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.

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49 American Gigolo: Season 1

Drama series debuts September 11 on Showtime (September 9 on Showtime apps and VOD)

Jon Bernthal stars as Julian Kaye—a role first portrayed by Richard Gere—in Showtime's series adaptation of Paul Schrader's 1980 movie of the same name. Tracing a somewhat similar story but from a different time perspective, the eight-episode series follows the one-time male escort Kaye after he completes a 15-year prison sentence for a murder that he didn't commit. Now, he must attempt to rebuild his life and find out who put him behind bars and why. Gretchen Mol, Rosie O'Donnell, Leland Orser, Lizzie Brocheré, and Gabriel LaBelle also star, while Wayne Brady and Melora Walters guest. The TV adaptation, which has been in development since 2016, comes from David Hollander (Heartland)—though he was removed as showrunner in April following a misconduct investigation—and is produced, like the film, by Jerry Bruckheimer.

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