Everything Coming To Netflix, Stan, Presto And Foxtel This August

While neither Stan, Presto nor the Australian Netflix library has anything near the range of US streaming services, every month we get just a little more. Foxtel is also adding a number of hugely popular titles to their Anytime on-demand streaming. Read on to see all the content that will be added to their libraries during the month of August.

Netflix

This month, Netflix gets political with a satirical version of Trump’s The Art Of The Deal, plus Season 2 of Scream and Oscar-winning film Argo joins the Netflix AU lineup.

Here are some of the highlights:

The Get Down

Told through the lives and music of a ragtag crew of South Bronx teens, The Get Down is a mythic saga of the transformation of 1970s New York City.
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Argo:

In 1979, six Americans take shelter from Iranian militants in the Canadian embassy, prompting the CIA to concoct an elaborate plot to rescue them.
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Donald Trump’s The Art Of The Deal:

Funny or Die presents a satirical rendition of Donald Trump’s 1987 bestselling business book, The Art of the Deal.
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Scream, Season 2

In this new TV series sequel to the classic horror franchise, a cyberbullying incident in Lakewood leads to a murder with chilling echoes of the past.
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Here’s the full list:

Netflix Originals

• The Get Down, Season 1a — August 12
• Scream, Season 2 — August 8
• The Little Prince — August 5
• XOXO — August 26
• Fearless, Season 1 — August 19
• I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead — August 19
• David Cross: Making America Great Again — August 5
• Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy: We’ve Been Thinking… — August 26
• Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie — August 1

Netflix Originals For Kids

• Ever After High: Epic Winter, Season 5 — August 5
• Project Mc2, Season 2 — August 12
• Ask the StoryBots, Season 1 — August 12
• Puffin Rock, Season 2 — August 17
• Glitter Force, Season 2 — August 26
• Dawn of the Croods, Season 2 — August 26

Highlights

• Argo — August 1
• The Killing, Season 4 — August 1
• Grease: Live — August 1
• Lawless — August 1
• The Prestige — August 1
• Pretty Woman — August 3
• The Queen — August 3
• The Intern — August 10
• Braveheart — August 10
• Definitely, Maybe — August 24
• Just Married — August 1
• Igor — August 1
• More Than a Game — August 1
• Extract — August 1
• Seeking Justice — August 1
• Billy Madison — August 3
• Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure — August 10
• Geek Charming — August 10
• Down with Love — August 15
• Jack and Jill — August 17
• Black Mass — August 17
• The Mask of Zorro — August 17
• The Whole Ten Yards — August 17
• Hitch — August 17

Stan

Stan’s exclusive offerings this month include a whole heap of new RuPaul seasons, seasons one and two of comedy-drama Younger and one of the best stripper movies ever made — Showgirls. Here are the highlights:

Younger:

Created by Darren Star (Sex and the City) Younger follows Liza, a 40-year old woman who pretends to be 26 in order to get a job in a highly competitive industry. When she lands her dream role, Liza has to figure out how to balance her real life with her “pretend” life. Starring Hilary Duff and Sutton Foster.
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RuPaul Seasons 2-7:

New Seasons of RuPaul added to Stan! Join RuPaul, the most famous drag queen in the world, as the host, mentor and inspiration on RuPaul’s Drag Race.
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Fringe:

Get ready to binge-watch all five seasons of the hit sci-fi series created by J.J. Abrams. Fringe follows FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) as she investigates unusual crimes and occurances. Assisting her is a once institutionalised scientist and his son (Joshua Jackson) as they attempt to rationalise a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena.
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Showgirls

The worst movie ever made or the greatest stripper movie ever… Elizabeth Berkley stars a dancer, working her way to become the top Vegas showgirl.
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Here’s the full list:

TV:

• Roadies — every Monday from August 1
• The Last Ship, Season 3 — every Monday from August 1
• UnREAL, Season 2 — every Tuesday from August 2
• Angie Tribeca, Season 2 — every Tuesday from August 2
• Peep Show, Season 1-9 — August 3
• Beauty & The Beast, Season 1 — August 4
• Fringe, Season 1-5 — August 16
• Younger, Season 1-2 — August 17
• Spaced, Season 1-2 — August 18
• Top Boy, Season 1-2 — August 19
• Gay For Play — August 23
• Rupaul’s Drag Race, Season 2-7 — August 23
• The Returned, Season 2 — August 25

Movies:

• Showgirls — August 2
• Sharknado 3 — August 3
• The Gruffalo — August 5
• The Gruffalo’s Child — August 5
• Room On The Broom — August 5
• Before We Go — August 10
• How To Train Your Dragon — August 16
• The Assassin — August 20
• Burnt — August 24

