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The Best New TV Shows to Stream in Australia: September 2026
Don't want to be left out of lunch break conversations of what's hot in the world of streaming right now? Here's what you need to watch ASAP.
Wondering what to watch in Australia this September? The new TV calendar is stacked, with The Gentlemen Season 2, Crew Girl and Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story landing on Netflix, Slow Horses Season 6 and Brothers heading to Apple TV, Sharon Horgan’s Youth arriving on HBO Max and High Country: What Lies Beneath returning to BINGE.
There’s plenty beyond September worth bookmarking too. Florence Pugh leads Netflix’s East of Eden, Mike Flanagan takes on Stephen King’s Carrie, Sienna Miller and Dominic West wage an almighty divorce battle in War, and new versions of Pride and Prejudice and Harry Potter are still to come.
From addictive new dramas and returning favourites to true crime, comedy, reality TV and the next YA obsession, these are the best new TV shows streaming in Australia now and coming soon.
In This Guide
What’s New on Netflix Australia in September 2026
Crew Girl
If you’re still recovering from Off Campus, the hockey boys can have a night off. Netflix’s next YA sports-romance obsession is putting its love triangle in a rowing shell. After a family scandal sends gifted 16-year-old sculler Teagan Tao to elite Easton Prep, she discovers the school has no girls’ rowing team and talks her way onto the notoriously unruly boys’ crew as coxswain. Winning them over would be complicated enough without golden boy Josh and underestimated local Cam entering the equation. There are old-money school grounds, ruthless competition, muddy training sessions and, according to star Miku Martineau herself, “a lot of abs”. Sold.
Streaming on Netflix from September 10th
Earle Meets World
TikTok made Alix Earle famous by making millions of followers feel like they were getting ready with a friend. Now Netflix is taking the camera out of her hands. Earle Meets World follows the 25-year-old creator beyond the GRWMs as she builds her business empire, travels the world and navigates the wonderfully complicated blended family viewers have only seen in fragments online. Sister and fellow creator Ashtin, childhood best friend Sally, both sides of the Earle family and plenty of unposted chaos are coming along. For anyone with a well-trained FYP, this is compulsory sticky-beaking.
Streaming on Netflix from September 4
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
Lizzie Borden has spent more than a century as murder suspect, schoolyard rhyme and American bogeywoman. Now she becomes the first woman at the centre of Netflix’s Monster anthology. Ella Beatty takes on the infamous New England heiress accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in 1892, with Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan reframing the story through repression, female rage, sexuality and the mythology that swallowed the real woman whole. Vicky Krieps plays the family’s rebellious maid, while Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, Billie Lourd and Sarah Paulson join a deliciously stacked cast. This one looks bloody in every sense.
Streaming on Netflix from September 17
The Gentlemen, Season 2
Turns out Eddie Horniman likes being a gangster. Quite a lot. A year after inheriting a country estate with a cannabis empire underneath it, Theo James’ impeccably dressed duke is no longer looking for an exit. He wants a bigger slice of the criminal world. Season 2 sends Eddie and Susie Glass beyond Halstead and into Italy, where lakeside villas, an elegant but ruthless crime boss and a fixer nobody should trust await. Their own alliance begins to strain as Eddie’s ambition grows, while Hugh Bonneville, Benedetta Porcaroli, Maya Jama and Chris Eubank Jr. join the fray.
Guy Ritchie has already secured Season 3, so take that as you will.
Streaming on Netflix from September 3
My Brilliant Career
If you grew up on the rambunctious tales of Anne of Green Gables and Little Women, this delightful Australian period drama promises to be a lovely little sojourn for your soul. Based on the enduring classic of the same name, the story charts creative country girl Sybylla’s move from her rural home to her Grandmother’s estate for a spot of ‘straightening out’, only to find herself caught between convention, creativity and a rather inconvenient love story.
Even better, the new adaptation was filmed in South Australia, with Yallum Park near Penola standing in for her grandmother’s grand estate, Para Para Mansion adding a little Victorian grandeur, and the Barossa providing those sweeping rural landscapes. The historic Crooked Billet in Nairne also makes an appearance, bringing a little more local history to the production. Add in a heritage steam train and plenty of period dressing, and it’s lovely to see familiar scenery dressed up for another era.
Let’s Marry Harry
Finished every Love Is Blind spin-off and still need more people making questionable romantic decisions on television? Enter Let’s Marry Harry. Netflix’s perennial bachelor Harry Jowsey is finally attempting to settle down, with Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper and his closest friends helping him navigate a fresh crop of potential wives. After Too Hot to Handle and Perfect Match, the idea of Harry making it all the way to the altar feels ambitious enough to keep us watching. Come for the flirting, stay to see whether one of reality TV’s most committed bachelors can actually commit.
