Streaming gets Stronger with New and Returning Shows in September 2024

Still reeling from the writers strike, Network TV is a bit of a wash out this year. It's not all bad news though, as streaming does bring some interesting viewing options, starting with The Perfect Couple. Nicole Kidman leads a stellar cast in this dramedy who-dunnit, when a body washes up on the beach where the son of a rich family is marrying his out of town girlfriend. Everyone has motive and everyone is a suspect in this miniseries based on the best-selling novel of the same name. Kidman, known for being a movie star, has been shockingly present on the small screen for the last few years, with Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Nine Perfect Strangers, Lioness, and just this year, Expats.

The latest Batman movie, that was at least better than the previous still-canon(?) Batman movie, gave us an off-shoot, in The Penguin. Colin Farrell dons a fat suit to portray Cobblepot on his rise in the criminal underworld of Gotham. Or Gotham, as most would say. We've yet to see how or why setting a Batman adversary in a Batman-less series plays out, but it should be interesting with the talent involved. Maybe just watch the recent Caped Crusader if you need your manBat fix.

FINALLY Agatha All Along hits Disney+, more than 3 years after Wandavision (the first real MCU show) introduced the character. First named House of Harkness in 2021, it was renamed to Coven of Chaos in 2022, and 2023 saw another rebrand to Darkhold Diaries. But as we now know, it was (just) Agatha All Along, a HILARIOUS call back to the Emmy Award winning 60 second song in the parent series. Sigh… Still, Kathryn Hahn is great, and this should hopefully be an interesting series, but like Penguin, how many people are interested in the Avenger adversary, without the Avenger? Marvel vs DC B-Team on streaming this month… fight!

Fight you say? Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist brings Don Cheadle, Kevin Hart, and Samuel L Jackson and a whole string of A-listers to the true-ish story of a heist gone wrong on the eve of Muhammad Ali's legendary 1970 comeback fight. Unlike your usually heist capers (a la Oceans Eleven) our anti-heroes are the victims of both the heist and the fallout. Mob bosses and petty criminals find themselves hunting the same people as the police, but everyone has their own agenda for doing so.

On Apple TV+ critically acclaimed Slow Horses returns for its fourth season. Ramping the stakes up, Jackson Lamb and his team are tasked with stopping a catastrophic event in London. Like its own name, Slow Horses took a while to gain recognition, but Season 3 went and grabbed NINE Emmy nominations, and a bunch of new viewers. On AMC, one of the last surviving Walking Dead shows returns, with Daryl Dixon trying to get home from his European holiday. He had a pretty rough first season, met some people he didn't like, found a new type of zombie, got stuck on a boat. Season 2 should find him back in his usual happy place when he is rejoined by Carol, who turned up at the last moment in Season 1. Good news for fans of the couple, the show was renewed for a third season recently, which will see Daryl & Carol extend their eurotrip into Spain. From, another show that slipped passed most in its first season, is now back for a third out. Blending mystery, horror, and psychological drama, it has garnered critical acclaim, and the hype for Season 3 is at a fever pitch. If you have so far missed this show, this is your sign to get caught up before the terror begins once again... 

Check out these and the best of the rest New and Returning shows below:

Streaming TV Shows Premiering in September 2024

The Penguin

Season 1 Starts 19th September // HBO // Crime

Official Synopsis: "Witness the transformation of Oswald Cobblepot from a disfigured nobody to a noted Gotham gangster. The Penguin makes a play to seize the reins of the crime world in Gotham."

Agatha All Along

Season 1 Starts 18th September // Disney+ // Fantasy

Official Synopsis: "The infamous Agatha Harkness finds herself down and out of power after a suspicious goth Teen helps break her free from a distorted spell. Her interest is piqued when he begs her to take him on the legendary Witches Road, a magical gauntlet of trials that, if survived, rewards a witch with what they're missing. Together, Agatha and this mysterious Teen pull together a desperate coven, and set off down, down, down The Road..."

The Perfect Couple

Season 1 Starts 5th September // Netflix // Crime

Official Synopsis: "Amelia is about to marry into one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket, until a shocking death derails the wedding - and turns everyone into a suspect."

Grotesquerie

Season 1 Starts 25th September // FX // Supernatural

Official Synopsis: "A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community. Detective Lois Tryon feels these crimes are eerily personal, as if someone - or something - is taunting her. With no leads and unsure of where to turn, she accepts the help of Sister Megan, a nun and journalist with the Catholic Guardian. As they string together clues, they find themselves ensnared in a sinister web that only seems to raise more questions than answers."

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist

Season 1 Starts 5th September // Peacock // Crime

Official Synopsis: "It will tell the story of how on the night of Ali's defeat of Jerry Quarry, which came after he was banned from boxing for refusing to enter the military draft, hundreds of guests at an after-party were robbed at gunpoint, becoming one of the largest armed robberies the country has ever seen."

English Teacher

Season 1 Starts 2nd September // FX // Comedy

Official Synopsis: "A high school teacher in Austin is trying to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seem to change every day."

American Sports Story

Season 1 Starts 17th September // FX // Drama

Official Synopsis: "An anthology focused on prominent events involving a sports figure, re-examined through the prism of today's world and telling the story from multiple perspectives."

Streaming TV Shows Returning in September 2024

Slow Horses

Season 4 Returns 4th September // Network: Apple TV+ // Spys

Official Synopsis: "After a botched and publicly embarrassing training mission, British MI5 agent River Cartwright is exiled to Slough House, an administrative purgatory for service rejects. Known as slow horses, Cartwright and his fellow employees must endure dull, paper pushing tasks and their miserable boss, Jackson Lamb, who expects them to quit out of boredom and frustration. Life in Slough House is defined by drudgery until the slow horses become entangled in a dangerous gambit by Regent's Park."

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

Season 2 Returns 29th September // Network: AMC // Horror

Official Synopsis: "Daryl Dixon washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. He journeys across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan - to get home."

The Old Man

Season 2 Returns 12th September // Network: FX // Action

Official Synopsis: "Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and has been living off the grid since. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past. With Dan Chase flushed out of hiding, the FBI's Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Harold Harper is called on to hunt him down because of his complicated past with the rogue fugitive. Working alongside Harper is his protage Angela Adams and CIA Special Agent Raymond Waters. When Chase proves to be more difficult to apprehend than the authorities expected, Julian Carson, a highly trained special ops contractor, is sent to pursue him as well. While on the run, Chase rents a room from Zoe McDonald who draws on reserves she never knew she had in order to survive the day when she learns the truth about her new tenant."

Tulsa King

Season 2 Returns 15th September // Network: Paramount+ // Crime

Official Synopsis: "Just after he is released from prison after 25 years, New York mafia capo Dwight 'The General' Manfredi is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a 'crew' from a group of unlikely characters, to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet."

Frasier (2023)

Season 2 Returns 19th September // Network: Paramount+ // Comedy

Official Synopsis: "Shortly after the death of his father Martin and the end of his nearly 20-year relationship with Charlotte, Dr. Frasier Crane has returned to Boston. Hoping for a better relationship with his son, Frederick, now a Boston firefighter, Frasier takes a professorship at Harvard University and moves into Freddy's apartment building. With the help of his family and his new colleagues, Frasier is about to embark on his "third act"."

From

Season 3 Returns 22nd September // Network: MGM+ // Supernatural

Official Synopsis: "Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest - including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down."