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

Lisa Jane Persky (aka Eljay Persky), born in Atlanta, grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village and began her acting career at La Mama E.T.C. in H.M. Koutoukas' "Grandmother Is In The Strawberry Patch" as the "World's Most Perfect Teenager". She next crossed East 4th St. to co-star with Divine in Tom Eyen's "Women Behind Bars". She has appeared in many plays including Broadway's "Steaming", and at L.A.'s Met Theater and LATC. She made her film debut as 'Robert Duvall''s daughter in The Great Santini (1979). Other movie credits include Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing (1985) and When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). She created memorable roles in The Big Easy (1986) and Coneheads (1993), and gave Quentin Tarantino his first screen kiss in Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995) and played the role of "Dirty Dee" in the cult classic _"Kiss Meets the Phantom of The Park" (1978).

Lisa has had featured roles in numerous television shows, such as _"NYPD Blue" (2004)_, The Practice (1997), _"Touched by an Angel: The Last Day of the Rest of Your Life" (#2.9) (#6.3) (1999) _, _"Quantum Leap: Memphis Melody" (#6.21) (1993)_ and The X-Files (1993). Working in a wide variety of fields, from Assistant Executive Producer on Barbet Schroeder's Kiss of Death (1995) to shaping and generating special projects for the producers of television's Jeopardy! (1984), she is also a freelance writer, photographer, and editorial collage artist and has worked for numerous publications including The Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Q, MOJO, Journal of Popular Music Studies and The Pitchfork Review. She is a founding editor of both New York Rocker and L.A. Review of Books, a recipient of a Print Magazine Award for Design Excellence and her first short story was featured in BOMB magazine.

The <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1341522/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Blondie</a> song, &quot;I&#39;m Always Touched By Your Presence, Dear&quot;, was written for Lisa Jane Persky by her then-boyfriend, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm2200709/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Gary Valentine</a> (Gary Valentine Lachman).

Trimmed five years off her age at the beginning of her career.

She appeared in two time travel episodes in which a time traveller takes the place of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000062/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Elvis Presley</a> as he records his first hit single &quot;That&#39;s All Right&quot; at Sun Records on July 5, 1954: <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0734699/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Once and Future King/A Saucer of Loneliness (1986)</a> and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0681143/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Memphis Melody - July 3, 1954 (1993)</a>.

Ex-stepdaughter of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0744468/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Judith Rossner</a>.

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