TV-Diego Luna

This image released by Lucasfilm Ltd. shows Diego Luna as Cassian Andor from “Andor.” (Lucasfilm Ltd./Disney+ via AP) Lucasfilm Ltd./Disney+ via AP

There’s plenty of what I think of as standard TV fare this spring. “The Wheel of Time” comes for us all, and the third season of Prime Video’s uneven adaptation of the Robert Jordan novels premieres in March. Taylor Sheridan’s “1923” will return for a second season this month. Lifetime is (of course) taking on Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s story in “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” in March. Disney Plus that month is reviving Netflix’s “Daredevil” in “Daredevil: Born Again” and in June launching “Ironheart,” wherein Dominique Thorne will return as Riri Williams, Wakanda’s genius in residence.

But there are also some mildly surprising combinations: Amanda Seyfried, for instance, plays a Philly cop in Peacock’s “Long Bright River,” where, like Kate Winslet in “Mare of Easttown,” she’ll work a series of murders that end up bringing the investigation dangerously close to home. Michael Iskander will star as the biblical King David in Prime Video’s historical drama “House of David,” and Mindy Kaling and Kate Hudson team up for Netflix’s “Running Point,” a sports comedy starring Hudson as a party girl forced to step up and manage her family’s basketball team. Apple TV Plus’s “Dope Thief” and “Your Friends and Neighbors” both feature protagonists breaking into houses and getting more than they bargained for.

Surrealist comedy “Government Cheese,” also from Apple TV Plus, stars David Oyelowo as a recently released prisoner trying to put his life back together — and rejoin his family — in the San Fernando Valley in 1969. The challenges he faces include spurts of divine intervention. Mark Duplass and Ellen Pompeo star in the limited crime drama “Good American Family,” which revisits the case of Natalia Grace (played by Imogen Faith Reid), a Ukrainian American orphan with dwarfism. Her adoptive parents suspect her of secretly being an adult.

Below is an incomplete list of some of the spring’s more promising projects:

‘Deli Boys’

Created by Abdullah Saeed of “High Maintenance” and “Bong Appétit,” this looks like one of the spring’s more stylish and promising sitcoms. The premise: A pair of spoiled Pakistani American brothers deal with the aftermath of their dad’s death. It sounds like a bit of an anti-“Succession,” where the kids figure out how scary the patriarch was only after his demise. The father in question, a convenience store magnate, had some secrets.

His sons, played by Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh, try to figure out his connections to the criminal underworld while also trying to fill his shoes. The cast includes Alfie Fuller, Poorna Jagannathan and Tim Baltz (BJ of “The Righteous Gemstones”). Premieres March 6 on Hulu

‘The Righteous Gemstones,’ Season 4

From left, Adam DeVine, John Goodman, Edi Patterson and Danny McBride in “The Righteous Gemstones.” Ryan Green/HBO/TNS

The third season may have ended with a plague of locusts, but TV’s crassest religious family isn’t done yet. Danny McBride’s “Righteous Gemstones” returns this spring for its fourth and final season. The Gemstone paterfamilias (John Goodman) has checked out. Judy (Edi Patterson) seems thrilled that her husband, BJ (Tim Baltz), has taken up pole dancing. And Walton Goggins’s Baby Billy Freeman has moved on to a new TV project — this one a young adult show about Jesus. Airs March 9 on Max

‘Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney’

John Mulaney. Photo by Marcus Russell Price

John Mulaney’s live, six-episode talk show experiment, “Everybody’s in L.A.,” which aired during six consecutive nights of the Netflix is a Joke festival last year, was fun, off-kilter and appealing enough to earn the comedian a two-season order from Netflix for a 12-episode, weekly version — “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.” Details are scarce, but live high jinks with assists from Mulaney sidekicks Richard Kind and Saymo, the food-delivery robot, will continue. Premieres March 12 on Netflix

‘Dope Thief’

Brian Tyree Henry fans are in luck: The “Atlanta” actor is starring in “Dope Thief,” a new Apple TV Plus series created by Peter Craig — son of Sally Field and writer of “Top Gun: Maverick” and “The Batman.” Ridley Scott is producing the series based on Dennis Tafoya’s 2009 novel about a couple of Philadelphia friends who impersonate Drug Enforcement Administration agents to rob a house — and accidentally target a drug ring instead. Also starring Ving Rhames, Dustin Nguyen, Wagner Moura and Marin Ireland. Premieres March 14 on Apple TV Plus

