September is an eventful month for Hulu, which will roll out new seasons of some of its most acclaimed series, but also lose next-day streaming for NBCUniversal shows.
Here’s the short and sweet explanation: Disney DIS, -3.50% -controlled Hulu and minority partner Comcast CMCSA, -2.74% (which owns NBCUniversal, including NBC, Bravo, USA, Syfy and streaming service Peacock) ended their next-day streaming deal, effective in September, as part of a gradual unwinding that will eventually see most (if not all) NBCU programming migrating to Peacock.
What does this mean for viewers? Fewer options on Hulu, mostly. While older seasons of many NBCU series will remain on Hulu, at least for a while, next-day streaming of NBCU shows like “Saturday Night Live” will stop, and will stream exclusively on Peacock. But some shows are leaving right away — such as all seasons of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Top Chef” and the “Real Housewives” franchises (all leaving Sept. 18).
On the bright side, Hulu is adding some hits in September.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” (Sept. 14) returns for its fifth season. The grim, dystopian drama has never been quite as timely, coming after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The new season finds June (Elisabeth Moss) still fighting Gilead after escaping to Canada, while grieving widow Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) finds a new fan in a certain Mrs. Wheeler (Genevieve Angelson), a villain who poses a major new threat.
After a two-year layoff, the thoughtful comedy “Ramy” (Sept. 30) returns for its third season. Ramy Youssef stars as an Egyptian-American slacker navigating life in New Jersey, who, this season, will abandon his rather disastrous spiritual journey and focus instead on working at his uncle’s diamond business. Donald Glover’s “Atlanta” (Sept. 16) is also back for its fourth and final season, just a few months after the finale of an uneven Season 3. The new season finds Earn (Glover), Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (LeKeith Stanfield) and Van (Zazie Beetz) back in Atlanta after their European travels, and promises to be a “nostalgic” goodbye. New episodes will stream a day after they first air on FX.
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Hulu also has a smattering of other originals, such as the pizza competition “Best in Dough” (Sept. 19); “Reboot” (Sept. 20), a meta sitcom about a rebooted sitcom and its reunited dysfunctional cast, starring Keegan-Michael Key, Rachel Bloom and Judy Greer; “Tell Me Lies” (Sept. 7), a twisty toxic-relationship drama starring Grace Van Patten and Jackson White; and a new season of “The Kardashians” (Sept. 22); as well as a slew of newly premiering ABC and Fox shows, such as “Abbott Elementary,” “The Goldbergs” and “The Masked Singer” (all Sept 22); “Bob’s Burgers” and “The Simpsons” (both Sept. 26); and “Bachelor in Paradise” (Sept. 28). Hulu is also getting a ton of middling unscripted shows from A&E, History Channel and Lifetime.
Here’s the full list of what’s coming and going, as of Aug. 22 (release dates are subject to change):
What’s coming in September 2022
Sept. 1
The Mighty Ones: Complete Season 3
A Certain Scientific Railgun: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED)
A Certain Scientific Railgun: Complete Season 2 (DUBBED)
Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition: Complete Season 1
Aftermath with William Shatner: Complete Season 1
Aftermath with William Shatner: Complete Season 2
Alone: An Inside Look: Complete Season 1
America’s Book of Secrets: Complete Seasons 1 & 3
American Pickers: Complete Seasons 2 – 4
American Ripper: Complete Season 1
Ancient Aliens: Complete Season 15
Ancient Aliens: Complete Season 16
Ancient Impossible: Complete Season 1
Ax Men: Complete Seasons 1, 8 & 9
Behind Bars: Rookie Year: Complete Season 1
Beyond the Headlines: Catching the Craigslist Killer: Complete Season 1
Beyond the Headlines: Secrets of a Marine’s Wife: Complete Season 1
Beyond the Headlines: The Carlina White Story: Complete Season 1
Beyond the Headlines: The College Admissions Scandal with Gretchen Carlson: Complete Season 1
Beyond the Headlines: The Jennifer Dulos Story: Complete Season 1
