It’s back-to-school time, and you recognize what meaning: It’s again to your TV screens as effectively to decompress after a protracted day of guide learnin’. And fortunate you, there’s a ton of nice TV (and flicks) coming to streaming this month for September 2026, so let’s break down among the highlights.
Fan of Prime Video’s Reacher? Whereas the fourth season of the collection is ending this month (and there’s a fifth within the works), you’ve additionally obtained a model new spin-off dropping all in the identical day to take pleasure in. How about house stuff? Unusual New Worlds is ending with an intriguing sounding finale that units up the ultimate season of that collection. And if you happen to favor comedies or true crime? We’ve obtained that too.
Okay, sufficient set-up — let’s get into the listing. Listed below are our 10 most anticipated exhibits and flicks streaming in September. And don’t overlook, youngsters: Examine exhausting and keep in class… or watch TV, do no matter you need.
(Be aware: This listing is introduced in launch date order.)
Mayday (September 4)
Ryan Reynolds just about doesn’t miss and Kenneth Branagh is a dependable star as effectively. However the greatest promoting level for this throwback motion journey on Apple TV? Writers and administrators Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. Whereas they wrote Spider-Man: Homecoming, the actual promote right here is that they’re the group behind the excellent Sport Night time, the transcendently hilarious Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves, and the extremely underrated but additionally hilarious Trip remake.
With Mayday, the duo tackle the type of Chilly Warfare comedies that pervaded the ’80s — assume Spies Like Us — as Reynolds performs an American pilot crash-landed in Soviet Russia, compelled to group up with an ex-KGB/America aficionado performed by Branagh who desires to defect to the great ol’ US of A. It’s an across-the-plate premise that in lesser fingers is likely to be the umpteenth disposable motion film on a streaming service this month, however within the fingers of Goldstein and Daley, you know that is gonna get weirder and wilder than anticipated. (Learn our Mayday review.)
The Paper Season 2 (September 9)
Lots of all-timer comedies took the primary season to determine themselves out. Suppose The Workplace, Parks & Recreation; even Brooklyn 9-9 needed to spend a number of episodes hashing out the character dynamics and rhythms. So will Peacock’s The Paper be the identical?
The primary season had an incredible solid, together with Domhnall Gleeson as Ned, the eternally optimistic new Editor-in-Chief of the Toledo Reality Teller operating a employees of principally zero-experience information writers whereas clashing with the digital-first Esmerelda (Sabrina Impacciatore) and sparking a “will-they gained’t-they” romance with the one good information reporter, Mare (Chelsea Frei). But it surely principally couldn’t fairly determine what it wished to be till the wonderful remaining episode of the season.
So will the presses be operating for The Paper Season 2? The excellent news (you get it) is that is an Workplace spin-off, so it’s obtained an incredible mannequin to work from on the subject of the second season of a collection. Ensembles take time, comedy takes time, and right here’s hoping the Toledo Reality Teller has the ink to make a stink in Season 2… by which we imply, “get individuals speaking.” That’s what that meant. (Learn our The Paper Season 2 review.)
Gradual Horses Season 6 (September 16)
The very best spy present on TV is again for the following yearly installment of six episodes on Apple TV, which positively isn’t sufficient… however we’ll take what we will get. Starring Gary Oldman because the disgusting, farting head of Slough Home — mainly the place MI5 sticks the spies they don’t need anymore — the most recent season is predicated on two of Mick Herron’s novels: Joe Nation and Slough Home.
The headline for this season of Slow Horses is a brand new showrunner. Present creator Will Smith departed with Season 5, and Gaby Chiappe took over as head author (Ben Vanstone is taking on for Season 7, which is able to probably debut subsequent yr). Don’t fear, although; Chiappe is a professional, having written dozens of episodes of TV since 1997 in addition to a number of movies.
And past Oldman, the remainder of the solid is again too, with Kristin Scott Thomas’s Diana Taverner lastly First Desk (aka head of MI5) and Jack Lowden’s River Cartwright coping with a devastating loss. There’s additionally the return of some acquainted faces (no spoilers right here, although Apple put one of many massive spoilers proper within the trailer). The present is humorous and good with some nice motion and glorious character dynamics, so trot over to your TV and get caught up for Gradual Horses Season 6 proper now.
South Park Season 29 (September 16)
What’s there to be mentioned about South Park, the almost 30-year-old animated collection, at this level that we don’t already know? It’s ostensibly a few bunch of youngsters residing within the small city of South Park, Colorado, however actually, it’s an opportunity for creators/billionaires Trey Parker and Matt Stone to say no matter they need about society and the US authorities particularly.
So what’s going to occur within the upcoming twenty ninth season? Choose up a newspaper or click on on over to your fave information web site (IGN after all), and no matter is a scorching button situation this week will certainly make it onto the collection later within the week. After a renewed cultural relevance with Season 28 and a contentious upcoming midterms election, chances are high that Parker and Stone will go for the jugular as soon as once more.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (September 17)
Regardless of frequent accusations of front-loading the killers and diminishing the tales of victims, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s monster (sorry) hit Netflix anthology is again with a brand new installment. In a convincing lady boss transfer, it’s turning the lens to feminine killers; heck yeah — you go lady!
Particularly, the present is specializing in well-known axe assassin Lizzie Borden, who reportedly gave her mom forty whacks after which her father forty-one. However this may probably be a extra grounded model of the basic nursery rhyme, that includes an as-usual-for-a-Murphy-production all-star solid: Ella Beatty (beforehand of Murphy’s Feud) stars as Lizzie Borden alongside Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Corridor, Sarah Paulson, Billie Lourd, and extra.
