David Farnor | On 23, Sep 2017

From historic Emmy winners to true crime thrillers, September sees a whole wave of old and new classics depart from Sky Box Sets. HBO’s The Jinx and True Detective bid farewell this month, while Showtime’s Ray Donovan also departs. In between them, though, Sky waves goodbye to TV history, as David Lynch’s mind-bending, game-changing Twin Peaks revival slips away from Sky’s on-demand catalogue.

Sky Cinema is no less traumatic this month, as all your favourite Disney and Pixar gems are removed, from Inside Out and The Incredibles to The Lion King and Brave. Saddest of all, though, is the exit of the all the original Star Wars movies – making now your best opportunity to catch up before Episode VIII arrives this Christmas.

Not a Sky customer? You can get access to both Sky Box Sets and Sky Cinema through contract-free streaming service NOW, which costs £8.99 a month (for an Entertainment Membership, including Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, FOX UK and more), or £9.99 a month for the whole Sky Cinema catalogue. Whichever you subscribe to, this is your last chance to stream the following:

TV

How I Met Your Mother – 24th September

Don’t miss the chance to relive how Ted (Josh Radnor) eventually met the mother of his kids. From Jason Segel and Cobie Smulders to Alyson Hannigan, the amusing cast are only topped by Neil Patrick Harris as Barney, a suit-wearing, womanising playboy, whose pick-up skills are even more legendary than Lorenzo von Mattehorn.

Atlanta: Season 1 – 29th September

Donald Glover’s Golden Globe winning series is an exciting show that offers something refreshingly evolutionary in the modern TV landscape. Read our full review.

Legion: Season 1 – 29th September

David Haller, a.k.a. Legion, is a haunted man with power beyond comprehension. His power does not come free, but at the steep cost of David’s mind. Plagued by numerous split personalities – each commanding a different aspect of his power – David is trying to find his way back to sanity. But he’s getting tired and about to give up, until he meets the girl of his dreams…

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst – 1st October

HBO’s six-part documentary, directed and produced by Andrew Jarecki and produced and shot by Marc Smerling, exposes long-buried information discovered during a seven-year investigation of a series of unsolved crimes, and the man at their centre: Robert Durst, scion of New York’s billionaire Durst family.

Long suspected in the 1982 disappearance of his young wife in New York, the 2000 murder of the key witness in the case in Beverly Hills, and the subsequent murder and dismemberment of a neighbour in Texas, Durst has consistently maintained his innocence.

If you liked Serial or Making a Murderer, you’ll love this.

The Blacklist: Season 1 – 3rd October

James Spader alone is reason enough to tune into this hit FBI drama.

True Detective: Season 1 – 3rd October

It’s never too late to catch up on the superb first season of HBO’s crime drama, which sees Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey on blistering form.

Twin Peaks: The Return – 4th October

Unsettling, unfathomable, brilliant, baffling. David Lynch’s epic fairytale of innocence is as radical in 2017 as the original Twin Peaks was in 1990 – if not more so. If you’re a fan of the first two seasons, don’t miss some of the finest work David Lynch has ever done. Read our reviews of the whole season here.

Ray Donovan: Season 1 to 3 – 16th October

The excellent Liev Schreiber gets a rare lead role in this drama about Ray, a problem solver to LA’s rich and famous with a past that comes back to haunt him. With a cast that includes Jon Voight and Eddie Marsan, this is a compelling box set full of scandal fixing, gossip killing and corpse hiding.

 

Other TV shows leaving in September / October 2017:

 

24th September
The Agony & The Ecstasy: Season 1
Victoria: Season 1

27th September
Junkyard Empire: Season 3
Wipeout USA: Season 3

28th September
Idiotsitter: Season 2
My Super Sweet 16: Season 10
Prey II: Season 2

29th September
In Plain Sight: Season 1

30th September
Melissa & Joe: Season 1 to 5
Earth, Wind & Fire Talks…: Season 1
Grand Hotel: Season 3
In Search of Chopin: Season 1
Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life: Season 1
Misfits: Season 1 to 5
Soho Theatre Live: Season 1
Paranoid: Season 1
The Catch: Season 1
Whitechapel: Season 1 to 4

1st October
Threesome: Season 1

3rd October
Codes And Conspiracies: Season 3

5th October
Brideshead Revisited: Season 1
Cold Feet: Season 6
Downton Abbey: Season 1 to 6
Harlots: Season 1
River Monsters: Season 8
Promposal: Season 1

6th October
Marcella: Season 1

7th October
Deadliest Catch: Season 13

10th October
The Force: North East: Season 5

11th October
1993: Season 1
Grantchester: Season 3

12th October
Teen Mom UK: Season 2

14th October
Yukon Men: Season 14

 

Movies

 

Big Hero 6 – 24th September

Meet Baymax, a sort of inflatable healthcare robot that, when kitted out with the latest tech by his owner Hiro, becomes a crime fighting machine. Watch this – then get ready to rush out and buy a toy one.

Brave – 25th September

Pixar’s animated gem may look like a story about an archer versus a bear but emerges as a sweet and simple tale of one daughter and her relationship with her mother.

