It’s back-to-school time, and you know what that means: It’s back to your TV screens as well to decompress after a long day of book learnin’. And lucky you, there’s a ton of great TV (and movies) coming to streaming this month for September 2026, so let’s break down some of the highlights.
Fan of Prime Video’s Reacher? While the fourth season of the series is ending this month (and there’s a fifth in the works), you’ve also got a brand new spin-off dropping all in the same day to enjoy. How about space stuff? Strange New Worlds is ending with an intriguing sounding finale that sets up the final season of that series. And if you prefer comedies or true crime? We’ve got that too.
Okay, enough set-up — let’s get into the list. Here are our 10 most anticipated shows and movies streaming in September. And don’t forget, kids: Study hard and stay in school… or watch TV, do whatever you want.
(Note: This list is presented in release date order.)
Mayday (September 4)
Ryan Reynolds pretty much doesn’t miss and Kenneth Branagh is a reliable star as well. But the biggest selling point for this throwback action adventure on Apple TV? Writers and directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. While they wrote Spider-Man: Homecoming, the real sell here is that they’re the team behind the superb Game Night, the transcendently hilarious Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and the highly underrated but also hilarious Vacation remake.
With Mayday, the duo take on the sort of Cold War comedies that pervaded the ’80s — think Spies Like Us — as Reynolds plays an American pilot crash-landed in Soviet Russia, forced to team up with an ex-KGB/America aficionado played by Branagh who wants to defect to the good ol’ US of A. It’s an across-the-plate premise that in lesser hands might be the umpteenth disposable action movie on a streaming service this month, but in the hands of Goldstein and Daley, you know this is gonna get weirder and wilder than expected. (Read our Mayday review.)
The Paper Season 2 (September 9)
A lot of all-timer comedies took the first season to figure themselves out. Think The Office, Parks & Recreation; even Brooklyn Nine-Nine had to spend several episodes hashing out the character dynamics and rhythms. So will Peacock’s The Paper be the same?
The first season had a great cast, including Domhnall Gleeson as Ned, the eternally optimistic new Editor-in-Chief of the Toledo Truth Teller running a staff of mostly zero-experience news writers while clashing with the digital-first Esmerelda (Sabrina Impacciatore) and sparking a “will-they won’t-they” romance with the only good news reporter, Mare (Chelsea Frei). But it mostly couldn’t quite figure out what it wanted to be until the excellent final episode of the season.
So will the presses be running for The Paper Season 2? The good news (you get it) is this is an Office spin-off, so it’s got a great model to work from when it comes to the second season of a series. Ensembles take time, comedy takes time, and here’s hoping the Toledo Truth Teller has the ink to make a stink in Season 2… by which we mean, “get people talking.” That’s what that meant. (Read our The Paper Season 2 review.)
Slow Horses Season 6 (September 16)
The best spy show on TV is back for the next yearly installment of six episodes on Apple TV, which definitely isn’t enough… but we’ll take what we can get. Starring Gary Oldman as the disgusting, farting head of Slough House — basically where MI5 sticks the spies they don’t want anymore — the latest season is based on two of Mick Herron’s novels: Joe Country and Slough House.
The headline for this season of Slow Horses is a new showrunner. Show creator Will Smith departed with Season 5, and Gaby Chiappe took over as head writer (Ben Vanstone is taking over for Season 7, which will likely debut next year). Don’t worry, though; Chiappe is a pro, having written dozens of episodes of TV since 1997 as well as several films.
And beyond Oldman, the rest of the cast is back too, with Kristin Scott Thomas’s Diana Taverner finally First Desk (aka head of MI5) and Jack Lowden’s River Cartwright dealing with a devastating loss. There’s also the return of a few familiar faces (no spoilers here, though Apple put one of the big spoilers right in the trailer). The show is funny and smart with some great action and excellent character dynamics, so trot over to your TV and get caught up for Slow Horses Season 6 right now.
South Park Season 29 (September 16)
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