{"id":592154,"date":"2026-08-13T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592154\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:02:11","slug":"our-top-5-watches-this-weekend-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592154\/","title":{"rendered":"Our top 5 watches this weekend \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE WEEKEND IS kicking off \u2013 but what should you watch?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve taken a look through what\u2019s on offer and picked out series and movies to check out over the next three days on streaming and the telly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hamnet<\/p>\n

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\n Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in Hamnet\n<\/p>\n

The beautiful Chlo\u00e9 Zhao adaptation of Maggie O\u2019Farrell\u2019s novel Hamnet (with an Oscar-nominated script written by Zhao and O\u2019Farrell) deservedly won its lead actor Jessie Buckley an Oscar. Now comes the chance to watch the powerful story of love and loss on the small screen. It\u2019s all about the terrible tragedy that inspired Shakespeare\u2019s masterpiece, Hamlet. Alongside Jessie Buckley are Paul Mescal and Emily Watson.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bAvailable from Friday (14 August) on Sky Cinema Premiere and NOW.<\/p>\n

Reacher<\/p>\n

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\n Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher Courtesy of Prime<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Prime\n<\/p>\n

Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is back for season four of Reacher, which is based on the 13th book in Lee Child\u2019s global best-selling series, Gone Tomorrow. If you\u2019re a big fan of action, muscles and muscly action, then this is for you. In this latest season, a chance encounter with a stranger on a subway goes horribly wrong, and Reacher is (uh oh!) drawn into a deadly game where he\u2019s pitted against ruthless and powerful people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Streaming on Prime Video.<\/p>\n

Sterling Point\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin) and Oona (Bo Bragason) in Sterling Point Sabrina Lantos \/ Prime Video<\/p>\n

Sabrina Lantos \/ Prime Video \/ Prime Video\n<\/p>\n

It truly is the summer of YA (young adult) series, isn\u2019t it? If you\u2019ve already watched The Summer I Turned Pretty, Off Campus, and Heartstopper Forever, then give this a try. Sterling Point comes from Megan Park, who directed the great but underseen My Old Ass a few years ago. This series centres around 17-year-old Annie Jacobsen (Ella Rubin), who is rejected from a prestigious summer programme and heads to her grandfather\u2019s cabin (which she handily inherits at the same time) in Canada to try and find herself. What she finds is a big family mystery\u2026\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Streaming on Prime Video.<\/p>\n

Frank Skinner: 30 Years of Dirt<\/p>\n

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\n Frank Skinner Ellis OBrien<\/p>\n

Ellis OBrien\n<\/p>\n

At the end of a sell-out UK tour, comedy legend Frank Skinner brings his critically acclaimed show 30 Years of Dirt to the small screen. This live stand-up special was filmed in front of a live audience at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. During the set, Skinner explores his career success, whether it\u2019s possible for him to perform \u2018clean\u2019 comedy, and his thoughts on growing older.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Airing \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bFriday (14 August) at 9pm on Sky One and streaming on NOW.<\/p>\n

Miss You, Love You<\/p>\n

HBO Max<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n

This HBO original film has a fab cast: Allison Janney stars as grieving widow Diane Patterson, who isn\u2019t happy about having to plan her husband\u2019s funeral with a total stranger, her estranged son\u2019s assistant, Jamie Simms (Andrew Rannells). But as you\u2019d imagine, the pair find connection along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Streaming Friday (14 August) on HBO Max.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE WEEKEND IS kicking off \u2013 but what should you watch? We\u2019ve taken a look through what\u2019s on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[163478,93,61,60,163479],"class_list":["post-592154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-best-of-the-box","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-top-5-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}