<div><strong><em>WEEK ONE: 29 July-4 August</em></strong></div>
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<div><strong>EMMY NOMINEES GALORE </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">|</span><em> </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Binge now</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Last year, Showmax had ALL the drama winners at the Emmy Awards, thanks to </span><em>Succession S4</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Last of Us S1</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>The White Lotus S2</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This year, by the end of August, Showmax will be streaming 21 nominees, up for a combined 75 Emmys - with more nominees on the way. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The most nominated series on Showmax is </span><em>True Detective: Nighty Country</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, which is up for </span></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">19 awards, the most of any limited or anthology series and in fourth place overall. </span></div>
<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">At the Emmys, </span><em>True Detective: Nighty Country </em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">is up for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, with </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">creator Issa López also nominated for both Writing and Directing. Foster, Reis and John Hawkes are up for Outstanding Lead Actress, Supporting Actress and Supporting Actor respectively. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This makes </span><em>Night Country</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> the most nominated season of </span><em>True Detective </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">at the Emmys, as well as the most watched and the best-reviewed, with a 93% rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes.</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> The critics' consensus there says, "Frighteningly atmospheric and anchored by Jodie Foster and Kali Reis' superb performances, </span><em>Night Country</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is a fresh and frosty variation on </span><em>True Detective</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s existential themes," while </span><em>The Guardian</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s 5/5-star review says, "a blazing Jodie Foster makes this show better than ever before." </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">With </span><em>Night Country</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> recently named one of</span><em> IMDb</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s 10 Top-Rated Shows of 2024 So Far, it's no surprise HBO has already ordered another season.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Other Emmy nominees on Showmax to catch up on include:</span></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• Outstanding Drama nominee </span><em>The Gilded Age</em></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• Outstanding Comedy nominees </span><em>Hacks</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Curb Your Enthusiasm</em></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• Outstanding TV Movie nominee </span><em>Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie</em></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• Outstanding Documentary or Non-Fiction Special nominee </span><em>Albert Brooks: Defending My Life</em></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• Outstanding Director: Drama nominee </span><em>Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty</em></div>
<div><em>• </em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Outstanding Actor and Supporting Actor: Drama nominee</span><em> Fellow Travelers</em></div>
<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• </span><em>Bob Hearts Abishola</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>How To With John Wilson</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Lawmen: Bass Reeves</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Survivor</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Idol</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Regime</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Righteous Gemstones</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Rookie</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Warrior</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>We're Here</em></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Emmy-nominated August additions to Showmax include </span><em>Fargo</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Tattooist of Auschwitz</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>The Sympathizer </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">- see below. </span></div>
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<div><strong><em>WEEK TWO: 5-11 August</em></strong></div>
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<div><strong>HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S2 </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from Monday, 5 August</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"The dragons dance and men are like dust under their feet," says Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) at the start of the trailer for Monday's epic S2 finale of </span><em>House of the Dragon</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. "We march now towards our annihilation." As the HBO trailer description on YouTube warns, "There will be no mercy." </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Recently named one of</span><em> IMDb</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s 10 Top-Rated Shows of 2024 So Far, </span><em>House of the Dragon</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> S2 has an 89% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes, </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">with its jaw-dropping fourth episode the highest rated yet on </span><em>IMDb</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, earning a 9.5/10 rating and widespread comparisons to the </span><em>Red Wedding </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">episode of </span><em>Game of Thrones</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </span></div>
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<div><em>Game of Thrones</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> became the most awarded show in the Emmys history, with six entries in </span><em>The Guinness Book of World Records</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, but </span><em>House of the Dragon</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is living up to that legacy. The Emmy-winning first season was named Best TV Series - Drama at the 2023 Golden Globes and the best-reviewed series of 2022 at </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">' Golden Tomato Awards. As </span><em>Seattle Times </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">says of S2, "</span><em>House of the Dragon</em><span style="color:#2a2c32; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> evolves into such smart, thrilling and heartbreaking storytelling that it threatens to become the rare prequel that outshines the original." </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#2a2c32; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">After the S2 premiere helped Max to its most-watched day yet, </span><em>House of the Dragon</em><span style="color:#2a2c32; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has already been renewed for a third season.</span></div>
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<div><strong><em>WEEK THREE: 12-18 August</em></strong></div>