World Movies:

• Inside Deep Throat — August 2
• Caligula — August 4
• The Great Beauty — August 13
• Bridget Bardot Collection — August 27 & 28
• The Tale Of Love And Darkness — August 31

Presto

Presto is leading its August lineup with Australian talent, streaming the incredible Aussie film The Dressmaker. It’s also bringing us Fear The Walking Dead, as well as Dexter and Veep in bingeable quantities. Here are some of the highlights:

The Dressmaker

Legendary Australian filmmak­er Jocelyn Moorhouse returns to the director’s chair to deliver the ultimate revenge story in The Dress­maker streaming August 27. Based on the bestselling novel by Rosalie Hamm, the AACTA Award-winning comedy-drama stars Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving and Judy Davis.
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Fear The Walking Dead:

A prequel to, and set in the same universe as, The Walking Dead, the gritty drama explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family who must embrace their darker histories.
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Dexter:

Dare to spend hours with everyone’s favourite serial killer, Dexter as every blood curdling episode streams on Presto from August 5.
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Veep:

Walk on the lighter side with seasons 1-3 of HBO’s Emmy Award-winning crack-up comedy Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus on August 3.
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Here’s the full list of what will be available:

TV:

• Winners and Losers, Season 4 — August 1
• 800 Words — August 1
• Veep,, Season 1-3 — August 3
• Mr Robot, Season 2, ep 4 — August 4
• Aquarius, Season 2, eps 9 & 10 (double ep) — August 5
• Dexter, Season 1-8 — August 5
• Chuggington, Season 2 — August 6
• Lah Lah’s Adventures, Season 1 — August 6
• Cat in the Hat: Xmas Special — August 6
• INXS: Never Tear Us Apart — August 8
• Dark Net — August 10
• Mr Robot, Season 2, ep 5 — August 11
• Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 — August 15
• Max & Ruby, Season 1-2 — August 15
• Mr Young, Season 1 — August 15
• Scaredy Squirrel, Season 1 — August 15
• Sidekick, Season 1 — August 15
• Mr Robot, Season 2, ep 6 — August 18
• The Newsroom, Season 1-3 — August 19
• Fear The Walking Dead, Season 1 — August 24
• Mr Robot, Season 2, ep 7 — August 25

Movies

• Back on Board: Greg Louganis (HBO) — 1 August
• Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (HBO) — 1 August
• Dead Poets Society — 1 August
• Good Morning Vietnam — 1 August
• The Legend of Johnny Lingo — 1 August
• Pushing Tin — 1 August
• Scoop — 1 August
• Femme Fatale — 1 August
• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past — 1 August
• Starsky & Hutch — 1 August
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — 1 August
• Meet Dave — 1 August
• Dragonball: Evolution — 1 August
• Airheads — 1 August
• Dirty Sanchez: The Movie — 1 August
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman — 1 August
• Goodbye Lover — 1 August
• Interiors — 1 August
• Match Point — 1 August
• The Sentinel — 1 August
• Crank: High Voltage — 1 August
• The Grudge — 1 August
• Stay — 1 August
• Bye Bye Love — 1 August
• Hannah and Her Sisters — 1 August
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo — 1 August
• It Could Happen To You — 1 August
• Made in America — 1 August
• Of Mice and Men — 1 August
• Dumb Criminals: The Movie — 1 August
• Copycat — 1 August
• Life Or Something Like It — 1 August
• Radio Days — 1 August
• V For Vendetta — 1 August
• Alice — 1 August
• Open Season: Scared Silly — 1 August
• Broadway Danny Rose — 1 August
• Grandma — 1 August
• Annie Hall — 1 August
• The Transporter: Refuelled — 1 August
• The End of the Tour — 1 August
• Macbeth — 1 August
• Bananas — 1 August
• Ratter — 1 August
• Manhattan — 1 August
• The Concierge — 3 August
• Peter Pan — 5 August
• Mr. Holmes — 6 August
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua — 6 August
• The Chamber — 7 August
• Rock the Kasbah — 7 August
• Happy Gilmore — 7 August
• The Terminal — 7 August
• The Hangover 3 — 8 August
• House Arrest — 8 August
• Young Ones — 10 August
• Apollo 13 — 12 August
• Return to Neverland — 12 August
• Bruno — 13 August
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year — 13 August
• Coraline — 13 August
• American Beauty — 14 August
• Slumdog Millionaire — 15 August
• Hannibal Rising — 16 August
• Tinker Bell — 19 August
• No Strings Attached — 19 August
• Shooter — 19 August
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of Black Pearl — 20 August
• War of The Worlds — 20 August
• The 5th Wave — 20 August
• Primal Fear — 21 August
• Youth — 21 August
• Bill — 24 August
• I Love You, Man — 25 August
• Paycheck — 26 August
• Just Like Heaven — 26 August
• Public Enemies — 27 August
• The Heartbreak Kid — 27 August
• Bedtime Stories — 27 August
• The Dressmaker — 27 August
• Disturbia — 28 August