Beyond The Headlines: The Kamiyah Mobley Story with Robin Roberts: Complete Season 1
Beyond the Headlines: The Tiffany Rubin Story: Complete Season 1
Beyond The Headlines: The Watts Family Tragedy: Complete Season 1
Biography: KISStory: Complete Season 1
Blood-C: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED)
Bloods: Season 2B
Born This Way: Complete Season 1
Breaking Their Silence: Inside the Gymnastics Scandal: Complete Season 1
The Cars That Built the World: Complete Season 1
The Cars That Made America: Complete Season 1
Catering Wars: Complete Season 1
City Confidential: Complete Season 1
Counting Cars: Complete Season 2
Court Cam: Complete Season 1
Court Cam: Complete Season 2
Court Cam: Complete Season 3
Crime 360: Complete Season 1
Cultureshock: Complete Season 1
Dance Moms: Complete Season 5
Dance Moms Miami: Complete Season 1
Dance Moms: Abby’s Studio Rescue: Complete Season 1
The Day I Picked My Parents: Complete Season 1
Days That Shaped America: Complete Season 1
Desafio Sobre Fuego: Complete Season 1
Desafio Sobre Fuego: Complete Season 2
Divided States: Complete Season 1
Dog the Bounty Hunter: Complete Season 1
The Engineering That Built the World: Complete Season 1
Escaping Polygamy: Complete Season 1
Extreme Moms: Complete Season 1
Extreme Paranormal: Complete Season 1
Extreme Unboxing: Complete Season 1
The First 48 Presents: Critical Minutes: Complete Season 1
Fit to Fat to Fit: Complete Season 1
Fix This Yard: Complete Season 1
Flip This House: Complete Season 2
Flip This House: Complete Season 3
Flip Wars: Complete Season 1
Flipping Vegas: Complete Season 1
Food Porn: Complete Season 1
Forged in Fire: Complete Seasons 1 – 3
Forged in Fire: Knife or Death S1
Forged in Fire: Knife or Death S2
Found: Complete Season 1
Gangland: Aryan Brotherhood: Complete Season 1
Gangsters: America’s Most Evil: Complete Season 1
Gene Simmons: Family Jewels: Complete Season 1
Gene Simmons: Family Jewels: Complete Season 2
Gigantes de Mexico: Complete Season 1
Glam Masters: Complete Season 1
Going Si-ral: Complete Season 1
Gungrave: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED)
Haunted History: Complete Season 1
The Haunting of: Complete Season 1
Hispanic Heroes: Complete Season 1
Hoarders: Complete Season 4
How Playboy Changed the World: Complete Season 1
The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer: Complete Season 1
Hunting Hitler: Complete Seasons 1 – 3
Hunter x Hunter: Episodes 53-148 (DUBBED)
Hunter x Hunter: Episodes 80-148 (SUBBED)
I Dated a Psycho: Complete Season 1
I Killed My BFF: Complete Season 1
I Love You…But I Lied: Complete Season 1
I Survived . . . Beyond and Back: Complete Season 1
I Survived: Complete Season 1
I Survived: Complete Season 2
Ice Road Truckers: Complete Season 1
Ice Road Truckers: Complete Season 2
Jamie & Doug’s NYC Date Night: Complete Season 1
Jamie and Doug Plus One: Complete Season 1
Jep & Jessica: Growing the Dynasty: Complete Season 1
JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald: Complete Season 1
Kingpin: Complete Season 1
Kocktails with Khloé: Complete Season 1
Late Nite Chef Fight: Complete Season 1
The Machines That Built the World: Complete Season 1
Making a Model with Yolanda Hadid: Complete Season 1
Man vs. Child: Chef Showdown: Complete Season 1
Man vs. Master: Chef Battle: Complete Season 1
Married at First Sight: Complete Seasons 1 – 4 & 7 – 9
Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After?: Complete Season 7
Married at First Sight: Honeymoon Island: Complete Season 7
Married at First Sight: Second Chances: Complete Season 1
Married at First Sight: The First Year: Complete Season 1
Married at First Sight: The First Year: Complete Season 2
Married Life Diaries: Complete Season 1
The Men Who Built America: Complete Season 1
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen: Complete Season 1
Midnight Feast: Complete Season 1
Mobsters: Complete Season 1
MonsterQuest: Complete Season 1
Mountain Men: Complete Seasons 1 – 5
Mushi-shi: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED)
Obsessed: Complete Season 1
Ozzy and Jack’s World Detour: Complete Season 1
Panic 9-1-1: Complete Seasons 1 & 2
Paranormal Cops: Complete Season 1
