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The newest Showtime series, “Waco: The Aftermath,” premiered its second episode this week, and things are heating up already. The show follows two separate storylines, with Giovani Ribisi’s character Dan Cogdell representing the survivors from the Waco Siege of 1993 while the public prosecution plans to damn them as mindless killers. On the other hand, Michael Shannon reprises his role as FBI negotiator Gary Noesner, who begins investigating a potential terrorist threat that will emerge soon. Here’s what happens on the second day of the trial, and we also look at what Noesner discovers.

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The Trial Continues

The episode begins with one of the police officers who were on the scene of the action on the very first day that Mt. Carmel was surrounded by forces sitting in the witness box to give a vivid description of what happened when they approached the compound. Agent Ballesteros, the witness,...

Amazon has released its list of every new title coming to its Prime Video streaming service in August. New additions include “Free Meek,” which covers rapper Meek Mill’s 2017 arrest for probation violations, which sparked outrage. The Amazon Prime original series will be released on Aug. 9 and will re-investigate his original case and explore allegations of police corruption.

A trio of new comedy specials are coming in August as well. “Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time,” his seventh comedy special, arrives Aug. 16. Here, the four-time Grammy-nominated comedian talks about how he doesn’t understand why we aren’t more honest about the reasons we don’t want to attend events.

“Alice Wetterlund: My Mama is a Human and So Am I,” is out on Aug. 23, features comedian and actor Alice Wetterlund as she reveals her personal struggles with peeping toms, cat-rearing, alcoholism and the secret alien conspiracy behind new country music in her breakout comedy special.

Summer keeps chugging along into August and so does the spate of new releases on Amazon Prime to keep you busy on leisurely sunny days. The streaming platform will debut its monster-filled fantasy “Carnival Row” as well as make available the monster classic sequel “Hellboy II: The Golden Army.” Amazon has a bit of everything for the upcoming month: Jim Gaffigan will provide the laughs with his first Amazon stand-up special “Quality Time,” Tom Cruise will provide the thrills with “Mission Impossible: Fallout,” and Michael Cera and Kat Dennings will provide the heart with “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.”

See the full list of titles below:

Aug. 2

This is Football (Season 1)

Aug. 7

All I See Is You

Aug. 9

Free Meek (Season 1)

Pete the Cat

Aug. 12

Andy Irons: Kissed by God

Aug. 16

Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time

Photograph

Aug. 21

A Simple Favor

Aug. 23

Alice Wetterlund: My Mama is a...

For all the scholarship that exists on pop history, plenty of mysteries remain: Who killed Jam Master Jay; what precisely happened on the night of Sam Cooke’s death; and what exactly was the relationship between Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon? Netflix’s new ReMastered docuseries seeks to investigate these and other tales in the months ahead, starting with its first entry, Who Shot the Sheriff?, an examination of the events leading up to — and following — the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976. Here, a few things we gleaned from the hour-long doc,...

The Errol Morris documentary series Wormwood has made Emmy history even before the nominations are announced.

The Netflix hit is being submitted for Emmy consideration in a variety of nonfiction categories, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. And yet because of extensive dramatizations in Wormwood, the cast of actors Morris deployed—including Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Tim Blake Nelson and Bob Balaban—will also appear on nomination ballots in dramatic acting categories.

A documentary has never before yielded nominations for acting at the Emmys, Television Academy awards researchers believe. This is more evidence, if any were needed, that Morris is the leading disruptor of the documentary form, willing to blur what to some are sacred lines between what constitutes nonfiction and what does not.

“Part of what I’m doing is I’m trying to extend how we think about truth telling, storytelling, the world around us, misrepresentation, lying, and on and on and on,...

Looking back, William Colby was indeed a curious man. A behind enemy lines Army sky diver during World War II, and a globe trotting CIA agent in its wake, he devoted his life to his country, and still reared five children with the blind devotion of his loving first wife, Barbara Heinzen, in the process. As a devout Catholic, his strict value system stemmed from the church, deeply anchoring his family in the good book, and highly influencing his political beliefs. And though he briefly took the very public office of director of the CIA under Nixon and Ford, Colby was a man of mechanics, internalizing any and all emotion. His son, and first time feature film director, Carl Colby states that he believes his father never loved anyone, and you see William robotically speak, gazing remotely with a frigid look plastered on his face, there is no denying this distinct possibility.