The reboots of “Night Court” and “That ’70s Show” are largely populated by new actors, but this critics’ darling from 2009-10 is bringing back most of its cast for a third season that feels continuous despite the 13-year gap. Adam Scott, Ken Marino, Jane Lynch, Ryan Hansen, Megan Mullally and Martin Starr return; most of the characters no longer moonlight with the Hollywood catering company Party Down (at least at first), but they can’t escape its orbit. (Starz, Feb. 24)
‘Perry Mason’
Season 1 went through a strenuous, not entirely successful effort to complicate and darken the character from Erle Stanley Gardner’s pulp novels; Mason was introduced as a cynical, alcoholic private eye before beginning to morph into the shrewd lawyer Gardner created. The 1930s Hollywood-noir atmosphere and Matthew Rhys’s presence as Mason, though, argue for giving the second season a chance. (HBO, March 6)
‘Shadow & Bone’
As dark (but not too dark) young-adult fantasy adventures go, this series, set in a martial world that blends elements of imperial Russia and Victorian England, is more than tolerable. The British actress Jessie Mei Li is appealing as the heroine, a cartographer who learns she has magical ability on an epic scale, which she is still trying to control in Season 2. (Netflix, March 16)
‘Mrs. Davis’
Betty Gilpin of “Glow” joins forces with the writer and producer Damon Lindelof of “Watchmen,” playing a nun doing battle with an omniscient artificial intelligence in a thriller written by Lindelof and Tara Hernandez (“The Big Bang Theory”). The nun is Simone; the A.I. is Mrs. Davis. (Peacock, April 20)
‘Tom Jones’
Gwyneth Hughes, who has already adapted “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” and “Vanity Fair” for TV, takes on Henry Fielding’s galloping, randy satire of 18th-century English values. A pair of newcomers star in the four-part series: Solly McLeod as the foundling Tom, and Sophie Wilde as his true love, Sophia, who’s now an Anglo-Caribbean immigrant. (PBS, April 30)
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