New TV and Streaming This Week: 31 – 6 September 2026
Summer is winding down, but the UK’s TV and streaming services are refusing to slow down with it. The first week of September 2026 brings a genuinely eclectic slate of new television: a Guy Ritchie crime saga returning with sharper teeth, a sweeping Mexican period romance, a sobering documentary marking a quarter-century since 9/11, a beloved motoring show reborn with an entirely new trio behind the wheel, a college football comedy raising its stakes, a veteran comedian fighting to stay relevant, and a chillingly immersive war-room drama from Sky. Whether you’re a Netflix loyalist, an Amazon Prime Video regular, or someone who flits between Disney+, Paramount+ and NOW depending on the night, there is something arriving this week worth clearing your schedule for. Here’s everything you need to know.
Netflix: The Gentlemen Season 2
Streaming from Thursday 3 September
Guy Ritchie’s aristocratic crime caper returns for a second run, with Theo James back as Edward “Eddie” Horniman, the reluctant Duke of Halstead who inherited a country estate along with an enormous illegal marijuana empire he never asked for. Season two finds Eddie attempting to take his newfound criminal enterprise international, expanding operations overseas even as he’s forced to contend with the increasingly erratic and unpredictable behaviour of rival kingpin Eddie Glass. Expect the same blend of poshness and pistols that made the first season a global hit: sharp suits, sharper dialogue, and a plot that treats double-crosses as a competitive sport. Ritchie’s world of gangsters rubbing shoulders with the landed gentry proved to be one of Netflix’s more stylish pleasures on debut, and the early buzz suggests season two leans even further into the culture clash at its heart. If you enjoyed the film that spawned this universe, or simply have a soft spot for criminals in tweed, this is the pick of the week.
Netflix: Lovesick (Mal de Amores)
Streaming from Wednesday 2 September
Netflix continues to invest heavily in Mexican original drama, and this seven-episode series is its latest big swing. Created, produced and directed by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta, the show follows Emilia Sauri (played by Renata Vaca), a young woman with dreams of becoming a doctor who finds herself torn between two very different men against the backdrop of a nation in upheaval. Daniel Cuenca is the dashing revolutionary who first inspired her ambitions as a child, while Antonio Zavalza is a physician quietly seeking peace amid the chaos of wartime Mexico. As Emilia’s romantic entanglements deepen, so too does the tension between her heart and her professional calling, all set against a sweeping account of the country’s political evolution. Billed by some critics as a spiritual successor to grand costume romances, it’s a handsome, emotionally rich watch for anyone after something a little more old-fashioned than the usual streaming fare.
Netflix: Turning Point: Generation 9/11
Streaming from Wednesday 2 September
Twenty-five years on from the September 11 attacks, Netflix’s acclaimed Turning Point documentary strand returns with a five-part instalment examining not just the day itself, but the generation that grew up in its shadow. The series traces the road to the attacks on the World Trade Center, the wars that followed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the long psychological toll inflicted on American society and beyond. Crucially, it widens its lens to include voices rarely centred in retrospectives of this kind: children who lost parents that day, young Afghans who have known nothing but the conflict that followed, and the Marines sent to fight it. It’s a heavy watch, but a timely and important one, arriving just ahead of the anniversary itself and offering a thoughtful rather than sensationalist take on a defining historical moment.
Prime Video: The Grand Tour
Streaming from Friday 4 September
After Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May bowed out of Amazon’s flagship TV and streaming motoring show, many assumed The Grand Tour had reached the end of the road. Instead, Prime Video is handing the keys to an entirely new trio: trainspotter-turned-motoring-enthusiast Francis Bourgeois, and Throttle House YouTubers James Engelsman and Thomas Holland. The new six-part series sees the fresh-faced hosts tackle motoring’s most pressing, and most delightfully absurd, questions across some of the world’s toughest terrain, with adventures filmed in Angola, Malaysia and California. Bourgeois, a qualified mechanical engineer who can reportedly identify a car by the sound of its engine alone, brings genuine technical chops alongside his famously enthusiastic on-camera energy, while Engelsman and Holland bring the irreverent chemistry that made their YouTube channel a hit. Early previews describe the new lineup as “in no way cardboard cutouts of the old three” — reassurance that longtime fans will want to hear before hitting play.
Disney+: Chad Powers Season 2
Streaming from Thursday 3 September
Glen Powell’s sports comedy returns for a second season, streaming exclusively on Disney+ in the UK, with all six episodes dropping at once rather than the weekly rollout of season one. Powell reprises his dual role as disgraced college quarterback Russ Holliday, who continues to pose as walk-on player Chad Powers to keep his football career alive. This time, Chad has become a genuine star on the field, but his increasingly odd behaviour off it is raising eyebrows, particularly from Coach Jake Hudson (Steve Zahn) and teammate Gerry. As the lie threatens to spiral out of control, Chad and his confidant Danny must turn to an unlikely ally to survive the season and push the team toward the College Football Playoff. It’s breezy, big-hearted comfort viewing with a strong comic hook, and binge-watchers will appreciate not having to wait week to week this time around.
Paramount+: The Varnell Hill Show
Streaming from Tuesday 1 September
Paramount+ opens the month with the first two episodes of this new comedy, which catches up with fictional entertainer Varnell Hill nearly three decades after he first appeared on screen, now fighting to stay relevant in a rapidly changing entertainment landscape. Set behind the scenes of a long-running late-night talk show, the eight-episode series digs into network pressure, a chaotic writers’ room, demanding celebrity guests, family drama and Varnell’s own considerable ego, asking whether he can hold his television empire together as successfully as he built it. The cast includes Tommy Davidson, Kym Whitley and Wendy Raquel Robinson, and the show’s satirical eye on the entertainment industry should appeal to anyone who enjoys a good showbiz send-up.
Sky & NOW: The Wargame
TV and streaming on Sky and NOW this September
Rounding out the week is one of Sky’s most talked-about commissions of the year. The Wargame is a four-part series that blends constructed documentary with propulsive drama, placing real senior political, military and intelligence figures into a simulated crisis room. Set six months in the future, the scenario imagines a hypothetical Russian attack on UK soil, forcing participants to respond in real time to rolling news bulletins, social media footage and intelligence reports as a rival team of Russia experts tries to out-manoeuvre them. With cross-party figures including Michael Gove and Nicola Sturgeon taking part, the series has been billed by its makers as “a provocative stress test on our leaders, our institutions and the country itself.” Sky has confirmed a September launch on Sky and NOW, and given its premise, it’s likely to be one of the most-discussed pieces of factual TV and streaming of the year.
The Bottom Line
From gangster sequels to geopolitical simulations, the first week of September proves there’s rarely a quiet moment in UK TV and streaming. Netflix leads the pack with three very different new offerings, Prime Video reinvents one of its most beloved formats from scratch, and Disney+ and Paramount+ both offer reliably entertaining comedy. Add Sky’s ambitious factual gamble into the mix, and it’s shaping up to be one of the more varied weeks of new television this year. Clear some space in the diary — your watchlist just got considerably longer.
