone also star in the Lonely Island-produced comedy. | |||
| Made in Italy Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent | |
| James D'Arcy directs Liam Neeson in a feel-good family drama in which he stars as a father who has absolutely none of his family members taken hostage. Instead, he attempts to reforge a connection with his estranged son (Neeson's real-life son Micheál Richardson) as they rehab an aging villa in Tuscany. | |||
| The Magic School Bus Rides Again: Kids in Space |
Animation/Family | |
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| Max Reload and the Nether Blasters Trailer |
Sci-fi/Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| ¡Nailed It! Mexico | Foreign/Reality competition | |
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| The New Legends of Monkey | Family/Fantasy | |
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| Out Stealing Horses Trailer |
Foreign/Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Hans Petter Moland (Cold Pursuit) reunites with his In Order of Disappearance and A Somewhat Gentle Man star, Stellan Skarsgård, for this adaptation of Per Petterson’s acclaimed novel that follows a man’s life during two time periods: as a youth in the summer of 1948, and as a widower in winter of 1999. Critics generally enjoyed the film when it debuted last year at Berlinale. | |||
| Pan y Circo Trailer |
Foreign/Reality | Prime Video | |
| Paydirt Trailer |
Action/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Psychomagic, A Healing Art Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| The Secret Garden Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent | |
| Colin Firth, Julie Walters, and Dixie Egerickx head the cast of this latest adaptation of the 1911 novel, which is skipping theaters in America to head straight to home video. | |||
| Selling Sunset Trailer | Reality | |
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| She Dies Tomorrow Trailer |
Thriller/Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Actress-turned-filmmaker Amy Seimetz directs a cast that includes Kate Lyn Sheil, Chris Messina, Michelle Rodriguez, Josh Lucas, Jane Adams, and Tunde Adebimpe in an inventive thriller about a contagious fear of death. Critics had positive things to say about the film when it was included in this year's SXSW slate. | |||
| Sing On! Germany |
Foreign/Reality competition | |
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| Song Without a Name Trailer |
Foreign/Drama | ($) Virtual theaters | |
| Tales of Arcadia: Wizards Trailer |
Animation | |
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| The Tax Collector Trailer |
Drama/Thriller | ($) Rent | |
| David Ayer's crime thriller stars Shia LaBeouf and Bobby Soto. | |||
| A Thousand Cuts |
Documentary | ($) Virtual theaters | |
| Tiny Creatures |
Reality/Nature | |
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| Waiting for the Barbarians Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Set in the unnamed frontier colony of an unnamed empire in an unnamed year, when a rumor of an impending attack by the indigenous people (called "barbarians" by the colonists) triggers a state of emergency, the allegorical, English-language debut for Italian director Ciro Guerra (Embrace of the Serpent) stars Johnny Depp, Mark Rylance, and Robert Pattinson. It's an adaptation of J. M. Coetzee's award-winning 1980 novel (scripted by Coetzee himself), and it's not exactly an easy work to translate to the screen—hence no attempts prior to now. Does Guerra pull it off? Not quite, according to critics who screened the film last fall on the festival circuit. | |||
| Word Party Songs |
Animation/Family | |
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| Work It Trailer |
Comedy | |
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| SAT / August 8 | |||
| Dallas and Robo Trailer | Animation/Comedy | Syfy, midnight | |
| The former YouTube animated series starring John Cena and Kat Dennings airs as part of Syfy's TZGZ animation block. | |||
| Diesel Brothers: Monster Jam Breaking World Records |
Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| Jodi Arias: Cellmate Secrets |
Reality | Lifetime, 10p | |
| SUN / August 9 | |||
| Air Jaws: Ultimate Breach Off |
Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| Endeavour | Drama |  9p |
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| License to Kill | Reality | Oxygen, 6p | |
| Shark Lockdown |
Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| Surviving Jeffrey Epstein Trailer |
Reality | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Tyson vs Jaws: Rumble on the Reef |
Reality | Discovery, 9p | |
| We Hunt Together |
Drama | 10p |
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| The six-part, BBC-produced crime thriller makes its American debut. | |||
| YOLO: Crystal Fantasy Trailer |
Animation/Comedy | Adult Swim, midnight | |
| MON / August 10 | |||
| 10 Things You Don't Know |
Reality | E!, 10p | |
| About Face |
Reality | Quibi | |
| Game On: A Comedy Crossover Event |
Comedy | |
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| Cast members from Netflix sitcoms Family Reunion, The Big Show Show, Mr. Iglesias, and Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love appear in each others' shows in this four-episode special. | |||