What’s New on Prime Video in September 2026
Sterling Point
God forbid we go more than a few weeks without a new series to fill the Off Campus, We Were Liars and The Summer I Turned Pretty void. Enter Sterling Point, a glossy Canadian-island drama involving a secret inheritance, a long-lost sister, a family conspiracy and, naturally, two boys staring meaningfully across the water.
Created by My Old Ass filmmaker Megan Park, with The O.C. and Gossip Girl architects Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage behind it, the eight-part series follows tightly wound Annie after her estranged grandfather leaves her an entire island. There, she finds grief, betrayal, first love and a romantic choice between the safe option and the one guaranteed to ruin her summer beautifully.
Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter
For anyone who watched Challengers and briefly made tennis their entire personality, Prime Video has found a respectable reason to relapse. Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter goes beyond the trophies to examine the ferocious ambition, controversies and contradictions behind one of sport’s most formidable figures. Directed by The Last Dance filmmaker Jason Hehir, the feature-length documentary follows Djokovic from his childhood in Serbia to the summit of men’s tennis, moving between major tournaments, punishing training sessions and quieter moments with his family. Rafael Nadal, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras and Boris Becker also weigh in.
What’s New on Paramount+ in September 2026
Lioness: Season Three
Season 3 of Lioness brings Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, Morgan Freeman and Michael Kelly back into one of television’s most tightly wound spy thrillers. The series follows the CIA’s elite Lioness program, where female operatives are embedded deep inside dangerous networks to gather intelligence from the inside. This time around, the pressure is just as intense off the field as on it, with personal loyalties, political manoeuvring and increasingly high-stakes missions colliding in a world built on secrecy, surveillance and very few clean exits.
What’s New on HBO Max in September 2026
Youth
If Catastrophe remains one of your all-time favourite comedies, Sharon Horgan’s new HBO series belongs at the top of your list. Horgan writes and stars as Alex, a 50-year-old London divorcee attempting to reboot her sex life while her ex moves on, her son refuses to grow up and her ageing parents demand more of her attention. Then Rupert Friend appears to complicate matters beautifully. Youth lands squarely in Horgan’s sweet spot: sex, family, ageing, bad decisions and the very funny indignity of still having no clue what you’re doing.
Streaming on HBO Max from September 21
Slo Pitch
Beer-league softball has rarely looked this chaotic. Slo Pitch follows Joanne Pico, coach of the six-time losing Brovaries, as she tries to drag her lovable queer team towards championship glory while also surviving a very fresh breakup. Complicating matters, her ex has joined a rival team, so every strikeout, petty feud and post-game beer now comes with a little extra emotional baggage. Jess Salgueiro leads the 10-part mockumentary alongside Schitt’s Creek star Emily Hampshire, Karen Knox, Gwenlyn Cumyn and Emma Hunter.
Streaming on HBO Max from September 25
Bust Up
Exes. Cop partners. One tiny New Zealand town. Absolutely no unresolved feelings whatsoever. Bust Up reunites former lovers Mihi and Deb ten years after their relationship ended, when they’re unexpectedly paired up on the police force in Waitote. Mihi is now married, Deb never quite moved on, and unfortunately for both of them, they still make a brilliant team. Each episode brings another gloriously strange local case, while a bigger mystery and all that buried romantic tension simmer underneath. Morgana O’Reilly and Roimata Fox lead the six-part crime comedy.
Streaming on HBO Max from September 4
Lanterns
Part superhero story, part small-town murder mystery, Lanterns takes the Green Lantern universe somewhere far more grounded than you might expect. Kyle Chandler stars as veteran Lantern Hal Jordan opposite Aaron Pierre’s new recruit John Stewart, with the pair sent to rural Nebraska to investigate a killing that soon opens onto something much stranger. There are cosmic threats and plenty of DC lore in the mix, but the real hook is the detective story at its centre, complete with suspicious locals, buried secrets and the growing sense that nobody in town is quite what they seem.
What’s New on Apple TV in September 2026
Brothers
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have spent years joking that they might actually be brothers. Now they’ve turned the rumour into television. In Brothers, the longtime friends play fictionalised versions of themselves whose lives implode when McConaughey’s mother, played by Holland Taylor, lets slip a decades-old family secret suggesting they could share a father. Woody promptly moves his family onto Matthew’s Texas ranch and starts digging for answers, while Matthew considers an equally chaotic run for Governor of Texas.
