The faces may not be the same, but many of the names will be familiar on TV this summer.
Amazon Prime Video tees up its latest Harry Bosch crime drama, while Starz offers an “Outlander” prequel and FX brings the xenomorphs of “Alien” down to Earth. Some old friends make their returns: Lena Dunham with “Too Much” on Netflix, her first entirely new series since the end of “Girls” eight years ago, and “King of the Hill” on Hulu after a 15-year hiatus. And in the summer’s most intriguing news, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creator of “BoJack Horseman,” has a new show on Netflix, “Long Story Short.”
Here are those and 25 other shows of interest, in chronological order. All dates are subject to change.
‘Call Her Alex’
Those curious about how to obtain a $100 million-plus podcasting deal may want to catch this two-part documentary about Alex Cooper, the creator of “Call Her Daddy.” (Hulu, Tuesday)
‘The First Night With the Duke’
An isekai comedy (waking up in another world) crossed with a sageuk drama (South Korean historical). A pair of K-pop stars, Seohyun and Ok Taecyeon, play a college student who finds herself inhabiting a bit character in her favorite romance novel and the nobleman she has a one-night stand with, changing the course of the plot. (Rakuten Viki, Wednesday)
‘Revival’
Melanie Scrofano of “Wynonna Earp” stars in this new sci-fi series as a police officer in Wausau, Wis., where a cluster of recently dead people return to life, leaving everyone wondering what exactly is going on. (Syfy, June 12)
‘Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem’
The second installment of Netflix’s “Trainwreck” documentary series looks at the riotous tenure of Rob Ford as the mayor of Toronto, an early indication that behavior that once would have killed a political career was now simply public theater. (Netflix, June 17)
‘Outrageous’
The high jinks of the wacky Mitford sisters — outrageous by the standards of 1930s and ’40s Britain — are chronicled in this cozy-looking mini-series. Bessie Carter of “Bridgerton” plays Nancy, the writer; Joanna Vanderham and Shannon Watson play Diana and Unity, friends of fascists; Zoe Brough plays Jessica, the communist; and Anna Chancellor and James Purefoy are the long-suffering parents. (BritBox, June 18)
‘Mafia’
A somber mini-series dramatizes the rise of organized crime in Sweden in the 1990s. The Swedish actress Katia Winter, Ichabod Crane’s witchy wife in “Sleepy Hollow,” plays a cop who sees the coming storm. (Viaplay, June 19)
‘The Waterfront’
Maria Bello, a wonderful actress, does not do many TV shows by current standards, and when she does they tend not to last — she was great in NBC’s short-lived “Prime Suspect” reboot, but her most noticeable work this century has been a four-season supporting run on “NCIS.” That alone makes this series from the steamy-melodrama meister Kevin Williamson (“Dawson’s Creek,” “The Vampire Diaries”), in which Bello plays the matriarch of a North Carolina commercial-fishing family with money trouble, worth checking out. (Netflix, June 19)
‘The Gilded Age’
Julian Fellowes’s sumptuously upholstered, intermittently amusing story of the haves versus the have-lots in 1880s New York arrives at its third season with ultimate social victory in sight for the arriviste Bertha (Carrie Coon) and relations between the old-money sisters Agnes (Christine Baranski) and Ada (Cynthia Nixon) as cool as the unseasonably snowy weather. (Even though this is the show’s first summer season.) New cast members include Merritt Wever, Leslie Uggams, Andrea Martin, LisaGay Hamilton and Bill Camp. (HBO, June 22)
‘Ironheart’
Introduced onscreen in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the armored-suit designer Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) — she’s more or less Iron Man Jr. — gets her own perch in the Marvel Universe. (Disney+, June 24)
‘Soldiers’
