These are the most anticipated new titles hitting Netflix Canada in August 2021, including the sports doc series UNTOLD, The Chair starring Sandra Oh, the Sauble Beach-set Motel Makeover, a tell-all documentary about painter Bob Ross and Clickbait starring Adrian Grenier.
The Chair
Created by actor/producer Amanda Peet and Annie Julia Wyman, this academic comedy stars Sandra Oh as the first woman of colour to chair her Ivy League university’s faltering English department, and Jay Duplass as the newly widowed professor she’s trying to pull out of a spiral. (Bob Balaban and Holland Taylor are around as aging faculty members, too.) And in case you missed the most important part: Sandra Oh is back doing comedy again! It’s been far too long. August 20
Motel Makeover
June Motel founders April Brown and Sarah Sklash have landed a Netflix docuseries. After revamping an old motel in Prince Edward County as a wine-country getaway in 2017, the pair expanded their boutique experience brand to Sauble Beach. This six-episode series will follow the friends-turned-entrepreneurs as they reno that second property near Lake Huron. Read more about the show here. August 25
UNTOLD
Netflix is taking on ESPN in the realm prestige sports documentaries. Hot on the heels of Oscar-nominated director Garrett Bradley’s doc series about Japanese tennis sensation Naomi Osaka, the streamer is debuting a five-part anthology that will go deep into pivotal moments in sports history. Each week a new 80-minute film will debut, starting with Malice In The Palace, which recounts the 2004 basketball brawl that began after Ron Artest (now named Metta Sandiford-Artest) charged the stands after a fan threw a drink. Future docs will focus on track star-turned-reality star Caitlyn Jenner, boxer Christy Martin and tennis champ Mardy Fish. August 10
Misha And The Wolves
Hailed at Sundance and Hot Docs screening, Sam Hobkinson’s documentary about Belgian author Misha Defonseca – who wrote a book about surviving the Holocaust as a seven-year-old by sheltering with a pack of wolves, only to admit she’d fabricated the story a decade later – lands on Netflix, where it’ll fit in just fine among the other bizarre true stories. August 11
Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal And Greed
TV painter Bob Ross is known for his huge ‘fro and soothing persona, but this juicy-sounding documentary from Lorena and Sasquatch director Joshua Rofé promises to lift the curtain on how the “battle for his business empire cast a shadow over his happy trees.” Ross died 25 years ago but The Joy Of Painting host has undergone a pop culture revival recently thanks to memes and an ill-fated impersonation on RuPaul’s Drag Race. August 25
Brand New Cherry Flavor
This eight-part adaptation of Todd Grimson’s cult novel stars Rosa Salazar (Man Seeking Woman, Undone, Alita: Battle Angel) as an aspiring filmmaker in early 90s Hollywood who’s immediately drawn into a world of calculating scenesters, backstabbing producers and possibly curses. It’s been adapted by Channel Zero producers Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion, so expect some serious atmosphere and an eclectic cast, including The Good Place’s Manny Jacinto and a very creepy Catherine Keener. August 13
Beckett
After racing around Europe to save the world in Tenet, John David Washington is still in motion in this thriller from director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino (Antonia.) and producer Luca Guadagnino, playing an American tourist who survives a car wreck to find himself on the run from the police, the government and pretty much everybody – for reasons he can’t fully understand. Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook and Vicky Krieps co-star. August 13
Hit & Run
Shot in multiple countries, this nine-part series stars co-creator Lior Raz (Fauda) as Segev Azulay, an extremely resourceful man seeking answers – and possibly revenge – after his wife is run down in Tel Aviv. The Affair’s Sanaa Lathan and Scandal’s Gregg Henry co-star; the directors include Mike Barker (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Neasa Hardiman (Sea Fever). August 6
Clickbait
Going viral takes a horrific twist in this eight-part series, which opens with an ordinary man (Adrian Grenier) popping up on a website, holding a sign that says “At 5 million views, I die.” The show follows the race to find him and stop whatever’s happening, seen through the eyes of a number of different people, including his sister (Zoe Kazan), his wife (Betty Gabriel) and the cop (Phoenix Raei) trying to find him. Like and subscribe… or else. August 25
The full list of new titles available on Netflix Canada in August 2021 by date:
TV shows
Coming Soon
Comedy Premium League
D.P.
August 1
For Life (season 1)
August 3
Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified
August 4
Car Masters: Rust To Riches (season 3)
Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings Of Miami
Control Z (season 2)
Cooking With Paris
August 6
Hit & Run
Navarasa
August 9
Shaman King (season 1)
August 10
Gabby’s Dollhouse (season 2)
Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang
UNTOLD: Malice In The Palace
August 11
Bake Squad
August 12
AIRawbi School For Girls
Lokillo: Nothing’s The Same
Riverdale (season 5)
August 13
Brand New Cherry Flavor
Fast & Furious Spy Racers: South Pacific (season 5)
Gone For Good
The Kingdom
Valeria (season 2)
August 17
Go! Go! Cory Carson (season 5)
UNTOLD: Deal With The Devil
August 18
The Defeated
August 20
The Chair
Everything Will Be Fine
August 23
Oggy Oggy
UNTOLD: Caitlyn Jenner
August 25
Clickbait
John Of God: The Crimes Of A Spiritual Healer
Motel Makeover
Open Your Eyes
Post Mortem: No One Dies In Skarnes
August 26
Edens Zero
Family Reunion: Part 4
August 27
I Heart Arlo
Titletown High
August 28
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
August 31
Good Girls (season 4)
Manifest (season 3)
Sparking Joy
UNTOLD: Crime And Penalties
Movies
August 1
The Addams Family
Body Of Lies
Captive State
Chocolat
Darwin’s Game
Ella Enchanted
The Expendables
The Expendables 2
The Expendables 3
Fathers And Guns
Good Luck Chuck
The Graduate
The Green Mile
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
Hugo
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5
Jackass: Number Two
Jackass 3
Jackass 3.5: The Unrated Movie
Jerry Maguire
Kill ‘Em All
Kiss The Girls
Laurence Anyways
The Losers
Looper
Ma
Man On A Ledge
Menace II Society
My Fair Lady
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Primal Fear
Star Trek
Star Trek: Into Darkness
World Trade Center
August 3
Pray Away
Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord
August 4
76
Aftermath
Definitely, Maybe
The Five-Year Engagement
Inside Man
Jarhead
Miami Vice
Savages
Slap Shot
The Unborn
August 6
The Hustle
The Swarm
Vivo
August 11
The Kissing Booth 3
Misha And The Wolves
August 12
Monster Hunter: Legends Of The Guild
August 13
Beckett
August 15
Starbuck
August 16
Joker
She’s Out Of My League
August 18
Memories Of Murder: The Nilsen Tapes
Out Of My League
The Secret Diary Of An Exchange Student
August 20
22 Jump Street
The Loud House Movie
Sweet Girl
August 21
Rocketman
August 23
The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf
August 24
The Peanut Butter Falcon
August 25
Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
August 27
He’s All That
August 29
The Equalizer
Last call
TV series and movies leaving Netflix Canada in August 2021.
August 11
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi
August 14
Bridget Jones’s Diary
August 31
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Easy A
Family Guy (seasons 9-11)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
