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1 of 45Apple TV The new TV shows of the fall You may be mourning the last days of summer and the start of the fall, but streaming services, cable channels, and broadcast networks are loving it. Cooling temperatures, shorter days, and boring work-and-school routines mean you just want to go home and watch some television to escape your new reality.

Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler, Lanterns John Johnson/HBO Max On HBO Max, August belongs to Lanterns. The new DC series follows a pair of Green Lanterns, seasoned veteran Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and new recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre), as they investigate a murder in a small Nebraska town. For something a little lighter, Conan O'Brien's travel comedy series, Conan O'Brien Must Go, returns for its third season this month.

Jess Bush, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Jan Thijs/Paramount+ [Warning: The following contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 6 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, "Off-Hour."] Taking cues from the lighter side of the Original Series, Strange New Worlds absolutely loves hijinks.

Alan Ritchson, Reacher Prime Video Prime Video is known for two things: dad shows and teen romances. Both are front and center in Prime Video's new releases for August, and both are prime examples of the genres done right. First up is Sterling Point, a YA drama created by My Old Ass writer and director Megan Park about a New York City teen who heads up to a Canadian lakeside town to learn more about her mother, who died when she was young.

Alan Ritchson, Reacher Prime Video Just a heads up: This article has a lot of spoilers for Reacher Season 4, through Episode 5, "Bridge." Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) isn't perfect. He's usually the biggest and smartest person in any room that he can fit in, but during the first three seasons of this series he's made a few mistakes — that's bound to happen when making so many snap judgments based on limited evidence while a gun is pointed at his head.

Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman, Lioness Ryan Green/Paramount+ Conflict and people punching each other in the face are the recurring themes of the new releases on Paramount+ in August, headlined by Season 3 of Taylor Sheridan's military drama Lioness. Lioness is one of five active Sheridan-created shows original to Paramount+ and stars Zoe Saldaña, Michael Kelly, and Nicole Kidman as CIA agents operating top-secret counterterrorism missions.

Regé-Jean Page and Halle Bailey, You, Me & Tuscany Giulia Parmigiani/Universal Pictures Peacock isn't exactly screaming "Look at me!" in August, with a very light new release schedule for both TV shows and movies. The biggest debut is the streaming premiere of Will Packer's You, Me & Tuscany, a romantic comedy starring Bridgerton's Regé-Jean Page and The Little Mermaid's Halle Bailey.

Homer Gere, Kaia Gerber, Igby Rigney, Hayes Warner, and Graham Campbell, The Shards FX Non-supernatural shows about young people mostly fall into two camps: witty, good-looking people hooking up and realizing that adulting is hard, or witty, good-looking people hooking up and running from psychopaths. In August, Hulu's release schedule has both of those.

Drew Starkey, Jonathan Daviss, Carlacia Grant, Chase Stokes, and Madelyn Cline, Outer Banks Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix The amount of treasure hunts on TV is about to take a swan dive: Outer Banks is signing off with its fifth and final season. There are always more Netflix teen dramas waiting in the wings — just look at My Life With the Walter Boys, which returns for Season 3 this August and has already been renewed for Season 4 — but not all of them have this much gold at stake.

Drew Starkey and Madelyn Cline, Outer Banks Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix [Warning: The following contains spoilers for Outer Banks Season 5.] Across its five seasons, Netflix's teen adventure drama Outer Banks was never short on producing audible gasps. Some were gasps of genuine shock — like at the end of Season 4 when sweet, troubled JJ (Rudy Pankow) was murdered by his own father, Chandler Groff (J. Anthony Crane).