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What to watch in the UK: week of 31 Aug 2026

Six picks worth saving from the week of 31 Aug 2026: the films and shows on UK streaming services that week, kept exactly as they ran.

This is the archived edit for the week of 31 Aug 2026. For the current shortlist, see This week's picks.

This week's shortlist

Six picks worth a look

The Gorge poster

Film 路 2025

The Gorge

Streaming onApple TV

Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.

Greenland 2: Migration poster

Film 路 2026

Greenland 2: Migration

Streaming onPrime Video

Having found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family must now risk everything to embark on a perilous journey across the wasteland of Europe to find a new home.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy poster

Film 路 2026

Lee Cronin's The Mummy

Streaming onNOW

The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace鈥攅ight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

Modern Family poster

TV series 路 2009

Modern Family

Streaming onDisney+, Channel 4

The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.

South Park poster

TV series 路 1997

South Park

Streaming onParamount+, NOW

Follow the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.

New Girl poster

TV series 路 2011

New Girl

Streaming onDisney+

Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys鈥攅specially at home.

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