11 of the best TV shows to watch this September

From Marvel’s witchy new collection Agatha All Alongside to the return of Sluggish Horses and a brand new Nicole Kidman home thriller on Netflix.

It was solely a matter of time earlier than the hit Abbott Elementary made reveals about lecturers appear to be the following massive office comedies. Brian Jordan Alvarez makes the leap from net star to mainstream sitcom creator with this collection, which he created and stars in as Evan Marquez, a highschool English trainer in Austin, Texas. The twist is that English Instructor plunges headlong into themes of social consciousness and cancel tradition. Firstly, Evan is being investigated for kissing Malcolm, his ex-boyfriend and a former trainer on the college, in entrance of scholars. Tv veteran Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars and Simply Shoot Me) performs the college principal, however this present belongs to Alvarez, who has created so many characters on TikTok and YouTube that Vulture has tried to outline “The BJA Prolonged Universe”. Indiewire ranked his Homosexual and Wondrous Lifetime of Celeb Gallo the Finest Net Collection of 2016, forward of runner-up Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Automobiles Getting Espresso.

English Instructor premieres 2 September on FX and three September on Hulu within the US

What took the Emmys so lengthy? Final 12 months’s third season of this sly, endlessly satisfying spy drama – stuffed with motion, coronary heart and beguiling performances – has earned the present its first ever, richly-deserved nominations. They embody greatest drama, in addition to performing nods for Gary Oldman for his position as Jackson Lamb, the good and self-destructive head of a staff of MI5 reprobates derisively known as the Sluggish Horses, Jack Lowden because the fearless agent River Cartwright, and Jonathan Pryce as River’s grandfather. The brand new, fourth season takes off with a terror assault in London at rush hour, and by no means slows down in depth. Based mostly on Spook Road, the fourth in Mick Herron’s collection of Slough Home novels, the collection brings in Hugo Weaving as a legal with a secret connection to the Sluggish Horses. Kristin Scott Thomas returns because the unflappable MI5 head Diana Taverner, and Pryce is healthier than ever on the centre of a heartbreaking plot that’s certain to play out extra within the fifth season, which is already being shot. 

Sluggish Horses premieres 4 September on Apple TV+ internationally

Homicide and marriage had been a potent mixture for Nicole Kidman and director Susanne Bier within the attractive 2020 HBO collection The Undoing. They staff up once more on this equally themed Netflix collection based mostly on Elin Hilderbrand’s novel. Kidman performs a thriller novelist, Greer Garrison Winburg, and Liev Schreiber is her husband, Tag, who’re internet hosting their son’s marriage ceremony on their Nantucket property. Eve Hewson (Dangerous Sisters) performs the bride-to-be, Amelia, who may be having doubts even earlier than a useless physique is found on the seashore, and Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) performs Amelia’s greatest good friend. The remainder of the big forged of suspects contains Dakota Fanning, Sam Nivola, Jack Reynor and Billy Howle because the Winburg kids and Isabelle Adjani as a household good friend. Take it as a plot clue that the track performed within the trailer, Cannot Take My Eyes Off You, contains the conspicuous line “You are simply too good to be true”. The good Bier (the collection The Night time Supervisor and the movie In a Higher World) directs all six episodes.

The Excellent Couple premieres 5 September on Netflix internationally

The Australian romcom, which landed on BBC Tradition’s checklist of the best TV shows of  2023, returns with new problems for Ashley and Gordon, the on-off couple who met when she flashed him whereas he was driving and he hit the title character, the border terrier they agreed to co-parent. They broke up then reconciled on the finish of the final collection, and now must attempt to get Colin again from the brand new house owners who took him in. Actual-life couple Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall, who play Ashley and Gordon, additionally created and write the present. “It does not matter how near the bone it’s,” Brammall instructed EW about utilizing their very own expertise. “If it is awkward, and so long as it is humorous, we’ve got to make use of it.” Awkward and humorous is the very definition of the collection’ droll, off-kilter humour, and a supply of its ongoing attraction. 

Colin from Accounts premieres 3 September on BBC Two within the UK and 26 September on Paramount+ within the US

This deep dive into The Sopranos, among the best collection ever made, is constructed round a protracted interview with its creator, David Chase, however it’s rather more than a time capsule. Director Alex Gibney (whose penetrating documentaries embody topics as totally different as Paul Simon and the Enron scandal) talks to Chase on a set that duplicates Dr Melfi’s workplace from the present, with Gibney taking Melfi’s place and Chase in Tony’s chair. Chase recollects the genesis of the present and the surprises he encountered through the collection’ run, backed by private pictures. Tony’s deadly mom, Livia, is famously based mostly on Chase’s personal mom, however right here we see what she seemed like and listen to his shock that others within the crew had equally terrible dad and mom. The 2-parter contains recollections from forged members Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Steve Van Zandt and Lorraine Bracco. Amongst one of many extra touching revelations, Chase says that he had deliberate to have Tony kill Livia within the first season, however the late Nancy Marchand, who performed her, was affected by most cancers and stated to him, “David, simply hold me working.” So he did.

Sensible Man: David Chase and The Sopranos premieres 7 September on HBO and Max within the US

The characters on this adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels have been called “essentially the most magnetically unhappy Italians on tv”. They’ve now reached the present’s final instalment, based mostly on Ferrante’s fourth and closing e-book within the collection, The Story of the Misplaced Youngster. The story, which began with associates Elena and Lila as adolescents within the Fifties of their small city, has adopted them via maturity and motherhood, as their fraught, lifetime relationship has weathered jealousies and betrayals. The plot right here picks up within the late Eighties. Alba Rohrwacher, who has all the time been the narrative voice of Elena, takes over the position on display. A profitable author, Elena returns to her native city, forsaking her husband and youngsters, to be along with her first and enduring love, the faithless Nino (Fabrizio Gifuni). Irene Maiorino performs Lila, now a tech entrepreneur, however nonetheless entangled with the Solaris crime household.

