22 Best TV Shows to Watch in September 2026
September 2026 is shaping up to be one of the busiest TV months of the year. Major franchises are returning, several acclaimed dramas are entering new seasons, and streaming platforms are launching some unusually ambitious new series.
Netflix brings back The Gentlemen and expands the Stranger Things universe, Apple TV has another season of Slow Horses alongside two new originals, while Paramount+, FX, Disney+, Prime Video and MGM+ all have significant premieres of their own.
Here are 22 of the most interesting TV shows arriving in September 2026.
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The Gentlemen — Season 2
September 3 — Netflix
Guy Ritchie’s stylish crime series returns with Theo James as Eddie Horniman and Kaya Scodelario as Susie Glass. A year has passed since Eddie inherited both his family estate and its extremely profitable connection to the criminal underworld, and this time his ambitions have become considerably larger.
Season 2 expands the story beyond Britain as Eddie attempts to turn the operation into something much bigger, while the alliance between Eddie and Susie begins to show signs of strain. For viewers looking for gangsters, black comedy and expensive tailoring, this is one of September’s safest bets.
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A Tale of Two Cities
September 6 — MGM+
Charles Dickens’ classic returns as a four-part historical miniseries starring Kit Harington as Sydney Carton, François Civil as Charles Darnay and Mirren Mack as Lucie Manette.
Set between London and Paris as France approaches revolution, the adaptation centers on the complicated relationship between Carton, Darnay and Lucie. Harington’s cynical, self-destructive lawyer may be the biggest reason to watch, but the compact four-episode format also makes this an unusually manageable literary adaptation.
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The Drop: A Snowfall Saga
September 8 — FX / Hulu
The world of Snowfall continues.
The new FX drama follows Wanda Bell and Leon Simmons into 1990s Los Angeles, where the social devastation caused by the crack epidemic is colliding with the explosive rise of West Coast hip-hop.
Instead of simply recreating the original series, The Drop moves the timeline forward and shifts its focus toward music, ambition and the battle to build something lasting in a city still dealing with the consequences of the previous decade.
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The Paper — Season 2
September 9 — Peacock
The mockumentary spin-off from the world of The Office is already back for a second season.
Domhnall Gleeson returns as Ned Sampson, the idealistic editor trying to transform the struggling Toledo Truth Teller into a functioning newspaper. After the staff’s surprising success at the Ohio Journalism Awards, Ned searches for a bigger investigative target while his relationship with Mare becomes increasingly difficult to hide.
All Season 2 episodes arrive on Peacock on September 9.
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Made in Korea — Season 2
September 9 — Disney+ / Hulu
The Korean political crime drama continues the rise of Baek Kitae.
After framing prosecutor Jang Geonyoung, Kitae has become Deputy Director of the Korean CIA while simultaneously expanding his criminal operations and political influence. Season 2 pushes that contradiction even further: a man occupying the machinery of the state while using it to build his own empire.
For fans of Korean thrillers driven by power, corruption and morally compromised characters, this is one of September’s more serious options.
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Last Seen
September 9 — Apple TV
One of the month’s most promising straight thrillers.
Patrick Brammall plays Ian Ridley, a detective whose young daughter disappeared eleven years earlier. Now working as a police dispatcher, he answers a distress call from a teenage girl and becomes convinced that the caller is his missing daughter.
The six-episode Australian series is adapted from Ryan David Jahn’s novel The Dispatcher. It debuts with two episodes, followed by weekly releases through October 7. Maxine Peake and Brendan Cowell also star.
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Crew Girl
September 10 — Netflix
Netflix heads into the competitive world of high-school rowing with an eight-episode YA drama.
Miku Martineau stars as Teagan Tao, a gifted teenage rower whose career and social life collapse after a family scandal. Forced to move and start again at elite Easton Prep, she discovers there is no girls’ rowing team and joins the dysfunctional boys’ varsity crew as its coxswain instead.
Naturally, sporting rivalry soon becomes tangled with class conflict, family problems and a love triangle.
