Last updated on March 4th, 2026
Here’s a look at media of interest coming out in August 2025.
Movies
A full list is available here.
- The Bad Guys 2, Aug. 1
DVDs/Blu-rays
A full list is available here.
- How to Train Your Dragon (2025 remake) (DVD, Blu-ray, 4K), Aug. 12
- The Huckleberry Hound Show (Blu-ray), Aug. 26
- Lilo & Stitch (2025 remake) (DVD, Blu-ray, 4K), Aug. 26
Disney+
A full list is available here.
- Eyes of Wakanda, Aug. 1
Hulu
A full list is available here.
- FX’s Necaxa, Aug. 8
Netflix
A full list is available here.
- Barbie Mysteries: Beach Detectives, Aug. 28
Sports
- NFL preseason football, starting Aug. 7
My thoughts
Debuting on Hulu is “FX’s Necaxa,” a spin-off of “Welcome to Wrexham.” The series features Eva Longoria (along with Ryan Reynolds) helping to revive the fortunes of a Mexican soccer team.
“Barbie Mysteries: Beach Detectives” is an eight-episode second season (following “Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase” as “season one”) that sees both Barbies (“Malibu” and “Brooklyn”) solve a beach-related mystery. It looks like the supporting cast includes Daisy, a pink-haired friend who (in a previous spin-off, “A Touch of Magic”) is seen in one episode dating another girl. (Daisy is also sold as a doll by Mattel.)
“Eyes of Wakanda” is an animated miniseries about the history of Wakanda’s warriors, as they perform various missions around the world. The miniseries is produced by Ryan Coogler (the director of the “Black Panther” films). For some reason, the debut date has been moved up to August 1, instead of later in the month.
Netflix and AI (*sigh*)
Netflix has admitted (and boasted) it’s used generative AI for a scene in one of its TV shows. Apparently it was used to show a building collapsing in the series “The Eternaut,” an adaptation of an Argentinian comic book.
This and a few other reasons have made me reluctant about re-subscribing. Netflix plans to start using generative AI ads next year; meanwhile the ad-free tier (with my local sales tax) is a few cents shy of $20 a month. That feels steep for a single service with no major extra perks (like Amazon Prime’s free shipping, the Disney Bundle, Paramount+ and Peacock offering local CBS/NBC respectively, etc.).
As such, I’ve made more use of a mix of other services in place of Netflix: mainly Hulu (via a Black Friday sale), Peacock (which I get free as a Comcast broadband customer), and my Jellyfin server.
Coming to Tubi: Looney Tunes?
In a surprise bit of news, Tubi has announced it’s getting two major classic cartoons: “The Yogi Bear Show” and… Looney Tunes!
Yes, it appears that the classic animated shorts, which HBO Max has repeatedly purged from their streaming service, are coming to Tubi. And unlike HBO Max (which isn’t cheap), Tubi is free (albeit ad-supported), so the shorts will be widely available.
There’s no sign of which shorts will be coming to Tubi. While Tubi’s named them “Looney Tunes (1930),” that’s because that’s the year in which Looney Tunes debuted, and as a way to distinguish the series from later spin-offs (such as “The Looney Tunes Show”).
Huckleberry Hound comes to Blu-ray
Warner Archive is releasing to video for the first time the entire run of “The Huckleberry Hound Show.” The Hanna-Barbera series ran in syndication from 1958 to 1961, and was the first made-for-TV half-hour cartoon series. Along with Huck, the other segments included:
- Pixie and Dixie (two mice) and Mr. Jinks, a “beatnik” voiced cat who called the mice “meeces” (his catchphrase: “I hate meeces to pieces!”).
- Yogi Bear, who soon eclipsed Huck in popularity and got his own show, as well as became one of the main faces of Hanna-Barbera. Yogi’s spot on the show was replaced by new character Hokey Wolf, a fast-talking con artist (similar to fellow Hanna-Barbera character Top Cat).
The Blu-ray collection is made up of all 68 episodes, across 11 Blu-ray discs. As such, it’s not a cheap set; the full price according to Gruv is $70. Unlike the DVD release (which only has the first season), the Blu-ray edition includes all of the episodes as they aired, complete with the original bumpers and opening/closing credits. The original intro featured the Kellogg’s Corn Flakes rooster, since Kellogg’s was the original sponsor; the MeTV airings cut the sponsor mentions. (Oddly, MeTV/Warner Bros. don’t use the syndicated sponsor-less version made for post-Kellogg’s reruns.) The original intro (from a black-and-white print):
One lyric points to the series’ 1958 origins: “tune up your TV set.” The series aired in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and early TV sets were more finicky than modern ones. One Huck cartoon features him as a TV repairman.
As for Huck himself, like Porky Pig for the Looney Tunes, he’s an example of a character without whom a major franchise might not exist, but was eclipsed in popularity by his own costar (Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny in Porky’s case). To this day, most of Huck’s appearances have been as Yogi’s supporting character in various spin-offs. (Even the recent Hanna-Barbera all-star revival series on HBO Max/Cartoon Network is called “Jellystone!.”) Still, with this Blu-ray release, it’s nice to see the off-key singer of “Oh My Darling Clementine” get attention.
Image: “Eyes of Wakanda.” (Disney)