| Great White Double Trouble |
Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| Jaws Awakens |
Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| Love It or List It | Reality | HGTV, 9p | |
| Mapleworth Murders |
Comedy | Quibi | |
| ShaqAttack |
Reality | Discovery, 9p | |
| TUE / August 11 | |||
| Accidental Climber |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Extinct or Alive: Land of the Lost Sharks |
Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| G-LOC Trailer |
Sci-fi/Adventure | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Great White Serial Killer Extinction |
Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| Gripped: Climbing the Killer Pillar Trailer |
Drama/Adventure | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Gutterbug Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Hard Knocks: Los Angeles Trailer | Sports/Reality | 10p |
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| Both the Rams and the Chargers will be featured this season. (But only if there is a "this season.") | |||
| I Am Vengeance: Retaliation Trailer |
Action/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Rob Schneider: Asian Momma, Mexican Kids |
Comedy special | |
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| Valley of the Gods |
Drama | ($) Buy | |
| John Malkovich stars as the world's richest man (opposite Josh Hartnett as his biographer) in this stylized drama from Lech Majewski (The Garden of Earthly Delights). | |||
| Will Smith: Off the Deep End |
Reality | Discovery, 9p | |
| WED / August 12 | |||
| Impact of Hate: Charlottesville |
Documentary | ID, 9p | |
| Jaws in America |
Reality | Discovery, 9p | |
| Mega Predators of Oz |
Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| Monster Under the Bridge |
Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| (Un)Well Trailer |
Reality | |
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| Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn Trailer |
Documentary | 9p |
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| THU / August 13 | |||
| Adam Devine's Secret Shark Lair |
Reality | Discovery, 9p | |
| Air Jaws 2020 |
Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| An Easy Girl (Une fille facile) |
Foreign/Comedy | |
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| Five Bedrooms Trailer |
Comedy/Drama | Peacock | |
| This Australian import centers on five strangers who meet while attending the same wedding and impulsively decide to buy a house together. | |||
| Infinity Train | Animation | HBO Max | |
| Sharks of Neptune |
Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| FRI / August 14 | |||
| 3% | Foreign/Drama | |
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| Alien Sharks: First Contact |
Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| The Bay of Silence Trailer |
Thriller | ($) Virtual theaters | |
| Boys State Trailer |
Documentary | Apple TV+ | |
| This Sundance-winning documentary from Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, the team behind 2014’s The Overnighters, follows four out of a thousand 17-year-old boys that gather every year in Austin for Texas Boys State, where they are tasked with building a two-party government from the ground up. Things go about as smoothly for the teenagers as they do for their adult counterparts in our actual government. | |||
| Endless Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Fearless |
Animation/Family | |
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| Glow Up | Reality competition | |
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| The Great Heist |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Lair of the Great White |
Reality | Discovery, 9p | |
| Octonauts & The Caves of Sac Actun |
Animation/Family | |
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| The One and Only Ivan Trailer |
Adventure/Animation/Family | Disney+ | |
| Project Power Trailer |
Action-adventure/Sci-fi | |
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| Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback star in a Netflix original film about a pill that grants superpowers from Catfish directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost. It was filmed in 2018, in case you were wondering. | |||
| Represent Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Virtual theaters | |
| The Silencing Trailer |
Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Spree Red-band trailer |
Thriller/Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Sputnik Trailer |
Foreign/Sci-fi/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Ted Lasso Trailer |
Comedy | Apple TV+ | |
| Jason Sudeikis stars as a little-known American college football coach who lands a surprising new job—as coach of a professional football (make that soccer) team in England, despite no previous soccer experience—in an Apple comedy series co-created by Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence (Scrubs). It's the same character that Sudeikis first portrayed in a series of NBC Sports promotional videos beginning in 2013. | |||
| Teenage Bounty Hunters |
Comedy | |
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| Twin 16-year-old girls team with an adult to track down bail-skippers in a new series created by Kathleen Jordan and produced by Jenji Kohan (GLOW, Orange Is the New Black). | |||
