From Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist to A Very Royal Scandal: What to watch this September
From a drama about the biggest black heist in history to a three-part series on disgraced Royal Prince Andrew, these are the top shows you should be watching this month.
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We’ve sifted through the latest offerings from TV and streaming platforms to find the best shows you should be watching this coming month.
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FIGHT NIGHT: THE MILLION DOLLAR HEIST
SEPTEMBER 5
Based on the 2020 podcast of the same name, and boasting a top-notch cast and some super-freaky outfits, this eight-part period drama tells the story of the biggest black on black heist in history. On the same night that Muhammad Ali made his return to the boxing ring in 1970 in Atlanta, a brazen armed robbery relieved some of the gangsters and black mafia leaders who had gathered of their booty. When a hustler called Chicken Man (Kevin Hart) is accused of masterminding the crime he has to find the real culprits with the help of black cop JD Hudson (Don Cheadle) to avoid getting whacked himself. Also stars Taraji P Henson, Terrence Howard and a terrifying looking Samuel L. Jackson as mafia boss Frank Moten.
THE PENGUIN
SEPTEMBER 19
Colin Farrell’s disfigured, waddling Oswald “Oz” Cobb – aka Penguin – was a surprise highlight of Matt Reeves’s The Batman, and the Cloverfield director is also on board as an executive producer in this eight-part spin-off is set in the same gritty, violent version of Gotham City. Almost unrecognisable under some truly remarkable prosthetics, Farrell oozes both menace and pathos as the crime kingpin who is hellbent on claiming the empire of his late gangster boss, and will stop at nothing to reach the top. In his way is the gangster’s daughter Sofia Falcone (Christin Milioti) fresh from a stint in Arkham Asylum, who is equally determined to take what she thinks is hers.
ALSO SHOWING:
Funny Woman Season 2 – September 5
Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos – September 7
Taskmaster Season 18 – September 13
The Great Australian Bakeoff Season 7 – September 18
Chicago PD Season 12 – September 26
WHAT TO WATCH ON STAN
REVEALED: KILLJOY
SEPTEMBER 8
This sobering, sad and sometimes shocking documentary feels both necessary and timely given the appalling frequency of murder and violence perpetrated by men on women. It tells the story of a family homicide told from the point of view of the child and follows Kathryn Joy, who was just three months old when her father killed her mother. He served just 22 months for manslaughter and by the age of four she was back living with him in the house in which her mother was killed. By uncovering her buried story, the brave and resilient Kathryn builds a relationship with the mother she barely knew on her journey to a meaningful life as an activist for children who have been the victims of family violence.
THE WALKING DEAD: DARYL DIXON THE BOOK OF CAROL
SEPTEMBER 30
Picking up where the first season left off, the ever-resilient Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) is still dodging reanimated corpses in France, where the zombie virus originated. Whether this season finally explains how and why the apocalypse occurred remains to be seen but in the meantime franchise veteran Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) is back and the pair continue their journey back towards home and the ones they love. As ever, there will be new, inventive and bloody ways to kill the Walking Dead, but the living can be just as dangerous, with Anne Charrier’s Marion Genet building support for her paramilitary group of survivors.
ALSO SHOWING:
Power Book II: Ghost – September 2
In the Valley Of Sin – September 9
From – September 23
The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of the Cool – September 25
STREAMING THIS MONTH ON PARAMOUNT+
TULSA KING SEASON 2
SEPTEMBER 15
The first season of Sly Stallone’s Emmy-nominated crime drama about a mob boss banished to the backwater of Tulsa, Oklahoma, after serving 25 years for murder was an absolute blast and finished with Dwight “The General” Menfredi being arrested on bribery charges. Out on bail and like countless Mafia kingpins before him, he’s trying to build something “that will eventually allow us to go legit” with his rag-tag crew, while also keeping his family safe. But as rival gangsters from Kansas City, led by Frank Grillo’s Bill Bevilaqua, make their presence felt, and a powerful local business man (Suits’ Neil McDonough) trying to protect his turf, expect plenty of bloody confrontations with men in sharp suits wielding blunt instruments.
FRASIER SEASON 2
SEPTEMBER 20
There were plenty of raised eyebrows when Kelsey Grammar announced he was bringing back his much loved, Emmy-hoovering sitcom after nearly 20 years off the air. As it turned out, it was a pleasure to have the uptight but affable psychiatrist back in our lives. After moving back to his native Boston (home of Cheers, where the character was first introduced in 1982) to reconnect with his firefighter son Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott), the series introduced a bunch of new characters connected to Frasier’s new gig at Harvard. This season is also promising a return to his radio roots at KACL in a Seattle-themed episode, with fan favourite Peri Gilpin returning as the acerbic producer Roz.
