August 2013: Your Guide To The Big Dates

Skulduggery Pleasant, The Newsroom, Rayman and more great franchises return next month- our guide to all of the major release dates you need to earmark!
While July was something of a quieter month for entertainment, as ever August is now set to kick-start a calamtous chain of events whereby it may well become challenging to stay atop of the onslaught of incoming releases. Nevertheless, we here at On-Screen would much prefer that eventuality to the alternative, and as always we can at least endeavour to provide you with a cohesive guide to all of the biggest releases coming in the five weeks ahead.

Grab hold of something, then, as a tornado of new releases are dated right here and now before your eyes. Here's a full guide to the plethora of entertainment titles August 2013 has to offer...
FRIDAY 2ND- MOVIES: Red 2; The Smurfs 2; TV: Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall BBC One Repeat
WEDNESDAY 7TH- EVENTS: Thor: The Dark World Trailer 2; MOVIES: Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
FRIDAY 9TH- EVENTS: Disney D23 Expo; MOVIES: Grown Ups 2; The Lone Ranger; Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
WEDNESDAY 14TH- MOVIES: Kick-Ass 2
FRIDAY 16TH- MOVIES: Planes
TUESDAY 20TH- EVENTS: Microsoft Gamescom Conference; TV: The Newsroom Season Two Episode One On Sky Demand
WEDNESDAY 21ST- EVENTS: Sony Gamescom Showcase
THURSDAY 22ND- TV: Trollied Season Three Episode One; GAMES (yes, GAMES!): Disney Infinity
FRIDAY 23RD- MOVIES: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones; GAMES: Splinter Cell: Blacklist; Saint's Row 4; The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
THURSDAY 29TH- BOOKS: Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men; TV: Trollied Episode Twp
FRIDAY 30TH- GAMES: Rayman Legends; Lost Planet 3