On a strange alien planet, a cargo specialist named Azi Narine is trying to stay alive among a handful of ship survivors, and she has a romance with a woman named Mia. That cartoon romance is the quiet centrepiece of September 2026 for viewers hunting for lesbian, bisexual and queer women and trans characters on screen, according to Autostraddle’s monthly guide.
The show is Scavengers Reign, an adult animated sci-fi series that began on HBO Max, moved to Netflix, and was then not renewed there. Its linear TV debut comes on Adult Swim’s Toonami block on September 5, with three episodes each week all month. The plot picks up after an interstellar cargo ship is wrecked, and the people who lived through it must learn to cope on a planet teeming with new life and dangerous civilizations. Wunmi Mosaku voices Azi, a lesbian. Sepideh Moafi voices Mia. Alia Shawkat voices the robot that travels with Azi.
A Lifetime movie nobody expected
The same day, Lifetime airs Surviving the Silence: The Roxane Gay Story, based on Gay’s memoir Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Autostraddle’s writer admitted the pairing seemed strange: Gay’s prose is vivid and unsparing, Lifetime’s films tend to the sensational. Then she added that she could not wait, and expected to cry.
Office-verse and beyond
On September 9, Peacock releases the full second season of The Paper, the Office spin-off set at a struggling Toledo newspaper, the Toledo Truth Teller. TV Guide says the staff are hunting for another win after a big night at the Ohio Journalism Awards. The link back to the original is Oscar Nuñez’s gay accountant Oscar, and the writers’ room includes lesbian comic Mo Welch, who also plays a gay sales rep named Kimberly.
The following week is busy. Netflix releases Call My Agent! The Movie on September 10. It is set five years after the agency closes, with Camille Cottin’s lesbian agent Andréa Martel now a film director who loses her lead actor just before shooting. The same day Paramount+ brings the third and final season of the Australian romcom Colin From Accounts, where Ashley’s queer best friend Megan is still dating Rumi.
On September 17, Netflix premieres Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Ryan Murphy has described it as “women-driven, feminist, lesbian, dirty, unapologetic.” Ella Beatty plays Lizzie, accused of the ax murders of her father and stepmother in 1892, and Vicky Krieps plays her maid, Bridget Sullivan. Sarah Paulson takes on Aileen Wournos.
Slo Pitch, an Elliot Page production for Canada’s Crave, arrives September 25. It follows a last-place queer beer-league softball team in Mississauga after its coach is dumped by her girlfriend. Emily Hampshire co-stars and co-produces. No U.S. broadcast plans have been announced.
Sources
- September 2026: What's New, Gay and Streaming On Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, HBO Max and More (Autostraddle)
- The Ultimate Guide to What to Watch on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, and More in September 2026 (TV Guide)
