What to Watch in September: 16 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – August 30, 2022

The month ahead will bring Amazon's long-awaited Lord of the Rings series, Disney's rescheduled Star Wars series Andor, Netflix's controversial Marilyn Monroe biopic, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

10 of 19 photo by Serguei Bachlakov/NBC

57 Quantum Leap (2022): Season 1

Drama series debuts September 19 on NBC

One of just two new NBC shows this fall—and that's before NBC eliminates its 10:00 hour—Quantum Leap is a reboot of the beloved 1989-93 NBC series that originally starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, who used an experimental time travel device to temporarily inhabit the bodies of various people throughout recent history, using each "leap" to correct a mistake. The new series actually continues the story and basic episodic anthology format and finds a new scientific team (including the new traveler, played by Raymond Lee, plus Caitlin Bassett, and Ernie Hudson, among others) restarting the project three decades later.

Peacock subscribers can also catch every episode of the original Quantum Leap series, which was recently added to the streaming service.

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