23 autumn TV shows you need to bookmark as sofa season begins
Let's face it: autumn TV shows are something we have been looking forward to all year long. With the cooler weather on the horizon (read: basically here), there's nothing better than cosying up on the sofa with some snacks and drinks with some incredible nail-biting television to watch.
The season for guilt-free watching has officially landed, and we couldn’t be more ready.
As you gear yourselves up for dark, cosy nights on the sofa, don’t miss GLAMOUR’s ultimate guide to the ultimate autumn TV shows below, including new releases and some older favourites.
PJs and cuppas at the ready.
COURTESY OF NETFLIXDear White People
Fitting with the autumnal back-to-school vibes, Dear White People – inspired by the acclaimed film of the same name – follows the lives of students of colour studying at an American Ivy League university, navigating instances of social injustice, bias and activism alongside the coming-of-age experience of higher education.
Michael Loccisano/GA/Getty ImagesAll Her Fault
Succession star Sarah Snook is returning to our small screens this autumn in All Her Fault – a TV adaptation of the bestselling novel by Andrea Mara.
The series will also star Dakota Fanning, with the intriguing synopsis reading as follows: “Marissa Irvine (Sarah Snook) arrives to collect her young son Milo from his first playdate, but the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She doesn't have Milo and has never heard of him. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.”
The first four episodes of All Her Fault will debut on Sky and NOW on 7 November. Two new episodes will then drop every Friday until the finale on 21 November.
Matteo Graia/SkyThe Iris Affair
Starring Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar (known for Playing Nice and Malpractice), The Iris Affair will see "enigmatic genius Iris Nixon (Algar) crack a string of complex online puzzles, led to a piazza in Florence where she meets charismatic entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Hollander).
“He invites her to come and work for him to unlock a powerful and top-secret piece of technology. Her curiosity piqued, she accepts. But when Iris discovers its dangerous potential, she steals the journal containing the device’s activation sequence — and vanishes.”
The Iris Affair will launch this autumn on Sky and streaming service NOW.
NBCU/Peacock/SkyThe Paper
This one is for fans of The Office. Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Tim Key, Sabrina Impacciatore and Ramona Young, The Paper sees the team behind The Office US create a mockumentary series following the efforts of a group of volunteer reporters trying to keep a Midwestern newspaper alive.
The Paper drops on Sky TV and NOW on 5 September.
Erin SimkinThe Morning Show
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon star as daytime news show colleagues Alex and Bradley. The upcoming fourth season, dropping in September, "opens in spring 2024, almost two years after the events of season three. With the UBA-NBN merger complete, the newsroom must grapple with newfound responsibility, hidden motives and the elusive nature of truth in a polarised America.
“In a world rife with deepfakes, conspiracy theories and corporate cover-ups — who can you trust?”
NetflixMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
NetflixThe Perfect Couple
An absolutely salacious whodunnit, based in US holiday destination Nantucket and adapted from the novel by Elin Hilderbrand. Starring Nicole Kidman, Eve Hewson and Meghann Fahy, the instant Netflix classic takes place over a wedding weekend thrown by the groom's fabulously rich family. When a guest is found dead the morning over the wedding, suspicion is rife as to who did it.
Angus PigottThe Buccaneers
Haven't had enough of Bridgerton? Well, The Buccaneers, starring Christina Hendricks, may just be your next watch. The synopsis for the new regency era series, which will be disrupted by Stateside visitors, reads: “A group of fun-loving young American girls explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a refreshing disregard for centuries of tradition. Sent to secure husbands and titles, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more than that, and saying 'I do' is just the beginning….”
Michael BeckerLessons In Chemistry
Brie Larson stars as female scientist Elizabeth Zotts in Lessons in Chemistry, which is based on the novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmu and centres on her lead character being fired from her own lab in the early sixties when she falls pregnant. As a result, she begins hosting her own television cooking show to educate housewives on scientific topics.
© 2023 Netflix, Inc.Virgin River
Transport yourself to the fictional small-town world of Virgin River, where romances, drama and scandals are rife.
Love & Death
Jessica Biel may have played the role of Candy Montgomery brilliantly in the Disney+ series Candy previously, but we finally get a chance to see Elizabeth Olsen take on the notorious real-life inspired role of the housewife driven to kill in suburban Texas in the new drama, Love & Death. The plot centres on picture-perfect churchgoing mother and wife, Candy, who was accused of killing her friend Betty Gore after embarking on an affair with Betty's husband, Allan. The crime was so sensationalised at the time that it hit headlines across the globe, and the real Candy is still alive today and living a quiet life in the state of Georgia.
Paramount+The Burning Girls
Based on the novel of the same name by C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls sees a Reverend and her daughter arrive in the village of Chapel Croft looking for a fresh start following a sudden loss. However, they soon realise that the small, sleepy town has secrets of its own. Samantha Morton, Ruby Stokes and Conrad Khan star.
stefania rosiniWilderness
What would you do if you caught your new husband cheating on you? Confront him? Kick him out? For Liv (played by Jenna Coleman), she spirals while exacting her revenge as she sets out on a great American road from the Grand Canyon to the iconic Yosemite National Park with her unsuspecting husband, Will (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). Based on B.E. Jones' novel of the same name, Wilderness will be a nail-biting watch.
FXAmerican Horror Story: Delicate
Kim Kardashian stars in Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story: Delicate alongside the likes of Cara Delevingne and Emma Roberts. We see the reality icon and SKIMS founder transform into a sexy creep while holding a baby.
Chris BarrWoman in the Wall
Ruth Wilson stars as Lorna Brady in a series that sheds light on Ireland's most horrific institution, the Magdalene Laundries. In the series, Lorna's life continues to spiral after her incarceration at fifteen in Ireland and the Catholic Church's scandalous Magdalene Laundries, where "fallen women" were sent to answer for their "sins" such as adultery and teenage pregnancy.
Raymond HallMr and Mrs Smith
Based on the 2005 Angelina Jolie and Brd Pitt starring film of the same name, the television series Mr and Mrs Smith, starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine, will see their characters John and Jane Smith enter into a new phase of their marriage after agreeing to work as spies for a mysterious agency. All's fair in love and war, eh?
Ben Mark Holzberg / ShowtimeFellow Travelers
Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer star in this series, which chronicles the love story of two incredibly different men who forge a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on "subversives and sexual deviants". The couple's journey is followed over four decades, from the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Girls star Allison Williams is also a part of the cast.
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