As another overabundant TV season begins, networks cancel the comedy

HE PROBLEM WITH TV THESE days, as everyone knows, is that there’s too much of it. By the time you clear out last month’s backlog of binges, another truckload of content has piled up at your doorstep. Streaming services and, to a lesser extent, traditional networks will maintain that wearying momentum throughout the fall, with a huge variety of new and old programming. In September alone, HBO reboots Ingmar Bergman, Showtime counters with a Rust Belt drama that sounds like Apple TV+ unveils an elaborate Isaac Asimov adaptation, and PBS has Ken Burns’ latest. Meanwhile, FX is front-loading a provocative B.J. Novak project, an ambitious reconsideration of a cult comic-book series and a long-awaited installment of that takes on the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Disney+ continues its run of Marvel and spin-offs. Many buzzy series—including HBO’s delightfully excruciating Murdochian satire are due back after lengthy COVID-related hiatuses. America’s favorite fictional serial killer Dexter is, for reasons known only to network execs, on the prowl again.