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Babylon Berlin — Season 5
September 10 — ARD Mediathek in Germany
One of Europe’s most ambitious television dramas reaches its final season.
The story moves into February 1933, during the weeks between Adolf Hitler’s appointment as German chancellor and the Reichstag fire. Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter therefore find themselves living through the collapse of the Weimar Republic as the political world around them changes irreversibly.
After five seasons, the historical background that has always hovered over Babylon Berlin finally becomes the central reality of the story.
The final season begins streaming in Germany on ARD Mediathek on September 10; international release arrangements vary by territory.
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Slow Horses — Season 6
September 16 — Apple TV
Jackson Lamb and the dysfunctional agents of Slough House return.
Season 6 adapts material from Mick Herron’s novels Joe Country and Slough House, with Gary Oldman once again leading the ensemble alongside Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden and Saskia Reeves. Olivia Cooke also returns as Sid Baker.
This time Diana Taverner drags the Slow Horses into a dangerous cycle of retaliation and revenge that puts the entire team on the run.
Apple releases one episode each Wednesday through October 21.
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Golden Axe
September 16 — Paramount+
Sega’s 1989 arcade fantasy becomes an animated comedy series.
Ax Battler, Tyris Flare and Gilius Thunderhead reunite when Death Adder once again threatens Yuria, but their heroic quest is complicated by Hampton Squib, an enthusiastic adventurer whose confidence greatly exceeds his abilities.
Matthew Rhys, Danny Pudi, Lisa Gilroy, Liam McIntyre and Carl Tart lead the voice cast. Paramount+ releases all ten episodes at once.
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Neagley
September 16 — Prime Video
The Reacher universe gets its first major television spin-off.
Maria Sten returns as Frances Neagley, the former military investigator and one of Jack Reacher’s few genuinely trusted allies. Now working as a private investigator in Chicago, Neagley begins looking into the suspicious death of an old friend.
Alan Ritchson will appear as Reacher, but the new series gives Sten’s character the opportunity to carry an investigation — and a franchise — on her own.
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City of Blood
September 16 — Disney+ / Hulu
Possibly September’s strangest genre combination: dystopian climate thriller, political drama and vampire story.
Berlin has become a near-future city-state devastated by extreme heat, corruption and crime. The wealthy live beneath a climate-controlled dome while everyone else struggles outside. Sisters Bea and Phoebe are reunited just as an election approaches and discover that vampires have infiltrated organized crime and now intend to seize political power.
The result sounds closer to political dystopia than conventional supernatural horror — except that blood has literally become a form of currency.
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Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 — Season 2
September 17 — Netflix
The original Stranger Things may be over, but Hawkins is not.
Netflix’s animated spin-off returns for a second season set in early 1985, between the events depicted in the live-action series. Eleven, Mike, Will, Lucas, Dustin, Max and Nikki continue investigating supernatural threats around Hawkins, this time dealing with a new ghostly menace as Valentine’s Day approaches.
It offers Netflix a way to keep exploring the original group and period without attempting to extend the completed live-action storyline.
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Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
September 17 — Netflix
Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology turns to one of America’s most famous murder cases.
Ella Beatty plays Lizzie Borden, the Massachusetts woman tried and acquitted for the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother. The cast also includes Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, Billie Lourd, Jessica Barden and Sarah Paulson.
After Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers and Ed Gein, the fourth Monster installment shifts from 20th-century serial killers to a case that became part of American folklore.
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Outlander: Blood of My Blood — Season 2
September 18 — Starz
The Outlander prequel continues its two interconnected love stories.
Jamie Roy and Harriet Slater return as Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie, while Jeremy Irvine and Hermione Corfield continue as Henry Beauchamp and Julia Moriston.
Season 2 once again separates and tests both couples across different historical periods, continuing the story of the families whose descendants will eventually become Jamie Fraser and Claire Beauchamp.
