Foxtel highlights for the month of August include the 16th season of Gogglebox Australia, true crime series Killer USA with Brian Ross, a new season of Reservation Dogs, and the second season of Industry.
With so much content to embrace on Foxtel, August is certainly the month of streaming to cap off the winter season.
Below are full highlights as to what’s to come.
The Headliner
House of the Dragon
Set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, this highly anticipated prequel, based on the book Fire & Blood by George RR Martin, covers a turbulent time in the history of House Targaryen and features a stellar ensemble cast that includes Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Rhys Ifans, Emma D’Arcy, Graham McTavish and Australian actors Milly Alcock (Upright) as young Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Ryan Corr (The Water Diviner) as Ser Harwin ‘Breakbones’ Strong. Audiences can also watch all the spectacular action in 4K Ultra HD when it hits FOXTEL express this month!
Duration: 60 mins x 10 | Premiering Monday August 22 Express at 11am | Fox Showcase
Must Watch Entertainment
Gogglebox Australia (season 16)
Following their recent Logies win for Most Popular Light Entertainment Program, the couch critics are back! For almost eight years, they’ve had us laughing and crying along with them as they pass comment on the week that was, sharing their hilarious, heart-warming and delightfully honest opinions on the latest and greatest TV on offer.
Duration: 60 mins x 10 | Premiering Wednesday August 24 at 7.30pm | LifeStyle
Killer USA with Brian Ross
Respected American investigative journalist Brian Ross hosts and curates this must-see new docuseries, which takes audiences on a chilling deep-dive into the thoughts and actions of 10 very different killers to find out what makes them tick, utilising forensic analysis, gripping archival footage, interrogation recordings and insider accounts.
Duration: 60 mins x 10 | Premiering Thursday August 4 at 8.30pm | Crime + Investigation
Diana
August 31, 1997 is a day few will ever forget, with the news breaking around the world that Princess Diana had died aged just 36 following a car accident in Paris’s Pont de I’Alma tunnel. Told in the present tense, new documentary Diana draws on previously unheard testimony and rare archival footage to examine the life and legacy of the ‘People’s Princess’.
Duration: 60 mins x 1 | Premiering Sunday August 7 at 7.30pm | Fox Docos
Diana: The Ultimate Truth
Ahead of the 25th anniversary of her tragic passing, this ground-breaking documentary examines the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Featuring never-before-heard interviews with those closest to Diana, former detective and award-winning investigative journalist Mark Williams-Thomas sets out to uncover the truth in this explosive exposé.
Duration: 60 mins x 1 | Premiering Sunday August 28 at 7.30pm | Fox Docos
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
So bizarre you couldn’t possibly make it up, this four-part British drama tells the true story of former teacher and prison guard John Darwin (Eddie Marsan), who faked his death in 2002 with the help of his wife, Anne (Monica Dolan), to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy, even deceiving his own sons.
Duration: 60 mins x 4 | Premiering Thursday August 18 at 8.30pm | BBC First
Sherwood
Inspired by real events, this series is set in a small Nottinghamshire mining town, where two shocking killings shatter an already-fractured community, arousing suspicion between families and reopening old wounds. David Morrissey stars as DCS Ian St Clair, who’s tasked with finding the link between the fatalities.
Duration: 60 mins x 6 | Premiering Wednesday August 24 at 8.30pm | BBC First
Industry (season 2)
After going head-to-head to secure a limited number of permanent positions at prestigious London investment bank Pierpoint & Co, the pressure is now amplified for Harper (Myha’la Herrold), Yasmin (Marisa Abela) and Robert (Harry Lawtey). In a post-COVID world and with a new US management team amping up the trading floor, they quickly learn that it’s shape up or ship out!
Duration: 60 mins x 8 | Premiering Express Wednesday August 3 at 8.30pm | Fox Showcase
Reservation Dogs (season 2)
Taika Waititi’s comedy about four Native-American teens (Devery Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis and Lane Factor) scheming their way around rural Oklahoma in order to save up enough cash to leave for a better life in California returns with a bang. But after their wild antics culminated with the group disbanding at the end of season one, expect some big changes for the gang when we pick back up.
Duration: 30 mins x 10 | Premiering Express Thursday August 4 at 9pm | Fox Showcase
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