August 6 – August 12: Crave Weekly Programming Overview

Crave continues to deliver weekly alerts highlighting new and noteworthy programming and scheduling changes for the week ahead in relation to streaming unless indicated otherwise.   Highlights This Week  

• The all-new comedy from HBO Max, AN AMERICAN PICKLE premieres on August 6. The film stars Canada’s own Seth Rogen (Superbad, Neighbours) and Sarah Snook (SUCCESSION). Based on Simon Rich’s New Yorker novella, the story follows Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling laborer who immigrates to America in 1919 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. However, after falling into a vat of pickle brine, Herschel is accidentally preserved for 100 years. He awakens in modern-day Brooklyn and goes to stay with his great-grandson Ben. Rogen plays both Herschel and his grandson.

 

• The Canadian Screen Award^®-nominated film RUN THIS TOWN begins streaming on August 7. Based on true events, the film follows Bram (Ben Platt) a young and naive newspaper reporter who accidentally uncovers scandalous information about Toronto’s controversial mayor, Rob Ford (Damian Lewis). Bram attempts to pry information from Ford’s aides, Ashley (Nina Dobrev) and Kamal (Mena Massoud), who are trying to cover Ford’s tracks and spin the story.

 

• Based on the mystery novel by Damon Galgut, THE QUARRY premieres August 7 on Crave with the STARZ add-on. Set in the wilds of Texas, the searing thriller tells the story of a fugitive drifter (Shea Whigham) who murders a travelling preacher, assumes his identity and becomes the new cleric of a small-town church. While he wins over the congregation, the local police chief (Michael Shannon) starts to link the mysterious stranger to a crime investigation.

 

• A gripping twist on a classic cat-and-mouse story,WE HUNT TOGETHER is a six-episode drama series premiering Sunday, August 9 at 10 p.m. ET. The SHOWTIME series explores the intoxication of sexual attraction and the dangerous power of emotional manipulation. As two conflicted detectives (Eve Myles and Babou Ceesay) track down a pair of deadly killers (Hermione Corfield and Dipo Ola), the series reveals how finding a volatile form of solace in another can have dire consequences.

 

• The latest expansion in the STAR TREK franchise, STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, debuts on August 6. Set in 2380, the animated comedy series follows the support crew on S.S. Cerritos, one of Starfleet’s least important ships. Developed by RICK AND MORTY’s Mike McMahan, new episodes are available for streaming Thursdays on Crave.

 

• An all-new episode of CANADA’S DRAG RACE drops on Thursday, August 6 at 9 p.m. ET. This week, the Queens must write and produce commercials for fictional drag queen law firms. Canadian actor and comedian Tom Green (THE TOM GREEN SHOW) joins judges Brooke Lynn Hytes, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, and Stacey McKenzie as this week’s special guest host.

  What Critics Are Saying about Crave’s THE GO-GO’s “How Can You Not Love the Go-Go’s?” “As we learn in the ebullient, amazing, often hilarious Showtime documentary The Go-Go’s, the defining girl group of the Eighties can match any bro band in tales of wild excess and savage infighting […]” – Kyle Smith, National Review   “There’s More to The Go-Go’s Than Peppy Hits” “The Go-Go’s isn’t just a feminist love letter that humanizes the group and highlights their talent. Ellwood ultimately shows the group as a proper rock band without the female asterisk; you’re left seeing more than some all-female blip in musical history.” – Tracy Moore, Vanity Fair   ““The Go-Go’s”—and The Go-Go’s—are both such a blast that they ultimately make you long for more.” “[…] what makes this documentary feel specific and alive is the way [Ellwood] vividly takes us back to the early days, letting The Go-Go’s reminisce about their beginnings and tell their own stories […]” – Christy Lemire, Rogerebert.com   “‘The Go-Go’s’ documentary will make you fall head over heels again” “The Go-Go’s” has pretty much everything you’d want in a rock documentary, presenting an oral history of the chart-topping all-female group with sex, drugs, music, money, and the intramural squabbling and wounded egos great success tends to unleash.” – Brian Lowry, CNN   Crave Audience Metrics Crave continues to have Canadians covered, delivering the best movies, TV series, and original hits all in one place. CANADA’S DRAG RACE holds the #1 spot for the fifth consecutive week followed by LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER at #2. I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK climbs to #3 and JOJO RABBIT joins the list at #5.  Here are the Top 10 programs being watched on Crave for the week of July 29 – August 4:  

1. CANADA’S DRAG RACE
2. LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
3. I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK
4. PERRY MASON
5. JOJO RABBIT
6. SOUTH PARK
7. SEINFELD
8. GAME OF THRONES
9. I MAY DESTROY YOU
10. RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS

  What to Watch for the Week of August 6 – 12 *All Programming Subject to Change  

• The season finale of DOOM PATROL premieres on Thursday August 6 at 9:30 p.m. ET. The action series from DC Comics and HBO Max follows a team of misfit superheroes who come together to investigate some of the world’s strangest phenomena. As each member faces the challenge of growing beyond their own traumatic experiences, they must come together to embrace and protect the newest member of the family: Dorothy Spinner (Abigail Shapiro), Niles’ daughter, whose powers remain a mysterious but real threat to bringing on the end of the world.