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<div><strong>FARGO S5</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Binge from Tuesday, 13 August</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The previous four seasons of </span><em>Fargo</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> won six Emmys between them, while the movie that inspired it won two Oscars. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The latest instalment of the acclaimed crime anthology is now up for another 15 Emmys, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and Writing and Directing awards for creator Noah Hawley. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This season's story is set in 2019, when Midwestern housewife Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon finds herself in hot water with the authorities and plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Three-time Emmy nominee Juno Temple (</span><em>Ted Lasso</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) stars as Dot, with Emmy winner Jon Hamm (</span><em>Mad Men</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as the sheriff who has been searching for her for a long time. Both actors are up for Emmys for their lead roles, with Lamorne Morris (Winston in </span><em>New Girl</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) also nominated as Supporting Actor. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 5 has a 93% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, where the consensus says, "A back-to-basics caper populated by the likes of a mesmerising Juno Temple and a thick slice of Hamm, </span><em>Fargo</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s fifth season is a superb return to peak form."</span></div>
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<div><strong>THE SYMPATHIZER S1 </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Mondays from 12 August at 21:00</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, </span><em>The Sympathizer</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> follows a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and into his new life as a refugee in Los Angeles, where he learns that his spying days aren't over. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hoa Xuande (</span><em>Cowboy Bebop</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) leads a largely Vietnamese cast, with Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. earning an Emmy nomination for his multiple roles here. The supporting cast includes Golden Globe winners Sandra Oh (</span><em>Killing Eve</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Grey's Anatomy</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and David Duchovny (</span><em>The X Files</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Californication</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), as well as John Cho (from the </span><em>Harold & Kumar</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Star Trek</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> franchises).</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The HBO/A24 co-production is #10 on </span><em>Metacritic</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s round-up of the Best TV Shows (So Far) This Year and has an 88% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </span><em>Time Magazine</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> says it's, "ambitious, brilliant television," and </span><em>Rolling Stone</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls it "wickedly funny [and] deeply moving," saying, "</span><em>The Sympathizer</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> turns a bestseller adaptation into a TV tour de force." </span></div>
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<div><em>The Sympathizer </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">is co-created by Cannes winners Park Chan-wook (</span><em>Oldboy</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Don McKellar (</span><em>Last Night</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), with Chan-wook, Oscar nominee Fernando Meirelles (</span><em>City of God</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and triple BAFTA winner Marc Munden (</span><em>Utopia</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) each directing episodes.</span></div>
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<div><strong>APPLES NEVER FALL S1</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Binge from Monday, 12 August</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Based on the bestselling novel by </span><em>Big Little Lies </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">author Liane Moriarty, </span><em>Apples Never Fall </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">centres on Stan and Joy, who have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. Everything changes when a wounded young woman knocks on their door, bringing the excitement they've been missing. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As Joy, four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening won Best Actress at Series Mania this year, opposite Emmy winner Sam Neill (</span><em>Jurassic Park</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as Stan. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Also look out for Emmy nominee Jake Lacy (</span><em>The White Lotus</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Alison Brie (</span><em>GLOW</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as their adult children, who are forced to re-examine their parents' 'perfect' marriage as their family's darkest secrets begin to surface.</span></div>
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<div><strong>HOUSE OF GODS</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Tuesdays from 13 August</span></div>
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<div><em>House of Gods</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> follows the lives of an ambitious Iraqi Australian family grappling with newfound power and privilege when their charismatic patriarch is elected Head Cleric of their local mosque. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As Sheikh Mohammad, Palestinian actor Kamel El Basha won Best Actor at Series Mania in France earlier this year. Award-winning Australian actor, screen-writer and series co-creator Osamah Sami co-stars as Isa, alongside an all Arab-Australian support cast.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The drama series takes us behind the walls of the imam's family and the community he leads as he rolls out his vision of a modern Islam. But as his grand ambitions become a reality, those closest to him begin to question whether he is acting solely for the greater good or if he is intoxicated by power. A tale of faith, family, secrets and lies, the six-episode series explores the great personal cost of ambition.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"Australia's </span><em>House Of Gods</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> started out as </span><em>The Sopranos</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> in a mosque, channelled </span><em>Succession</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and ended up in a category all of its own," </span><em>Deadline</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> headlined. </span></div>
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<div><strong><em>WEEK FOUR: 19-25 August</em></strong></div>
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<div><strong>DR. DEATH S2 </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Binge from Monday, 19 August</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The first season of </span><em>Dr. Death</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> was nominated for Best Limited Series at the Critics Choice Awards and Best Horror Series at the Critics Choice Super Awards, among other accolades.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Now the true-crime anthology series is back, this time focusing on "Miracle Man" Paolo Macchiarini, a charming surgeon renowned for his innovative operations. When investigative journalist Benita Alexander approaches him for a story, the line between personal and professional begins to blur, changing her life forever. As she learns how far Paolo will go to protect his secrets, a group of doctors halfway across the world make shocking discoveries of their own that call everything about Paolo into question.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Emmy nominees Edgar Ramirez (</span><em>The Assassination of Gianni Versace</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Mandy Moore (</span><em>This is Us</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) co-star. </span></div>
