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Hulu in August 2026: A New Season of ‘It’s Always Sunny,’ Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Shards’ and More
Hulu’s popularity could be attributed to its vast collection of great older TV shows and movies and some top-notch original shows, including Only Murders in the Building, Paradise and The Handmaid’s Tale. The platform’s collaboration with FX has also produced some of the platform’s most prestigious and popular shows, including The Bear, Reservation Dogs and Shogun.
Hulu (specifically FX on Hulu) has a couple of major premieres this month, including the newest series from Ryan Murphy, The Shards, a teen drama based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel. Also dropping this month is the 18th season of the sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
If you want Kardashian-adjacent content, you can find plenty of it on the platform in August, too. The Girls: A Khloé Kardashian Project is a new reality series produced by Kardashian, which focuses on the lives of some of her closest friends as they build their careers, raise their kids and lean on each other for support. Also arriving this month is a feature-length documentary, Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear, about Barker’s often tumultuous life and career, which has changed drastically since his marriage to Kourtney Kardashian.
These titles and more are arriving soon; here’s when you can watch Hulu’s biggest releases this August.
Aug. 3
Futurama (Season 14)
After 10 years off the air, the Fox animated series Futurama was resurrected by Hulu for a streaming reboot in 2023. Now, another new season is arriving on the platform. The show, which is about a pizza delivery driver, Philip J. Fry (Billy West), who is cryogenically frozen and awakened in the year 3000, will premiere on Aug. 3 with two episodes followed by one episode weekly on Mondays.
Aug. 5
FXThe Shards (series premiere)
Ryan Murphy’s latest show, The Shards, adapts Bret Easton Ellis’s semiautobiographical novel of the same name into a six-part series set at an elite LA prep school. Igby Rigney plays Easton Ellis as he enters his senior year of high school in 1981 and meets a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory (Euphoria’s Homer Gere). The first two episodes of the show arrive on Aug. 5; new episodes arrive each week thereafter.
Aug. 13
Disney/Stephanie AugelloTravis Barker: Louder Than Fear
Travis Barker is the drummer for Blink-182, husband to Kourtney Kardashian and the survivor of a horrific plane crash that nearly took his life. In the new documentary Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear, directed by Justin Krook and Michael Dwyer, Barker, along with his friends and family, discusses his career, personal relationships, and the tragedy that changed his life. The film is set to premiere on Aug. 13.
Aug. 17
FXIt’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Season 18)
The gang from Paddy’s Pub is still slinging beers and chaos on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The series is dropping its 18th season this month, which makes it the longest-running live-action sitcom of all time. The new season features the regular cast of characters, Charlie (Charlie Day), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), Mac (Rob Mac), Sweet Dee (Kaitlin Olson) and Frank (Danny DeVito). This season will have 10 episodes, the first of which arrives on Aug. 17.
Aug. 22
NeonIn the Steven Soderbergh film The Christophers, out this month on Hulu, Ian McKellen stars as a painter named Julian Sklar whose greedy children (played by Jessica Gunning and James Corden) are out to profit off his talents. They hire an artist, Lori (Michaela Coel), to complete a series of Julian’s unfinished paintings so they can secretly sell them off. (“The Christophers” is the name of the series of paintings Julian has created.) The plan goes awry when Lori teams up with Julian instead.
Aug. 27
HuluAdults (Season 2)
The hit sitcom Adults returns to Hulu for season 2 on Aug. 27. The series, created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, stars Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao and Owen Thiele as a group of young friends living together in Queens, New York. Season 2 consists of eight new episodes, with two arriving each week.
Arriving August 2026
HuluThe Girls: A Khloe Kardashian Project (series premiere)
The Girls: A Khloe Kardashian Project is a new docuseries about Kardashian’s inner circle of close friends, including Natalie Halcro, Khadijah Haqq, Malika Haqq, Yris Palmer, Olivia Pierson and Nicole Williams-English. A premiere date has not been announced, but the series is scheduled to arrive in August.
