Reality series content continues to make up the majority of new series premieres as networks work toward completing production of new scripted series delayed due to the pandemic. 

On tap for this week is Epix’s new documentary series Enslaved, which follows 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World, and Netflix’s American Barbeque Showdown, which offers a new take on the food competition genre.

Also, ABC will air live the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards show on Sept. 20.

On the scripted side, Netflix on Sept. 18 debuts Ryan Murphy’s Ratched (pictured), a prequel to the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, while HBO on Sept. 14 debuts drama miniseries We Are Who We Are.

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting the week of Sept. 8 to Sept. 13 on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

Sept. 14 -- The Third Day (drama) -- HBO

Sept. 14 -- Wireless (drama) -- Quibi

Sept. 17 -- The Great Pottery Throw Down (reality) -- HBO Max

Sept. 18 -- All In: The Fight For Democracy (documentary) -- Prime Video

Sept. 18 -- Becoming (reality) -- Disney Plus

Sept. 18 -- Pen15 (returning series) -- Hulu

Sept, 18 -- Wilmore (talk show) -- Peacock

Epix Tuesday has released a video trailer for its upcoming documentary series Enslaved, set to premiere Sept. 14.

The six-part docuseries looks to shed new light on 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World, according to Epix. Samuel L. Jackson serves as executive producer of the series along with LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Eli Selden, Rob Lee, Simcha Jacobovici, Ric Esther Bienstock, Sarah Sapper and Yaron Niski, said the network. 

Epix will team with actor Samuel L. Jackson on a six-part series that will look to shed new light on 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World.

The six-part Enslaved series debuts Sept. 14 and follows three separate story lines: the quest for a sunken slave ship, a personal journey by Samuel L. Jackson and a historical investigation led by investigative journalists Simcha Jacobovici and Afua Hirsch, said the network. 

Based on a DNA test identifying his ancestral tribe, the series traces Jackson’s personal journey from the U.S. to Gabon for his induction into the Benga tribe, with rare and unprecedented access to secret ceremonies and local customs. 

The series also tracks the efforts to search for and locate six slave ships that sank drowning the enslaved humans aboard. Featuring the most dives ever made on sunken slave ships, Enslaved also chronicles the first positive identification of a “Freedom Ship,” an American schooner that ferried African American runaways to Canada, said the network.