What To Watch This Week: 50+ Premieres, Finales, And More

Every day, TVLine's What to Watch column spotlights new and returning English-language shows (and select movies) premiering or airing fresh episodes across broadcast, cable and streaming — organized by release time and alphabetically within each slot.

What follows is a look at the week ahead — a roundup of premieres and finales designed to help you plan your viewing for the next seven days.

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📺 "Cold as Balls" (Netflix, seven-episode binge)
Kevin Hart gets into the ice tub with Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic, Rob Gronkowski, Cooper Flagg, Sean O'Malley, Zlatan Ibrahimović, and IShowSpeed for a new round of unconventional athlete interviews.

📺 "Lioness" Season 3 finale (Paramount+)
📺 7 p.m. "Sunday Night Baseball" Season 37 finale (Peacock)
📺 8 p.m. "Best Medicine" Season 2 (Fox, special night, re-airs Tuesday)

📺 9 p.m. "American Hostage" (MGM+, two-episode premiere)
An Indianapolis radio reporter (played by Jon Hamm) is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when a hostage taker (Giovanni Ribisi) demands to be interviewed on his program; Mireille Enos, Kristoffer Polaha, and William Jackson Harper co-star.

📺 9 p.m. "Best of VMAs: Unforgettable Moments" (CBS special)
Vanessa Lachey hosts a look back at the VMAs' most memorable moments, from bold fashion choices and collaborations to career-defining performances.

📺 9 p.m. "The Detour With David Chang" (CNN, two-episode premiere)
The six-part docuseries follows the chef, restaurateur, and author in his pursuit of no-frills but unforgettable eats on the open road.

📺 10 p.m. "Trespasses" (PBS)
The series follows a young Catholic schoolteacher (Lola Petticrew) in 1975 Northern Ireland who embarks on a dangerous affair with an older, married Protestant barrister (Tom Cullen); Gillian Anderson co-stars.

📺 10 p.m. "Youth" (HBO, two-episode premiere)
Series creator Sharon Horgan plays a 50-year-old divorcee in search of sex and love whilst juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should-be grown-up son; Sharlene Whyte, Rupert Friend, Aran Murphy, and Robbie Gee co-star.

🎥 "Stop! That! Train!" (Netflix)

🎥 8 p.m. "Kimora Lee: On Her Own" (Lifetime documentary)

Lee reflects on the personal and professional challenges that shaped her life, the sacrifices behind her success, and her determination to reclaim her voice.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

📺 8 p.m. "Celebrity Name That Tune" Season 6 (Fox)
📺 8 p.m. "The Voice" Season 30 (NBC, three-night premiere)
📺 9 p.m. "Celebrity Weakest Link" Season 2 (Fox)

📺 10 p.m. "Line of Fire" (NBC)
Peter Krause headlines this drama about a family of law enforcement agents bridging personal differences and crossing professional boundaries as they tackle cases for the FBI, US Marshals, Secret Service, and Department of Justice.

🎥 "Tuner" (Paramount+)

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

📺 8 p.m. "Judge Judy: Unfiltered, Unforgettable" (CBS special)
Judy Sheindlin reflects on 30 years of "Judge Judy"; talking heads include Amy Poehler, RuPaul, Samuel L. Jackson, Sherry Lansing, and Steven Spielberg.

📺 9 p.m. "Doc" Season 3 (Fox)

📺 9 p.m. "House Shock" (HGTV)
Host and designer Arielle Vandenberg and contractor Steve Lewis secretly renovate spaces for unsuspecting homeowners, with loved ones helping keep the surprise under wraps until the big reveal.

🎥 9 p.m. "Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie" (HBO documentary)
The film explores the parallels between deaf athlete Shelley Beattie and Hollywood veteran Marlee Matlin, whose lives were marked by fame, discrimination, abuse, and addiction while navigating a hearing world.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

📺 "Brothers" (Apple TV, two-episode premiere)
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson star as fictionalized versions of themselves whose lifelong friendship is upended by a decades-old secret suggesting they may actually be brothers; Holland Taylor co-stars.