This French series (“Sentinelles” in the original language), from a showrunner and a director of “A French Village,” dramatizes the lives of soldiers stationed in faraway combat zones. The first season follows a unit in the Malian desert. (MHz Choice, June 24)
‘The Bear’
It’s time to find out what exactly was said in the crucial restaurant review that chef Carmy (the Emmy-winning Jeremy Allen White) was scrolling through in the closing moments of Season 3. Whatever the verdict was, a trailer for Season 4 indicates that the Bear’s financial crisis will continue. (FX on Hulu, June 25)
‘Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny’
A timely installment of “American Masters.” (PBS, June 27)
‘Smoke’
Taron Egerton, who starred in Dennis Lehane’s prison drama “Black Bird,” teams with Lehane again. This time he’s an arson investigator uneasily cooperating with a police detective played by Jurnee Smollett; the cast includes John Leguizamo, Greg Kinnear, Anna Chlumsky and Adina Porter. (Apple TV+, June 27)
‘Dan da Dan’
He (geeky, picked on) doesn’t believe in spirits; she (brash, popular) doesn’t believe in aliens. They’re both wrong, of course, and the first season of this rowdy, charming anime — with gorgeous artwork by the studio Science Saru — tracked the awkward friendship that grows between the two Japanese teenagers, tested by running battles with, yes, spirits and aliens. (Crunchyroll, Hulu and Netflix, July 3)
‘Nyaight of the Living Cat’
A very cuddly pandemic has turned most of the human race into cats — the only way to remain non-feline is to resist the urge to pet the proliferating legions of bobtails and Russian blues. Orthographical note: The title of the anime, and the manga on which it is based, incorporates the Japanese spelling of “meow.” (Crunchyroll, July 6)
‘Something Undone’
In this spooky Canadian series, expanded from a one-performer web show made with pandemic relief funds, Madison Walsh plays a true-crime podcaster recording sound effects who hears a sound that shouldn’t be there. (MHz Choice, July 8)
‘Ballard’
The TV world of Harry Bosch expands beyond the Bosch family in a spinoff starring Maggie Q as the Los Angeles Police detective Renée Ballard, who was introduced in the final episode of “Bosch: Legacy.” Fans will be waiting to see how much time the new show makes for Titus Welliver’s Bosch. (Amazon Prime Video, July 9)
‘Too Much’
Lena Dunham and her husband, the musician Luis Felber, team up with several producers of “Love, Actually” for a show about a Brooklyn woman (Megan Stalter of “Hacks”) who tries to escape her anxiety and bad choices by fleeing to London, where she imagines that life will be like a British rom-com. Dunham, as usual, draws an interesting cast: Stalter, Will Sharpe, Andrew Rannells, Richard E. Grant, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Stephen Fry are among the names on the list. (Netflix, July 10)
‘Foundation’
If you enjoy sci-fi monumentalism but find the “Dune” movies a little sandy and impersonal, try David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman’s adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” tales. It enters its third season still led by Jared Harris as the “psychohistorian” Hari Seldon, who wields a kind of artificial intelligence — as envisioned by Asimov in the 1940s — to try to delay the end of civilization. (Apple TV+, July 11)
‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical’
Apple TV+’s “Snoopy Presents” Peanuts specials — this will be the seventh — have been an unsung pleasure. The latest, in which Charlie Brown’s final year at summer camp is his sister Sally’s first, features lots of singing, with a score by Jeff Morrow and Ben Folds. (Apple TV+, July 18)
‘Washington Black’
The hero is Wash (Ernest Kingsley Jr.), a scientifically minded youngster who flees slavery in 19th-century Barbados and has globe-trotting adventures. The big name is Sterling K. Brown, who is an executive producer of this mini-series based on Esi Edugyan’s novel and plays a supporting role as Wash’s landlord and friend during a sojourn in Nova Scotia. (Hulu, July 23)