 

• The season finale of HBO’s detective series PERRY MASON unfolds Sunday, August 9 at 9 p.m. ET. This week, after receiving some unvarnished critique from Hamilton Burger (Justin Kirk), Della (Juliet Rylance) presents an increasingly stubborn Mason (Matthew Rhys) with her case for putting Emily (Gayle Rankin) on the stand. As the sensational trial winds to a close, Mason, Strickland (Shea Whigham), Della, and Drake (Chris Chalk) attempt to tie up loose ends – and set the stage for their futures.

 

• SHOWTIME’s drama series THE CHI continues with an all-new episode on Sunday, August 9 at 9 p.m. ET. This week, Kiesha remains trapped in her own personal nightmare while Kevin, Nina and Dre worry about the future. Emmett and Jada bring comforting words and food to the Williams’ and Ronnie hopes to be absolved of his past transgressions.

 

• HBO’s drama series I MAY DESTROY YOU continues with a new episode Monday, August 10 at 9 p.m. ET. In this week’s episode, after Simon drops a bombshell, Arabella attends her mum’s birthday dinner, where painful, long-forgotten memories resurface. Kwame’s no-strings hook-up bender leads him to Tyrone, a stranger in search of a different kind of connection.

 

• YUSUF HAWKINS: STORM OVER BROOKLYN, a new documentary from HBO begins streaming Wednesday, August 12 at 9 p.m. ET. The film tells the story of Yusuf Hawkins, a black teenager who was murdered in 1989 by a group of young white men in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Over 30 years later, the film gathers candid interviews with Yusuf’s family and friends, well-known community leaders, and those closest to the case — as well as archival footage, witness statements and more — to reflect on the tragedy and subsequent fight for justice that inspired and divided New York City.

 

• All-new episodes this week include; CANADA’S DRAG RACE (Thursday, August 6 at 9 p.m. ET); CROSSING SWORDS (Thursday, August 6 at 10 p.m. ET); DOOM PATROL (Thursday, August 6 at 9:30 p.m. ET); DESUS & MERO (Thursday, August 6 at 11 p.m. ET); ROOM 104 (Friday, August 7 at 11 p.m. ET); REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER (Friday, August 7, live at 10:00 p.m. ET, on-demand the following morning); P-Valley (Sunday, August 9); PERRY MASON (Sunday, August 9 at 9 p.m. ET); DESUS & MERO (Sunday, August 9 at 11 p.m. ET); THE CHI (Sunday, August 9 at 9 p.m. ET); and I MAY DESTROY YOU (Monday, August 10 at 9 p.m. ET).

  Complete listings for the week of August 6 – 12 *All Programming Subject to Change HBO REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, Season 18, Episode 22 (August 7, live at 10:00 p.m. ET, on-demand the following morning) ROOM 104, Season 4 Episode 3 (August 7, 11 p.m. ET) PERRY MASON *Season Finale* Season 1, Episode 8 (August 9 at 9 p.m. ET) I MAY DESTROY YOU, Season 1, Episode 10 (August 10 at 9 p.m. ET) YUSUF HAWKINS: STORM OVER BROOKLYN (August 12 at 9 p.m. ET) Movies AN AMERICAN PICKLE (August 6) RUN THIS TOWN (August 7) NO GOOD DEED (August 7) SHOWTIME THE CHI, Season 3, Episode 8 (August 9 at 9 p.m. ET) DESUS & MERO, Season 2, Episode 39 (August 6 at 11 p.m. ET) WE HUNT TOGETHER *Series Premiere* Season 1 Episode 1 (August 9 at 10 p.m. ET) DESUS & MERO, Season 2, Episode 40 (August 9 at 11 p.m. ET) STARZ THE COLONY (August 7) THE QUARRY (August 7) I AM LEGEND (August 7) POINT BREAK (August 7) SOLARIS (August 7) P-VALLEY, Season 1, Episode 5 (August 9) I’M YOURS (August 12) More Riveting TV to Watch STAR TREK LOWER DECKS, *Series Premiere* Season 1 Episode 1 (August 6) CANADA’S DRAG RACE, Season 1, Episode 6 (August 6 at 9 p.m. ET) DOOM PATROL, *Season Finale* Season 2, Episode 9 (August 6 at 9:30 p.m. ET) CROSSING SWORDS, Season 1, Episode 8 (August 6 at 10 p.m. ET) WATTS ON GRILL, Season 2 (August 7) WHERE TO I DO, Season 3 (August 7) JIM JEFFERIES @ JFL (August 7) THE GOLDBERGS, Season 6 and Season 7 (August 7)