Between the CBS telecast of "The 78th Annual Tony Awards" and "Alien: Earth," there will be enough TV this summer to keep you glued to both your seat and TV screen — or viewing device of your choice — until September. Yes, the next few months will be that packed, and that exciting.

Where to begin? With the Tonys — invariably one of the best awards shows on TV, airing Sunday. David Attenborough, nearing 100, is back on TV too, in a new documentary. In June, there will also be three comprehensive films on three women of science, TV and film — Sally Ride, Barbara Walters and Jayne Mansfield. By month's end, there's "Ironheart," "The Bear," and "Countdown," which returns "Supernatural's" Jensen Ackles to the small screen.

And finally, "Alien: Earth," a gift for "Alien" fans everywhere, when one of the big screen's greatest space horror franchises finally establishes a beachhead on TV, and on Earth.

So do get excited. The following should at least help you get started:

(A & E, 9 p.m.)

Family patriarch and "Duck Commander" himself Phil Robertson died May 25, but expect no flashbacks for this reboot, per press reports which said Robertson, who was 79, had been suffering from dementia for some time. Instead, A & E — which aired the original from 2012-17 — says this will focus on "the next generation" of Robertsons, even though Phil's brother Si is featured (comically, of course) in the trailer. Willie and Korie (plus their many other family members) will take the focus here.

(Apple + TV)

Owen Wilson stars in this 10-episode comedy about a former pro golfer who now works in a sporting goods store but wants to help a rising star (Should this therefore not be interpreted as an attempt by Apple to channel some of that "Ted Lasso" magic? Wondering.) It also stars Judy Greer and Marc Maron, with Timothy Olyphant in a guest role. 

(Netflix)

This Aussie drama is about a guy, Kieran (Charlie Vickers, "Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power") who returns to his seaside hometown where three close friends had died in a "terrible" storm years before. Now, the town is traumatized by a murder — any connection to that other long-ago tragedy?

(CNN, 7)

A little bit of Broadway history takes place on this Saturday when CNN (and CNN.com) will livestream the penultimate performance of the Winter Garden hit George Clooney co-wrote with Grant Heslov (Clooney, of course, also stars as Edward R. Murrow.) Per CNN, this is the first time a live performance of a Broadway show has been livestreamed; Clooney was also nominated for best performance by an actor in a leading role at the Tonys which will take place June 8.

Let's just get this astonishing fact out here right now — Sir David, TV's greatest naturalist, just turned 99 (May 8), and yet there he is, or will be, on-screen once again, narrating this no-doubt spectacular film on life in the ocean. "After living for nearly a hundred years on this planet," he says in the trailer, "I now understand the most important place on earth is not on land, but at sea."

(CBS/2, 8)

The 78th Tonys are here, with Cynthia Erivo as host, and "Buena Vista Social Club," "Death Becomes Her," and "Maybe Happy Endings" (10 nods each) expected to find their way to the stage at the Radio City Music Hall.

Kevin Hart (also a nominee) will host, with appearances and/or performances by Lil Wayne, Teyana Taylor, GloRilla, Playboi Carti, Zendaya, Quinta Brunson, Shaboozey and Sterling K. Brown.

(Hulu)

With this two-parter, the Alex Cooper brand is about to grow just a little bit more, promising an intimate look at the star podcaster behind "Call Her Daddy" (which is already plenty intimate). "Call her Daddy" may arguably be to female listeners what "The Joe Rogan Experience" is to male — a giant hit.

(Peacock) 

This three-parter, from a deal Peacock secured with the family of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, will go "inside the suspect's home for the first time, where never-before-heard testimony from his own family unravels a chilling portrait of a man accused of living a double life and hiding dark secrets under their own roof," per a Variety story on the series., Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is one of the EPs.

  (Netflix)

Two years after the Titan submersible (June 18, 2023) comes this film that explores all that went wrong (there's already been some press from this concerning OceanGate founder Stockton Rush's state of mind prior to the implosion).

Potentially a welcome twist to this latest zombie series — the dead come back, but act and talk exactly as they did when they were alive! — which should save big time on the prosthetics expenses.

(Apple TV+)

Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney star in this movie thriller about a mother who (euphemistically speaking) takes care of the creep who beat her drug addict daughter (Sweeney). But mom, an equine expert Kate Garrett (Moore) quickly learns that murder is not as easy as training horses. Also starring Kyle MacLachlan and Domhnall Gleeson.

