Everything British Worth Streaming in August 2024

It's August, and it is miserably hot here in the Northern Hemisphere. August is always miserably hot in most of America, but this year seems worse than usual, perhaps because we keep breaking records for the hottest days ever recorded on the planet. This is the time to huddle indoors in the air conditioning (and rescue your loved ones if they don't have air conditioning) and spend the days indoors watching ice-cold murder mysteries set in extreme northern climates where they mistake 70 degrees for a heatwave. Obviously, I'm talking about British TV.

Unfortunately, August is still a wasteland when it comes to TV and movie releases. As we already noted, PBS' offerings for the month are slim, but at least public television has the excuse that it's an election year, and PBS News has a convention to cover gavel to gavel. Meanwhile, Disney+/Hulu and Apple TV+ have no excuse of that nature; they're just sitting this month out when it comes to British programming. (Apple TV+ does have Pachinko Season 2 arriving towards the end of the month, but that's an American-made series. Now, where is Andor Season 2?)

Lucky for us Anglophiles, Netflix is once again stepping up with a plethora of programs (several of which are about the planet and climate change!), BritBox continues to import titles from the BBC at a regular clip, and poor AMC Networks has a couple of shows, hoping that the lack of competition means someone will watch one. So grab an icepack from the freezer and strap that sucker to the base of your skull (it really works!), and let's (very slowly) run down the list (we don't want to overheat!) of what British show there are that are worth watching for August 2024.