New Movies & TV Shows to Watch: September 2026

Workplace comedy

Nearly thirty years after Martin went off the air, Tommy Davidson returns as late-night host Varnell Hill in a half-hour comedy set backstage at his long-running talk show, where modernizing executives, a chaotic writers' room, and his own ego all compete for the last word. Martin Lawrence executive produces, with Bentley Kyle Evans running the show. Two episodes arrive September 1, then weekly Tuesdays through October 13.

Cast: Tommy Davidson, Kym Whitley, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Emmanuel Hudson, Chris Williams

Showrun by Bentley Kyle Evans; Martin Lawrence executive produces

Watch this if you like: classic sitcom energy, backstage comedies, and guest spots from half the Martin universe.

Streaming on Paramount+

Animated family adventure

Lucasfilm and the LEGO Group retell the best of The Mandalorian in brick form, including a comedic version of how Din Djarin met Grogu in the first place. It is aimed squarely at families — all ages, all fluency levels of Star Wars.

Watch this if you like: Star Wars with the tension replaced by jokes, or you have a couch full of kids.

Streaming on Disney+

Crime comedy-drama

Guy Ritchie's aristocratic crime caper returns about a year after Eddie and Susie took over Bobby Glass's empire, and this season the business expands into Italy — Lake Maggiore, new rivals, and increasingly erratic decisions from Bobby himself. Hugh Bonneville and Giancarlo Esposito join the fray, and all eight episodes land at once.

Cast: Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Ray Winstone, Giancarlo Esposito, Hugh Bonneville

Guy Ritchie co-wrote and directed the new season

Watch this if you like: sharp suits, sharper dialogue, and crime played mostly for style.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Netflix

Sports comedy

Glen Powell's disgraced quarterback is still hiding in plain sight behind the prosthetics of walk-on "Chad Powers" — except Ricky now knows exactly who he is, and season two turns that cliffhanger into an uneasy alliance while the coaching staff gets suspicious. Unlike the weekly first season, all six episodes drop at once.

Cast: Glen Powell, Perry Mattfeld, Steve Zahn, Frankie A. Rodriguez, Colton Ryan

Co-created by Glen Powell and Michael Waldron, who runs the show; the Manning brothers executive produce

Watch this if you like: Ted Lasso-adjacent sports comfort food with a farce engine bolted on.

Streaming on Hulu

Action comedy / spy thriller

A hotshot Navy pilot is shot down over Soviet territory at the height of the Cold War, and his only route home is a reluctant partnership with a gruff ex-KGB agent who loves American culture. Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh headline, and Game Night's John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein write and direct — Apple's big direct-to-streaming movie of the fall.

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh, Maria Bakalova, David Morse

Written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein

Why it's a Flick Pick: the Game Night directors doing a Cold War two-hander with this cast is the most promising movie premise of the month.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Apple TV (formerly Apple TV+)

Adult animated comedy

A brother-and-sister duo's happily messy New York life is upended when their nightmare comes true: their high-achieving older sister wants to hang out. Created by The Good Place writer Andrew Law — who voices one sibling opposite Stephanie Hsu and Poppy Liu — with Mike Schur producing and Titmouse animating.

Cast: Andrew Law, Stephanie Hsu, Poppy Liu

Created by Andrew Law; Mike Schur executive produces

Watch this if you like: BoJack-era adult animation with a Good Place pedigree instead of a nihilism problem.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Netflix

Crime drama

The Snowfall continuation moves to 1990s Los Angeles, where survivors Wanda and Leon try to reinvent themselves inside the rise of West Coast rap — as gang wars erupt and record labels circle hip-hop culture looking for a cut. Episodes premiere on FX and stream on Hulu the same day, weekly.

Cast: Gail Bean, Isaiah John, Asante Blackk, Mykelti Williamson, Brandon Mychal Smith

Executive produced by Malcolm Spellman, Dave Andron, and Thomas Schlamme

Watch this if you like: The Wire-school crime drama where the real subject is an era, not a case.

Streaming on FX / Hulu

Ensemble comedy-drama

Sixteen years after the last installment, Perry reunites nearly the entire original ensemble in Lake Como, where a wedding between two of the friends' children forces the parents to look hard at their own marriages. Taraji P. Henson joins as the groom's mother; Perry writes, directs, and stars.

Cast: Tyler Perry, Jill Scott, Richard T. Jones, Tasha Smith, Taraji P. Henson

Written and directed by Tyler Perry

Watch this if you like: ensemble relationship dramedies where the arguments are the entertainment.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Netflix

Crime thriller

A former detective whose young daughter vanished eleven years ago now answers police dispatch calls — until one distress call convinces him the girl on the line is his missing daughter. The Australian thriller, adapted from Ryan David Jahn's Dagger-winning novel The Dispatcher, opens with two episodes and runs weekly through October 7.

