Best TV on now: August 2017 highlights

By Helena Kealey on 22/8/2017

J.K Rowling's detective novels are coming to our TV screens this August, alongside socking drama The State and more Marvel on Netflix

Trust Me, BBC One

In Trust Me, BBC One’s latest psychological drama, Jodie Whittaker plays Cath Hardacre, a fraudulent senior doctor with more than her share of dark secrets.

WHEN

23 Aug 2017 – 30 Sep 2017, Date and air times tbd

WHERE

BBC One
BBC One

The Tick, Amazon Prime

They say that cockroaches can survive a nuclear apocalypse. Amazon Prime proposes another indestructible insect hero in The Tick, available to stream from late summer

WHEN

25 Aug 2017 – 30 Sep 2017, 7:00 AM – 12:00 AM

WHERE

Amazon Prime

Marvel's The Defenders, UK Netflix

Netflix is determined to get onto the Marvel gravy train, following the release of Iron Fist on the streaming service. Marvel is back, with Marvel’s The Defenders. This time, we follow Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and also that critically panned Iron Fist (Finn Jones). A quartet of singular heroes with one common goal – to save New York City

WHEN

18 August

WHERE

UK Netflix

The Cuckoo's Calling, BBC One

Since finishing the Harry Potter novels, J.K Rowling has written three crime novels under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith. This summer, the three Galbraith novels, The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and The Career of Evil are each being adapted into a 60 minute episode. The first is arriving this August although the air date is yet to be decided

WHEN

18 Aug 2017 – 30 Sep 2017, 8:00 AM – 12:00 AM

WHERE

BBC1