What to Watch on Paramount+ this August: From Lioness Season 3 to Scream 7

Paramount+ is keeping us glued to our sofa this August – with the return of an all-star cast in an action favourite, through to a chilling continuation of an iconic slasher.

Whether you’re wanting a date night-in, or a family favourite like Spongebob Squarepants, they’ve got you covered there too.

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Here’s what is available for you to watch on Paramount+ this month…

Release Date: August 2nd - First two episodes, then weekly

Nicole Kidman, Zoe Saldaña and Morgan Freeman are back leading the cast as Lioness continues – with stakes higher than ever.

Hidden networks, personal betrayals and more are set to clash as Joe is guided by Kaitlyn and Westfield through her most dangerous operation yet, where no one is to be trusted and enemies lurk in the shadows.

Will she be able to keep her duties at work away from her personal life?

Release Date: August 19th – First two episodes, then weekly

In this comedy-drama, Average Joe follows Joe Washington (Deon Cole), a blue-collar plumber whose life is turned upside down when he discovers his deceased father was living a double life – and was secretly working for the Russian mob.

What’s worse? He took $10million from them, and even though he’s dead, that’s not going to stop them trying to get that money back.

Now Joe is thrown into the middle of it all, and as season two kicks off, a new threat connected to the mob puts his family at risk. In search of answers, Joe and his team span the globe looking for answers – ending up in Cape Town, South Africa, where even more secrets and enemies await them.

Release Date: August 6th – All Episodes

In this supernatural drama, three specialists from completely different walks of life are brought together by the Catholic Church with one major task: investigate a series of seemingly unexplainable events, and determine whether they’re human acts, demonic events or divine miracles.

Forensic psychologist Dr Kristen Bouchard is a certified sceptic when it comes to believing in the supernatural, but her new business associate David Acosta – a Catholic priest in training – is more open to believing. Joining them is Ben Shakir, a tech whizz who is determined to find logic in any given situation.

As their work begins, all three have their patience, faith and knowledge tested when they are confronted with situations their beliefs can’t explain. But as their work continues and they become more committed to the project, outside forces draw them into a tangled web the good and evil are too often intertwined.

Read more about Evil here

Release Date: August 7th

In this sci-fi action war epic, Primitive War sends us back to Vietnam 1968, where the Vulture Squad – a recon unit – is sent on a rescue mission to the jungle in order to locate the missing Green Beret Platoon, who went missing during a classified assignment.

However, it is far from easy, and soon the team discover they are facing their biggest threat to date: dinosaurs that have gone unnoticed for centuries.

Release Date: August 13th - All Episodes

The Equalizer is a crime drama centred around Robyn McCall - a former CIA agent and single mother who becomes a defender for the defenceless following her own history.

Living in New York City with her teenage daughter, Delilah, Robyn becomes known as ‘The Equalizer’ - a vigilante who helps out those who have been failed by more legal means.

She is supported in her efforts by NYPD Detective Marcus Dante, former Air Force sniper turned bartender Mel Bayani, and Harry Keshegian, Mel’s partner and tech whizz.

Working on a ‘crime of the week’ each episode, The Equalizer also has continuing plot through lines based around Robyn and her loved ones.

Read more about The Equalizer here

Release Date: August 14th 

In this one-off special, Spongebob and Patrick contend with their history being re-written when Patrick’s Time Closet goes disastrously wrong.

With interlopers messing around with their timeline, Spongebob and Patrick have to chase them through time and stop them creating even more mess.

Release Date: August 20th - All Episodes 

Made by the creators of The Office US, Parks and Recreation is a feel-good comedy that lifts the lid on local government – and all the weird but lovable people who work at the parks and recreation department.

Led by sprightly go-getter Leslie Knope, the team try their best to make their small world of Pawnee, Indiana a better place, starting by filling an abandoned pit that would make the perfect home for a new park.

But with budgets, bureaucratic red tape and bizarre locals all making their job harder, it can be a lot easier said than done.

Release Date: August 21st 

In this action series, Kris Chaney captures the daughter of a Colombian gangster on a mission to fulfil a long-held promise he made to her mother.

However, when her father finds out, he pulls out all the stops to get her back – from members of the criminal underworld to a cold-blooded killer – to bring him down.

Will Kris be able to keep his word? And at what cost?

Release Date: August 27th  

Ghostface is back and causing even more trouble for Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers, just as they’ve built new lives for themselves after decades of slayings.

While Sidney is desperate to stay out of it, things get more personal than ever when it becomes clear that Sidney’s teenage daughter, Tatum, is the new prime target.

Now the ultimate final girl needs to bring Ghostface to a stop and unmask those responsible before it’s too late – but this time the killer has some tricks up their sleeve forcing Sidney to confront some of the chilling moments of her past.

Release Date: August 28th - All Episodes  

This iconic sci-fi series will soon be available in full on Paramount+. The series follows the crew of the titular Galactica, who are left to protect the last of humanity on board when Cylons destroy the 12 colonies of the Galaxy.

On a mission to get them to safe ground, the team attempt to make a journey towards a fabled 13th colony: Planet Earth.