ALSO SHOWING:
Tiny Chef Show Season Two – September 4
Ridiculousness Season 36 – September 4
Dora Season 2 – September 13
Really Loud House Season 2 – September 18
Nothin’ But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of ‘80s Hair Metal – September 18
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation Season 7 – September 21
WHAT TO WATCH ON PRIME VIDEO
THE GRAND TOUR: ONE FOR THE ROAD
SEPTEMBER 13
For those who argue that Top Gear has never been the same since they left and those who enjoy the company of three ageing blokes driving cool cars and saying inappropriate things comes this swan song of sorts for Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. In what’s billed as their last Grand Tour, the bickering trio head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own, a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag, for a stunning road trip through beautiful and sometimes challenging landscapes.
A VERY ROYAL SCANDAL
SEPTEMBER 19
We’ve already been treated to one dramatised version of Prince Andrew’s 2019 car-crash interview with BBC journalist Emily Maitlis with movie Scoop released on Netflix earlier this year. But the story of the disgraced royal trying desperately to explain his association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is so bizarrely compelling that it’s sure to justify this new three-part series directed by Julian Jarrold, who has regal form from episodes of The Crown as well as the 2015 comedy A Royal Night Out. Michael Sheen, who has played real life figures from Tony Blair to David Frost, slips into the expensive suit to play Andrew, while The Affair’s Ruth Wilson plays his interrogator Maitlis.
ALSO SHOWING:
Call Me Bae – September 1
Elisabeth Rioux: Unfiltered – September 6
The Grand Tour – September 13
Killer Heat – September 26
STREAMING ON DISNEY+ IN SEPTEMBER
AGATHA ALL ALONG
SEPTEMBER 19
After winning plaudits as the witchy nemesis of Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff/Scarlett Witch in the acclaimed WandaVision, Katherine Hahn’s Agatha Harkness gets her own Marvel Cinematic Universe TV spin-off. With the same creative team in place, led by showrunner Jac Schaeffer, it picks up where that show left off, with Agatha trapped in Westview, New Jersey, stripped of her magic. When she finally escapes with the help of a goth teen, she sets out on a dangerous quest along the Witches’ Road to regain her powers and assembles a coven to help survive the journey. Broadway great Patti LuPone and the always watchable Aubrey Plaza also join the cast.
ALSO SHOWING:
Tell Me Lies Season 2 – September 4
The Secret Lies of Mormon Wives – September 6
Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – September 13
An Oprah Special: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Us – September 27
WHAT TO WATCH ON APPLE TV+
SLOW HORSES
SEPTEMBER 5
One of the best shows on TV just keeps getting better in its fourth season, which is adapted from Mick Herron’s Spook Street, the fifth book in his Slough House series of spy novels. Oscar-winner Gary Oldman looks like he’s having the time of his life as the wily, grubby, flatulent, hard-drinking MI5 agent Jackson Lamb, the leader of the band of outcasts and misfits that give the show its title. This time River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) heads to France as he becomes embroiled in a terror plot that has close family ties, while Aussie veteran Hugo Weaving shows his versatility as a menacing rogue CIA agent.
WOLFS
SEPTEMBER 27
Having proven that their real-life friendship translated to an easy rapport on screen in the Ocean’s movies, George Clooney and Brad Pitt turn rivals in this eagerly anticipated comedy-action movie. Written and directed by Jon Watts, who oversaw Tom Holland’s Spider-Man trilogy, it follows two professional underworld “fixers” who are used to running their own show but are forced to work together when they are hired for the same job. Hopes must be high – a sequel has already been greenlit with director and the two leads all returning.
ALSO SHOWING:
La Maison – September 20
Midnight Family – September 25
TOP SHOWS THIS MONTH ON NETFLIX
THE PERFECT COUPLE
SEPTEMBER 5
Nicole Kidman teams up with Liev Schreiber, the ex of her bestie Naomi Watts, to play a “kill someone and get away with it rich” couple in this six-part adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s 2018 novel of the same name. The Aussie Oscar-winner looks to be in intimidatingly icy form as the matriarch of one of the wealthiest families in ritzy seaside Nantucket, with Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson (The Knick, Bad Sisters) as the daughter-in-law-to-be she doesn’t want. And when a body is found on the beach, everyone becomes a suspect.
MONSTERS: THE LYLE AND ARIK MENENDEZ STORY
SEPTEMBER 19
When Jose and Kitty Menendez were murdered in their $22 million estate in Beverly Hills in 1989, it looked for all the world that their children Lyle and Erik were prepared to go to brutal and extreme measures to get their inheritance early. But in the second instalment in Ryan Murphy’s true crime anthology series after his divisive Jeffrey Dahmer story, he explores the darker factors at play, with allegations of years of abuse against the boys by their father. Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny play Jose and Kitty, while Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch play the sons who were locked up for life in 1996.
ALSO SHOWING:
Apollo 13: Survival – September 5
Rebel Ridge – September 6
Selling Sunset: Season 8 – September 6
Uglies – September 13
Emily In Paris Season 4 Part 2 – September 12
His Three Daughters – September 20
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