What's New on Netflix in August 2026
August is a lighter month for Netflix, with a few familiar favorites and a handful of new series and films. 13) returns for a third season along with Outer Banks (season 5 on Aug. For reality TV lovers, there's a new season of Love Is Blind: UK (Aug.
- ▪August is a lighter month for Netflix, with a few familiar favorites and a handful of new series and films.
- ▪13) returns for a third season along with Outer Banks (season 5 on Aug.
- ▪For reality TV lovers, there's a new season of Love Is Blind: UK (Aug.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 1 hour. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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| Original publisher | Lifehacker |
| Canonical URL | https://lifehacker.com/entertainment/new-on-netflix-august-2026?utm_medium=RSS |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T18:31:38.714Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T18:31:38.714Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | MT7XmXI7ZhVO · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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August is a lighter month for Netflix, with a few familiar favorites and a handful of new series and films. Comedy show Tires (Aug. 13) returns for a third season along with Outer Banks (season 5 on Aug. 20). For reality TV lovers, there's a new season of Love Is Blind: UK (Aug. 19) and Let's Marry Harry (Aug. 5), a Bachelor-like competition show featuring Australian actor and reality star Harry Jowsey.Robert DeNiro, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Keaton, and Adam Scott star in a new original crime thriller, The Whisper Man (Aug. 28), which is based on Alex North's novel of the same name. Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing (Aug. 19) is a documentary film investigating whistleblowing at Boeing. Netflix will also host Phillies vs. Twins in MLB Field of Dreams on Aug. 13.
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