Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video UK: September 2024

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Amazon Prime Video’s UK library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top picks

Tulsa King: Season 2 (September 15)

Often a hero, sometimes a criminal: always a King. The legendary Sylvester Stallone returns to our screens as a Mafio capo sent to establish a new operation in Ohio, of all places, in this series created by dad TV juggernaut Taylor Sheridan. In his feature on the first season, Luke Buckmaster commended Sly on his enduring stature as a leading man: “now in his mid-70s, with the kind of gravitas only time can impart, Stallone is one of those actors who feels like a relic from a bygone era, washed up on the shores of modern existence.”

It’s a flattering role for Stallone, his first time leading a streaming series. He wields a lot of influence, and even has a romantic arc with the government agent hot on his trail, who slapped a pair of handcuffs on him in the season one finale. Kinky!

A Very Royal Scandal (September 19)

This is kinda awkward, since Netflix already put out a dramatisation of Prince Andrew’s reputation-destroying TV interview with BBC’s Emily Maitlis. In this three-part limited series, Michael Sheen portrays the sweaty and disgraced Royal, looking a fair bit more like Andrew than Rufus Sewell did, I reckon. Ruth Wilson is Maitlis. By simply re-enacting the shattering interview practically in real time, Netflix’s movie managed to make some impact, so hopefully this new production can accomplish a similar, uncanny sense of deja vu.

Hotel Cocaine: Season 1 (September 26)

The co-creator of Narcos flexes his muscle for addictive TV once again, drawing us into the cocaine scene of 1970s Miami. There are some small-screen legends here as dogged cops and drugged-up hotel managers, including Danny Pino and Michael Chiklis. The lines will be fat; the lapels will be wide; and you’ll come away after each episode using retro narcos slang you don’t quite understand the meaning of.

Top picks: movies + specials

Killer Heat (September 26)

A neo-noir mystery set on the island of Crete…dare we hope for a murderous version of Mamma Mia? Featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as private eye Nick Bali, this twisty whodunnit casts a powerful Greek shipping family as its suspects, all under Nick’s eye after the death of young magnate Leo. Shailene Woodley and Richard Madden co-star, presumably enjoying a lot of sunshine and feta appetisers in the process of making an updated, thrilling murder mystery.

It’s based on a short story by Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø, and we don’t even have a trailer or any imagery to offer you: so enjoy this nice photo of Crete at sunset! Opa!