Foxtel Anytime

With Foxtel Anytime, you can stream shows any time you want (surprisingly) although the shows have to be a part of your package already (say, the Drama package if you want to watch Game of Thrones). Here are some of the highlights:

Foxtel LifeStyle programming arriving on Anytime features season 4 of Gogglebox, the Logie award-winning show about people watching television that captures the hilarious and often heartfelt reactions of some of Australia’s most animated viewers. Season 4 airs in August and adds new episodes to Foxtel Anytime, as the season airs, alongside seasons 1-3 already streaming.

The Kettering Incident

The Kettering Incident follows Anna Macy (Elizabeth Debicki) who left the town of Kettering when she was 14 after her best friend mysteriously disappeared. When she returns after 15 years she finds a community in crisis. Her reappearance causes an even greater stir with rumours about what really happened during her friend’s disappearance on everyone’s mind.
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Fear The Walking Dead:

Fear the Walking Dead is the hit companion series to The Walking Dead that explores another shattered group of survivors who set out on the open seas in search of a safe harbour to call home in the midst of the zombie apocalypse. Season 2 continues on Foxtel with new episodes added to season 1 on Anytime.
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A Place To Call Home:

The sweeping period drama, A Place to Call Home has quickly stolen the hearts of the nation as it takes viewers through the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family from rural New South Wales. A Place to Call Home seasons 1-3 are available this month on Foxtel Anytime.
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Gogglebox

The Logie award-winning show about people watching television that captures the hilarious and often heartfelt reactions of some of Australia’s most animated viewers. Season 4 airs in August and adds new episodes to Foxtel Anytime, as the season airs, alongside seasons 1-3 already streaming.
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Sharknado: The 4th Awakens

It’s the fourth Sharknado movie. No further explanation is necessary.
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Here’s the full list of what will be available:

TV:

• The Kettering Incident, Season 1
• Fear the Walking Dead, Seasons 1-2
• The Affair, Seasons 1-2
• A Place to Call Home, Seasons 1-3
• 60 days In, Season 1
• Sex and the City, Seasons 1-6
• Vice Principals, Season 1
• Hell on Wheels, Season 1-6
• Gogglebox, Season 1-4 (season 4 added)

Movies

• The 5th Wave
• Airheads
• Alice
• American Beauty
• Annie Hall
• Apollo 13
• Bananas
• A Beautiful Mind
• Bedtime Stories
• Before We Go
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua
• Big Sky
• Bill
• Black Mass
• Blow
• Bridge Of Spies
• Broadway Danny Rose
• Bruno
• Burnt
• Bye Bye Love
• The Chamber
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• The Concierge
• Copycat
• Coraline
• Crank: High Voltage
• Dead Poets Society
• Disturbia
• Dragonball: Evolution
• The Dressmaker
• Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
• Dumb Criminals: The Movie
• The End Of The Tour
• Fat Pizza
• Femme Fatale
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• From Prada To Nada
• Get Carter
• Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past
• Good Morning Vietnam
• Goodbye Lover
• Grandma
• The Grudge
• The Hangover Part III
• Hannah And Her Sisters
• Hannibal Rising
• Happy Gilmore
• The Heartbreak Kid
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year
• Hitman: Agent 47
• House Arrest
• I Love You, Man
• Interiors
• The Intern
• It Could Happen To You
• Just Like Heaven
• Kate & Leopold
• The Legend Of Johnny Lingo
• License To Wed
• Life Or Something Like It
• Macbeth
• Made In America
• Manhattan
• Match Point
• Meet Dave
• Miss Representation
• Mr. Holmes
• Network
• No Strings Attached
• Of Mice And Men
• Open Season: Scared Silly
• The Others
• Paycheck
• Peter Pan
• Pirates Of The Caribbean: Curse Of Black Pearl
• Primal Fear
• Public Enemies
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo
• Pushing Tin
• Queen Of The Damned
• Radio Days
• Ratter
• Return To Neverland
• Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
• Rock The Kasbah
• Scoop
• The Sentinel
• Shooter
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Starsky & Hutch
• Stay
• Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny
• The Terminal
• This Means War
• Tinker Bell
• The Transporter: Refuelled
• Undisputed
• V For Vendetta
• War Of The Worlds
• Young Ones

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