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<div><em>Dr. Death S2</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has an 80% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. As </span><em>The Daily Beast </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">says, "</span><em>Dr. Death</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> works by playing on the primal fear of betrayal by those who hold our lives in their hands and choose to play not God but the devil. The fact that there are enough such cases to keep a podcast and television series going is disturbing."</span></div>
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<div><strong><em>WEEK FIVE: 26 August-1 September</em></strong></div>
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<div><strong>INDUSTRY S3</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | First On Showmax | Mondays from 26 August </span></div>
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<div><em>Industry S3</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is one of </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes'</em><span style="color:#333333; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Most Anticipated TV Shows of 2024, drawing </span><em>Succession</em><span style="color:#333333; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> comparisons from them as "HBO's other whip-smart and acid-tongued drama that's really a comedy."</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#333333; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">New cast members this season include Emmy nominees Kit Harington (Jon Snow in </span><em>Game of Thrones</em><span style="color:#333333; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Sarah Goldberg (Sally Reed in </span><em>Barry</em><span style="color:#333333; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as the CEO of a green tech energy company and a portfolio manager respectively. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">An insider's view of high finance,</span><em> Industry</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> follows</span><strong> </strong><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">a group of young bankers as they forge their identities within the pressure cooker environment and sex and drug fueled blitz of international bank Pierpoint & Co's London office. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In Season 3, Pierpoint looks to the future and takes a big bet on ethical investing. Yasmin (Marisa Abela), Robert (Harry Lawtey), and Eric (Ken Leung) find themselves front and center dealing with Lumi, a green tech energy company led by Sir Henry Muck (Harington). </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Since leaving Pierpoint, Harper (Myha'la) is eager to get back into the addictive thrill of finance and finds an unlikely partner in FutureDawn portfolio manager Petra Koenig (Goldberg). </span></div>
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<div><em>Industry</em><span style="color:#333333; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has an 86% overall critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes, </em><span style="color:#333333; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">with </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 2 hailed as "the most thrilling show on TV" and an "emergent masterpiece" by </span><em>The Atlantic</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">; "the first great Gen Z workplace drama" by </span><em>GQ</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">; "the missing link between </span><em>Euphoria</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Succession"</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> by </span><em>Vanity Fair</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">; "one of the best workplace series of the 21st century" by</span><em> The AV Club</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">; and for having "the most exciting performances on television" by </span><em>Vogue</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">.</span><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span></div>
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<div><strong>THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Mondays from 29 August</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Inspired by the real-life story of Jewish Holocaust survivors Lali and Gita Sokolov, </span><em>The Tattooist of Auschwitz</em><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is a </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">six-part historical drama based on the bestselling novel by Heather Morris.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Arriving in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, Lali (Jonah Hauer-King from </span><em>The Little Mermaid</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and</span><em> World on Fire</em><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) is made one of the tattooists charged to ink identification numbers onto fellow prisoners' arms. One day, he meets Gita (Anna Próchniak) while tattooing her prisoner number on her arm. Under the constant guard of volatile Nazi SS officers, Lali and Gita fall in love and become determined to keep each other alive. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">60 years later, the recently widowed Lali (</span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Oscar nominee </span><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Harvey Keitel from </span><em>The Piano </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and </span><em>The Grand Budapest Hotel</em><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), now in his 80s, meets novice writer Heather Morris (Emmy nominee Melanie Lynskey from </span><em>Yellowjackets</em><span style="color:#131313; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and finds the courage to share his story, facing the traumatic ghosts of his youth and reliving his memories of falling in love in the most horrific of places.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Among </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">' Most Anticipated TV Shows Of 2024, "</span><em>The Tattooist of Auschwitz</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> puts the dichotomy of the human spirit on full display," says </span><em>Variety</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, "showing the possibility of love and the unimaginable monstrosity that hatred can bring."</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Double Oscar winner Hans Zimmer and Kara Talve have been nominated for two Emmys for their score. </span></div>
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<div><strong>EVERYTHING ON SHOWMAX IN AUGUST:</strong></div>
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<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Showmax has another bumper lineup this August, including:</span></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• 2024 Oscar nominee </span><em>May December,</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore</span></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• </span><em>Talk To Me</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, named Best Horror Movie at the 2024 Critics Choice Super Awards</span></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• </span><em>Evil Dead Rise</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, the highest grossing film in the franchise</span></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• Acclaimed horror comedy </span><em>The Blackening</em></div>
<div><em>• </em><em>The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: RHONY Legacy</em></div>
<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• An Emmy-nominated new season of</span><em> Survivor</em></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• Live streams and daily highlights of </span><em>BBNaija S9</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, as well as its weekly talk show </span><em>The Buzz</em></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• Four new Showmax Original reality shows, including </span><em>The Mommy Club: Sugar & Spice</em></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• Two new Showmax Original movies: action movie </span><em>The Butcher's Soul</em><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and raunchcom </span><em>Eksie Perfeksie</em></div>
<div><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">• A new Premier League season, starting 16 August</span></div>