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The 10 Best Things Coming to Netflix in September 2026
Reboots, revivals and Mr. T lead the lineup this season
Joely Richardson as Lady Sabrina in “The Gentlemen,” coming to Netflix Sept. 3.
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And just like that, the summer is over and it’s time to shift our sights to autumn. So let's get a head start by checking out the bounty of small-screen offerings from Netflix this month. We’ve handpicked the 10 titles we're most looking forward to in September.
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Coming Sept. 1
SCTV
In the fall of 1976, less than year after NBC ushered in a new kind of sketch-comedy show with Saturday Night Live, a group of kinder, gentler and, arguably, funnier, comedians from the Great White North birthed this deliriously silly competitor. Over the course of its wonderful six-season run, the show became a launching pad for performers such as John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Martin Short. Long unavailable on streaming anywhere, all six seasons of SCTV are finally making their long-awaited debut on Netflix. You can thank us later.
Coming Sept. 3
The Gentlemen, Season 2
British director Guy Ritchie, 57, can’t seem to decide if he wants to be the kind of titled blue blood who wears tweed and throws hunting parties or if he wants to down pints in the pub with East End street toughs. With The Gentlemen, he gets to inhabit both. The series follows a reluctant duke (Theo James) who’s trying to establish himself in the criminal underworld. The wildly enjoyable show is fast-paced, stylish as heck and loaded with belly laughs and pulpy violence. Season 2 promises more of the same with some familiar faces along for the ride: Giancarlo Esposito, 68, Ray Winstone, 69, and Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville, 62.
Coming Sept. 8
Untold Mr. T: I Pity the Fool
It’s hard to overstate what an awesome sight Mr. T was when he first appeared on the pop culture landscape back in the early ’80s. The mohawk. The gold chains. The barked catchphrase: “I pity the fool!” Between Rocky III and the hit show The A-Team, the man born Laurence Tureaud, now 74, was everywhere for a while … until all of a sudden he wasn’t. What happened? The latest installment in the nostalgia-happy sports docuseries Untold is on the case to chronicle his rise-from-the-projects ascent and his unlikely moment in the public eye.
Coming Sept. 9
Why Did I Get Married Again?
The third installment in Tyler Perry’s hijinks-heavy rom-com franchise sends the longtime group of friends to Italy for the destination wedding of Jasmine (Armani Greer) and Wesley (Everett Osborne). The nuptials reunites returning series favorites like Jill Scott, 54, Michael Jai White, 58, and Tasha Smith, 55. But this time around, you’ll also want to keep a special eye out for the scene-stealing mother of the groom, played by Taraji P. Henson, 55. Don’t worry, you don’t need to have seen the other Why Did I Get Married? films, but if you really want to do your homework, both are also available.
Coming Sept. 10
Call My Agent! The Movie
This French-language entertainment industry satire became a pandemic hit for Netflix thanks in part to its laughing-gas mix of glamor and celebrity (including a who’s who of famous European movie stars, like Monica Bellucci, 61, and Juliette Binoche, 62). In fact, the Paris-set show proved to be so popular that it’s now graduated to feature-film length for its latest chapter. Don’t let the subtitles put you off; this is a first-rate comedy import that skewers showbiz with a certain, how do you say, je ne sais quoi. Word has it there’s a cameo from Hollywood expat George Clooney, 65.
NFL Melbourne Game Live
Netflix steps up its quest for ratings dominance with a new handful of NFL games for the 2026–2027 season, including this bit of gridiron thunder from Down Under. The San Francisco 49ers will square off against the Los Angeles Rams in the first regular-season pro football game ever played in Australia. The game airs live, so if you live on the East Coast, you’ll need to tune in at 10:35 a.m. As for those of you on the West Coast, well, you’ll probably need to set your alarm clock … which kind of defeats the purpose of Sundays, if you ask us.
Coming Sept. 17
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
Every former schoolkid knows the dark nursery rhyme about the 19th-century murderer Lizzie Borden having an axe and giving her father 40 whacks. Well, now Borden’s got her very own season of Ryan Murphy’s lurid Monster series, following in the bloody footsteps of previous subjects Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein and the Menendez brothers. Ella Beatty (daughter of A-list parents Warren and Annette) plays the notorious Lizzie. The eight-episode series also stars Sarah Paulson, 51, Vicky Krieps, Charlie Hunnam and Rebecca Hall.
Coming Sept. 24
A Different World, Season 1
Back in 1987, NBC’s Cosby Show spin-off A Different World followed Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet, 58) as she flew the coop to become a freshman at Hillman College. The show did well enough to stick around for six seasons (although Bonet left much earlier), forever lodging itself in the hearts and minds of a large swath of Gen X. And since pop culture demands that all once-beloved IP be repackaged and rebooted, we now have this new series, which, thankfully, brings back original cast members Jasmine Guy, 64, and Kadeem Hardison, 61, as parents with kids at their old alma mater.
Coming Sept. 25
Unabomber
Russell Crowe top-lines this buzzy Netflix original movie about Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematics prodigy who turned terrorist and orchestrated a decades-long mail-bombing campaign that would take the lives of three victims and injure 23 more. Jacob Tremblay (Room) stars as the impressionable, college-age Kaczynski, while Oscar-winner Crowe, 62, plays a controversial Harvard psychology professor. Shailene Woodley and Annabelle Wallis round out the ensemble.
Coming Sept. 30
The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part
Folks like to complain about Netflix the way they complain about the weather, but one thing the streaming giant has always done exceptionally well is true crime documentaries. And this one certainly looks like a doozy. A journalist and a detective join forces to unravel a 30-year-old cold-case mystery involving a charming, charismatic predator and his string of spouses, who all suffered suspicious deaths.
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