Paramount+ Canada – What’s new – August 2022

Exclusives, originals, and releases on Paramount+ in Canada are added less frequently and inconsistently than the American counterpart. While some series that arrive in the United States debut day and date in Canada, some do not.

Check out what’s been added to Paramount+ Canada in August 2022 and a list of new content that might be coming.

August 2nd

Everything I Know About Love (Season 1)

The central love story of Everything I Know About Love is between childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy. But it is also a raucous girl gang show, set in a 2012 London house-share inhabited by four girls – Maggie, Birdy and their mates from university, Amara and Nell. The series is an unflinching deep dive into bad dates, heartaches and humiliations and begs the question: can platonic love survive romantic love as we grow up? [ TRAILER ]

As They Made Us (2022)

As They Made Us follows Abigail (Agron), a divorced mother of two, who is struggling to balance the dynamic forces within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love. [ TRAILER ]

Nanny’s Killer Scandal (2020)

Jamie is ready to take on the world, but she can’t find anyone who will hire her without experience. Temporarily she accepts a job as a nanny. Things start off great, but when her boss tries to kiss her and she rejects him, his intentions change.

Unhuman (2022)

The dead will have this club for breakfast. Blumhouse and Epix bring you the story of a high school field trip gone bloody awry. Students’ trust in each other is tested to the limit when the only way out is a brutal, horrifying fight to survive. [ TRAILER ]

Skin: A History of Nudity in Movies (2020)

A definitive documentary on the history of nudity in the movies, beginning with the silent movie era through present day, examining the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films.

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Nicolas Cage garnered a Best Actor Academy Award® for his hauntingly disturbing portrayal of a suicidal alcoholic who falls for a compassionate Las Vegas prostitute (Elisabeth Shue) in one of 1995’s most critically acclaimed films.

Kill Your Friends (2016)

In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.

Hot Pursuit (2016)

In this riotous spin on the mismatched buddy movie, an uptight and by-the-book cop (Reese Witherspoon) tries to protect the gregarious widow (Sofía Vergara) of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen!

Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman (Season 1-6)

A female doctor in the 1880s fights for acceptance in Colorado.

August 4th

Mike Judge’s Beavis & Butthead (Season 1)

The iconic animated duo of Beavis and Butt-Head are back and dumber than ever! The ’90s pop-culture phenomenons return, voiced by creator Mike Judge, to confound common sense, torment each other, and showcase some of the dumbest comedy imaginable. Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head is streaming August 4th, exclusively on Paramount+! [ TRAILER ]

August 9th

After The Trial (Season 1)

A thrilling murder mystery with a comedic touch about four people who meet on jury duty. When the case is over, they wonder if the woman they declared not guilty is actually a killer. Taking matters into their own hands, they investigate themselves.

Prisoner of Love (2022)

An underage girl begins dating an older man who treats her to shopping sprees and fancy restaurants, creating a rift with her mother, whose instincts prove right when the man becomes manipulative, turning the girl into a prisoner in his mansion.

Rhapsody of Love (2021)

Romance, work and life all collide when an events planner and wedding photographer meet and ignite sparks in this uplifting romantic comedy.

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016)

A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States’ 2008 mortgage crisis.

The Hustle (2019)

Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway have winning chemistry as a pair of con artists plying their trade in a stunning seaside town in the south of France as they compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy (Alex Sharp) out of his considerable fortune.

India Sweets and Spices (2021)

When college freshman Alia returns home for the summer, she discovers secrets and lies in her parents’ past that make her question everything she thought she knew about her family.

The Oath (2018)

A controversial White House policy turns family member against family member when Chris, a high-strung progressive news junkie, and his more levelheaded wife Kai learn that citizens are being asked to sign a loyalty oath.

Reign (Season 1-4)

Hidden between the lines of the history books is the story of Mary Stuart, the young woman the world would come to know as Mary, Queen of Scots.

August 10th

Aline (2022)

The life story of Canadian singing sensation Aline Dieu, based on the life of Celine Dion.

August 12th

Secret Headquarters (2022)

Young Charlie Kincaid, who discovers a secret headquarters under his home that seems to belong to a superhero. He shares it with his friends, and they start to believe that his estranged father might have a secret double life. [ TRAILER ]

August 16th

Drama Drama (2021)

The most unlikely pairing of teen-age girls end up bonding to form the pop group Drama Drama, and make a stand against bullying in their high school.

East of the Mountains (2021)

Ben Givens (Tom Skerritt), a retired heart surgeon and recent widower who learns he has terminal cancer is determined to navigate his final days on his own terms.

Grace and Grit (2021)

Treya and Ken Wilber’s story of courage, transcendence, and eternal love as chronicled in the globally acclaimed book, Grace and Grit.

