16 New Things To Stream In September
ALL OR NOTHING: TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Amazon got a bit more than they bargained for when they sent the cameras into north London for this behind-the-scenes look at Tottenham’s 2019-20 season. A poor start to the campaign prompts the club’s board to sack popular and successful coach Mauricio Pochettino and replace him with Jose Mourinho. As a result, this series is the only way you’ll find out why the Special One keeps a signed picture of Vinnie Jones in his office and how he really reacts to criticism from TV pundits.
Out now
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CHEF’S TABLE BBQ
Netflix’s popular Chef’s Table programme takes a deep dive into BBQ cooking for this new four-part series. It profiles chefs and pitmasters including Tootsie Tomantez, a Texan grandmother who still shovels the coals at her restaurant aged 85; Lennox Hastie, an Aussie who sources his ingredients only from the Outback; and American grill star Rodney Scott, who’s known for his whole hog barbies. The series finale focuses on Mexico’s Rosalia Chay Chuc, who reveals the origins of the artform.
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I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK
This six-part HBO series is based on the bestseller by Michelle McNamara (which you might’ve heard about recently here). Like the late McNamara’s book, it dials back on the shock tactics to explore how a victim-blaming culture enabled the Golden State Killer to murder more than a dozen people and rape over 50 in northern California in the 70s and 80s.
Out now
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YOUNG WALLANDER
Across six episodes, this new series tells the story of Kurt Wallander’s very first case. In the noughties, the Swedish detective became a household name in the UK when Kenneth Branagh played him in a BBC adaptation of Henning Mankell’s novels. Young Wallander goes back to a time before the novels, when a rookie Wallander investigates a hate crime that sparks civil unrest.
Out now
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THE BOYS
The second season of Amazon’s satirical anti-superhero series ratchets up the desperation for its titular bunch of misfits. The Boys must once again rein in the worst excesses of the Superheroes, who continue to be controlled by an evil corporation that seeks only to monetise their special powers. Widespread panic about the threat of the Supervillains is seen by the arrogant corporates as just another money-making opportunity, meaning it’s the Boys who must really step up.
Available from 4th September
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I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
Oscar winner Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) has written and directed this adaptation of Iain Reid’s bestseller about the limits of the human mind. Jessie Buckley (Chernobyl) is a young woman visiting her boyfriend’s family on a remote farm. Trapped there by a snowstorm, she starts to question a few things. Jesse Plemons (Vice, The Post), Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine, Unbelievable) and David Thewlis (Naked, Wonder Woman) round out a cast of serious players.
Available from 4th September
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MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
Underwater in a South African kelp forest, Craig Foster challenges species boundaries to build a relationship with an octopus in this singular standalone documentary. Foster, a career filmmaker, was in an existential rut when he started diving daily in the freezing waters at the bottom of Africa. A year later, he had built a unique picture of a strange, curious animal’s remarkable life.
Available from 7th September
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The Social Dilemma
This important Netflix Original documentary shines a light on the dark side of social media. Guided by insiders who helped build the monster – including the man who invented Facebook’s ‘like’ button – it reveals how digital platforms quietly exploit human psychology for their own ends, fomenting anxiety and depression.
Available from 9th September
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THE THIRD DAY
Jude Law and Naomie Harris star in this three-act psychological thriller set on a strange island off the British coast. In ‘Summer’, Sam (Law) leaves the mainland and discovers an island idyll that he struggles to leave. ‘Autumn’ zooms in on the events of a single day, then ‘Winter’ follows Helen (Harris) as she too is drawn to the island in search of answers.
Available from 15th September
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THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME
The latest big-budget Netflix Original film is an epic Southern gothic drama that tracks a weird rural community from the end of World War 2 through to the 60s. Tom Holland is Arvin Russell, a god-fearing young man encircled by sinister characters including an unholy preacher (Robert Pattinson), a corrupt sheriff and a strange couple called the Hendersons.
Available from 16th September
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LONG WAY UP
Back in 2007, Ewan McGregor and his best mate Charley Boorman rode their motorbikes from Scotland to South Africa for a BBC series called Long Way Down. More than a decade later, the pair have found time in their schedules to make Long Way Up, which sees them riding electric Harley-Davidsons from the southern tip of Argentina to LA. They pass through 13 countries, meeting some special people and seeing some remarkable sights as they go.
Available from 18th September
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RATCHED
Nurse Mildred Ratched is one of the memorable characters from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, the Ken Kesey novel that became a classic film starring Jack Nicholson. Almost half a century after the movie, Ratched gets her own origin story. Arriving in California just after World War 2, she applies for a job at a cutting-edge psychiatric hospital and begins to infiltrate the system…
Available from 18th September
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The Playbook
This new series profiles the greatest coaches from a range of sports on both sides of the Atlantic. It sits down for intimate chats with the likes of Jose Mourinho, LA Clippers basketball boss Doc Rivers and tennis guru Patrick Mouratoglou to identify the breakthrough moments that shaped their lives, careers and coaching philosophies.
Available from 22nd September
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TEHRAN
Apple TV’s first foreign-language series is Tehran, an eight-part spy thriller from the chief writer of Israeli series Fauda. Young Israeli actress Niv Sultan stars as a Mossad agent and hacker who must go deep undercover on a dangerous mission to Iran. When the mission fails, she goes off radar and starts to rediscover her Iranian roots.
Available from 25th September
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UTOPIA
John Cusack stars in Amazon’s remake of the Channel 4 series of the same name. A group of young nerds realise the conspiracy in a rare comic is real, forcing them into the unfamiliar role of mankind’s saviours. Cusack, in his first small-screen lead role, is a bio-technician who wants to change the world. Look out too for Rainn Wilson (Dwight in the American version of The Office) playing another scientist struggling for credibility.
Available from 25th September
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THE COMEY RULE
Jeff Daniels (The Martian, The Looming Tower) is ex-FBI director James Comey and Brendan Gleeson (Gangs of New York, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs) is Donald Trump in this two-part adaptation of Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty. Focusing on the 2016 US presidential election and its aftermath, The Comey Rule explores the clash of two powerful forces with opposing personalities, ethics and loyalties.
Available from 30th September
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