| Tiger Shark King |
Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| Weird But True | Reality | Disney+ | |
| The series moves to Disney+ from Nat Geo for its new third season. | |||
| World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji Trailer |
Reality competition | Prime Video | |
| SAT / August 15 | |||
| Rita | Foreign/Drama | |
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| Sharks Gone Wild 3 |
Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| Sharks of Ghost Island |
Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| Stranger | Foreign/Drama | |
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| Wicked Sharks |
Reality | Discovery, 9p | |
| SUN / August 16 | |||
| The Circus | News/Talk | 8p |
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| Darcey & Stacey |
Reality | TLC, 10p | |
| Lovecraft Country Trailer |
Drama/Horror | 9p |
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| Producers Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams join forces for a series adaptation of Matt Ruff's novel of the same name, an allegorical horror tale set in segregated 1950s America where three Black Americans on a road trip to find a missing person must overcome both human racists and Lovecraftian supernatural forces. Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Aunjanue Ellis, Jada Harris, Courtney B. Vance, and Michael Kenneth Williams head the cast. | |||
| Naked & Afraid of Sharks 2 |
Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| MON / August 17 | |||
| Bad Chad Customs | Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| Crazy Awesome Teachers |
Foreign/Comedy | |
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| Glitch Techs | Animation/Family | |
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| Punk'd | Reality | Quibi | |
| TUE / August 18 | |||
| The Barge People Trailer |
Horror | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Dead Pixels |
Comedy | 8p |
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| American debut of UK series. Two episodes air back-to-back. | |||
| Emperor |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Pretending I'm a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story Trailer |
Documentary/Sports | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| WED / August 19 | |||
| The Crimes That Bind |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| DeMarcus Family Rules |
Reality | |
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| High Score |
Documentary | |
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| THU / August 20 | |||
| Biohackers Trailer |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Great Pretender |
Anime | |
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| John Was Trying to Contact Aliens |
Documentary short | |
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| Random Acts of Violence Trailer |
Thriller | Shudder | |
| FRI / August 21 | |||
| Alien TV |
Animation/Family | |
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| Chemical Hearts Clip |
Drama | Prime Video | |
| Dark Forces (Fuego negro) |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Desert One Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Virtual theaters | |
| Hoops Trailer |
Animation/Comedy | |
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| Jake Johnson voices a foul-mouthed high school basketball coach in an adult animated comedy series from Late Late Show writer Ben Hoffman and producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Rob Riggle, Natasha Leggero, Ron Funches, Cleo King, and A.D. Miles fill out the cast. | |||
| How to Fake a War Trailer |
Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Lucifer Trailer | Drama | |
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| RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue Trailer |
Reality | VH1, 8p | |
| Rust Valley Restorers | Reality | |
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| The Sleepover |
Family/Comedy | |
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| Tesla Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Writer-director Michael Almereyda (Experimenter) reunites with his Hamlet star, Ethan Hawke, for an unconventional, intentionally anacronistic biopic about the famed 19th century scientist/inventor Nikola Tesla. Kyle MacLachlan, Eve Hewson, and Jim Gaffigan also star in an amibitious but not always successful film that nevertheless received a mostly positive reception from reviewers at Sundance early this year. | |||
| SUN / August 23 | |||
| Elena of Avalor Finale Special |
Animation/Family | Disney Junior, 8p | |
| Superman: Man of Tomorrow |
Animation/Action | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| MON / August 24 | |||
| Nice One! |
Game show | Quibi | |
| Reno 911! | Comedy | Quibi | |
| TUE / August 25 | |||
| Emily's Wonder Lab |
Family/Reality | |
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| Hard Kill Trailer |
Action/Sci-fi | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| One Night in Bangkok Trailer |
Action/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| The Prison Within |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Trinkets | Drama | |
