After the success of her Emmy-nominated comedy drama series The Flight Attendant, Kaley Cuoco returns with the comedy thriller Based on a True Story on 7 August. The series is a gripping tale of a realtor, a former tennis star and a plumber whose lives collide when they seize a unique opportunity to capitalise on America’s obsession with true crime and make their dreams come true.
On 20 August, catch the limited series The Best Man: The Final Chapters, based on the cult-classic film franchise The Best Man. The series reunites the original cast of Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Regina Hall, Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Melissa de Sousa and Harold Perrineau as we catch up with their beloved characters in their journey through relationships and past grievances in the unpredictable stages of midlife crisis meets midlife renaissance.
The HBO drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty returns for a second season on 7 August as it continues to explore the professional and personal lives of the legendary 1980s Los Angeles Lakers basketball team. Also catch horror sensation M3GAN on 21 August, and the fifth and final season of hit medical drama New Amsterdam on 1 August.
From South Africa comes Unfollowed, a new docuseries that unpacks the growing phenomenon of cancel culture and its impact in South Africa, premiering on 23 August.
See a full list of what to watch on Showmax in Kenya in August 2023:
1 August
New Amsterdam S5
3 August
Gat in die Muur
Ella & The Little Sorcerer
Fireman Sam S15
The Good Neighbour
4 August
Power Book III: Raising Kanan S2
1960
Moonage Daydream (Documentary)
7 August
Based on a True Story (Series)
A Million Little Things S5
Shotgun Wedding
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty S2
Holmes & Watson
I’m With Your Ex (Reality)
Koortjies Met Jonathan Rubain S2-3
Under the Stadium Lights (aka Brother’s Keeper)
8 August
Abo Auntie (Reality)
9 August
A Black Lady Sketch Show S4
Williams Sisters (Documentary)
10 August
After Ever Happy
Dope
Two Buddies and a Badger: The Great Beast
14 August
Angela Black (Series)
The Black Phone
Detective Knight: Redemption
Ngithande Nam (Reality)
O Fuze (Reality)
Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible
Sinister Cover-Up
17 August
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Into The Deep
Righteous Thieves
Umthwalo S2
20 August
The Best Man: The Final Chapters (Series)
21 August
M3GAN
Tarzan van Gorge (Reality)
Finnick
Money Monster
22 August
This Body Works For Me S2 (Reality)
23 August
Unfollowed (Docuseries)
The Fastest Woman on Earth (Documentary)
24 August
Vengeance
Fortress 2: Sniper’s Eye
Monkey King Reborn
Superfly
25 August
Nganele (Reality)
28 August
Themba: My Inked World (Reality)
An Egypt Affair
Ultraviolet
31 August
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
7 Days
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