Preview: The spy series ends in September with "Deutschland89"

So far, the corona crisis has not triggered a series of lulls in streaming services and TV. Several German highlights await in September.

Amazon Prime Video

A third season has already been confirmed for "The Boys". The second season will start exclusively on Prime Video from September 4, 2020, with new episodes every week. "The boys" are in absolute chaos: They are on the run from the law, are being hunted by the superheroes – called Supes – and are desperately trying to regroup in order to strike back against Vought. Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother's Milk (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capon) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) went into hiding, while Butcher (Karl Urban) disappeared. And what is the new superhero Stormfront (Aya Cash) up to?

The multi-part German comedy series "Für Umme" will be shown on Prime Video from September 18, 2020. It is about Moritz "Mo" Mikkelsen (Michael Fritz Schumacher). At 33 years of age, he is still chasing the long-awaited glittering acting career. But with his over-ambitious approach, he only reaches failures and embarrassments in excess. He doesn't even notice how many people he helps with his acting talent in real life and that in real life nobody "Cut!" calls out when the going gets dangerous.

The Germany trilogy is coming to an end. In "Deutschland89", the third and final season of the award-winning spy series, the main actors Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Sylvester Groth, Svenja Jung, Florence Kasumba and Co. experience the fall of the Berlin Wall in autumn 1989. Not only GDR spy Martin Rauch (Nay ) thereby loses its identity and home, and its comrades in the GDR's foreign intelligence service (HVA) become unemployed practically overnight. How should they position themselves in this chaos? From September 25, 2020, the eight new episodes will start exclusively on Prime Video in this country.

Netflix

Kurt Wallander, a cult figure in the crime scene of the Swedish writer Henning Mankell (1948-2015), already had several faces in film and television. From September 3, 2020, Netflix will illuminate his beginnings as a young police officer. The leading role in the new series "Young Wallander" is played by the Swede Adam Pålsson (32). The premise: When a hate crime leads to unrest, the young Kurt Wallander is promoted to investigator.

From September 4, 2020, Oscar winner Hilary Swank (46, "Million Dollar Baby") will travel into space. She plays Emma Green in the new Netflix series "Away", an American astronaut who is preparing to lead an international team and the first space flight to Mars. To do this, she has to leave her husband (Josh Charles) and her teenage daughter (Talitha Bateman) behind – although they both need Emma most at the moment. The further the crew moves from Earth, the more complex and dynamic the emotional conflicts become as everyone realizes what they have left behind.

With "The Last Word" Netflix is ​​delivering a very special dramedy from September 17, 2020. The six episodes tell different stories about grief, death and survival. The focus is on Karla Fazius (Anke Engelke), for whom a world collapses when her husband suddenly dies after 25 years of marriage. She draws new energy from a new vocation: She becomes a funeral orator and henceforth accompanies other mourners – although she does not adhere to the usual rules of the funeral industry. Much to the chagrin of undertaker Andreas Borowski (Thorsten Merten).

The new series by Ryan Murphy (54, "American Horror Story") and Ian Brennan (42) will be available on Netflix from September 18, 2020. "Ratched" tells the story of the origin of the asylum nurse Mildred Ratched, whom movie fans know from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). In the prehistory she is played by Sarah Paulson (45, "Ocean's 8"). In 1947 Mildred came to Northern California to seek work in a leading psychiatric hospital where new and troubling experiments with the human mind began. She seems like the perfect, dedicated nurse …

The dinosaurs will also be on Netflix from September 18, 2020. The eight-part series "Jurassic World: New Adventures" takes place at the same time as the film "Jurassic World" (2015). In the series, six teenagers are stuck in an adventure camp on the other side of Isla Nublar. When the dinosaurs finally wreak havoc across the island, the children must hold together to survive and uncover dark secrets that threaten the whole world.

Free TV

From September 2nd, 2020 primetime on Wednesday will again be "Grey's Anatomy". ProSieben continues broadcasting the 16th season of the medical series. 13 episodes are still waiting for fans of Dr. Meredith Gray (Ellen Pompeo) and her colleagues. The 16th season ended prematurely due to the corona pandemic and comprises only 21 episodes. The remaining episodes reveal, among other things, why Dr. Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) left the Gray Sloan Memorial and whether he will ever return. More sad, but also positive news awaits the doctors.

From Thursday, September 10th (8:15 pm), a new crime series will celebrate its German free TV premiere on Sat.1: "Prodigal Son – The murderer in you". The profiler Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne) is hard to beat when it comes to genius, but he also shows narcissistic traits and suffers from a post-traumatic disorder. The atrocities of his father, who went down in history as a 23-time serial killer under the pseudonym "The Surgeon", have shaped him. Now he is supposed to fathom exactly this kind of person at the NYPD.

The third and final season of the award-winning German drama series "4 Blocks" will celebrate its German free TV premiere on Friday, September 11, 2020. ProSieben shows three episodes in a row from 10:50 p.m. Toni (Kida Khodr Ramadan) hands over the leadership of the clan to his brother Abbas (Veysel Gelin) and from now on leads a normal life in Berlin. But the past quickly catches up with him …

The six-part event series "Oktoberfest 1900" caused some displeasure among Oktoberfest hosts even before it was broadcast. It is about the fight between two beer dynasties for supremacy at the world's largest festival. In September, interested parties can see it for themselves. "Oktoberfest 1900" will be broadcast on three evenings: on Tuesday, September 15, Wednesday, September 16 and Wednesday, September 23, 2020, at 8:15 pm on the first. All six episodes will be available for download in the ARD media library from Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 8:15 p.m.

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Actress Rosario Dawson (41, "Zombieland: Two is Better") returns in "Briarpatch – Texas Kills!" returns to her hometown of San Bonifacio, Texas, as Allegra Dill after her sister's murder. In the middle of the dusty heat, she meets eccentric and dodgy characters alongside the runaway animals of the city zoo. The closer she gets to her sister's killer, the more a deeply corrupt system of lies and intrigue emerges. From September 2, 2020, the series will celebrate its German TV premiere in double episodes on 13th Street on Wednesdays from 8:13 p.m.

The first season of "The Baker and the Beauty" will celebrate its German premiere on TVNow from September 15, 2020. Ex- "The Denver Clan" star Nathalie Kelley (34) plays the female lead in the US series. The focus is on the figure Daniel Garcia (Victor Rasuk), who works as a baker in the shop of his Cuban family. On a wild night in Miami he meets Noa Hamilton (Kelley) an international superstar and gets into the limelight. The affair stirs up a lot of dust. Can the unequal couple defend their love against all odds?

The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker-Klan says goodbye to its fans in this country. The eleventh and final season of the popular sitcom "Modern Family" has not only well-known actors such as Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara and Julie Bowen but also numerous guest stars, including "Friends" star Courteney Cox and ex-soccer player David Beckham. The last 18 episodes will celebrate their German TV premiere from September 17, 2020 on Thursdays at 9:05 p.m. in double episodes on Sky One. At the same time, the episodes are also available on Sky Ticket, Sky Go and Sky Q.