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MobLand — Season 2
September 18 — Paramount+
Tom Hardy returns as fixer Harry Da Souza alongside Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren.
Following the violent fallout from Season 1, the Harrigan family must maintain the appearance of unity while enemies begin circling their increasingly unstable criminal empire. Johnny Flynn and Ophelia Lovibond join the cast for the second season.
Ten episodes will roll out weekly on Fridays.
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American Hostage
September 20 — MGM+
Jon Hamm returns to the 1970s for a psychological crime drama based on an extraordinary true story.
He plays Indianapolis radio reporter Fred Heckman, who becomes involved in a 63-hour hostage crisis after Tony Kiritsis — played by Giovanni Ribisi — takes a mortgage broker hostage and demands to be interviewed live on Heckman’s radio program.
The eight-episode series is based on the scripted podcast of the same name and turns the real 1977 incident into a story about crime, media and the spectacle created when the two collide.
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Brothers
September 23 — Apple TV
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson finally turn one of Hollywood’s strangest real-life rumors into a television comedy.
The actors play fictionalized versions of themselves whose friendship is disrupted after a family secret raises the possibility that they might actually be biological brothers. Harrelson becomes determined to discover the truth, while McConaughey is distracted by another problem: the possibility of running for governor of Texas.
The eight-episode comedy premieres with two episodes, followed by weekly installments. Holland Taylor also stars.
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American Horror Story: 13
September 24 — FX / Hulu
For its thirteenth installment, American Horror Story is effectively assembling an all-star team.
Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman are among the returning veterans, while familiar characters including Constance Langdon, Cordelia Goode, Madison Montgomery, Marie Laveau, Twisty the Clown and Kai Anderson are also set to reappear.
The season consists of 13 half-hour episodes and appears designed as a major reunion of characters and mythology from across the anthology’s history.
The US premiere is September 24 on FX and Hulu; Disney+ dates vary slightly by territory.
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The Simpsons — Season 38
September 27 — Fox
After more than three and a half decades, Springfield simply keeps going.
Season 38 begins September 27 as part of Fox’s Sunday animation lineup. At this point The Simpsons is less a conventional returning series than a permanent fixture of American television, but every new season still gives the writers another opportunity to absorb another year of politics, technology and pop culture into Springfield.
Fox remains the US broadcast home.
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Animal Control — Season 5
September 27 — Fox
Joel McHale returns as Frank Shaw in the fifth season of Fox’s workplace comedy.
The basic formula remains unusually effective: the animals the team encounters are generally predictable; the humans are considerably more difficult. Michael Rowland, Vella Lovell, Ravi Patel and Grace Palmer are also back.
Season 5 moves into Fox’s Sunday lineup immediately after The Simpsons.
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Scrubs
September 30 — ABC / Hulu
J.D. and Turk are scrubbing in again.
The revived Scrubs brought Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke back to Sacred Heart earlier in 2026, and the series now returns for its next run as part of ABC’s fall schedule.
ABC launches the new season with two episodes on September 30, with episodes available on Hulu after broadcast. For a show whose original run ended more than fifteen years ago, Scrubs has managed the increasingly rare trick of returning with its central trio intact.
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What to Watch First in September 2026
With 22 notable releases, September covers almost every major television genre. But a smaller group stands out as the month’s strongest prospects.
For established prestige television, Slow Horses Season 6 is probably the easiest recommendation. The Gentlemen Season 2 and MobLand Season 2 give crime fans two very different Guy Ritchie-related worlds, while Babylon Berlin has additional significance because its fifth season brings one of the great European dramas of the last decade to an end.
Among the new shows, Last Seen looks particularly promising as a tightly constructed six-episode thriller, American Hostage has a remarkable true story and an excellent central pairing in Jon Hamm and Giovanni Ribisi, while City of Blood may be September’s biggest wildcard.
And for pure star power, it is difficult to compete with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson playing exaggerated versions of themselves in Brothers.
September 2026, in other words, is not suffering from a shortage of television. The harder problem will be deciding what to watch first.