What to Watch on Apple TV Right Now: Top TV Shows to Watch This Week – August 06, 2022

First, look at what’s coming to Apple TV this week. As a reminder, you can read about what’s new on Apple TV every week with our weekly roundups. The latest TV Shows scheduled to hit Apple TV this Week are below.

Outlander

Creators: John Dahl
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Cast: Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Lotte Verbeek, Gary Lewis, Graham McTavish, Laura Donnelly

Synopsis: Follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world in which her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate relationship is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Creators: Dan Fogelman
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullivan

Synopsis: Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday – and so much more than anyone would expect.

Chicago Fire

Creators: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas
Genres: Action, Drama
Cast: Jesse Spencer, Taylor Kinney, Monica Raymund, Eamonn Walker, Kara Killmer, David Eigenberg, Charlie Barnett

Synopsis: The story of firefighters and paramedics in the city of Chicago, both on a personal and professional level.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Creators: Dan Goor, Michael Schur
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Cast: Andy Samberg, Andre Braugher, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Chelsea Peretti, Stephanie Beatriz, Joe Lo Truglio

Synopsis: A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.

Motherland

Creators: Sharon Horgan, Graham Linehan, Helen Serafinowicz
Genres: Comedy
Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready, Lucy Punch, Philippa Dunne, Oliver Chris, Terry Mynott

Synopsis: Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting.

Young Sheldon

Creators: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro
Genres: Comedy
Cast: Iain Armitage, Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Raegan Revord, Jim Parsons, Montana Jordan, Annie Potts

Synopsis: The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.

S.W.A.T.

Creators: Shawn Ryan, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Cast: Shemar Moore, Alex Russell, Jay Harrington, Lina Esco, Kenny Johnson, David Lim, Patrick St. Esprit

Synopsis: Follows a locally born and bred S.W.A.T. lieutenant who is torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he’s tasked to run a highly-trained unit that’s the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Creators: Dick Wolf
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Dann Florek, Richard Belzer, Kelli Giddish, Peter Scanavino, Philip Winchester

Synopsis: In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Creators: Clyde Phillips
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Cast: Michael C. Hall, Jack Alcott, Julia Jones, Johnny Sequoyah, Alano Miller, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Carpenter

Synopsis: Set 10 years after Dexter Morgan went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, he is now living under an assumed name in Upstate New York, Iron Lake, far from his original home in Miami.

The Split

Creators: Abi Morgan
Genres: Drama
Cast: Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Stephen Mangan, Deborah Findlay, Fiona Button, Barry Atsma, Donna Air

Synopsis: The Defoes, a family of female divorce lawyers, are forced to face their past following the return of their estranged father after a 30-year absence.