Your TV GPS, an overview of the coming TV week, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.comToday’s column covers the period from September 2nd to 8th.

Bliss. For fans of John le Carré’s spy novels, filtered through the contemporary gang that couldn’t shoot straight from Mick Herron’s hit spy series, Slow Horses is a delight. Intellectual, cynical and often funny, the fourth season premieres Wednesday on AppleTV+.

The scruffy protagonist is a unique character, almost miraculously portrayed by Gary Oldman. The British actor won an Oscar in 2017 for his role as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour and played le Carré’s protagonist George Smiley in 2011’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He captures alcoholic MI5 agent Jackson Lamb, from his greasy hairline to his holey socks. Despite the looks, Lamb’s mind is even sharper than his tongue, so don’t let his limp fool you into thinking he’s not one step ahead.

As the fourth season premieres, the previous one is a hot contender for the Emmys, receiving nine nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Oldman, and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Jonathan Pryce.

What else can we see on the television horizon?

1. Thankless but indispensable – that’s often the way it is when you’re a teacher in a public school these days, where even pronouns have become cultural flashpoints. Brian Jordan Alvarez, a supporting actor in “Will & Grace,” finds the situation funny when he, as a gay teacher at a public school in Texas, gets involved in the rush for school holidays. “English teacher.” The humor is broad and good-natured as the helpless Mr. Marquez deals with students, parents and staff. It’s not easy when he’s tasked with explaining the term “nonbinary,” meaning “someone who identifies as neither male nor female,” to a group of giggling high school students. “Welcome Back, Kotter” it is not. The FX workplace comedy premieres Monday at 10 p.m. and streams on Hulu Tuesday.

2. Part of Vice’s “Dark Side” series. “The dark side of reality TV” exposes some popular reality TV shows. From “Survivor” to “Hell’s Kitchen” to the harem of the “Real Housewives” series, the documentary delves into what reality TV really is. Dirt and deception fly with interviews from such well-known reality TV names as plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow, former President Donald Trump’s outspoken discovery Omarosa Manigault Newman, and housewife Vicki Gunvalson. Reality TV fans, get ready, the show premieres Tuesday on Vice TV.

3. In “The perfect couple”, Nicole Kidman stars in another family thriller that’s perfect for a cozy evening. The title alone makes it clear that the couple’s perfection is just as artificial as that of Kidman and Alexander Skarsgård’s unhappily married couple in “Big Little Lies.” The action takes place on Nantucket, the location of the wedding hosted by the groom’s proud, wealthy parents, Greer (Kidman) and Tag (Liev Schreiber). But when an uninvited guest – a corpse – turns up at the wedding of her beloved Benji (Billy Howle) to Amelia (Eve Hewson), everyone in the wedding party comes under scrutiny. The mystery from Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling novel of the same name confirms the notion that destination weddings are not only expensive, but also dangerous. The six-part miniseries premieres on Netflix on Thursday.

4. The true crime TV wave continues with “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Robbery”, Premiering Thursday on Peacock, the show is set in Atlanta in 1970 and centers on the night of Muhammad Ali’s comeback fight against Jerry Quarry. Everything goes wrong at the after-party when armed robbers break into the exclusive event and swindle the revelers out of a million dollars. The six-episode miniseries, based on iHeart’s true crime podcast, features Kevin Hart, Don Cheadle, Samuel L. Jackson and Taraji P. Henson.

5. “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos” digs up some of the skeletons in this groundbreaking TV crime series. The behind-the-scenes documentary features original interviews with creator Chase, who always knew his series would be about “money and death.” The HBO original features behind-the-scenes footage and commentators including actors Michael Imperioli, Edie Falco and Lorraine Bracco. It also includes crucial scenes from the dramatic mafia series that won 21 Emmys in its seven-year run. The two-part documentary by Oscar winner Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”) premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. on Max.

Thelma Adams is a critic and novelist.