My Top Choices for September TV

With September just a few days away, TV viewers should be getting ready for the 2023-2024 Fall TV season to get underway. But, as we all know, the strikes by both writers and actors have basically brought the entertainment industry to a grinding halt where new products are concerned.

But, that hasn’t stopped the major and cable networks as well as all of the streaming services from working hard to bring as much new content as they have available.

Among all of the programming options set for September, the following are what I’m most looking forward to watching throughout the month:

NEW SHOWS

One of the few new shows that will air as part of Fall TV on the major networks is the NBC drama The Irrational, which will debut on September 25 at 10 PM. Starring Broadway and TV veteran Jesse L. Martin, the former The Flash star, will play Alec Mercer, a world-renowned leader in behavioral science who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, law enforcement and corporations with his unique and unexpected approach to understanding human behavior.

On the other spectrum, Amazon will see the first three episodes of Gen V, the spin-off series of The Boys, debuting on September 29. The series gives a peek into life at Godolkin University, America’s only college exclusively for young-adult superheroes, run by Vought International, exploring the training of the first generation of superheroes to know about Compound V, and that their powers were injected into them, rather than God-given.

PREMIERES

Meanwhile, during the first week of the month, TV viewers can watch the second season of The Wheel of Time on Amazon starting on September 1 and then on September 7, the first 10 episodes of the fifth season of Virgin River will air on Netflix.

FINALES

Also during the first few days of September, the finale of the Amazon drama The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart will air on September 1 while the finale of Special Ops: Lioness will air on September 3 on Paramount+.

SPECIAL

If you’re looking for a good laugh, you don’t need to look any further than I Am Groot, which will have 5 new shorts airing on Disney+ on September 6. The troublemaking twig returns to mischief in the second season, finding himself exploring the universe and beyond aboard the Guardians’ spaceships, coming face-to-face – or nose-to-nose – with new and colorful creatures and environments.

MOVIES

Out of the 23 made-for-TV movies that will air throughout September, I’ve shortened that list down to my top 8. They are listed in chronological order:

September 8 – Guiding Emily on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at 9 PM. Grey’s Anatomy and Everwood star Sarah Drew will play a woman named Emily, whose life veers off course when she becomes permanently blind after an unfortunate rock-climbing accident and struggles to cope with her new reality. Meanwhile, a potential guide dog named Garth (voiced by Eric McCormack) is also struggling with his rigorous training. With the help of Emily’s friend Matthew (Antonio Cupo) and Garth’s trainer Katie (Sharon Taylor), both make headway in their important transitions. Through a series of missed encounters, both overcome their obstacles and Garth ends up being paired with Emily. With Garth by her side Emily takes on her biggest challenge yet, opening her heart.

September 9 – Ryan Paevey and When Calls the Heart alum Pascale Hutton star in the Hallmark Channel Fourth Down and Love at 8 PM. Ryan is a pro football player and Pascale is a single mom, who met on her daughter’s flag football field after his career is interrupted by a sports injury.

September 15 – Roswell, New Mexico star Heather Hemmens and former Eureka alum Niall Matter star in the military-themed Come Fly With Me that will air at 9 PM on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

September 15 – Netflix will pair Haley Lu Richardson (The White Lotus and Five Feet Apart) and Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody and X-Men: Apocalypse) in Love at First Sight playing a plucky America who loves literature and a UK statistics major respectively, who meet on a flight to London – one long date for them – but then they lose track of each other in customs.

September 15 – Michael Pena will portray NASA flight engineer José Hernández, who went from migrant farm worker to the International Space Station, in the movie A Million Miles Away that will debut on Amazon.

September 16 – Jodie Sweetin (Full House and Fuller House) will star alongside Brent Bailey (online’s Emma Approved) will star in Craft Me a Romance at 8 PM on Great American Family. While I’d prefer not to watch this network, and for that matter Sweetin herself expressed concerns about the movie being picked up by this “conservative” network, I’ll tune in to see both of these actors in this movie about arts and craft business owners who are forced to work together.

September 22 – Two of my personal favorites: Gina Rodriguez (from Jane the Virgin) and Zachary Levi (from Chuck and Shazam) will star in the revival of the Spy Kids movie franchise on Netflix. Spy Kids: Armageddon will find two secret agents, and the world, being saved by their kids.

September 28 – Australian singer-actress Delta Goodrem (from Neighbours and the Olivia Newton-John movie Hopelessly Devoted to You) will star alongside Galavant and Monarch hunk Joshua Sasse in the Netflix movie Love Is In the Air. The flick focuses on an independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat while she starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.

Our full September TV calendar went live yesterday. Please check it out and let us know what you’re anxious to watch.