New and returning shows worth clearing your schedule for September 2026
Emmy night, a football con gone even more sideways, and a comedy where Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play ‘brothers.’ September is stacked.
September is Emmy season. The 2026 Emmy Awards air on Monday, September 14 in Peacock, with heavy hitters like ‘The Pitt’, ‘Pluribus’, and ‘Widow's Bay’ all in the running.
Ongoing favorites like ‘Lanterns’, ‘Lioness’, and ‘Ted Lasso’ keep rolling through the month, and a wave of British crime dramas, ‘Slow Horses’, ‘MobLand’, and ‘Guy Ritchie's’ ‘The Gentlemen’ all return within days of each other. Throw in a surprisingly strange concept comedy and one of the most anticipated football-con sequels of the year, and it's a genuinely packed slate.
Here's what's worth putting on the calendar.
Chad Powers - Season 2
September 3, Hulu/Disney+
Glen Powell returns as Russ Holliday, the disgraced football player hiding behind the ridiculous ‘Chad Powers’ persona. With his secret becoming harder to protect and a national championship within reach, the second season looks set to push the comedy and the deception even further.
The Gentlemen - Season 2
September 3, Netflix
Theo James returns as Eddie Horniman, whose criminal empire is becoming increasingly difficult to control. This time, Eddie and Susie find themselves dealing with new players and expanding their operation beyond the English countryside.
The Paper - Season 2
September 9, Peacock
The Office spinoff follows up its first-season journalism award with a newsroom that's about to let that recognition go to its head. Domhnall Gleeson's Ned Sampson is now secretly involved with a coworker, a wrinkle that's sure to send the rest of the Toledo paper's staff into a tailspin.
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Neagley
September 16, Prime Video
A spinoff of ‘Reacher’, this new series hands the spotlight to Frances Neagley as she digs into a friend's death that looks a lot less like an accident than it first appeared. A cameo from Reacher himself wouldn't be a shock.
Slow Horses - Season 6
September 16, Apple TV+
Gary Oldman's shabby spy thriller enters with Gaby Chiappe taking over as showrunner after creator Will Smith's departure following season 5. The new episodes are expected to bring back Olivia Cooke's character, Sid Baker and with a seventh season already locked in, this one isn't slowing down anytime soon.
South Park - Season 29
September 16, Paramount+
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are racing toward the show's 30th season, and after a politically charged, envelope-pushing run in season 28, expectations are high for more of the same sharp-edged satire.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
September 17, Netflix
Ryan Murphy's true-crime anthology turns its attention to Lizzie Borden, the 19th-century woman acquitted of murdering her parents with an axe. Ella Beatty stars as Borden, alongside Charlie Hunnam and Rebecca Hall as her parents, in a retelling that leans into Borden's legend rather than just the crime itself.
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MobLand - Season 2
September 18, Paramount+
Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Helen Mirren headline this London crime drama about a family fighting to hold onto control of the city's underworld. Off-camera friction reportedly surrounded the new season's production, but Hardy is confirmed to be back for round two.
Brothers
Late September, Apple TV+
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play fictionalized versions of themselves in this odd meta-comedy, which imagines a reality where the two actors long the subject of a real-life ‘separated at birth’ joke turn out to be siblings.