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

Playwright Martin Flavin was born in San Francisco and moved with his mother to Chicago at an early age when his father died. He attended college there and took an interest in dramatics. Upon graduation he got a job on a newspaper and supplemented his income by writing short stories for magazines. He met with a degree of success in that endeavor but couldn't make enough money to devote his full time to a writing career. His mother's family had a manufacturing business in the Midwest and Flavin decided to go into the family business, but always with an eye toward going back to writing. After 12 years as an executive in the family company he began writing again, but this time as a playwright instead of a short-story writer.

In 1923 one of his plays, "Children of the Moon", was produced on Broadway, and three years later Flavin left the family business to become a full-time playwright. His most famous play, "The Criminal Code" (1929), was inspired by a visit he made to San Quentin Prison in California and the conditions he saw there (it was later made into a classic gangster film, The Criminal Code (1931)).

Talkies, while forcing their influence on the speaking stage, will never supplant the stage in the hearts and minds of the American people.

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Martin Flavin

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