gets serious again. The summer’s biggest TV shows have aired their finales, the fall schedule is kicking into high gear, and streamers are rolling out everything from high-concept sci-fi to prestige dramas. There’s plenty of familiar IP in the mix, but also some genuinely original shows worth putting on your to-watch list.
While plenty of outlets will tell you what everyone is watching (see:
), that’s not our goal. As always, the TV shows we’re watching this month reflect the kinds of stories WIRED covers every day—shows that explore technology,
, and the sometimes unsettling ways they intersect.
From returning favorites to ambitious new series—and at least one show that might rekindle your love of traditional anime—these are the TV shows we think you should make time to stream this month.
What happens when a newspaper attempts not just to survive, but to
, in a world where digital media has become the norm?
from Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, follows the staff of a struggling Midwestern paper as they attempt to revive it.
Ultimately, its idealistic new editor-in-chief Ned Sampson (
alum Domhnall Gleeson) and his hungry young reporter Mare Pritti (Chelsea Frei) end up grappling with what journalism looks like in the digital age. Season 2, which arrived on September 9, finds their
newly revitalized and searching for its next big scoop, making the show a surprisingly sharp comedy about the future of journalism—and who gets to shape it.
) seriously underperformed at the box office, Lucasfilm is partnering with
series—which might be exactly what the franchise needs right now. Lucasfilm and Lego are going back to the beginning, reimagining all three seasons of the
–starring live-action series as a 49-minute animated comedy.
For anyone who somehow managed to miss Mando and Grogu until now, the story follows Din Djarin (Pascal in the live-action series, Gavin Hammon in this iteration), a bounty hunter known as the Mandalorian, who takes a job transporting a mysterious Force-sensitive child. That child, of course, is Grogu, aka Baby Yoda. What starts as a simple assignment turns into a galaxy-spanning adventure as the pair become unlikely partners. Consider this version an entertaining way to play catch-up.
It’s hard to remember a time when the world didn’t have
. For nearly 30 years, audiences have watched as four potty-mouthed fourth-graders—Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny—navigate life in the bizarre mountain town of South Park, Colorado, in this very much adults-only animated comedy. Along the way, they’ve encountered alien life forms, celebrities, and
Last year, the seemingly never-ending comedy reinvented itself as a particularly pointed political satire by taking aim at figures including JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump’s manhood. The White House, unsurprisingly,
. And so did the Emmys; the show just took home the 2026 award for Outstanding Animated Program. Clearly, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have no plans to take their foot off the gas; they just announced they’re taking a page out of Trump’s renaming book and
for its 29th season, which premieres on September 16.
What if television’s best spy show was also one of its funniest? If John le Carré and (the original)
, which returns for a sixth season on September 16.
book series, the series follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 misfits who are banished to the infamous Slough House unit, where they work under the notorious Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), a foul-mouthed, flatulent, chain-smoking wreck of a man who also happens to be the most brilliant operative in the room. It’s a prestige spy thriller that doesn’t take itself too seriously, bouncing effortlessly between shoot-outs and the kind of droll office banter you’d expect from the
. In a career full of memorable performances, and an Oscar to show for it,
just might be the role Oldman is best remembered for. It’s also the project that has
, an eight-episode miniseries from Germany, climate change has turned Berlin into a sweltering city teetering on the edge of collapse—and vampires are ready to take advantage of the chaos. While the privileged few live beneath a climate-controlled dome, the rest of the city’s denizens are left to battle the heat, crime, and corruption that have become part of everyday life. But when estranged sisters Bea (Lea Drinda) and Phoebe (Soma Pysall) reunite, they uncover a nefarious political plot and learn that, thanks to that aforementioned undead population, blood has become the city’s most coveted commodity. It’s a perfectly strange mix of climate dystopia, family drama, and vampire thriller. And it arrives on September 16.
is almost here—whether Tom Hardy likes it or not. (Despite all the recent headlines surrounding the Oscar winner’s
.) The highly underrated, or perhaps just underseen, crime drama returns with the Harrigan family’s criminal empire under threat from rival forces, forcing their street-smart