(WNET/13, 8)

This latest British cop show — which stars Laura Fraser (on U.S. TV best known as Lydia from "Breaking Bad") — is about a detective in York who works with an archivist who is also autistic — Ella Maisy Purvis, who is also self-described as "neurodivergent."

And just like that, "Grantchester" is back and 10 seasons old, while Detective Inspector "Geordie" Keating (Robson Green) and Rev. Alphy Kottaram (Rishi Nair) are also back to solving murders in the deceptively quaint and safe village of Grantchester.

(WNET/13, 8)

The dinosaurs walk again! This remake of the 1999 BBC Science unit hit (which aired on Discovery and was narrated by Kenneth Branagh) promises new scientific discoveries and even a brand-ew dino. The stars of this six-parter will include Tyrannosaurus Rex, Parasaurolophus, Velociraptor, Triceratops, and that newly discovered "Distortus Rex mutant."

(Nat Geo, 9; streaming next day on Disney+ and Hulu)

In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space. A brilliant polymath (and physicist) out of Stanford, she also became the youngest astronaut ever. (Ride died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61 in 2012.) This film, which premiered at Sundance, tells the whole story, including the personal one: It's narrated by Tam O'Shaughnessy, her partner of nearly 30 years.

(Shudder)

Not to be confused with Gordon Ramsay's "Hotel Hell" (as if), this is one of those you-can-check-in-but-you-can't-check-out deals where innocent guests quickly realize that they definitely paid too much for their room. In this series, however, the guests are eager to check in because they're true crime obsessives there to learn why a satanic mass murder which happened in this dingy dump 30 years earlier has remained unsolved. Stars Eric McCormack.

(BritBox)

The Mitford sisters were probably the world's most famous/infamous siblings during a stretch of the 1930s — novelist Nancy may be the best known of the six — and now they get their close-up in this six-part dramatic miniseries. Six hardly seems enough: Born to aristocracy, the sisters — Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah — took up both the pen and various causes (including Nazism), which Fleet Street happily chronicled. Bessie Carter — Prudence Featherington of "Bridgerton" — plays Nancy, and James Purefoy ("Rome") is the Mitfords' father.

The Buckleys are a fishing dynasty in North Carolina, then the bad times hit — they owe $2 million and go into drug running to raise the cash. Stars Holt McCallany and Maria Bello but the offscreen name here is the bigger one — Kevin Williamson ("Scream") who's never been shy about going way over the top. Expect way over the top here too.

(HBO, 9)

The Russells, Bertha (Carrie Coon) and George (Morgan Spector), may have won last season's so-called "Opera Wars," but it also strained their marriage. This third season — still filmed partly in Bethpage — will reportedly look to the U.K. to develop some plot lines, and to Newport, where third season newcomer Elizabeth Kirkland (Phylicia Rashad) and her friend Ernestine Brown (Leslie Uggams) are members of the Black upper crust.

(Hulu)

The throughline from ABC News Studios, which produced this expansive look at the legend who died in 2022: "The documentary gives viewers an intimate and raw look at her astonishing career, personal life, and the challenges she faced trying to balance it all as a woman in a male-dominated industry."

(Disney+)

This spinoff of 2022's "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" picks up with the return of Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne, "Judas and the Black Messiah") from Wakanda to hometown Chicago where she meets up with Parker Robbins, AKA The Hood (Anthony Ramos, "In the Heights"). As a reminder — which may be needed because this is the 14th TV series set in the MCU, after all — Riri, an inventor, was introduced in "Wakanda," while this 6-episode series picks up with her invention of a suit of armor to honor Iron Man who (as you know) is no longer among the living.

(FX on Hulu)

A summer event arrives, with all 10 episodes of this 4th season (which is actually an extension of the third) dropping today. By the end of the third, Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) got a withering review from a newspaper critic (those darned critics!) which won't help his already fragile emotional state. Meanwhile, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) has a new job offer. That won't help either.

(Prime Video)

Jensen Ackles returns! Beloved by fans of "Supernatural" over what seemed like a hundred seasons — a mere fifteen in fact — his Dean Winchester was a TV classic but he seemed to disappear after "Supernatural" finally wrapped in 2020 (although there was a run on "The Boys" and, briefly, that "Supernatural" spinoff). Here he plays an LAPD detective recruited to a secret task force. Eric Dane ("Grey's Anatomy") also stars. Three episodes drop today.

(HBO, 8)

This promises to be an intensely personal look at Jayne Mansfield, the famed film star of the '50s and '60s, by her own daughter, Mariska Hargitay, who explains in press notes, "This movie is a labor of love and longing. It’s a search for the mother I never knew, an integration of a part of myself I’d never owned, and a reclaiming of my mother’s story and my own truth." Hargitay was three when her mother — at the time 34 — died in a car crash outside Slidell, Louisiana. Hargitay was in the back seat.