Pawn Stars: Complete Seasons 2, 11, 13 & 14
The Rap Game: Complete Season 1
Sell This House: Complete Season 1
Space Dandy: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED)
Steins;Gate: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED)
Storage Wars: Complete Season 12
Swamp People: Complete Season 10
Taking the Stand S1
The Titans That Built The World: Complete Season 1
Tiny House Hunting: Complete Season 1
Tiny House Nation: Complete Season 1
The Toys That Built the World: Complete Season 1
TRANsitioning: Complete Season 1
Unidos por la Historia: Complete Season 1
Unidos por la Historia: Complete Season 2
The UnXplained with William Shatner: Complete Season 3
Wahlburgers: Complete Season 1
Wahlburgers: Complete Season 2
World Food Championships: Complete Season 1
Zombie House Flipping: Complete Season 1
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)
A La Mala (2015)
About Last Night (1986)
The American (2010)
American Pie (1999)
American Pie 2 (2001)
American Wedding (2003)
American Reunion (2012)
American Rapstar (2020)
Anaconda (1997)
Anais in Love (2021)
Bad Girls (1994)
Batman Begins (2005)
Big (1988)
Breaking Up (1997)
Chronicle (2012)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Diggers (2006)
Dolphin Tale (2011)
Drive Angry 3D (2011)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
Fight Club (1999)
The Fisher King (1991)
Get Smart (2008)
The Good Shepherd (2006)
The Gospel (2005)
He Got Game (1998)
High-rise (2015)
The Hitcher (1986)
Hook (1991)
Hope Floats (1998)
Hostel (2006)
Hostel: Part II (2007)
I Do…Until I Don’t (2017)
Jessabelle (2014)
Kazaam (1996)
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Little Fockers (2010)
Lost In Space (1998)
The Man With The Iron Fists (2012)
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Maverick (1994)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Meet the Parents (2000)
Multiplicity (1996)
Nell (1994)
Nine Months (1995)
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Open Water (2004)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Philadelphia (1993)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
Robot and Frank (2012)
Roll Bounce (2005)
Short Circuit (1986)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
The Social Network (2010)
Straw Dogs (2011)
Stripes (1981)
Tell It to the Bees (2018)
This Is 40 (2012)
The Three Musketeers (2011)
Tigerland (2000)
True Lies (1994)
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (2011)
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion (2006)
Unplugging (2021)
Van Helsing (2004)
We Bought a Zoo (2010)
Won’t Back Down (2012)
Year One (2009)
Young Guns (1988)
Young Guns II (1990)
Sept. 2
Cuttputlli (2022)
A Cat in Paris (2010)
Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Lupin III: The First (2019)
Wasted! The Story of Food Waste (2017)
White Snake (2019)
Sept. 3
Active Measures (2018)
Sept. 4
Stratton (2017)
Sept. 5
You’re Not You (2014)
Sept. 6
Petite Maman (2021)
Sept. 7
Grid: Complete Season 1 (SUBBED)
Tell Me Lies: Three-Episode Series Premiere
The Cove (2009)
Racing Extinction (2015)
Sept. 8
Wedding Season: Complete Season 1
The Zone: Survival Mission: Complete Season 1 (SUBBED)
Among the Shadows (2019)
Half Magic (2018)
Sept. 9
Wild Horses (2015)
Sept. 10
Capital One: College Bowl: Season 2 Premiere
The Last Victim (2022)
Sept. 11
In Dubious Battle (2016)
Dirty Weekend (2015)
Sept. 12
Monarch: Series Premiere
The Grand Seduction (2013)
Sept. 13
Around the Globe in 80 Days (2021)
Sept. 14
The Handmaid’s Tale: Two-Episode Season 5 Premiere
The Come Up: Series Premiere
Higher Power (2018)
The Last Duel (2021)
Sept. 15
2 Days in New York (2012)
Alan Partridge (2013)
Cosmos (2019)
The Dustwalker (2020)
Freakonomics (2010)
I Give It a Year (2013)
Lost Girls (2022)
Love, Simon (2018)
The Mandela Effect (2019)
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Red Dog (2019)
The Rest of Us (2019)
This Mountain Life (2018)
Sept. 16
Atlanta: Fourth and Final Season Premiere
I Think We’re Alone Now (2018)
Sept. 19
Best in Dough: Three-Episode Series Premiere
Sept. 20
Reboot: Three-Episode Series Premiere
9-1-1: Season 6 Premiere
The Cleaning Lady: Season 2 Premiere
Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017)