Cast: Patrick Brammall, Maxine Peake, Brendan Cowell, Zahra Newman

Written by Kris Mrksa, directed by Christian Schwochow

Watch this if you like: missing-person mysteries built on one agonizing what-if instead of a body count.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Apple TV

Crime thriller

The Korean noir returns with Baek Kitae having framed his rival and climbed to deputy director of the KCIA — wealthier, more dangerous, and more exposed — while the prosecutor he buried resurfaces with a revenge plan nine years in the making. Two episodes premiere September 9, then two per week through September 23.

Cast: Hyun Bin, Jung Woo-sung, Woo Do-hwan

Directed by Woo Min-ho, written by Park Eun-kyo

Watch this if you like: prestige K-drama where two movie stars circle each other for six hours.

Streaming on Hulu

Mockumentary comedy

The documentary crew that once filmed Dunder Mifflin is still embedded at the Toledo Truth Teller, where Ned Sampson's newsroom returns from its awards-night high to higher stakes and at least one teased office romance. All ten episodes arrive at once, off the back of an Emmy-nominated first season.

Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, Oscar Nuñez, Tim Key

Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman

Watch this if you like: The Office — that is the assignment, and season one largely delivered it.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Peacock

Romantic thriller

The Spanish-language adaptation of Mercedes Ron's bestseller Marfil: a tycoon's daughter is kidnapped, mysteriously released, and assigned an enigmatic bodyguard she has no intention of obeying — and no success ignoring. From the pipeline behind Prime Video's hugely watched Culpables films, with a sequel already announced.

Cast: Ester Expósito, Hugo Diego García, Eric Masip

Directed by Óscar Pedraza

Watch this if you like: glossy forbidden-romance thrillers with just enough danger to justify the tension.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Prime Video

Romantic comedy

The acclaimed Australian rom-com about two flawed people brought together by an injured dog reaches its third and final season, picking up after the cliffhanger proposal. Real-life married couple Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer write, produce, and star, and the full farewell season lands in one drop.

Cast: Patrick Brammall, Harriet Dyer

Created by Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer

Watch this if you like: rom-coms written by adults, for adults, ending on their own terms.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Paramount+

Korean romantic drama

Ten years into building a life together, a couple's relationship falters when film director Lee Mi-do finds her heart pulled elsewhere during the hardest stretch of her career — leaving both to ask whether what they have is love or just familiarity. The fourteen-episode drama streams day-and-date with its Korean broadcast.

Cast: Seo Kang-jun, Ahn Eun-jin

Directed by Hwang Seung-ki and Lee Ga-ram

Watch this if you like: slow-burn K-drama romance where the crisis is emotional, not contrived.

Streaming on Prime Video

Reality competition

The ballroom returns with a two-night premiere event September 15 and 16, streaming live on Disney+ as it airs on ABC, with next-day episodes on Hulu. Judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli are back; the full celebrity cast is revealed September 2 on Good Morning America.

Watch this if you like: appointment television you can shout at in real time.

Streaming on Disney+ (live)

Found-footage horror

More tapes surface from the vault of Mark Duplass's unbearably friendly serial killer, with Kate Siegel headlining the guest cast this season. Two episodes premiere September 15, then two per week through the 29th — Shudder clearing its throat for spooky season.

Cast: Mark Duplass, Kate Siegel

Created by Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice

Watch this if you like: horror that trades jump scares for social discomfort you feel in your teeth.

Streaming on Shudder / AMC+

Mystery

The first contemporary English-language screen take on Christie's married detective duo: former flames who fall in love, out of it, and back in while solving mysteries together across six episodes. Imelda Staunton co-stars — a genuine swing for BritBox.

Cast: Antonia Thomas, Josh Dylan, Imelda Staunton

Written by Phoebe Eclair-Powell

Watch this if you like: cozy-adjacent mysteries with real wit and an Agatha Christie floor under the plotting.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on BritBox

Spy thriller

The Slough House rejects go on the run as Diana Taverner drags them into a lethal game of retaliation, in a season adapting two of Mick Herron's novels at once — Joe Country and Slough House. Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb remains television's most quotable disgrace, and the show keeps its remarkable book-a-year pace.

Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Rosalind Eleazar, Hugo Weaving

Adapted for television by Gaby Chiappe; directed by Adam Randall

Why it's a Flick Pick: the most reliable show on streaming, back barely a year after its Emmy-winning fifth season.

Streaming on Apple TV

Action thriller

The first Reacher spinoff promotes Frances Neagley — the 110th's most capable investigator — to lead, now working private cases in Chicago and pulling a thread attached to something cult-like and lethal. Alan Ritchson guest stars as Reacher, and all eight episodes drop one week after the Reacher season finale.

Cast: Maria Sten, Alan Ritchson, Damon Herriman, Adeline Rudolph

From Reacher showrunner Nick Santora, with Nicholas Wootton co-running

Why it's a Flick Pick: Reacher's formula — competence, momentum, zero fat — handed to its best supporting character.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Prime Video

True-crime anthology

Ryan Murphy's anthology turns to Fall River, 1892: Lizzie Borden, the axe, and the trial that never stopped being argued. Ella Beatty takes her first leading TV role opposite Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, and Vicky Krieps, with all eight episodes at once.