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| WED / August 26 | |||
| Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol |
Foreign/Comedy | |
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| La venganza de Analía |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Million Dollar Beach House |
Reality | |
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| Rising Phoenix |
Documentary | |
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| THU / August 27 | |||
| Aggretsuko | Anime | |
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| Ravi Patel's Pursuit of Happiness |
Reality | HBO Max | |
| Tyler Perry's Medea's Farewell Play |
Comedy | BET+ | |
| FRI / August 28 | |||
| All Together Now |
Drama | |
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| Auli’i Cravalho stars in an adaptation of Matthew Quick's YA novel Sorta Like a Rock Star. | |||
| Centigrade |
Drama/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Driven to Abstraction |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Hard Kill Trailer |
Action/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| I Am a Killer: Released |
Reality | |
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| Matthias & Maxime |
Foreign/Drama | MUBI | |
| The lastest from French-Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan finds him returning to French dialogue (and a Quebec setting) after his 2018 English-language debut and career-worst film The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. The drama focuses on a pair of childhood friends (one played by Dolan himself) who are required to kiss for their roles in a short film—a moment that sparks a further exploration of their feelings. Critics had mixed opinions on the film when it debuted at Cannes over a year ago, and it comes now to MUBI after bypassing theaters in the U.S. | |||
| Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe |
Animation/Family | Disney+ | |
| Rogue Trailer |
Action | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Unknown Origins (Origenes secretos) |
Foreign/Drama/Thriller | |
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| SUN / August 30 | |||
| 2020 MTV VMAs |
Music/Live event | MTV, tbd | |
| Love Fraud Trailer |
Reality | 9p |
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| Rescheduled from May 2020. | |||
| Top Gear | Reality | BBC America, 8p | |
| MON / August 31 | |||
| This Joka With Will Smith |
Comedy | Quibi | |
| Wireless |
Drama | Quibi | |
Fall premieres
| TUE / September 1 | |||
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| The 2nd Trailer |
Action/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Bill & Ted Face the Music Trailer |
Comedy | ($) Rent | |
| Also opening in theater(s) today, the delayed third installment in the time-traveling comedy franchise reunites stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter a mere 29 years after Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) directs a cast that also includes a returning William Sadler and series newcomers Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Jayma Mays, Erinn Hayes, and Barry scene-stealer Anthony Carrigan. | |||
| Children of the Sea Trailer |
Animation/Family | ($) Buy | |
| Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Widow's Point |
Horror/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| THU / September 3 | |||
| A.P. Bio | Comedy | Peacock | |
| The canceled NBC sitcom moves to the new Peacock streaming service for an all-new third season. All eight episodes will be available to stream at once (and Peacock will also have the first two seasons if you need to catch up). | |||
| FRI / September 4 | |||
| Away Trailer |
Drama/Sci-fi | |
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| Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights), Matt Reeves (Felicity), and Andrew Hinderaker (Penny Dreadful) combine for a 10-episode Netflix drama series depicting the first manned mission to Mars, based loosely on a recent Esquire story by Chris Jones. Hilary Swank heads the cast as the astronaut in charge of the year-long international mission, while Josh Charles plays her husband (and NASA engineer) left behind on Earth to care for their teenage daughter. Ed Zwick directs the pilot. | |||
| The Boys Trailer | Drama | Prime Video | |
| Three episodes stream today, and one additional new episode will be added each Friday through October 9. A new Aisha Tyler-hosted aftershow, Inside the Boys, also streams with each episode. | |||
| Guest House Trailer |
Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Warning: Contains Pauly Shore. | |||
| I'm Thinking of Ending Things |
Drama/Thriller | |
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| The first film from writer-director Charlie Kaufman since 2015's Anomalisa is an adaptation of Iain Reid's novel starring Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, and David Thewlis. | |||
| Lost Girls & Love Hotels Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent | |
| Alexandra Daddario, Takehiro Hira, and Carice van Houten star in an adaptation of Catherine Hanrahan's novel about an American teacher seeking escape in Tokyo's nightlife scene. | |||
| Measure for Measure |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| SUN / September 6 | |||