On the very least, transferring the motion to 1892 ought to most likely make it more durable for any of Borden’s victims’ households to complain versus earlier seasons of Monster. However hey, we haven’t encountered a Murphy manufacturing but that didn’t cross a line someplace!
Brothers (September 23)
To not be confused with 2009’s Brothers (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire), 2024’s Brothers (starring Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage), or Brothers from 1977, 2004, 2023, or the opposite Brothers from 2009 (starring Michael Strahan and Carl Weathers), Brothers stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey within the roles they had been born to play: Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.
The Apple TV collection pivots on how everybody at all times joked they had been like brothers, then continued to joke about that once they had been on True Detective, after which found through a dive into their household historical past that they might certainly be half-brothers. Perhaps. What Brothers (2026) presupposes is: What in the event that they had been brothers? The present takes a metafictional strategy to that narrative, with the duo taking part in semi-fictionalized variations of themselves.
Confused? Don’t be, because the present is basically Yellowstone however with Harrelson and McConaughey attempting to unravel their (fictional) shared household historical past. Alright? Alright. Alright.
Neagley (September 16)
The hierarchy of energy within the Reacher Cinematic Universe is about to vary. The identical day that the fourth season of the Massive Man Collection wraps up on Prime Video, the streamer will launch spin-off Neagley, which front-loads Maria Sten’s title character as she investigates a thriller of her personal.
In contrast to the fathership present, which rolls out semi-weekly episodes, Neagley will premiere all episodes on the identical day… so identical to Reacher himself, you’ll have an outsized 9 hours of TV to observe (the Reacher Season 4 finale plus eight episodes of Neagley).
Alongside Sten, the present additionally stars Adeline Rudolph and Greyston Holt, with Alan Ritchson guest-starring as Reacher for Most Spinoff Potential.
Unusual New Worlds Season Finale – “Tomorrow’s Enterprise” (September 24)
Whereas the fourth season of Paramount+’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has principally been done-in-one adventures, the season finale has an extraordinarily intriguing title, significantly given Season 5 can be an abbreviated remaining season of the collection: “Tomorrow’s Enterprise.”
Even with out context, these phrases may make your ears perk up greater than Spock’s (Ethan Peck) because the well-received prequel collection heads in the direction of the tip/starting, with Captain Kirk (Paul Wesley) taking on from Captain Pike (Ethan Peck). So actually this title may merely check with the eventuality of the occasions of the Authentic Collection selecting up the place Unusual New Worlds leaves off.
However! The Subsequent Era episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise” discovered the crew of the Enterprise-D encountering the presumed destroyed Enterprise-C thanks to what’s scientifically often known as “shenanigans.” The Subsequent Gen of us ended up altering time by the tip of that episode to avoid wasting yesterday’s Enterprise; may an identical situation play out on this upcoming Unusual New Worlds episode? Might Kirk’s Enterprise find yourself again in time, encountering Pike’s Enterprise and displaying them a glimpse of the long run (one thing an intrepid, most likely time-traveling Reddit person referred to as four years ago)?
And even extra intriguingly; What if we skip Kirk totally and go all the way in which ahead to the Enterprise-G as seen on the finish of Picard Season 3, captained by Seven of 9 (Jeri Ryan)?
Including gas to any of those theories: September 8 is the official sixtieth anniversary of Star Trek. Whereas this episode doesn’t fairly line up, what higher method to pay tribute to the franchise than with the present flagship present assembly the long run… fairly actually?
A Totally different World (September 24)
A different world? Not extra multiverse stuff. Do we actually should do — oh wait, we’re being advised that is truly a revival of the enduring sitcom/spinoff of The Cosby Present, now again as a legacy sequel with returning and new solid.
Set at Hillman School (an HBCU), the daughter of the unique collection’ Whitley (Jasmine Man) and Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) heads into her first yr solely to search out herself residing within the shadow of her mother and father’ legacy whereas additionally looking for time to steadiness research, partying, and certain social points (a la the purview of the unique).
The massive distinction? Whereas episodes are nonetheless half an hour-ish, it is a single digicam comedy and never a three-camera comedy just like the OG sitcom. Nonetheless, it’ll embody loads of the unique solid members making their return from the groundbreaking collection 39 years later.
Unabomber (September 25)
In the event you’re Netflix and trying to dramatize the lifetime of the Unabomber, aka Ted Kaczynski, the pure alternative is — after all — little one star Jacob Tremblay.
We’re joking, however Tremblay has been a standout ever since his award-winning efficiency in Room. Now 19, he’ll play the notorious serial bomber in two timelines — one set in the course of the manhunt that attempted to trace him down, and one throughout his time at Harvard College main as much as his stint because the mysterious hooded, sunglasses-wearing prison.
Whereas that is removed from the primary time the occasions surrounding Kaczynski have been dramatized, this film does sport an incredible solid together with Russell Crowe, Shailene Woodley, Annabelle Wallis, Steven Ogg, and extra. It’s directed by Janus Metz Pedersen, who additionally directed three episodes of Andor Season 2 — the episode resulting in, together with, and coping with the fallout from the Ghorman Bloodbath — to provide you a way of what is likely to be in retailer.
Will you be watching any of those this month? What else are you trying ahead to that we didn’t get to? Vote in our ballot and let’s talk about within the feedback!
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Hi, I’m Rishab. I’m a passionate pc gamer and an avid video game content writer. I have been involved with video games for over 2 decades now, and even today, after playing an astronomical number of games over the years, I’m still eager for more. In my free time, you will find me enjoying a hot cup of coffee and playing my favorite relaxing fishing game, Dave the Diver.