📺 "Wonka's The Golden Ticket" (Netflix, seven-episode premiere)
Twelve lucky Golden Ticket winners, each with a partner of their choosing, will step through the gates of Wonka's Chocolate Factory and into a world of pure imagination, delicious mischief, unexpected challenges... and the recreated voice of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.

📺 8 p.m. "The Floor" time period premiere (Fox)
📺 8 p.m. "Survivor" Season 51 (CBS)
📺 9 p.m. "99 to Beat" Season 2 (Fox)
📺 9 p.m. "America's Got Talent" Season 21 finale (NBC)
📺 9 p.m. "Next Gen NYC" Season 2 Reunion, Part 2 of 2 (Bravo)

🎥 "The Love Hypothesis" (Prime Video movie)

A Ph.D. candidate (Lili Reinhart) impulsively kisses an intimidating professor (Tom Bateman), setting off a mutually beneficial fake relationship that soon begins to blur the line between performance and reality.

🎥 "Toy Story 5" (Disney+)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

📺 
"A Different World" (Netflix, 10-episode binge)
Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert's youngest daughter enters her freshman year at Hillman College and struggles to escape the shadow of her parents.

📺 "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 4 finale (Paramount+)

📺 "Team Moms: Baseball" (Paramount+, eight-episode binge)

From executive producer Kim Kardashian comes a docuseries about a group of parents whose sons attend Legendary Prep Academy: a premier baseball training school in Scottsdale, Arizona, dedicated to molding the next generation of star athletes.

📺 8 p.m. "Hell's Kitchen" Season 25 (Fox)
📺 9 p.m. "American Horror Story" Season 13 (FX, three-episode premiere)
📺 9 p.m. "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test" Season 5 (Fox)
📺 9 p.m. "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe" Season 1 finale (HBO Max)

🎥 "Go Deep: The DeSean Jackson Story" (Prime Video documentary)
Drawn from thousands of hours of home video filmed over 30 years, the film chronicles Jackson's rise from Pop Warner prodigy to NFL star, as well as his complex relationships with his brother Byron and their father.

🎥 "Jackass: Best and Last" (Paramount+)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

📺 "The Great British Baking Show" Collection 14 (Netflix)
📺 "Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars" Season 2 (Apple TV, two-episode premiere)
📺 9 p.m. "20/20" Season 49 (ABC)
📺 9 p.m. "Dateline NBC" Season 35 (NBC)
📺 9 p.m. "Fightland" Season 1 finale (Starz)

📺 9 p.m. "Sing Democracy 250" (PBS)
Through powerful choral music with nearly 200 vibrant singers and a majestic 60-piece orchestra at the Minneapolis Signature Concert, this sweeping performance reflects the nation's founding ideals and the enduring promise of democracy, reminding us that We, the People, are at the heart of it all.

📺 10 p.m. "S.W.A.T. Exiles" (Starz)
After a high-profile mission goes sideways, Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson (Shemar Moore) is pulled out of forced retirement to lead a last-chance, experimental unit made up of untested recruits.

🎥"Backrooms" (HBO Max)

🎥 "Unabomber" (Netflix movie)

Jacob Tremblay plays Ted Kaczynski, whose evolution from Harvard prodigy and test subject to the Unabomber unfolds as the FBI hunts him down; Russell Crowe and Shailene Woodley co-star.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

📺 7 p.m. "Baseball Night in America" Season 12 finale (Fox)

📺 7:30 p.m. "Farm Aid 2026: Music Festival Live" (CNN)
Willie Nelson and Family, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, Margo Price, and Nathaniel Rateliff perform.

📺 11:30 p.m. "Saturday Night Live" Season 52 (NBC)

🎥 8 p.m. "Sole Survivor of Flight 119" (Lifetime movie)
After a routine flight takes a harrowing turn, Lisa Foster (Sarah Wayne Callies) survives a devastating plane crash deep in the Mexican jungle; Joy Bryant co-stars.

🎥 8 p.m. "Pumpkin Regatta Romance" (Hallmark Channel movie)
Mishael Morgan and Corey Sevier star as the children of feuding fathers who team up to mend the rift and revive their town's Pumpkin Regatta.