| Undercover | Foreign/Drama | |
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| MON / September 7 | |||
| Devil's Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren |
Reality | Travel, 9p | |
| WED / September 9 | |||
| Woke Trailer |
Comedy | |
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| Lamorne Morris (New Girl) stars in this timely comedy about a Black cartoonist living in San Francisco who has an encounter with cops that changes his life. The semi-autobiographical series from real-life cartoonist Keith Knight (The K Chronicles) mixes some animated sequences with live action. | |||
| THU / September 10 | |||
| Julie and the Phantoms |
Comedy/Musical | |
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| High School Musical director Kenny Ortega returns with a new musical series for Netflix about a high school singer who rekindles her love of music after being approached by the ghosts of three dead '90s pop stars. It's based on a Brazilian series. | |||
| NFL Kickoff 2020 (NBC Sunday Night Football) | Sports/Live event |  8:20p ET |
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| MON / September 14 | |||
| Monday Night Football | Sports/Live event | ESPN, 7:15p ET | |
| The Third Day Trailer |
Drama | 9p |
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| Rescheduled from May 2020. Co-produced by the UK's Sky, this six-part limited series is divided into two sections: "Summer" and "Winter." The former tells the story of Sam (Jude Law), who finds himself drawn to a mysterious and isolated island off the British coast whose inhabitants are determined to preserve their traditions "at any cost," while the latter centers Helen (Naomie Harris), whose arrival on the same island throws its future into question. Emily Watson, Katherine Waterston, and Paddy Considine also star. | |||
| WED / September 16 | |||
| Academy of Country Music Awards |
Music/Live event | 8p |
|
| Rescheduled from April and moved to Nashville. Keith Urban hosts. | |||
| The Devil All the Time |
Drama/Thriller | |
|
| Director Antonio Campos (Christine) enlists an all-star ensemble cast (including Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgard, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Robert Pattinson, Haley Bennett, Mia Wasikowska, and Eliza Scanlen) for an adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock's Southern Gothic novel that unfolds in Ohio and West Virginia from the end of WWII into the 1960s. | |||
| THU / September 17 | |||
| Departure |
Drama | Peacock | |
| Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer head the cast of this Canadian conspiracy thriller about a missing commercial airliner, which makes its American debut on Peacock. | |||
| Dragon's Dogma |
Anime | |
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| FRI / September 18 | |||
| PEN15 Trailer | Comedy | |
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| The critically acclaimed "teen" comedy (with two of the teens played by the show's adult creators, Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine, to wonderful results) returns for a second season that will be split in two parts, with seven of the 14 episodes held back until 2021. | |||
| SUN / September 20 | |||
| 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards |
Live event | 8p ET |
|
| Will this be the first awards ceremony hosted from Jimmy Kimmel's linen closet? Only time will tell. | |||
| Last Tango in Halifax | Drama | 8p |
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| MON / September 21 | |||
| Like, Share, Dimelo |
Talk | Fuse, 11p | |
| FRI / September 25 | |||
| Secret Society of Second Born Royals Trailer |
Comedy/Adventure/Family | Disney+ | |
| SUN / September 27 | |||
| Bless the Harts | Animation/Comedy |  8:30p |
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| Bob's Burgers | Animation/Comedy | 9p |
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| The Comey Rule |
Drama | 9p |
|
| Jeff Daniels stars as former FBI director James Comey in a two-part, four-hour miniseries that recounts the events preceding and following the 2016 election as recounted in Comey's memoir, A Higher Loyalty. Billy Ray (Shattered Glass) writes and directs a cast that also includes Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump, Peter Coyote as Robert Mueller, Michael Kelly as Andrew McCabe, Holly Hunter as Sally Yates, William Sadler as Michael Flynn, Jonathan Banks as James Clapper, Joe Lo Truglio as Jeff Sessions, and Scoot McNairy as Rod Rosenstein. Part two airs tomorrow at the same time. | |||
| Family Guy | Animation/Comedy | 9:30p |
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| iHeartRadio Music Festival |
Music | 8p |
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| Continues tomorrow night at the same time. | |||
| The Simpsons | Animation/Comedy | 8p |
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| TUE / September 29 | |||
| Presidential Debate |
Live event | tbd, 9p ET | |
| The two remaining candidates battle to become the final president of the United States. | |||
| SUN / October 4 | |||
| Britannia | Drama/Fantasy | Epix, 9p | |
| The historical fantasy series moves from Amazon's Prime Video to Epix for its second season. | |||
| The Comedy Store |
Documentary | 10p |
|
