The Biggest Movies and TV Coming in September

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Grit Boettcher was born in Spandau, Berlin, the daughter of a professional soldier. Her precocious talent emerged early on, from dancing in children's ballet and writing short stories for a newspaper to posing as a photographic model. On the island of Sylt she was elected 'Miss North Sea'. Grit completed her acting studies at the Ufa school in Berlin, tutored by the noted thespian Viktor de Kowa. She made her debut at Vienna's Theater in der Josefstadt and then proceeded to establish her reputation in boulevard pieces on stages in Berlin and Munich, in due course becoming particularly noted for her roles in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park and Cactus Flower and in the play Ingeborg by Curt Goetz.

On screen from 1958, the feisty, diminutive blonde initially featured in a string of supporting roles before her first lead in the Swiss comedy Der Teufel hat gut lachen (1960). Her first popular cinematic successes were in the Father Brown mystery Er kanns nicht lassen (1962) (with Heinz Rühmann as G.K. Chesterton's priestly sleuth) and in the Edgar Wallace adaptations The Black Abbot (1963) and The College Girl Murders (1967) (both opposite 'Blackie' Joachim Fuchsberger). Proper stardom came her way via the medium of television. At her peak in the sixties, Grit made her first mark in the family sitcom So ein süßes kleines Biest (1964), followed by the crime drama Der Mann, der keinen Mord beging (1968), opposite Karl Michael Vogler. Her biggest breakthrough was to be the cult sketch comedy Ein verrücktes Paar (1977), in which she starred as diverse characters alongside Harald Juhnke (and which won her a Golden Camera TV award). In the 80s, she enjoyed another high profile recurring role in Hotel Paradies (1990), as the matriarch of a family operating a hotel on the Spanish island of Mallorca, catering chiefly for German tourists. After the series had run its course, Grit wrote and published a German language tour guide for the island.

Grit Boettcher has also made many guest appearances in hit television series like Der Kommissar (1969), Ich heirate eine Familie... (1983), The Black Forest Hospital (1985) and Rosa Roth (1994) and has been among the cast, either in support or as lead, in scores of made-for-TV movies.. More recently, she was seen in 79 episodes of the romantic telenovela Alisa: Follow Your Heart (2009). The actress who once declared "my only drug is the love of the audience" is now in semi retirement (her last screen credit dates to 2020). In 2018, she published her autobiography Auf ein Lächeln: Erinnerungen.

Has two children: <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0069556/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Nicole Belstler-Boettcher</a> (b. 1963, with Dr. Wolfgang Belstler) and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1956633/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Tristan Boettcher</a> (b. 1982, with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm8110398/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Michael Koch</a>).

Although playing in many movies and on stage for decades, she became
widely popular as female part of the &quot;mad couple&quot; together with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0432086/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Harald Juhnke</a>
on <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0455068/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Ein verrücktes Paar (1977)</a>.

Lives in Ismaning near Munich with her daughter <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0069556/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Nicole Belstler-Boettcher</a> and her son <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1956633/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Tristan Boettcher</a>.

Published her own poems under the pseudonym &quot;Tirg Rechtteob&quot; in
1986.

Was discovered by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0209142/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Viktor de Kowa</a>.

Born to a soldier and a housewife, she had one sister and one brother.

Former longtime companion of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1456818/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Christian Wölffer</a> (until 1975). According to some sources they were married.

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