Here’s what you can’t miss this month:
- The Great Gatsby will be coming to On Demand on August 27
- See what everyone’s talking about during Shark Week starting August 5 on Discovery Channel
- Check out the new Back to School collection (available August 16 – August 31, 2013). You can get back-to-school-themed activities and specials such as Dress Up Your Pencils!, Pokey Puppy Bookmark, Code Lyoko: Back to School and much more from Activity TV and Kabillion. Find it under Kids > Kids Picks
Here are July’s top new release movies available On Demand – all available in HD:
| Title | Date | Box Office (millions) |
| Mud | August 6, 2013 | $19.6 |
| The Place Beyond the Pines | August 6, 2013 | $21.3 |
| Oblivion | August 6 , 2013 | $88.9 |
| The Big Wedding | August 13, 2013 | $21.5 |
| Olympus Has Fallen | August 13, 2013 | $98.5 |
| Amour | August 20, 2013 | $6.7 |
| Scary Movie 5 | August 20, 2013 | $31.6 |
| Epic | August 20, 2013 | $101.1 |
| Peeples | August 27, 2013 | $9.1 |
| Pain & Gain | August 27, 2013 | $49.3 |
| The Great Gatsby | August 27, 2013 | $141.8 |
Other new movie collections include:
(… and many more – all available under Movies > Movie Collections)
- Black Cinema (Summer Flicks theme begins August 1, 2013): including Hustle & Flow, Friday, Do the Right Thing.
- Hispanic Cinema (Sports theme begins August 15, 2013): including Mal Día Para Pescar and Hermano.
- Shark Movies (begins August 1, 2013): including Double Feature: Jaws + Beneath, Open Water and more.
- Killer Comedies (begins August 6, 2013): including Identity Thief, Knocked Up and more comedies.
- Top Summer Movies (begins August 6, 2013): including Olympus Has Fallen, Oblivion, 42 and The Call.
- Live Action Cartoons (begins August 13, 2013): including Smurfs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and more.
- Sports Legends (begins August 13, 2013): including The Express, The Babe, Cinderella Man and more.
- School Pranks (begins August 20, 2013): including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Angus and Kindergarten Cop.
And don’t miss the top new shows starting this month – you can catch them all on Xfinity On Demand!
A&E: Modern Dads (August 9), Duck Dynasty (August 15)
AMC: Hell On Wheels (August 11), Breaking Bad (August 12), Low Winter Sun (August 12), Owners Manual(August 16), The Pitch (August 16)
Animal Planet: Too Cute (August 4)
Bravo: Real Housewives of Miami pre-linear (August 6), Top Chef: Padma’s Picks (August 12)
Cooking Channel: Not My Mama’s Meals (August 22)
Discovery Channel: Shark Week (August 5)
Disney Channel: Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel cross-over event (August 17), Liv and Maddie (August 30)
Disney Junior: Jake and the Neverland Pirates: Jake and the Beanstalk/Little Red Riding Hook pre-linear (August 2), Jake and the Neverland Pirates: Follow the Bouncing Bumble!/Sandy and the Clams pre-linear (August 9), Sofia the First: Make Way For Miss Nettle pre-linear (August 16), Doc McStuffins pre-linear (August 30)
Disney XD: Marvel’s HULK and The Agents of S.M.A.S.H. pre-linear (August 1)
Food Network: The Shed (August 6), The Great Food Truck Race (August 19), Cutthroat Kitchen (August 19)
HGTV: House Hunters Renovation (August 26)
History Channel: We Are the Fugawis (August 7), The Legend of Shelby The Swamp Man (August 7)
Investigation Discovery: Surviving Evil (August 12)
Military Channel: Air Aces* (August 5)
Mun2: Larrymania pre-linear (August 12), Larrymania concert special (August 19)
National Geographic Channel: Doomsday Castle (August 14)
Nat Geo Wild: The Incredible Dr. Pol (August 18)
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club (August 7), My Big Fat Revenge (August 14)
Style: Hot Listings Miami (August 7)
Syfy: Heros of Cosplay (August 14), Face Off (August 14), Ghost Mine catch-up (August 21)
Telemundo: Premios Tu Mundo Blue Carpet (August 17), Premios Tu Mundo (August 17)
TLC: What Not To Wear (August 10), Little Couple (August 14)
Travel Channel: Best Daym Takeout (August 1), Adam Richman’s Fandemonium (August 5), Ghost Adventures (August 17), Hotel Impossible (August 13)
VH1: Marrying The Game (August 6), Basketball Wives* (August 20)
WE tv: Obsessed With The Dress (August 3)
*available on set-top-box only (not online)
**available online only (not set-top-box)
***available next day on set-top-box but eight day delay online