The best bit? The brother theory comes from a very real revelation made by McConaughey’s own mum years ago.
Streaming on Apple TV from September 23
Last Seen
Patrick Brammall is leaving Colin From Accounts territory far behind in Last Seen, a gripping new Australian thriller filmed entirely across Victoria. Eleven years after his young daughter vanished, former detective Ian Ridley is working as a 000 dispatcher when a frantic call comes through from a teenage girl he is convinced is Maggie. Cue a desperate search, a fractured family and one very unsettling question: what if he’s right? Maxine Peake, Brendan Cowell and Daniel Henshall round out the excellent cast.
Streaming on Apple TV from September 9
Slow Horses, Season 6
Just when you thought Slow Horses couldn’t get messier, Olivia Cooke is back from the dead (yes). Sid Baker returns to Slough House for the first time since Season 1, as Gary Oldman’s gloriously dysfunctional spies suddenly find themselves the hunted rather than the hunters. With everyone who has ever worked at Slough House seemingly in danger, Diana Taverner pulling strings and a deadly game of retaliation underway, Season 6 is shaping up to be one of the show’s biggest yet.
Streaming on Apple TV from September 16
Ted Lasso, Season Four
Ted Lasso Season 4 is the comeback we weren’t sure we’d ever get, and happily, the biscuits are back. Ted returns to Richmond for a very different challenge: coaching the club’s second-division women’s football team and starting all over again with a new group of Greyhounds. There are fresh faces to fall for, while Keeley, Rebecca, Roy, Coach Beard and Higgins bring plenty of familiar comfort. Never watched the first three seasons? Your marathon starts now.
What’s New on Disney+ in September 2026
Adults, Season 2
If Friends were made for people with private stories, fake IDs and an unhealthy awareness of their digital footprint, it might look a lot like Adults. FX’s very funny Gen Z hangout comedy is back with its five codependent Queens housemates entering what the creators have dubbed their “f**king and feeling phase of life”. Season 2 picks up after Anton and Paul Baker’s chaotic marriage-and-kiss situation, then piles on quarter-life crises, dating disasters and the creeping horror of real responsibility. Raven-Symoné, Gaten Matarazzo and Zosia Mamet also drop by.
The Drop: A Snowfall Saga
Snowfall is heading back to ’90s Los Angeles, but this time the hustle is moving from the dope game to the rap game. Gail Bean and Isaiah John return as Wanda Bell and Leon Simmons, now trying to rebuild their lives as the crack epidemic gives way to the explosive rise of West Coast hip-hop. Wanda starts assembling a crew of artists she believes could reshape American culture, while Leon searches for redemption away from the streets. Music, money and street politics collide in a spin-off that feels less like a retread and more like the next chapter of the city itself.
Streaming on Disney+ from September 9
The Shards
If you mixed a glorious 80s set and matching wardrobe with Gossip Girl, The Talented Mr Ripley and The Secret History by Donna Tartt, we’re confident The Shards would emerge as the finishing product. Directed by Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) and based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), it’s all glamour and guile with a side of mystery.
The storyline follows Bret, a student in his senior year at an elite prep school, and the furore that ensues with the coincidental arrival of a beguiling new student and a teenage-targeting serial killer that is stalking LA. Add in all the drama that comes along with teenage life, and you’ve got a rather compelling and deliciously addictive series on hand.
What’s New on Stan in September 2026
American Hostage
Jon Hamm is stepping back into the ’70s for a true-crime story so wild it hardly needs embellishment. In 1977, Indianapolis radio reporter Fred Heckman is pulled into a terrifying 63-hour hostage crisis when gunman Tony Kiritsis, played by Giovanni Ribisi, demands to speak to him live on air. With a mortgage broker being held at gunpoint and every word capable of changing what happens next, Heckman suddenly finds himself doing far more than reporting the news. Based on the gripping true story, American Hostage turns one of America’s strangest media spectacles into a tense psychological thriller.
Streaming on Stan from September 20
Pure Average
For anyone who’s ever wondered what life looks like on the other side of 11 million followers, Bridey Drake: Pure Average opens the door. The six-part comedy docuseries follows the Australian TikTok star and entrepreneur through the less-filtered business of internet fame: online hate, anxiety, family, sold-out fan events and the continued growth of cult pyjama label Night Sweet Thing. There are trips to Fiji and the US, a Sydney pop-up, a book launch and plenty of backstage access as Bridey works out what success looks like when your relatability became the thing that made you famous in the first place.
