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

Multi-Award-winning Director + Producer Arun Kumar was born and brought up in London. He studied Economics at the University of Essex graduating with honors in 1988. After 18 months of traveling in Asia and filming his experiences he returned to London and studied film and video at Goldsmiths College, The University of London and at Thames Valley University in Ealing.

In 1993 Arun directed his first documentary The Bielski Brothers which was independently financed and sold for broadcast in Austria, France, Australia, and Israel. He continued to pursue his interest in making issue-based documentaries and his next film, the critically acclaimed and controversial Executions was Europe's biggest selling video in 1995. This success led to him being commissioned by Channel 4 to direct Bengali Backlash in 1996. With this commission, he set up his own production company Soma Films. His next commission was The Search for Kurtz which he made for Channel 4 and the History Channel in 1998. This documentary told the story of the real-life inspiration for Marlon Brando's character in 'Apocalypse Now'.

Arun has directed commercial work for Motorola, Sony, Kvaerner, and St John Ambulance. Arun has directed music promos for Sophie Barker (HoHum records), Laughing Buddha (EMI), and The Countess.

In 1997 he won an Arts Council award to make a pilot for a comedy-drama series Fly on the Wall which began his career in drama. In 1999 he began to write a feature film screenplay which developed over the subsequent 3 years into the screenplay Venus. His critically acclaimed short film Looters (2002) won the jury special award in Termoli, Italy, Memorable award in Thessaloniki, Greece, and was shortlisted for a BBC talent award. Arun's second short film Eating Out (2004) won the bronze medal at the 2004 Westfest in Texas and awards for directing and screenplay in the 0110 Film Festival in India.

Arun directed his first feature film The Truck of Dreams from his own screenplay for Sahara Motion Pictures in August 2005. This won the World Cinema Best Feature Film Award in the 2006 Washington International Film Festival. In September 2008 Arun took over as Director on The Big I Am starring Leo Gregory, Vincent Regan, Michael Madsen, Paul Kaye, Michael Harvey, Steven Berkoff & Beatrice Rosen. He brought his own team on board after financiers halted the original production, which went considerably over budget. Arun brought the film in on time and on budget.

Arun is scheduled to shoot the pilot episode for the TV drama series Underbelly in September 2022.

Feature films in development include Far Out Far In, Dr. Swapher, Alternative Therapy, Mafeking, The Bravehearts, Turkish Delights, Macalla and Soldier.

Arun is developing the TV drama series Gatekeepers, Underbelly, Truman, The Ravenmaster, Six Miles to Seven, Wannabe Traveller, Sundown and Backbone.

Arun has recently completed writing the screenplay for the forthcoming feature film Soldier.

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