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The summer might be winding down fast, but the TV calendar is hardly cooling off, as the next three months boast a bunch of series worth checking out. (If you're looking for the movies you need to see come September, we’ve got you.) This fall promises highly anticipated returns, with Black Doves, The Lowdown and Slow Horses launching new seasons.
There are also plenty of intriguing debuts, including a stuck-in-a-rut comedy from Sharon Horgan, a Parks and Rec reunion of sorts, Zoe Kazan’s take on East of Eden, seasonally-appropriate scares courtesy of Carrie and Crystal Lake, Netflix's hotly debated Pride and Prejudice and more. Here are the shows – in chronological order by US premiere date – to watch out for.
American Hostage (MGM+)
A very busy Jon Hamm portrays an Indianapolis radio anchor dealing with a particularly tricky caller (Giovanni Ribisi’s Tony, who kidnaps his mortgage broker and threatens to blow his brains out) in this late-'70s thriller based on the podcast of the same name (which also starred the Mad Men vet). Mireille Enos, The Good Place's William Jackson Harper and Kristoffer Polaha round out the cast.
Premieres Sep 20
Youth (HBO)
The great Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters, Pulling, Divorce) returns to HBO with her latest stuck-in-a-rut comedy, starring as a fiftysomething divorced woman who starts asking some big life questions (among them, ‘Do you think you can still be sexy when you’re 60, like, in a club?’) as her son prepares to head off to college.
Premieres Sep 20
Brothers (Apple TV)
The boys – that is, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson – are back with a decidedly lighter series than True Detective, playing fictionalised versions of themselves as they cope with the news that they could just be related. (Where do they come up with this stuff?) The comedy was concocted by Schitt's Creek’s David West Read, The Office's Lee Eisenberg and the Texas-born buds themselves.
Premieres Sep 23
East of Eden (Netflix)
Zoe Kazan brings John Steinbeck’s masterpiece to the small screen (much like her grandfather Elia did to the big one back in the ’50s). Florence Pugh stars as Cathy Ames in the decades-spanning Netflix miniseries, anchoring a stacked cast that boasts Mike Faist, Ciarán Hinds, Hoon Lee and the always welcome Christopher Abbott and Martha Plimpton.
Premieres Oct 1
War (HBO)
‘This is likely to be the biggest divorce trial in British legal history,’ we're told in the teaser for this HBO drama, in which a posh and seemingly mild-mannered couple (played by Sienna Miller and The Wire’s Dominic West) endure a very messy and public split. (She’s a movie star; he's a tech billionaire.) Hijack co-creator George Kay cooked up the story.
Premieres Oct 1
Carrie (Prime Video)
Horror favourite Mike Flanagan makes the move from Netflix to Prime Video for his latest Stephen King adaptation, a six-episode telling of the meek and lonely titular teenager (Summer H Howell) having a really rough go of it in high school. Regular Flanagan collaborator Samantha Sloyan plays her crazy mother. There will be blood.
Premieres Oct 7
The Lowdown season 2 (FX)
Sterlin Harjo’s very funny neo-noir, one of last year’s most delightful new arrivals, is back for round two with a brilliant bit of casting news: Tommy Lee Jones plays the estranged, up-to-no-good father of ‘truthstorian’ and paperback snob Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke), who will no doubt stumble into another thorny conspiracy full of colourful characters in his beloved city of Tulsa.
Premieres Oct 14
VisionQuest (Disney+)
Billed as ‘the final Vision of the groundbreaking trilogy’ (Marvel’s words), this WandaVision spin-off centres on the titular android (a returning Paul Bettany), who goes on the lam with a teen who might be his son. James Spader, Ruaridh Mollica, Todd Stashwick and Years And Years’ T’Nia Miller co-star in the miniseries, which was created by Star Trek: Picard veteran Terry Matalas.
Premieres Oct 14
Crystal Lake (Peacock)
After being announced four years back and a showrunner shakeup, A24’s prequel to Friday the 13th is finally set to hit our screens just in time for Halloween. Linda Cardellini, hot off her wonderful turn in DTF St. Louis, leads as Pamela Voorhees, with Chucky’s Callum Vinson tackling her son (and future hockey-mask-wearer) Jason.
Premieres Oct 15
Black Doves season 2 (Netflix)
Nearly two years after its mostly killer first season dropped, Black Doves, which stars a never-better Keira Knightley and an always ace Ben Whishaw, thankfully returns. This sleek, London-set series about spies for hire from Giri/Haji’s Joe Barton is stylish, bloody, surprisingly deep, fun and generally a notch better and smarter than it probably needs to be.
Premieres Nov 5
Dig (Peacock)
Parks and Recreation’s Michael Schur and Amy Poehler swap Pawnee offices for an archaeological site in Greece for this Peacock comedy. The latter (a Golden Globe winner for acting and podcasting, of all things) leads the series as an excavator alongside a cast that includes Hugh Laurie, Geraldine Viswanathan, Fina Strazza and Antonia Thomas.
Premieres Nov 23
Blade Runner 2099 (Prime Video)
Michelle Yeoh and Euphoria's Hunter Schafer leap into the sci-fi franchise, starring as a replicant and a human pretending to be one, respectively, in very late twenty-first century Los Angeles. Silka Luisa, who brought us Apple TV's Shining Girls, developed the miniseries, and Jonathan van Tulleken (Shōgun, Top Boy) helms its first two outings.
Premieres Nov 25
Pride and Prejudice (Netflix)
Jane Austen's ever-adored novel gets the Netflix treatment, with The Crown's Emma Corrin tacking Elizabeth Bennet and Jack Lowden (who, per usual, is just great in the upcoming season of Slow Horses) taking on Mr. Darcy. Everything I Know About Love memoirist Dolly Alderton wrote the series, with Euros Lyn (Heartstopper, Happy Valley) directing.
Premieres TBA
Also premiering this fall:
The Drop: A Snowfall Saga (Sep 8 on FX)
Chad Powers season 2 (Sep 3 on Hulu)
The Gentlemen season 2 (Sep 3 on Netflix)
The Drop: A Snowfall Saga (Sep 8 on FX)
The Paper season 2 (Sep 9 on Peacock)
Colin From Accounts season 3 (Sep 10 on Paramount+)
Slow Horses season 6 (Sep 16 on Apple TV)
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (Sep 17 on Netflix)
MobLand season 2 (Sep 18 on Paramount+)
Outlander: Blood Of My Blood season 2 (Sep 18 on Starz)
A Different World (Sep 24 on Netflix)
My Sad Dead (Mis Muertos Tristes) (Sep 24 on Netflix)
Avatar: Seven Havens (Oct 9 on Paramount+)
The Diplomat season 4 (Oct 15 on Netflix)
The Terminal List season 2 (Oct 21 on Prime Video)
Nocturne (Oct 30 on Apple TV)
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins season 2 (Nov 2 on NBC)
The Greatest (Nov 4 on Prime Video)
Stick season 2 (Nov 4 on Apple TV)
North of North season 2 (Nov 5 on Netflix)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Nov 11 on Prime Video)
The Good Daughter (Nov 12 on Peacock)
The Altruists (Nov 19 on Netflix)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 3 (Nov 20 on Disney+)
Yellowjackets season 4 (Nov 20 on Showtime/Paramount+)
The Hunting Wives season 2 (Nov 26 on Netflix)