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Check out the streaming highlights this August on AMC+, ACORN TV and SHUDDER

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From new anthology series Tales of the Walking Dead to original Shudder film What Josiah Saw, there’s stacks of content to keep you covered this month.

New series and films have been made available this August on streaming services AMC+, Acorn TV and Shudder.

All three are part of the AMC’s network of streamers.

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The highlights for each are below.

AUGUST ON AMC+

Tales of the Walking Dead
AMC+ Original

Premieres August 14 with first two episodes followed by a new episode weekly.

The highly anticipated new episodic anthology series, Tales of the Walking Dead, follows individual characters within the walker apocalypse universe. Featuring six one-hour standalone episodes, the series focuses on both new and established characters.

Each episode has its own distinct tone and point of view – but the stakes are high in each story, pushing new, indelible characters with relentless, life-threatening choices and situations.

We get to see the apocalypse through different eyes, discovering more worlds, mythos, and mysteries of the Walking Dead. The anthology series stars Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse), Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead), Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Parker Posey(Lost in Space), Anthony Edwards (Inventing Anna), Poppy Liu (Dead Ringers), Jillian Bell (Rough Night), Loan Chabanol (Fading Gigolo), Embeth Davidtz (Old), Jessie T. Usher (Shaft), Daniella Pineda (Cowboy Bebop), Danny Ramirez (Top Gun: Maverick), amongst others.

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Moonhaven
AMC+ Original

Season finale premieres August 4 with full series available.

Moonhaven centres on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald, Queens of Mystery), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth.

A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves.

The series also stars an acclaimed ensemble cast including Dominic Monaghan (Lost), Amara Karan (Doctor Who), Ayelet Zurer (Losing Alice), Joe Manganiello (True Blood), Kadeem Hardison (Black Monday) and Yazzmin Newell (The Last Tree).

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AUGUST ON ACORN TV

Darby and Joan
Acorn TV Original

Premieres August 8 with first two episodes and two new episodes weekly.

Starring Bryan Brown (Sweet Country) and Greta Scacchi (Looking for Alibrandi), thenew Australian escapist mystery-drama series Darby and Joanis a drama series that asks the question: can you find yourself in the middle of nowhere?

Retired Australian detective Jack Darby (Brown) is fleeing his past mistakes. English widow Joan Kirk (Scacchi) is attempting to outrun her grief. When lives collide, two strangers embark on an epic outback odyssey together.

Set among the army of fellow ‘grey nomads’ and idiosyncratic travellers trekking through the bush, Joan and Jack’s adventure shines a light on isolated, captivating and often unseen areas of regional Australia, and a myriad of fascinating characters moving through a world where everyone seems to be searching for something – or trying to escape it.

It’s a world that is at once beautiful and deadly… Introducing a range of characters and self-contained episodic mysteries, Darby and Joan shows us the destination isn’t important – it’s the journey that matters.

The Murders
Acorn TV Exclusive

Premieres August 1 – Full series binge.

Detective Kate Jameson (Jessica Lucas, The Resident) is the daughter of city councilor Rita Gallo (Venus Terzo, Arrow) and the late Anthony Jameson, a much-decorated Vancouver police officer who was killed in the line of duty two years ago. With the fight for justice deeply rooted in her, Kate’s only desire is to be a good cop like her father. She’s determined to make her mark in Homicide, the MPD’s most coveted assignment.

But things go horribly awry when Kate breaks the number one rule of policing – never leave your gun unattended. When Kate finds her police vehicle broken into and her gun stolen, she, at the urging of a senior officer, makes an agonizing moral calculus and decides not to report it. This lie of omission has tragic consequences when a fellow officer is killed – a direct result of Kate’s stolen firearm.

The betrayal of her police duty and personal morals will distress her in her ongoing investigations and become a struggle for a woman raised on the importance of honour, service and integrity.

Haunted by her fatal mistake, a driven Kate will seek to make amends through every case – including that of a mysterious killer who seems particularly invested in Detective Jameson.

Jessica Lucas and Dylan Bruce in THE MURDERS (image - Bettina Strauss/Acorn TV)
Jessica Lucas and Dylan Bruce in THE MURDERS (image – Bettina Strauss/Acorn TV)

Cape Town

Premieres August 22 – Full series binge.