Inside Out – 26th September

“The best Pixar films have always had an element of autobiography about them, and Inside Out reads practically like a manifesto for Pixar’s output – heck, it’s practically a tour of the studio. Gather a bunch of diverse personalities together and let them work the controls in order to inspire outrageous flights of imagination, devastating heartbreak and cinematic joy. It was only a matter of time before Pixar made the logical leap and actually made a film from the viewpoint of the emotions they have so effortlessly mined over the past 20 years.” (Our full review)

The Matrix – 29th September

Would you take the red pill or the blue pill? The Wachowskis’ sci-fi is as mind-blowing as you remember, Mr. Anderson.

Star Wars – 30th September

We feel a disturbance in the force. The disturbance is the imminent departure of the whole of George Lucas’ original saga, from Episodes I to VI, plus plus Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and behind-the-scenes extras, such as Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed.

The Incredibles – 30th September

Arguably Pixar’s best film to date, The Incredibles combines family drama, superhero silliness and a genuine sense of peril.

The Talented Mr Ripley – 30th September

Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, is sumptuous stuff, with a stellar performance from Jude Law as rich boy Dickie Greenleaf and Matt Damon as the lower-class fraud who envies his life.

Chinatown – 30th September

“There’s something black in the green part of your eye.” “Oh, that. It’s a… it’s a flaw in the iris.” Roman Polanski’s 1974 film is a classic. That’s undeniable. But it feels like a classic from 30 years earlier. That’s incredible. From the moment the Bogart-like Gittes (Jack Nicholson) gets caught up in a conspiracy involving the town’s water supply, the detective flick feels like a remnant of film noir’s heyday brought out into the sun; most of his investigating takes place in the daylight, a bleached world of modern prosperity – and, of course, sumptuous colour.

Con Air – 30th September

Nic Cage goes all shaggy-haired as good man Cameron Poe, who’s stuck on a plane taken hostage by a group of convicts (led by John Malkovich).

 

Other movies leaving Sky Cinema and NOW in September / October 2017:

 

23rd September
Irrational Man
Riley’s First Date?

25th September
Fast & Furious
Marie Antoinette

26th September
101 Dalmatians (1996)
BURN-E
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
Bon Voyage!
Boundin’
Disney’s Teacher’s Pet
Dug’s Special Mission
Final Destination 3
For The Birds
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Ice Princess
Invincible
Lifted
Lilo & Stitch
Lucky Number Slevin
Mike’s New Car
Monsters University
Monsters, Inc
My Favorite Martian
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
Operation Dumbo Drop
Oz The Great And Powerful
Partly Cloudy
Planes
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
Pooh’s Heffalump Movie
Presto
Race To Witch Mountain
Return to Never Land
Spooky Buddies
Super Buddies
The Big Green
The Great Mouse Detective
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
The Lone Ranger
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Tron
Underworld
Underworld: Evolution
White Fang 2: The Myth of the White Wolf
Wreck-It Ralph

27th September
Victor Frankenstein

28th September
Regression

29th September
Batman Forever
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee II
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Treasure Buddies

30th September
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
African Cats
Bad Blood
Bambi
Bambi II
Beauty and the Beast
Big Red
Bolt
Bruce Almighty
Cocoon
College Road Trip
D2: The Mighty Ducks
D3: The Mighty Ducks
Davy Crockett and The River Pirates
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Day & Night
Dinosaur
Eight Below
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (Extended Version)
Finding Nemo
First Kid
For a Few Dollars More
Four Corners
Freaky Friday
Freezer
Fun and Fancy Free
George And A.J.
Geri’s Game
Ghost
Ghostbusters
Glory Road
Good Will Hunting
Gus
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Hercules
Honeytrap
Hyena Road
In Search of the Castaways
Inspector Gadget
Jeruzalem
Jungle 2 Jungle
Kite
Knick Knack
La Luna
Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
Like Father, Like Son
Luxo Jr
Man of the House
Max Keeble’s Big Move
Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
Muppet Treasure Island
Music and Lyrics
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Never Cry Wolf
One Man Band
Pluto’s Christmas Tree
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM
Rain Man
Rascal
Recess: School’s Out
Red’s Dream
Santa Buddies
Santa’s Workshop
Saturday Night Fever
Science of Star Wars (Ep 1)
Science of Star Wars (Ep 2)
Science of Star Wars (Ep 3)
Serpico
Shipwrecked
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit 3
Smokey and the Bandit II
Spider-Man 2
Summer Magic
Swelter
Swiss Family Robinson
Tangerines
Tarzan (1999)
That Darn Cat (1997)
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Adventures of Andre & Wally B
The Adventures of Huck Finn
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Blue Umbrella
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Cat from Outer Space
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Fox and the Hound 2
The Game Plan
The Gnome-Mobile
The Great Locomotive Chase
The Greatest Game Ever Played
The Guns of Navarone
The Hour of the Lynx
The Incredible Journey
The Lion King
The Lion King 1Ω
The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
The Mighty Ducks
The Monkey’s Uncle
The Night Before
The Parent Trap (1998)
The Perfect Guy
The Rescuers Down Under
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Search for Santa Paws
The Shaggy D.A.
The Strongest Man in the World
The Three Musketeers (1993)
The Watcher in the Woods
Theeb
Tin Toy
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Treasure Island (1950)
Tron: Legacy
What About Bob?
White Bird in a Blizzard
Wild at Heart
Winnie The Pooh (2011)
Wolves

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