Cast: Ella Beatty, Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, Vicky Krieps

From Ryan Murphy's Monster anthology

Watch this if you like: the Dahmer and Menendez seasons — this is the same machine pointed at America's oldest true-crime obsession.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Netflix

Crime drama

Tom Hardy's fixer Harry Da Souza is still the only thing holding the Harrigan family together — and patriarch Conrad is spiraling, turning on his own son as rivals close in. Ten episodes roll out Fridays through November 20, and a third season is already confirmed.

Cast: Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Paddy Considine

Guy Ritchie executive produces

Watch this if you like: heavyweight actors doing quiet menace in expensive rooms.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Paramount+

True-crime thriller

Jon Hamm plays Fred Heckman, the beloved Indianapolis radio reporter forced to interview a hostage-taker live on air during a 63-hour standoff in 1977 — a dramatization of the acclaimed podcast, from The Shield and The Night Agent's Shawn Ryan. Two episodes premiere September 20, then weekly through November 1.

Cast: Jon Hamm, Giovanni Ribisi, Mireille Enos, William Jackson Harper

Co-created by Shawn Ryan and Eileen Myers

Watch this if you like: fact-based crisis drama where the tension is ethical, not just physical.

Streaming on MGM+

Comedy

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play versions of themselves who move in together at Matthew's Austin ranch — where his mother lets slip that the lifelong friends might literally be brothers. The real-life urban legend becomes a comedy from Lee Eisenberg (The Office, Jury Duty), with two episodes premiering September 23 and weekly drops through November 4.

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Holland Taylor, Natalie Martinez

Created by Lee Eisenberg; directed by Trent O'Donnell

Why it's a Flick Pick: the True Detective duo satirizing their own tabloid mythology is either brilliant or fascinating — both worth seeing.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Apple TV

Comedy

The sequel to the beloved HBCU sitcom returns to Hillman College, where Tony winner Maleah Joi Moon plays the daughter of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert — with Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Darryl M. Bell, and Cree Summer all returning, and Debbie Allen back directing. It premieres 39 years to the day after the original's debut.

Cast: Maleah Joi Moon, Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Cree Summer

Created by Felicia Pride; premiere directed by Debbie Allen

Why it's a Flick Pick: a genuinely rare thing — a legacy revival with the original creative anchor and a Tony-winning lead.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Netflix

Horror anthology

The thirteenth installment brings familiar faces and characters back into the anthology, drawing on its history of haunted houses, witches, and other recurring nightmares. Hulu launches the first three episodes on September 24 at 6 p.m. Pacific / 9 p.m. Eastern, the same evening as the FX premiere.

Cast: Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts

Created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk

Watch this if you like: the returning characters and interwoven nightmares of the American Horror Story anthology.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on FX / Hulu

Crime drama

Ted Kaczynski's story told in two timelines: Jacob Tremblay as the Harvard student subjected to Henry Murray's psychological experiments (Russell Crowe), and the years-long FBI manhunt, with Shailene Woodley as the agent in pursuit. Janus Metz (Borg vs McEnroe) directs the R-rated feature.

Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Russell Crowe, Shailene Woodley

Directed by Janus Metz

Watch this if you like: true-crime origin dramas closer to Zodiac than to a documentary.

Streaming on Netflix

Crime drama

The prequel to 4 Blocks rewinds to 1990s Berlin, following the Hamady family as they try to establish a life in Germany after leaving Lebanon. A relative's release from prison pulls the family toward the city's criminal underworld. The eight-part German HBO Original begins September 25, with new episodes weekly.

Cast: Rami Fadel Khalaf, Tareq Nassery, Bella Dayne, Mark Waschke

Head writer Bernd Lange; directed by Özgür Yıldırım and Hüseyin Tabak

Watch this if you like: Gomorrah-style European crime — patient, specific, and unglamorous.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on HBO Max

Action drama

Shemar Moore returns as Hondo, pulled out of forced retirement after a failed mission to lead an experimental unit of young recruits. The ten-episode Sony Pictures Television spinoff premieres September 25 on Starz in the U.S., with familiar colleagues returning alongside the new team.

Cast: Shemar Moore, Lucy Barrett, Adain Bradley, Zyra Gorecki, Freddy Miyares, Ronen Rubinstein

Showrun by Jason Ning

Watch this if you like: broadcast-style action comfort viewing with a mentor-and-rookies engine.

Streaming on Starz

Animated adventure

Usopp retells the Straw Hats' adventures in a two-part LEGO special covering the first two seasons of the live-action series, from the East Blue toward the Grand Line. The live-action Straw Hat cast returns to voice the brick-built crew, including Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp and Mikaela Hoover as Chopper. Both parts arrive September 29.

Cast: Iñaki Godoy, Emily Rudd, Mackenyu, Jacob Romero Gibson, Taz Skylar, Mikaela Hoover

Produced in partnership with the LEGO Group, Shueisha, and Atomic Cartoons

Watch this if you like: One Piece in any form, or need a bridge episode the whole family can board.

Watch the official trailer

Streaming on Netflix