The Gentlemen to Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story: Nine of the best TV shows to watch this September

From the return of hit Netflix crime drama The Gentlemen to a miniseries about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case – these are the best series to watch and stream.

There is never too much crime in Guy Ritchie's universe, including the second season of this popular series inspired by his 2019 film of the same name. Theo James returns as Eddie, the dashing Duke of Halstead, whose inheritance included a title, an expansive estate, and the marijuana farm on its grounds. Bridgerton was never like this. Eddie is now all in on that criminal enterprise run by Susie (Kaya Scodelario) and her father, Bobby (Ray Winstone). Daniel Ings returns as Eddie's shambolic brother, Freddy, with Joely Richardson as their mother, Lady Sabrina, and Giancarlo Esposito as a US drug dealer, Stanley Johnson. As Bobby's empire expands, the setting moves from the UK to Italy, where Sergio Castellitto plays an Italian crime boss. Hugh Bonneville joins the cast as a character called Lord Hawthorne, who is likely a lot shadier than Bonneville's Lord Grantham from Downton Abbey.

The Gentlemen premieres 3 September on Netflix internationally

Patrick Brammall stars in two very different shows this month. Far from the comedy of Colin from Accounts (coming up below), he is in the midst of drama and suspense in this thriller set and shot in Victoria, Australia. Brammall is intense as Ian Ridley, a police dispatcher and former detective whose three-year-old daughter was kidnapped 11 years before. No trace of her was found, and since then Ian's marriage has crumbled and he has spiralled into alcoholism. When he takes an emergency call from a young woman he believes is his daughter, he becomes determined to find her even if no one else believes him. Maxine Peake also stars, and is touching in her role, as we follow where the clues lead Ian and how that will impact his already troubled life.  

Last Seen premieres 9 September on Apple TV internationally

3. Colin From Accounts

This third season will be the last for the Sydney-set romantic comedy that started when brewery owner Gordon and medical student Ashley – Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the real-life couple who created and wrote the series – found themselves co-parenting a dog they named Colin From Accounts. The previous season ended with Ashley balking at Gordon's marriage proposal, humiliatingly offered in public at a friend's wedding, and the new story picks up three years later when they accidentally run into each other one more time. The will-they or won't-they picks up again, but it can't last forever. "We don't want to flog a dead horse," Brammall told the Guardian about their creative decision to end the series. In that joint interview Dyer jumped in with the kind of dry comic line that could have come straight from the show. "It is not that the horse is dead yet – we don't even want to find it is having trouble breathing," she said.

Colin From Accounts premieres 10 September on Paramount in the US and will premiere on BBC iPlayer in the UK later this year

4. Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence

Can an Agatha Christie mystery survive a transplant from her usual country estates and vicarages in the 1920s and 30s? The answer is a solid yes in this deft contemporary version of her stories and novels featuring the detecting pair of Tommy and Tuppence. This version of Tommy (Josh Dylan) is a mystery writer who runs into Tuppence (Antonia........

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