{"id":256459,"date":"2026-08-07T19:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/3-best-new-shows-to-watch-this-weekend-august-7-9-ted-lasso-season-4-and-more\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:30:41","slug":"3-best-new-shows-to-watch-this-weekend-august-7-9-ted-lasso-season-4-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/3-best-new-shows-to-watch-this-weekend-august-7-9-ted-lasso-season-4-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Best New Shows to Watch This Weekend (August 7\u20139): \u2018Ted Lasso\u2019 Season 4 and More"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The weekend is finally here, and Apple TV<\/a> wants you to \u201cBELIEVE\u201d again.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, everyone\u2019s favorite super-positive football coach is back in Ted Lasso<\/em> season 4, which sees Jason Sudeikis<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 Walt Whitman-quoting character back in London and coaching a new team of oddball female football players.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just one of the trio of great new shows Watch With Us<\/a> is recommending you stream this weekend.<\/p>\n

Prime Video<\/a> just dropped all eight episodes of its newest series, Sterling Point<\/a><\/em>, and the YA drama, starring Ella Rubin<\/strong>, Keen Ruffalo<\/strong> and Jeffrey Dean Morgan<\/strong><\/a>, is so addictive, you might as well cancel all other plans if you start it.<\/p>\n

Star Wars<\/em> has been down in the dumps lately, but the new Disney+<\/a> show Star Wars: Visions Presents \u2014 The Ninth Jedi<\/em> is good enough to remind you why the franchise has been beloved by millions of fans since 1977.\n<\/p>\n

\u2018Ted Lasso\u2019 Season 4 (Apple TV)<\/h2>\n
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\n Tanya Reynolds and Jason Sudeikis in Ted Lasso season 4.<\/span> Apple TV<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s good news and bad news about Ted Lasso<\/em> season 4<\/a>, and they are both the same: the show is more or less how it was in season 1. That should be just good news, right? Season 1 was a worldwide sensation, albeit at a time when the wide world was stuck inside thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, and won a boatload of Emmys. But that was six years ago, and much like clothes, music and pretty much anything else, what was once interesting can quickly turn stale.<\/p>\n

Still, there\u2019s plenty to recommend about the current season of Apple TV\u2019s biggest comedy series. First seen living the quiet life in Kansas, Ted (Jason Sudekis<\/strong>) is quickly persuaded by old pals Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham<\/strong><\/a>) and Keeley Jones (Juno Temple<\/strong><\/a>) to return to London to help coach the neophyte Lady Greyhounds football team. This time, he takes his family with him, and he\u2019ll need their support as he has to deal with a ragtag group of female athletes who don\u2019t want him as their coach.<\/p>\n

Sound familiar? Ted Lasso<\/em> season 4 is essentially season 1 all over again, except there\u2019s now not-so-subtle commentary about gender inequality in women\u2019s sports and no Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster<\/strong>) to ogle at. With all that said, you have to be a proper Grinch to hate such a good-natured, well-meaning and, yes, funny series with a top-notch supporting cast.<\/p>\n

\u2018Sterling Point\u2019 Season 1 (Prime Video)<\/h2>\n
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Does the world need another Amazon Prime Video YA show about a teenage outsider caught in a love triangle between two boys? The answer is almost always yes, especially if they are as good as Sterling Point<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After 17-year-old NYC high school senior Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin<\/strong><\/a>) discovers that her late grandfather left her a Canadian island in his will, she\u2019s curious enough to spend the summer there to get to know a relative she never really knew \u2014 and, of course, fall in love.<\/p>\n

Ellis (Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie<\/strong>) and Rory (Daniel Quinn-Toye<\/strong>) are the objects of her affections, but Annie also finds time to befriend a mysterious local girl, Ramona (Am\u00e9lie Hoeferle<\/strong>), who looks exactly like her dead mother. Is Ramona somehow connected to Annie\u2019s family? Will someone\u2019s heart be broken by summer\u2019s end?<\/p>\n

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\n Keen Ruffalo, Daniel Quinn-Toye in Sterling Point<\/span> Sabrina Lantos \/ \u00a9Amazon\/MGM Studios \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you\u2019ve seen Prime Video\u2019s other hit teen shows, like Every Year After<\/em><\/a> and The Summer I Turned Pretty<\/em>, you probably know the answer. Sterling Point<\/em> is a little more mature and serious, with more in common with the \u201990s classic My So-Called Life<\/em> and the 2000s pop-culture breakout Gilmore Girls<\/em> than those hit shows. All eight episodes of Sterling Point<\/em> season 1 are now streaming, so set aside a chunk of your weekend to binge-watch one of the most addictive shows of the summer.<\/p>\n

\u2018Star Wars: Visions Presents \u2014 The Ninth Jedi\u2019 (Disney+ and Hulu)<\/h2>\n