‘The Residence’

It’s hard to ignore the cast of this upcoming Netflix mystery. Uzo Aduba! Giancarlo Esposito! Randall Park! Ken Marino! Shonda Rhimes — along with showrunner Paul William Davies — seem to be leaning into Rian Johnson territory with this screwball whodunit. Aduba plays Cordelia Cupp, the best detective in the world, as she tries to solve a murder mystery set in the White House. Fans of Gus Fring’s dignified competence managing the personnel at Los Pollos Hermanos in “Breaking Bad” will no doubt enjoy Esposito’s turn playing the White House chief usher (head of the household staff). Marino plays the president’s chief adviser, Park an FBI agent. The trailer looks delightful, and the cast, again, looks absurdly fun. Jane Curtin! Keiko Agena! Susan Kelechi Watson! Kylie Minogue?! Premieres March 20 on Netflix

‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light’

Directed by Peter Kosminsky and adapted for the screen by Peter Straughan, the long-awaited sequel to 2015’s exquisite “Wolf Hall” picks up in May 1536, immediately after Anne Boleyn’s execution, and covers the last four years of Thomas Cromwell’s life (basically, the events of the third and last novel in Hilary Mantel’s trilogy). Mark Rylance and Jonathan Pryce return as Cromwell and Cardinal Wolsey, respectively. Newcomers include the inimitable Harriet Walter as Lady Margaret Pole, and Harry Melling as Thomas Wriothesley. Premieres March 23 on PBS

‘The Studio’

Showbiz send-ups are hit-or-miss, but it’s hard to imagine a project starring Seth Rogen, Catherine O’Hara and Kathryn Hahn going too far astray. In “The Studio,” Rogen stars as the newly appointed head of an embattled movie studio desperately trying to keep stars and corporate types happy to keep the business afloat. Also starring Chase Sui Wonders and Ike Barinholtz, the Apple TV Plus comedy boasts a murderers’ row of guest stars, including Ron Howard, Charlize Theron, Bryan Cranston, Zoë Kravitz, Steve Buscemi, Adam Scott and Martin Scorsese. Premieres March 26 on Apple TV Plus

‘Your Friends and Neighbors’

What if Don Draper turned to petty crime? In “Your Friends and Neighbors,” Jonathan Tropper’s new drama for Apple TV Plus, Jon Hamm’s character, Coop, once a ritzy hedge fund manager, starts stealing from his rich suburban neighbors in Westmont Village after losing his job while still reeling from his divorce. The cast includes Amanda Peet, Hoon Lee, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Lena Hall, Olivia Munn and Mark Tallman. Apple has already renewed the drama for a second season. Premieres April 11 on Apple TV Plus

‘Andor,’ Season 2

Easily the best of the Star Wars spin-offs, “Andor” returns this spring with Diego Luna reprising the role of Cassian Andor, who died in a doomed mission to destroy the Death Star in 2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” — and might, as of this writing, be the best character in the Star Wars franchise. The first season covered Andor’s evolution from con artist to freedom fighter. The second will consist of 12 episodes spread over a few years and will probably lead up to the events in the film.

This was and remains Tony Gilroy’s creation, and — like “Rogue One,” which he co-wrote with Chris Weitz — it focuses on the regular folks forced to live in a Star Wars universe. “They’ve made all this IP about the royal family, in essence. It’s been great,” he told Variety, but he wanted to make a Star Wars show about “real people.” Also returning: Stellan Skarsgard, Genevieve O’Reilly, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Faye Marsay and Varada Sethu. Airs April 22 on Disney Plus

‘Dying for Sex’

Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate join forces in FX’s “Dying for Sex,” a limited series based on the popular six-part podcast of the same name. The premise: Upon getting diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, Molly Kochan (Williams) ends her longtime marriage to explore her sexuality (and other stuff) before it’s too late. Slate plays Molly’s friend, Nikki Boyer, the podcast host. The series also stars Rob Delaney and Jay Duplass, a fabulous duo it’s nevertheless tricky to imagine in the same project, along with David Rasche and Esco Jouléy. Rumor has it Sissy Spacek will play Molly’s mother. Premieres April 4 on FX

Comments are not available on this story. Read more about why we allow commenting on some stories and not on others.