New on Max in September 2024: The Penguin Premieres and My Brilliant Friend Begins Its Final Season

Colin Farrell in The Penguin
Colin Farrell stars in ‘The Penguin’ (Photo Credit: Max)

Colin Farrell reprises his scene-stealing role from The Batman in the limited series The Penguin, premiering on September 19, 2024. Max’s September lineup also includes the fourth and final season of My Brilliant Friend, based on the fourth book of Elena Ferrante’s quadrilogy, My Brilliant Friend: The Story Of The Lost Child.

Critically acclaimed films Civil War, I Saw the TV Glow, and The Boy and The Heron join September’s roster, along with the premiere of the two-part documentary WISE GUY David Chase And The Sopranos.

SERIES & FILMS ARRIVING ON MAX IN SEPTEMBER 2024

SEPTEMBER 1

21 & OVER (2013)
90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days, Season 7 (TLC)
Addicted (2014)
Anaconda (1997)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Braddock: Missing In Action III (1988)
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)
Care Bears: Unlock the Magic (Specials) S1D: The Bad Crowd Strikes Back!
Climax (2019)
Creator League Showdown Eps. 10 & 11
Criminal (2016)
Disobedience (2018)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Green Lantern: Beware My Power (2022)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone: Magical Movie Mode (2001)
High-Rise (2016)
Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Inherent Vice (2014)
Ismael’s Ghosts (2018)
Knight and Day (2010)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes on (2022)
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)
Missing in Action (1984)
Missing in Action 2 – The Beginning (1985)
Need for Speed (2014)
Paranoia (2013)
Pulse (2005)
Role Models (2008)
Shrek Forever After (2010)
Sunset Song (2016)
Tell (2014)
Tiny Furniture (2010)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Batman vs. Dracula (2005)
The Big Chill (1983)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Birdcage (1996)
The Boss (2016)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Final Destination (2009)
The Martian (2015)
The Shining (1980)
The Three Musketeers (2011)
The Wolfpack (2015)
The Wrecking Crew! (2015)
Trick ‘r Treat (2009)
Troll Hunter (2011)
Vampires Suck (2010)
Venus and Serena (2013)
Viva (2016)
Whose Streets? (2017)
World’s Greatest Dad (2009)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

SEPTEMBER 2

Bellator: Fight Week San Jose
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and The Savior, Season 1 (ID)
Drive My Car (2021)
Margarita, Season 1 (Max Original)
Mini Beat Power Rockers (2023)

SEPTEMBER 4

Bargain Block, Season 4 (HGTV)
How (Not) To Get Rid of a Body, Season 1 (ID)
Mecum Full Throttle: Monterey CA 2024
Unsellable Houses, Season 5 (HGTV)

SEPTEMBER 5

Coming From America (Max Original) – Four African American families pack up all their belongings, risking everything to move to the new land of opportunity: Africa. Enticed by cheap housing and picturesque landscapes, these families travel 5000 miles to find love, jobs and a better life. First, they’ll have to survive the inevitable culture shock – but if they can endure the first 60 days, their lives could be changed forever.

SEPTEMBER 6

Restoring Galveston, Season 6 (Magnolia Network)

The Boy and the Heron (Studio Ghibli) – After losing his mother in a hospital fire, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito’s new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself.

WISE GUY David Chase and The Sopranos
Poster for ‘WISE GUY David Chase and The Sopranos’

SEPTEMBER 7

Family Empire: Houston (OWN)

WISE GUY David Chase and the Sopranos (HBO Original) – 25 years after the show first debuted, HBO’s paradigm-shifting series The Sopranos remains a cultural phenomenon and a touchstone for prestige television. In WISE GUY David Chase and The Sopranos, acclaimed filmmaker Alex Gibney delves deep into the psyche of renowned Sopranos creator and writer, David Chase, to illuminate his life and career while offering a unique window into his unparalleled work on the iconic program.

On a replica set of Dr. Melfi’s psychiatrist’s office, Gibney flips the script on David Chase, excavating and analyzing the origins of “The Sopranos,” his creative process, and the intimate connections between his own life and many of his characters. Joined by show writers, producers, executives, and actors, including Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, and Michael Imperioli, the documentary offers insight and inspiration along with a stunning array of clips from the show, early audition videos from many of the cast members, and behind-the-scenes footage to take the viewer into the vibrant Sopranos world.