Beauty Shop (2005)

When the egotistic boss at a posh salon pushes her a hair too far, his star stylist, Gina, opens a beauty shop of her very own. Inheriting an opinionated group of stylists, Gina proves that you can not keep a good woman down!

Rosewater (2014)

The true story of the imprisonment and torture of Iranian Canadian journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari (Gael García Bernal), who was imprisoned for five months in Iran following an appearance on director Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show.

The Secrets She Keeps (2021)

An underage girl starts using a dating app, in order to get a date, despite her mom’s disapproval. Soon, they are being stalked and harassed.they’re not sure who it could be, but when her mom digs a little deeper, she discovers a horrifying truth.

Tell it to the Bees (2019)

In 1950s small town Britain, a doctor develops a relationship with her young patient’s mother.

White Lie (2020)

A popular undergrad faking cancer struggles to maintain her secret.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Season 1-4)

A successful young woman impulsively gives up everything in pursuit of love and happiness.

August 18th

When You Least Expect It (Season 1)

Created by Cristóbal Garrido and Adolfo Valor (“Honeymoon with My Mother”), WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT explores the healing journey of five strangers, each dealing with the loss of a loved one, whose lives intersect in a group therapy session. The feel-good drama recounts the moments that derive from death while optimistically portraying how, despite the wounds, it is possible to laugh, love, and, most importantly, live again. [ TRAILER ]

August 19th

Orphan: First Kill (2022)

[ THIS WAS NOT RELEASED IN CANADA ]

Leena, a murderous sociopath who looks like a child due to a medical condition, escapes from an Estonian psychiatric facility. Leena impersonates the missing daughter of a wealthy family, but becomes pitted against a determined mother. [ TRAILER ]

Big Nate (Season 2)

Nate Wright is a charming, mischievous sixth-grader who’s out to prove that awesomeness cannot be beaten! [ TRAILER ]

August 23rd

Essex Boys: The Truth (2016)

20 years after the shootings, a former Essex Boy sets the record straight.

Secret Lives of College Students (2022)

When a college student is convinced by her friend to sneak out for a party, her friend winds up dead and she loses her scholarship. She is offered a job to pay for tuition, but she discovers it’s a front to cover what caused her friend’s death.

The Singles Guidebook (2022)

A talented content creator is given the chance to land a full-time position at a prestigious online site. She’s ready to do what it takes to land the job, but she gets with her polar-opposite to complete the assignment. [ TRAILER ]

The Rest of Us (2020)

Two mother-daughter duos must contend with their grief and complicated relationships with one another when the person who connects them dies.

Heartbreakers (2001)

When it comes to conning millionaires, Page Connors (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and her mother Max (Sigourney Weaver) are real pros. But, when Page falls in love, can Max keep her focused on the ultimate sting: a wheezing tobacco tycoon (Gene Hackman)?

Ordinary Love (2020)

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife’s breast cancer diagnosis.

The Sunlight Night (2020)

Set between New York City and the far north of Norway, The Sunlit Night follows American painter Frances and émigré Yasha as an unlikely pair who find each other in the Arctic circle.

August 25th

Star Trek: Lower Decks (Season 3 – weekly) [Crave in Canada]

With Captain Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) on trial following the Season 2 finale, Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Tendi (Noël Wells), Boimler (Jack Quaid), and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) are in for a host of new adventures–including a trip to Deep Space 9. [ TRAILER ]

August 29th

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022)

In this fun-filled family adventure, a hard-on-his-luck hound Hank (Michael Cera) finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain’s (Ricky Gervais) evil plot to wipe their village off the map.

August 30th

Timecrafters: The Treasure of Pirates Cove (2021)

While searching for lost treasure, time traveling pirates end up in the modern day and do battle with unlikely foes: a group of kids with the latest in techy gadgetry.

Call of the Wild (2009)

While visiting her grandfather in Montana, a girl nurses an injured wild dog back to health and trains him for an upcoming sled-dog race.

First We Eat (2022)

Living just south of the Arctic Circle, filmmaker Suzanne Crocker and her skeptical family attempt to ban all grocery store food for one year.

Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

In Red Hook, Brooklyn, a father and daughter become an unlikely songwriting duo in the last summer before she leaves for college.

Killing Escobar (2022)

The untold story of the attempted assassination of Pablo Escobar, while at the height of his powers, by a small team of elite mercenaries.

Love on Retreat (2022)

A content creator for a beauty brand must find a way to deal with the backlash from their fanbase and spin the news into a positive thing via their social media. Her drive to achieve clashes with the chill vibe of activities director NATE MARTIN.

Thelma & Louise (1991)

In one of the greatest road movies of all time, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon ride to fame as two women who embark on an unintentional crime spree across the American southwest. Harvey Keitel, Christopher McDonald and Brad Pitt also star.