What’s New on BINGE in September 2026
High Country: What Lies Beneath, Season 2
Victoria’s brooding alpine crime drama is heading back to the High Country, and this time the mystery lands much closer to home. Leah Purcell returns as detective Andie Whitford, drawn into a dangerous new case that tests her loyalties and everything she believes about the community she protects. Brendan Cowell, Ryan Corr and Nadine Garner join the cast, with filming spanning Jamieson, Mansfield, Eildon and greater Melbourne. Considering Season 1 became BINGE’s most-streamed series for two consecutive months, expectations are high.
Streaming on BINGE from September 14
Apocalypse
Could you survive 28 days in an abandoned city with no food, power, running water or rules? That’s the rather terrifying proposition behind BINGE’s new reality experiment Apocalypse. Fourteen ordinary Australians and Brits are dropped into the ruins of a city the size of Sydney’s CBD and left to work out how to survive together. Filmed in a real abandoned town used for urban-warfare training, it comes from creatives behind Alone Australia and Squid Game: The Challenge, with Australian Survivor’s Jonathan LaPaglia narrating the chaos.
Streaming on BINGE from September 16
American Horror Story: 13
Ryan Murphy is raiding the American Horror Story archives for lucky number 13. Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates and Emma Roberts are among the all-star alumni returning, alongside familiar nightmares including Constance Langdon, Cordelia Goode, Madison Montgomery, Marie Laveau, Rubber Man and Twisty the Clown. The 13 half-hour episodes effectively play like an AHS greatest-hits reunion, reconnecting characters and stories from across the anthology before a fitting Halloween finale. If you abandoned the franchise somewhere around Season 9, this might be the reason to come crawling back.
Streaming on BINGE from September 25
Colin From Accounts: Season Three
The final season of this beloved and wholesome romcom opens with a rehash of the season two finale moment, an awkward proposal from brewery owner Colin to med student Ashley. Jumping forward three years, what follows is the same real-life, relatable and undeniably Australian moments this beloved series has become known for. Consider this your last, lingering dose of addictive on-screen chemistry from co-stars, writers, co-creators and real-world life partners Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall.
Possession
If you’ve been on the hunt for an addictive supernatural thriller, it’s time to end your search. This limited series follows Claudia, a lawyer from Bristol, as she crosses continents chasing down an inheritance claim. Starring the talented Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the real story begins when Claudia arrives in Jamaica and discovers the disputed estate is a former slave plantation that has been haunting her sleep. Intriguing.
Coming Soon
East of Eden
Florence Pugh playing one of literature’s great antiheroines? Sold. Zoe Kazan has turned John Steinbeck’s sweeping American classic East of Eden into a seven-part Netflix series, with Pugh starring as the magnetic and formidable Cathy Ames. Christopher Abbott and Challengers favourite Mike Faist play brothers Adam and Charles Trask, whose lives become entangled with hers as love, jealousy, family and the darker side of the California dream take hold. Ciarán Hinds and Martha Plimpton complete a cast stacked with serious talent.
Streaming on Netflix from October 1
Carrie
Prom night is about to get bloody again. Mike Flanagan, one of our horror heroes and the brilliant min behind The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, is giving Stephen King’s Carrie its first television adaptation, dragging Carrie White’s nightmare into the social-media age. Summer H. Howell stars as the bullied teenager whose increasingly brutal high-school experience coincides with the awakening of her telekinetic powers, alongside Samantha Sloyan, Matthew Lillard and Amber Midthunder. All eight episodes arrive at once, so there goes your evening come October 7.
Streaming on Prime Video from October 7
Pride and Prejudice
Another Mr Darcy is preparing to ruin our standards. Dolly Alderton is writing Netflix’s new six-part Pride and Prejudice, with Emma Corrin stepping into Elizabeth Bennet’s muddy boots and Slow Horses star Jack Lowden taking on Darcy. Olivia Colman is Mrs Bennet, while Rufus Sewell, Daryl McCormack, Louis Partridge and Jamie Demetriou join the ensemble. Netflix is promising a witty, intimate spin on Austen’s enemies-to-lovers blueprint, and the first glimpse already has us emotionally invested.
Coming to Netflix later in 2026
War
Sienna Miller and Dominic West are getting the divorce from hell in War, a sharp new legal drama from the creator of Lupin and Hijack. West plays tech mogul Morgan Henderson opposite Miller’s international movie star Carla Duval, whose explosive separation becomes the case every London lawyer wants to win. Two powerhouse firms take opposing sides, dragging their partners, associates and clients into a battle fuelled by money, ambition, betrayal and reputations with plenty to lose. Archie Renaux, Nina Sosanya, Phoebe Fox and James McArdle join the seriously good cast.
