Here is the list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:
On September 21, the new fall drama Line of Fire will debut on NBC at 10 PM. This new series will star 9-1-1 alum Peter Krause and Hope Davis (About Schmidt and Your Honor), as the heads of a family of law enforcement agents who become targets of a mysterious assassin after a U.S. Marshal falls in the line of duty, forcing them to use their expertise to protect each other.
The second season premiere of Best Medicine will air on FOX on September 22 at 8 PM followed by the third season premiere of Doc at 9 PM.
On September 23, the Amazon Prime movie The Love Hypothesis will debut online. The movie will follow Olive Smith (Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart), a brilliant Ph.D. candidate in biology, who impulsively kisses intimidating professor Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman from Hedda and Death on the Nile) to prove she’s moved on from her crush Jeremy (Nicholas Duvernay from Bel-Air and The White Lotus). The kiss is meant to reassure her best friend Anh (Rachel Marsh from Fallout) that she’s ready to date someone else, but it sparks a fake dating arrangement with rules and boundaries. As their “experiment” in love unfolds, Olive and Adam must navigate the tension between performance and reality, with each testing their own theories about whether love is worth the risk.
The first three episodes of the 13th season of American Horror Story will premiere on FX at 9 PM on September 24 as well as on Hulu online; meanwhile that same day, the season finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will air online on Paramount+.
On September 25, the spin-off series S.W.A.T. Exiles will debut on Starz at 9 PM. In this new spin-off of the hit series, after a high-profile mission goes sideways, Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson (Shemar Moore) is pulled out of forced retirement to lead a last-chance experimental S.W.A.T. unit made up of untested, unpredictable young recruits. Hondo must bridge a generational divide, navigate clashing personalities and turn a squad of outsiders into a team capable of protecting the city – and saving the program that made him who he is. The show also stars Zyra Gorecki (La Brea), Ronen Rubinstein (9-1-1: Lone Star), Lucy Barrett (CW’s reboot of Charmed), Freddy Miyares (Grey’s Anatomy) and Adain Bradley (The Bold and the Beautiful).
The true crime dramatic movie Unabomber will debut online on Netflix on September 25. This movie will be told across two timelines: 1950s Harvard timeline: with Jacob Tremblay playing a young Ted Kaczynski, a mathematical genius subjected to controversial psychological experiments led by Professor Henry Murray (Russell Crowe). These experiments are depicted as formative in Kaczynski’s later radicalization. And, the 1990s FBI manhunt with Shailene Woodley playing FBI agent Joanne Miller, who leads the investigation to capture Kaczynski, highlighting the consequences of ambition, isolation, and the psychological impact of his early experiences.
On September 26, the Hallmark Channel movie Pumpkin Regatta Romance will debut at 8 PM. When their fathers refuse to move past a disagreement, Nadine, daughter of the boat shop owner, and Ethan, a pumpkin farmer, team up to heal the feud and revive the town’s Pumpkin Regatta. The movie will star Mishael Morgan and Corey Sevier.
The Lifetime movie The Ocean Between Them will debut on September 26 at 8 PM. While vacationing in Belize, an unexpected storm leaves young kayaker Miranda (Jessica Lord) stranded at sea. As she battles the elements to survive, her mother, Joan (Rebecca Gayheart), embarks on a relentless search that tests her resolve and pushes her beyond her limits. Gayheart’s real-life daughter (and daughter of the late actor Eric Dane) Georgia Dane will star as the younger daughter Ashley.
Lastly on September 27, the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards will air at 7:30 PM on MTV.
Mark your calendars!
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