Cape Town Police captain Mat Joubert used to be the best, revered by the force for solving every case. But that was a year ago, before his wife Lara was murdered while working undercover, and Mat’s been on a downward spiral ever since, dogged by his blurred past, uncertain of how he did not keep her alive. Now an out-of-shape chain-smoker, Mat is ambivalent about the crime-ridden world around him. But with a new colonel demanding full physical and mental conditioning for all cops, he must now step up.

Assigned a new partner, Sanctus Snook, a former colleague of Lara’s, Mat immediately and instinctively does not like the sleek ex-elite cop and has a hard time believing the teaming up is a coincidence. But when a successful businessman is found killed wearing an Albert Einstein mask, the two unlikely partners have a high-profile murder investigation on their hands. When a second body is found wearing yet another mask, they realize they are tracking a serial killer. Gradually, Mat begins to overcome the ghosts of his past, but as he uncovers each layer of the investigation, he must re-live his wife’s murder to stop the violence. Based on the bestselling crime novels of Deon Meyer, Cape Town stars Trond Espen Seim, Boris Kodjoe, Arnold Vosloo, Axel Milberg, Marcin Dorocinski, Jessica Haines and Isolda Dychauk.

CAPE TOWN (image - DOOK Photography)
CAPE TOWN (image – DOOK Photography)

AUGUST ON SHUDDER

Glorious
A Shudder Exclusive

Premieres August 18.

In Glorious, Ryan Kwanten (True BloodKindred) plays a young man who is spiralling out of control after a bad breakup. His situation worsens after he finds himself locked inside a rest stop bathroom with a mysterious figure played by Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons (WhiplashBeing the Ricardos) speaking to him from an adjacent stall. As he tries to escape, he realizes he is an unwilling player in a situation bigger and more terrible than he could have imagined. Directed by Rebekah McKendry and written by Todd Rigney, Joshua Hull and David Ian McKendry.

Ryan Kwanten in GLORIOUS (image - Shudder)
Ryan Kwanten in GLORIOUS (image – Shudder)

What Josiah Saw
A Shudder Original

Premieres August 4.

Everyone in town knows about the haunted Graham Farm on Willow Road. You’ll hear there’s a bad history to it. Josiah (Robert PatrickThe Terminator) and his youngest son, Thomas (Scott HazeChild of God), are all that remain of this estranged family. But after experiencing terrifying visions from beyond, Josiah decides they must change their ways to right a great wrong.

After being away for over two decades, Eli (Nick StahlSin City) and Mary (Kelli GarnerLars and the Real Girl), Josiah’s eldest children, are enticed to sell the property and reunite at the old farmhouse in hopes of closing this haunting chapter of their lives for good. Sins of the past will be paid in full. Written by Robert Alan Dilts and directed by Vincent Grashaw (Coldwater).

WHAT JOSIAH SAW (image - Shudder)
WHAT JOSIAH SAW (image – Shudder)

So Vam
A Shudder Exclusive

Premieres August 23.

Kurt is an outcast in a conservative town who dreams of moving to the city to be a famous drag queen. When he is kidnapped by a predatory old vampire and killed, he is rescued just in time to be resurrected by a gang of rebellious vampires who feed on bigots and abusers. So Vam is the feature film debut of director Alice Maio Mackay, a trans teen filmmaker from Australia. Written by Benjamin Pahl Robinson and Alice Maio Mackay.

SO VAM (image - Shudder)
SO VAM (image – Shudder)

I Blame Society
A Shudder Exclusive

Premieres August 25.

A struggling filmmaker senses her peers are losing faith in her ability to succeed, so she decides to prove herself by finishing her last abandoned film… and committing the perfect murder. I Blame Society is written, directed by and stars Gillian Wallace Horvat, who received an Independent Spirit Someone to Watch Award nomination for the film.

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Matthew Simmonds
Matthew Simmonds
Matthew Simmonds is a journalist and blogger, with a keen interest in the world of Reality TV. He loves exploring both what’s happening in front of the camera but also how the magic comes together behind the scenes. If not glued to the TV bingeing one of the newest obsessions or a timeless series, you’ll find Matthew endlessly scrolling through Twitter (and he may even tweet a time or two). Matthew graduated from a Bachelor Degree in Communication, majoring in Journalism, at the Queensland University of Technology in 2022.
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