What to binge watch in the UK right now: August 2026's most addictive box sets
August has split neatly in two this year. Roughly half the month's big titles are trickling out weekly, which rules them out for a proper binge. The other half landed complete. Here's what's already sitting there whole.
The full drops so far
- Possession (Sky Atlantic / NOW, 6 August) — Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a lawyer sent to Jamaica to contest an inheritance claim on a former plantation, opposite Jonny Lee Miller and Sheldon Shepherd. Supernatural thriller, every episode at once.
- Alley Cats (Netflix, 7 August) — Ricky Gervais's six-part animation about a gang of foul-mouthed feral cats, with Diane Morgan and Tom Basden.
- He Had It Coming (BBC Three, 8 August) — two women whose spontaneous feminist art stunt gets co-opted by a murderer. Full series on iPlayer.
- Warren's Vortex (Sky Comedy, 9 August) — from the Wellington Paranormal team. Warren's daughter is pulled into a portal in the garden shed; he follows her through alternate versions of Lower Hutt.
- My Brilliant Career (Netflix, 13 August) — Philippa Northeast as Sybylla in an adaptation of the Australian novel, set in 1900.
- Futurama season 14 (Disney+, 3 August) — the whole season, including the return of Dr Zoidberg's lost love.
Also complete: Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi (Disney+, 5 August) and Mourinho (Netflix, 11 August), a feature documentary rather than a series.
Two more full drops before September
Ludwig series 2 arrives on BBC One on 20 August, with the whole run on iPlayer the same night — David Mitchell's puzzle-setter now working as a crime scene consultant alongside Dipo Ola, with his twin brother still missing. Fightland follows on Sky Atlantic on 27 August, a boxing revenge drama executive-produced by 50 Cent, starring Howard Charles, Nicholas Pinnock, and Deborah Ayorinde. All episodes at once.
The weekly ones, if you can wait
Ted Lasso season 4 started on Apple TV on 5 August — ten episodes, Ted coaching a second division women's side, finale on 7 October. Reacher season 4 began on Prime Video on 12 August, adapting Lee Child's Gone Tomorrow. Lanterns landed on HBO Max UK on 17 August: Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler as two Green Lanterns investigating a murder in the American heartland, across eight weekly episodes. The Shards, Ryan Murphy's take on the Bret Easton Ellis novel, has been running weekly on Disney+ since 6 August. Dark Matter returns to Apple TV on 28 August and runs to 30 October.
HBO Max UK is currently the cheapest subscription of the lot at £4.99 a month. Prime Video is £5.99, Disney+ £7.99, and Netflix, NOW, and Apple TV all sit at £9.99.