From his own upbringing in an Italian American family in north New Jersey, with a complicated mother and a fascination with cinema, Chase details his entrée into Hollywood, where he wrote for a multitude of television shows, and his relationship with HBO as he pitched and developed his anti-hero mobster Tony Soprano. With candor and self-reflection, Chase digs into the challenges of running a successful show, the inevitable “deaths” of some of the show’s favorite characters, and his creative working relationship with the late James Gandolfini.

WISE GUY David Chase and The Sopranos takes us into the writers’ room, from the inspirational pilot to the controversial final episode, demonstrating how a show about a multi-layered mob boss became a cultural milestone, a beloved fan-favorite, and a revolutionary television sensation.

SEPTEMBER 8

Triple 9 (2016)
Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN)

SEPTEMBER 9

Bellator: Fight Week London
Cabin in the Woods, Season 1 (ID)
The Real Murders on Elm Street, Season 1 (ID)

My Brilliant Friend, Season 4 (HBO Original) – Based on the bestselling novels by Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend follows Elena Greco and the most important friend in her life, Raffaella “Lila” Cerullo. After meeting as children in 1950s Naples, their story goes on to cover over 60 years, exploring the mystery of Lila – Elena’s brilliant best friend and, in a way, her worst enemy. The fourth installment of the saga, titled “Story of the Lost Child,” delves into the adult lives of Elena and Lila. They find themselves entangled in the turmoil of Italy in the late 1980s, nearing the end of decades of political violence and social unrest. Amid motherhood and career demands, amid betrayals, threats, disappearances, and natural disasters, Elena and Lila once again reside in the same neighborhood.

Civil War Review
Cailee Spaeny and Kirsten Dunst in ‘Civil War’ (Photo
Credit: Courtesy of A24)

SEPTEMBER 10

Doppelgänger. The Double, Season 1

SEPTEMBER 13

In With the Old, Season 6 (Magnolia Network)

Civil War (A24) – Civil War, from filmmaker Alex Garland, tells the story of a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach Washington D.C. before rebel factions descend upon the White House.

SEPTEMBER 14

Aloha! Scooby-Doo (2005)
A Pup Named Scooby Doo
Baby Looney Tunes
Jonny Quest
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001)
Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost (1999)
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
The Tom & Jerry Show
Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse (2012)
Tom & Jerry Tales
Tom & Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017)

SEPTEMBER 15

Have I Got News for You, Season 1 (CNN)
Sister Wives, Season 19 (TLC)

SEPTEMBER 16

Halloween Baking Championship, Season 10 (Food Network)
Naked and Afraid: Last One Standing, Season 2 (Discovery)
Truck U

SEPTEMBER 17

Body Cam, Season 9 (ID)
Exposed: Naked Crimes, Season 2 (ID)
Road Rage, Season 2 (ID)

SEPTEMBER 18

Graveyard Carz

SEPTEMBER 19

The Penguin (HBO Original) – Starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb (aka “The Penguin”), the DC Studios series continues filmmaker Matt Reeves’ The Batman epic crime saga that began with Warner Bros. Pictures’ global blockbuster The Batman. Developed by showrunner Lauren LeFranc, the series centers on the character played by Farrell in the film.

I Saw the TV Glow
Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine in ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ (Photo Credit: A24)

SEPTEMBER 20

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Building Off the Grid, Season 13 (Magnolia Network)
Prisoners (2013)

I Saw The TV Glow (A24) – I Saw the TV Glow follows Owen, a teenager who is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show. The TV show, a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own, leads to cracks in Owen’s own view of reality.

SEPTEMBER 21

Batwheels, Season 2

SEPTEMBER 22
Halloween Wars, Season 14 (Food Network)

SEPTEMBER 23
Bob Hearts Abishola, Season 5
Yellowstone Wardens, Season 5 (Animal Planet)

SEPTEMBER 24
Windy City Rehab, Season 5 (HGTV)

SEPTEMBER 25
Impractical Jokers Australia, Season 1
Impractical Jokers Australia, Season 2

SEPTEMBER 28
Mecum Full Throttle: Dallas TX 2024

SEPTEMBER 29
Be My Guest with Ina Garten, Season 5 (Food Network)
Outrageous Pumpkins (Food Network)
Uzumaki (Adult Swim)

SEPTEMBER 30
Bellator: Fight Week Chicago, Season 6