{"id":715297,"date":"2026-07-28T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715297\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:56:09","slug":"ted-lasso-to-the-shards-10-of-the-best-tv-shows-to-watch-this-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715297\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Lasso to The Shards: 10 of the best TV shows to watch this August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Megan Park, writer and director of the coming-of-age comedy My Old Ass, created this teenage melodrama fraught with family secrets. Seventeen-year-old Annie (Ella Rubin) and her twin brother, Connor (Keen Ruffalo), live in New York City with their father (Jay Duplass). Out of nowhere, the twins inherit a Canadian island called Sterling Point from the grandfather they barely knew, the father of their late mother. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bwwF3TuJQME\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trailer<\/a> gives away part of a key secret. We see Annie arriving at her grandfather&#8217;s cottage on the island, meeting a girl around her age named Ramona (Amelie Hoeferle) and frantically calling Connor to say, &#8220;I&#8217;m freaking out. There&#8217;s a girl here who looks just like Mom.&#8221; But there are more twists after that, along with romance for Annie. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/sterling-point-megan-park-cast-interview-exclusive-photos\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Teen Vogue<\/a>, previewing the show, praised the way it leans into young adult tropes, saying, &#8220;Dead-slash-absent parents, secret-sibling reveals, love triangles \u2013 this series has it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Park, writer and director of the coming-of-age comedy My Old Ass, created this teenage melodrama fraught with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}