Streaming on HBO Max from October 1
The Altruists
The FTX collapse is getting the prestige-drama treatment, with Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle playing crypto’s spectacularly ill-fated power couple. The Altruists follows Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried as two fiercely ambitious young idealists set out to reshape global finance, fall in love and eventually find themselves at the centre of an alleged US$8 billion fraud. Netflix is pitching them as Gen Z’s Bonnie and Clyde, while Barack and Michelle Obama are among the executive producers. Safe to say, this one has our attention.
Streaming on Netflix from November 19
Yellowjackets, Season 4
The wilderness is finally ready to give up its last secrets. Yellowjackets returns for its fourth and final season with the teenage timeline creeping ever closer to rescue, while the adult survivors scramble to stop everything they buried from following them home. Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nélisse, Tawny Cypress, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Hilary Swank are all back, with an old flame roaring into town to make an already unstable situation worse. After four seasons of cannibalism, cults, secrets and spectacularly bad coping mechanisms, we might finally get some answers.
Streaming on Paramount+ from November 20
Blade Runner 2099
The Blade Runner universe is jumping another 50 years into the future, with Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer leading the way. Set half a century after Blade Runner 2049, the eight-part series follows Schafer’s fugitive Cora as she assumes one final identity as a Blade Runner and is forced to work with Yeoh’s Olwen, a Replicant with only days left to live. Together, they pursue a runaway carrying information capable of sending their fragile Los Angeles into chaos. Ridley Scott executive produces, keeping the family fingerprints firmly on this one.
Streaming on Prime Video from November 25
I Am Helen
Nicola Coughlan is leaving Bridgerton ballrooms behind for something far rawer in I Am Helen. The two-part drama pairs her with Gangs of London star Joe Cole in the latest chapter of Dominic Savage’s BAFTA-winning I Am anthology, following previous instalments led by Kate Winslet, Gemma Chan and Letitia Wright. Developed collaboratively with Coughlan, Helen’s story examines womanhood, control and toxic relationships inside a world shaped by masculine power. Given this anthology’s history, emotional devastation feels fairly likely.
Coming later in 2026. Australian streaming details TBC
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Yes, we’re going back to Hogwarts. HBO’s enormous new Harry Potter series begins by returning to The Philosopher’s Stone, this time with an entire season to explore Harry’s first year and all the book details the films never had room to squeeze in. Newcomers Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton and Alastair Stout are Harry, Hermione and Ron, with John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Snape and Nick Frost as Hagrid. The first teaser has already restored some of Harry’s distinctly ’90s Muggle childhood, and we suspect that’s only the beginning.
Streaming on HBO Max from Christmas 2026
Frequently Asked Questions
Some of the best new TV shows streaming in Australia this September include Crew Girl, The Gentlemen Season 2 and Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story on Netflix, Slow Horses Season 6 on Apple TV, Youth on HBO Max, American Hostage on Stan and High Country: What Lies Beneath on BINGE.
Netflix has a packed September line-up, led by The Gentlemen Season 2 on September 3, Alix Earle reality series Earle Meets World on September 4, YA rowing drama Crew Girl on September 10 and Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story on September 17.
Crew Girl premieres on Netflix in Australia on September 10, 2026, with all eight episodes available to stream. The YA sports romance follows teenage rower Teagan Tao as she joins an elite prep school’s all-boys crew and finds herself caught between fierce competition and two very different romantic prospects.
Slow Horses Season 6 premieres on Apple TV in Australia on September 16, 2026. The six-episode season begins with one episode before continuing weekly through October 21, with Gary Oldman returning as Jackson Lamb and Olivia Cooke making her long-awaited return as Sid Baker.
September brings several major BINGE releases, including Victorian crime drama High Country: What Lies Beneath from September 14 and survival reality series Apocalypse from September 16. American Horror Story: 13 also arrives later in the month, bringing back a huge line-up of fan-favourite faces from across the anthology.
For something completely unhinged, Apocalypse drops 14 Australians and Brits into an abandoned city the size of Sydney’s CBD with no food, running water, power or rules, then challenges them to survive for 28 days. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Earle Meets World follows TikTok star Alix Earle beyond the GRWMs for a closer look at fame, family, friendships and the business behind her 11-million-strong following. Apocalypse streams on BINGE from September 16, while Earle Meets World lands on Netflix September 4.
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