August 25 – 31: Crave Weekly Streaming Overview

AUGUST 25 – STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS *Season 3 Premiere*

• The all-new season of STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS premieres Thursday, August 25 on Crave and CTV Sci-Fi Channel. Season 3 of the half-hour animated comedy challenges the U.S.S. Cerritos ensigns in (hilarious) ways they could never imagine, starting with a shocking resolution to Season 2’s epic cliff-hanger finale. The Starfleet crew residing in the “lower decks” of the U.S.S. Cerritos, includes Ensign Beckett Mariner, (Tawny Newsome); Ensign Brad Boimler, (Jack Quaid); Ensign Tendi, (Noël Wells); and Ensign Rutherford, (Eugene Cordero). The Starfleet characters that comprise the U.S.S. Cerritos’ bridge crew include, Captain Carol Freeman, (Dawnn Lewis); Commander Jack Ransom, (Jerry O’Connell); and Doctor T’Ana, (Gillian Vigman). STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS follows a weekly release schedule with new episodes dropping Thursdays on Crave, and airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on CTV Sci-Fi Channel.

AUGUST 26 – DEATH ON THE NILE *Movie Premiere*

• Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s (Kenneth Branagh) Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer, when a picture-perfect couple’s (Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer) idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas, and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers played by stars Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Rose Leslie, Letitia Wright, and enough wicked twists and turns to leave audiences guessing until the final, shocking denouement. DEATH OF THE NILE is available for streaming on Crave on Friday, August 26.

AUGUST 26 – SOPHIE BUDDLE: SMILE, BABY * Crave Original Stand-Up Special*

• Filmed in front of a live audience during the 2021 Just For Laughs Festival in Montréal, in SOPHIE BUDDLE: SMILE, BABY, Buddle skewers stereotypes from sexual fantasies, and vibrators, to edibles, and nanny fever.

  ***Media Note: Assets for Crave programming are available at the Bell Media press site, The Lede, here Complete listings for the week of Aug. 25 – 31 *All Programming Subject to Change   HBO and HBO Max Programming HBO Max Series SELENA + CHEF, Season 4, Episode 4-6 (August 25) HBO Max Series RAP SH!T, Season 1, Episode 7 (August 25) HBO Series REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, Season 20, Episode 25 (August 27) HBO Series HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, Season 1, Episode 2 (August 28 at 9 p.m. ET) HBO Series INDUSTRY, Season 2, Episode 5 (August 29 at 9 p.m. ET)   Movies AANKHEN (August 26) AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI (August 26) AMERICAN UNDERDOG (August 26) ARAKSHAN (August 26) BLUE (August 26) DEATH ON THE NILE (August 26) DEEWANGEE (August 26) HULK (2003) (August 26) THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008) (August 26) THE SECRET GARDEN (1993) (August 26)   SHOWTIME Programming CITY ON A HILL, Season 3, Episode 4 (August 26) THE CHI, Season 5, Episode 9 (August 26) VICE, Season 3, Episode 13 (August 28 at 8 p.m. ET)   STARZ Programming MIAMI VICE (August 26) THE SECRET GARDEN (1993) (August 26) POWER BOOK III: RAISING KANAN, Season 2, Episode 3 (August 28)   More Riveting TV to Watch STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, Season 3, Episode 1 *Season Premiere* (August 25) Crave Original Series CANADA’S DRAG RACE, Season 3, Episode 7 *Canadian Title* (August 25 at 9 p.m. ET) LOVE ISLAND USA, Season 4, Episode 29 (August 25 at 9 p.m. ET) Crave Original Stand-Up Special SOPHIE BUDDLE: SMILE, BABY *Canadian Title* (August 26) LOVE ISLAND USA, Season 4, Episode 30 (August 26 at 9 p.m. ET) RUPAUL’S SECRET CELEBRITY DRAG RACE, Season 2, Episode 3 (August 26 at 9:30 p.m. ET) RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: DOWN UNDER, Season 2, Episode 5 (August 27) ANGRY BIRDS, Episode 1-30 (August 27) LOVE ISLAND USA, Season 4, Episode 31-32 *Season Finale* (August 28 at 9 p.m. ET) THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, Season 35, Episode 226-230 (August 30) Crave Original Series DARK SIDE OF COMEDY, Season 1, Episode 3 (August 30 at 9 p.m. ET) DRAG RACE PHILIPPINES, Season 1, Episode 4 (August 31)