| Five-part series examines the history of the famed Los Angeles comedy club. | |||
| The Good Lord Bird Trailer |
Drama | 9p |
|
| Reschuled from spring and then summer. Albert Hughes (replacing Anthony Hemingway, who left the project due to scheduling conflicts) directs this delayed eight-episode adaptation of the award-winning novel by James McBride about 19th century abolitionist John Brown, played by Ethan Hawke. Daveed Diggs (playing Frederick Douglass), Lodge 49's Wyatt Russell, David Morse, Steve Zahn, Orlando Jones, and Ellar Coltrane also star. | |||
| The Walking Dead | Drama/Horror |  9p |
|
| The postponed season 10 finale finally airs, though season 11 won't arrive until sometime next year. (Expect six bonus episodes to make it worth the wait.) | |||
| The Walking Dead: The World Beyond Trailer |
Drama/Horror | 10p |
|
| Rescheduled from April 2020. The latest Walking Dead spinoff follows a new set of characters who are all part of the generation born after the start of the zombie menace. The series is designed to run for just two seasons unlike the other Walking Dead shows, which refuse to end. | |||
| TUE / October 6 | |||
| neXt Trailer |
Drama | 9p |
|
| Originally ordered for the 2019-20 season but held back on the slim chance a global pandemic would bring about the end of all scripted television production in 2020, this sci-fi thriller comes from writer Manny Coto (Dexter, 24) and directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love). Next—make that neXt, because, you know, sci-fi!—is set in a not-too-distant present where a powerful A.I. developed by a Silicon Valley pioneer (Mad Men's John Slattery) goes rogue, posing a threat to the world. Fernanda Andrade, Michael Mosley, and Eve Harlow also star. | |||
| WED / October 7 | |||
| Vice Presidential Debate |
Live event | tbd, 9p ET | |
| SUN / October 11 | |||
| Fear the Walking Dead Trailer | Drama/Horror | 9p |
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| WED / October 14 | |||
| 2020 CMT Music Awards |
Live event | CMT, tbd | |
| Rescheduled from July. | |||
| THU / October 15 | |||
| Presidential Debate |
Live event | tbd, 9p ET | |
| FRI / October 16 | |||
| The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
Drama/Thriller | |
|
| Originally headed to theaters this fall (until, you know), this now Netflix-exclusive drama written and directed by Aaron Sorkin examines the notorious 1968 Democratic National Convention that resulted in the arrest and trial of a group of protesters including Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman. Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Rylance, Michael Keaton, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Jeremy Strong star. | |||
| TUE / October 20 | |||
| The Mothman Legacy |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| THU / October 22 | |||
| Presidential Debate |
Live event | tbd, 9p ET | |
| SAT / November 7 | |||
| 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony |
Music | 8p ET |
|
| Rescheduled from May. In lieu of the standard live broadcast of the induction ceremony—which won't be happening as normal this year—you'll get a taped special honoring this year's class, which includes The Doobie Brothers, T Rex, Whitney Houston, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, and The Notorious B.I.G. | |||
| FRI / November 13 | |||
| Alex Rider Trailer |
Drama | IMDb TV | |
| SUN / November 15 | |||
| 2020 People's Choice Awards |
Live event | E!, 9p | |
| The Reagans |
Documentary | 8p |
|
| Matt Tyrnauer (Where's My Roy Cohn?) directs a four-part look at Ronald and Nancy Reagan. | |||
| SUN / November 22 | |||
| 2020 American Music Awards |
Live event/Music | 8p |
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| Belushi |
Documentary | 9p |
|
| SUN / December 13 | |||
| Tiger |
Documentary/Sports | tbd |
|
| HBO's two-part look at tthe life of Tiger Woods (based on the book by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian) concludes on Sunday, December 20. | |||
2021 premieres
| SUN / January 31, 2021 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 63rd Annual Grammy Awards |
Music/Live event | 8p ET |
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| SUN / February 7 | |||
| Super Bowl LV |
Sports/Live event | tbd |
|
| SUN / February 28 | |||
| 93rd Annual Golden Globe Awards |
Live event | tbd |
|
| SUN / March 7 | |||
| 2021 Critics Choice Awards |
Live event | tbd |
|
| Rescheduled from January. | |||
| SUN / March 14 | |||
| 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards |
Live event | tbd | |
| Rescheduled from January. | |||
| SUN / April 18 | |||
| 56th Academy of Country Music Awards |
Live event/Music | 8p |
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| SAT / April 24 | |||
| Film Independent Spirit Awards |
Live event | tbd | |
| Rescheduled from February. | |||
| SUN / April 25 | |||
| 93rd Annual Academy Awards |
Live event | tbd |
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| Rescheduled from February. | |||
| FRI / July 23 | |||
| 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony |
Live event | tbd |
|
| Rescheduled from 2020. | |||
2022 premieres
| SUN / February 27, 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 94th Annual Academy Awards |
Live event | tbd |
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