‘Leanne’
The Chuck Lorre sitcom factory spits out a show starring the Tennessee stand-up comedian Leanne Morgan as a woman who has just been abandoned by her husband of 33 years. (Netflix, July 31)
‘Chief of War’
Jason Momoa, portrayer of Khal Drogo and Aquaman, lends his impressive physique to a large man from actual history: Ka’iana, a Hawaiian nobleman involved in the islands’ internal wars in the late 1700s. Momoa, who was born in Honolulu and has native Hawaiian heritage, created the series with Thomas Pa’a Sibbett. (Apple TV+, Aug. 1)
‘King of the Hill’
In an interview with The New York Times in 2009, when Mike Judge’s animated paean to suburban Texas life, “King of the Hill,” was canceled after 13 seasons on Fox, he said, “I would prefer to quit while we’re ahead rather than run it into the ground.” Sixteen years later, Judge and Greg Daniels, the show’s other creator, have decided there’s more to say. Unlike the Simpsons, the Hills will have aged appropriately — Hank and Peggy are retired (after a stint in Saudi Arabia) and Bobby is grown up and working as a chef. (Hulu, Aug. 4)
‘Wednesday’
Jenna Ortega returns as the Addams family’s crime-solving daughter in Season 2 of one of Netflix’s biggest hits. This time with Lady Gaga! (Netflix, Aug. 6)
‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’
With “Outlander” heading toward what has been announced as its final season, fans of the lusty-bloody time-traveling soap opera can pin their hopes on this prequel series. It focuses on the parents of the original show’s lovers, Claire and Jamie — one set living in World War I England, the other in 18th-century Scotland. (Starz, Aug. 8)
‘Alien: Earth’
On Earth, presumably, everyone can hear you scream. Noah Hawley of “Fargo” is the creator of the first live-action TV series in the “Alien” franchise; xenomorphs will crash land on our planet a few years before the time frame of the original movie, threatening human existence and storytelling continuity. (FX and Hulu, Aug. 12)
‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’
This often-told story of arrest and exoneration is now presented as a dramatized mini-series, with Grace Van Patten playing Knox and Sharon Horgan as her mother, Edda Mellas. Knox is an executive producer, along with the TV veteran Warren Littlefield and Monica Lewinsky. (Hulu, Aug. 20)
‘Long Story Short’
Raphael Bob-Waksberg and his collaborator Lisa Hanawalt return to Netflix, the scene of their great success with “BoJack Horseman,” with a time-jumping animated family comedy. (Netflix, Aug. 22)
‘Unforgotten’
The soulful British cold-case detective drama comes back to “Masterpiece” for its sixth season, the second with Sinéad Keenan as Jessie, the new partner of Sanjeev Bhaskar’s mostly aptly named Sunny. (PBS, Aug. 24)
Other returning shows: “BMF” (Starz, Friday); “Resident Alien” (Syfy, Friday); “Mind Your Business” (Bounce, Saturday); “Fubar” (Netflix, June 12); “Grantchester” (PBS, June 15); “The Buccaneers” (Apple TV+, June 18); “The Good Ship Murder” (BritBox, June 26); “Squid Game” (Netflix, June 27); “The Sandman” (Netflix, July 3); “My Dress-Up Darling” (Crunchyroll, July 5); “The Madame Blanc Mysteries” (Acorn TV, July 7); “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (FXX, July 9); “South Park” (Comedy Central, July 9); “The Summer I Turned Pretty” (Amazon Prime Video, July 16); “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (Paramount+, July 17); “Kaiju No. 8” (Crunchyroll, July 19); “Acapulco” (Apple TV+, July 23); “Family Law” (CW, July 23); “Twisted Metal” (Peacock, July 31); “Stillwater” (Apple TV+, Aug. 4); “Platonic” (Apple TV+, Aug. 6); “Peacemaker” (Max, Aug. 21); “Marlow Murder Club” (PBS, Aug. 24); “Professor T” (PBS, Aug. 24); “Invasion” (Apple TV+, Aug. 29)
Mike Hale is a television critic for The Times. He also writes about online video, film and media.
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