My Good Buddy premieres 9 September on HBO within the US

Even when Natasha Rothwell’s identify does not appear acquainted, her face in all probability does. She was touching as Belinda, the spa technician within the first season of The White Lotus, and humorous as Issa’s good friend Kelli on Insecure. Now she has created and stars in her personal present, a comedy that’s pointedly about how not to die unhappy and lonely. She performs Mel, who drives a cart at JFK airport, and begins out as a tragic sack who says of her personal state of affairs, “I am broke, my love life is a joke, I work at an airport and I am afraid to fly”. A near-death expertise factors her in a brand new course, however the path is not simple – it is extra like that of a self-driving ground cleaner. “A Roomba has to hit partitions as a way to clear up the realm,” Rothwell has said. “Mel is a human Roomba that has woke up.” Conrad Ricamora of Find out how to Get Away With Homicide (one other acquainted face if not identify) performs Mel’s self-absorbed good friend, Rory, and Jocko Sims is Alex, her boss and ex-boyfriend.

Find out how to Die Alone premieres 13 September on Hulu within the US

Followers of the Disney+ collection WandaVision and of Kathryn Hahn ­– two enthusiastic, overlapping teams – have been ready for this spinoff. As WandaVision ended, Wanda Maximoff had stripped the witch Agatha Harkness (Hahn) of her powers, condemning her to reside an abnormal life as Agnes, the annoying neighbour who had precipitated all the difficulty on the town. In her personal present, with a tone of playful Halloween horror, Agatha is set to win again her powers, with assist from a brand new coven, which incorporates Patti LuPone as Lilia Calderu, a 450-year-old Sicilian witch, and Aubrey Plaza because the unfiltered Rio Vidal. Joe Locke (Netflix’s Heartstopper) performs a Goth teen who encourages Agatha. Locke instructed Empire he considers the present “an journey collection”, however few journey tales even have musical numbers, with unique songs by Frozen composers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who additionally wrote the WandaVision song that offers Agatha All Alongside its title. 

Agatha All Alongside premieres 18 September on Disney+ internationally

Within the latest movie Scoop, with Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell, we have already seen one dramatised model of the story behind the well-known 2019 BBC interview with Prince Andrew about his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and alleged sexual encounters with the teenaged Virginia Giuffre. His solutions had been so disastrous they led to his retreating from public life and ultimately dropping his royal duties. This three-part Prime Video collection has extra room to go behind the scenes, this time with Michael Sheen as Andrew and Ruth Wilson because the journalist Emily Maitlis. The true Maitlis is an government producer right here, and we see her household life in addition to her willpower and jitters in regards to the interview. Sheen might not seem like the prince, however he creates a sharply-drawn, vivid character, a person so self-important and shielded by privilege that he’s completely clueless about how the general public will react to him. The collection veers into The Crown territory by imagining conversations behind closed royal doorways, with a terrific forged that features Joanna Scanlan as Andrew’s Personal Secretary, Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings because the Queen’s Personal Secretary, Claire Rushbrook as Sarah Ferguson and Honor Swinton Byrne as Princess Beatrice.

A Very Royal Scandal premieres 18 September on Amazon Prime Video internationally

We have had two years because the movie The Batman to get used to the concept Colin Farrell is buried underneath all these prosthetics and a heavy New York accent as The Penguin. However simply in case, one trailer for his spin-off collection has Farrell along with his ordinary face introducing it. Matt Reeves, who directed the movie, is an government producer on the collection, one of many season’s most anticipated. The story picks up quickly after Gotham was flooded on the finish of The Batman, and charts how Oswald Cobblepot, The Penguin, got here to rule the crime world. Farrell’s character is darker and fewer cartoonish than another Penguin, and the collection’ showrunner, Lauren LeFranc, has in contrast the present to traditional crime tales. She has said that Reeves created the idea, “this Scarface story – an increase to energy”, and “I turned it right into a psychological character research of this man.”

The Penguin premieres 19 September on HBO within the US and 20 September on Sky Atlantic within the UK

This present’s instantaneous pop-culture lure would possibly come from the performing debut, in a so-far secret position, of Travis Kelce, identified for American soccer and much more for his appearances at girlfriend Taylor Swift’s aspect. Possibly decrease your expectations, although; he’s only a blip within the trailer for this collection from Ryan Murphy. Virtually any of Murphy’s reveals, all these American Horror and American Crime tales, would possibly qualify as grotesqueries. This one ­stars Niecy Nash-Betts as Detective Lois Tryon, who suspects she has a private connection to a string of murders in her small city. The always-great Lesley Manville performs a personality known as Nurse Redd, which already sounds creepy. Courtney B Vance is Lois’s husband. And he or she is helped in her investigation by Sister Megan (Micaela Diamond), a nun who can also be a journalist. Nun-journalist just isn’t often a factor, however then Murphy’s collection enjoy being excessive. In addition they enjoy a theme that runs via this present: good v some particularly bizarre, supernatural type of evil. Good luck counting all of the crosses in that trailer.

Grotesquerie premieres 25 September on FX within the US