Sept. 21
The Resident: Season 6 Premiere
Sept. 22
The Kardashians: Season 2 Premiere
Abbott Elementary: Season 2 Premiere
Big Sky: Season 3 Premiere
The Conners: Season 5 Premiere
The Goldbergs: Season 10 Premiere
Home Economics: Season 3 Premiere
Lego Masters: Season 3 Premiere
The Masked Singer: Season 8 Premiere
Spy x Family: Complete Season 1 (DUBBED)
Sept. 23
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Sept. 24
Shark Tank: Season 14 Premiere
Dinner in America (2020)
Sept. 26
Chefs vs. Wild: Two-Episode Series Premiere
Bob’s Burgers: Season 13 Premiere
Celebrity Jeopardy!: Series Premiere
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune: Season 3 Premiere
Family Guy: Season 21 Premiere
The Great North: Season 3 Premiere
The Rookie: Season 5 Premiere
The Simpsons: Season 34 Premiere
A Chiara (2021)
Sept. 27
Reasonable Doubt: Two-Episode Series Premiere
Sept. 28
The D’Amelio Show: Two-Episode Season 2 Premiere
Bachelor in Paradise: Season 8 Premiere
The Rookie: Feds: Series Premiere
Sept. 30
Ramy: Complete Season 3 Premiere
Call Me Kat: Season 3 Premiere
Hell’s Kitchen: Season 21 Premiere
Welcome to Flatch: Season 2 Premiere
What’s leaving in September
Sept. 5
Awoken (2019)
Storks (2016)
Sept. 7
La La Land (2016)
Sept. 9
Prisoners (2013)
Sept. 12
Colette (2018)
Scary Movie 5 (2013)
Sept. 14
A Long Way Down (2014)
A.C.O.R.N.S. (Operation Crackdown) (2015)
Blade of the Immortal (2017)
Cocaine Cowboys (2006)
Ozzy (2016)
The Seat Filler (2004)
Serena (2014)
Sept. 18
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Seasons 1-8
Keeping Up with the Kardashians: Seasons 1-20
Life of Kyle: Season 1
The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Seasons 1-13
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Seasons 1-15
The Real Housewives of New Jersey: Seasons 1-11
The Real Housewives of New York: Seasons 1-12
The Real Housewives of Orange County: Seasons 12-15
The Real Housewives of Potomac: Seasons 1-5
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: Season 1
Top Chef: Seasons 1-18
Vanderpump Rules: Seasons 1-8
Sept. 19
The Haunted (2020)
Southbound (2015)
Sept. 29
Across The Line (2015)
Sept. 30
127 Hours (2010)
21 (2008)
American Pie (1999)
American Pie 2 (2001)
American Wedding (2003)
American Reunion (2012)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Batman Begins (2005)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Black Knight (2001)
Bogus (1996)
Bride Wars (2009)
Bugsy (1991)
Cadillac Records (2008)
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Closed Circuit (2013)
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Contraband (2012)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Death Race (2008)
Dick (1999)
The Dilemma (2011)
Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000)
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
First Knight (1995)
Fly Away Home (1996)
Fred Claus (2007)
Ghost Rider (2007)
Gone (2012)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Hysteria (2012)
Instructions Not Included (2013)
Joy Ride (2001)
Jumanji (1995)
Just Go With It (2011)
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Kindred Spirits (2019)
Knock Knock (2015)
Knowing (2009)
Little Richard (2000)
Looper (2012)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
Milk (2008)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie (2011)
New Year’s Eve (2011)
Next Level (2019)
Nim’s Island (2008)
The Nutty Professor (1996)
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Post Grad (2009)
The Professional (1994)
Prometheus (2012)
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Reign Over Me (2007)
Rise (2022)
Sex Ed (2014)
Sexy Beast (1999)
The Sitter (2010)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Step Up (2006)
Step Up 2 The Streets (2008)
Step Up 3 (2010)
Superhero Movie (2008)
Swimming for Gold (2020)
Taxi (1998)
This Is 40 (2012)
The Tourist (2010)
Tower Heist (2011)
The Two Faces of January (2014)
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (2011)
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion (2006)
Urban Legend (1998)
Urban Legends: The Final Cut (2000)
Van Helsing (2004)
What’s Love Got to Do With It (1993)
Wolves at the Door (2016)
Working Girl (1988)