(Apple TV+)

This latest from Dennis Lehane ("Mystic River" and so much more) is about an arson investigator and cop who are trying to stop a pair of arsonists, and it's got quite the cast.: Taron Egerton, Jurnee Smollett, John Leguizamo, Rafe Spall and "The Lincoln Lawyer's" Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine (who will also appear in Hulu's "Washington Black" later this summer.). Two episodes drop today.

(Netflix)

Yes, there is one more season of "Squid Game" and one more chance to dismantle the organization behind those evil squid gamers; have at it, fans (who are still paying attention).

(AMC)

This 10-parter "reimagines" the Jules Verne classic "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" with British actor Shazad Latif reimagining the anti-imperialist and sub captain of a thousand talents, Captain Nemo himself; Latif may be best known here from his run on "Star Trek: Discovery."

(Prime)

A U.S. president (John Cena) and a British P.M. (Idris Elba) are targeted by some mysterious villain, and must team up to save the world. Or something like that: Think "48 Hours," or maybe "Beverly Hills Cop," with two big stars (who know they are big stars) in a wild, violent, trash-talking brawl of a stand-alone movie that promises to be a comedy, and may actually be one too. A hit no doubt too.

(Prime)

Maggie Q stars in this spinoff (and continuation of) "Bosch: Legacy," as the LAPD detective who chases down cold cases. Titus Welliver reprises Harry Bosch, by the way.

(Netflix)

Lena Dunham ("Girls") returns to TV with this 10-episode rom-com, which she wrote and cocreated with her husband British musician Luis Felber. This stars Megan Stalter (Kayla of "Hacks") as a New York expat in London where she meets/falls in love with Felix (Will Sharpe, the second season of "The White Lotus"). In press notes, Dunham says she wanted to create a romcom that "makes us root for love, brings joy but also has the jagged edges of life." 

(Paramount +, then Showtime, July 13 at 8.)

This sequel to the prequel ("New Blood") finds Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) back in business after she survived the gunshot wound at the end of "New Blood." Hall's joined by quite a cast: Peter Dinklage, Uma Thurman, with Krysten Ritter and Steve Schirripa recurring alongside a lot of guests (Eric Stonestreet, Neil Patrick Harris, Jimmy Smits). David Zayas is also back as Capt. Angel Batista who will catch Dex one of these days ... Maybe.

(Apple TV+)

One of the best sci-fi series on TV returns for a third season — a stealth return, in fact, that neither Apple nor original showrunner David S. Goyer seem to be making much of a fuss over. One possible reason — -budget cuts after the second season led to the departure of Goyer (who remains as a writer). Will "Foundation" — based on the Isaac Asimov classic stories — still be good, if not great? The logline: Two galactic powers, the Foundation and the Cleonic Dynasty, have forged an alliance which comes under threat from a warlord known as the Mule." Hari Seldon (Jared Harris), Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) and Brother Day (Lee Pace) are back to determine who will win/lose/survive. (Cherry Jones joins this season too, as Ambassador Quent.)

(Netflix)

Aussie actor Eric Bana — last seen on Netflix on the short-lived crime anthology "Dirty John" — is back in the crime business in this Yosemite-set thriller about an agent with the National Park Service who must investigate a "brutal death that sends him on a "collision course with the dark secrets within the park, and in his own past," per Netflix.

(Hulu)

Born into slavery on Barbados, George Washington "Wash" Black (Ernest Kingsley Jr.) is forced to escape from the island on his friend and benefactor Titch's (Tom Ellis) balloon (both Titch and Wash are scientists). Titch eventually ends up in Nova Scotia, where he makes a new friend, Medwin Harris (Sterling K. Brown). Yes, complicated and Hulu has eight episodes to tell the whole story based on the 2018 prizewinning novel by Canadian author Esi Edugyan.

 (Netflix) 

The raunch is back, in this sequel to the 1996 movie starring Adam Sandler, which goes straight to streaming. Lots of big names on board (or on the golf course) for the special occasion, including Julie Bowen and Ben Stiller. 

(Netflix)

Chuck Lorre is behind this comedy starring standup/author Leanne Morgan (2023's "Leanne Morgan: I'm Every Woman") about a woman who leaves her husband for another woman. "With the help of her family," per the logline, "she will navigate this new chapter with grace, dignity and Jell-O salad." All 16 episodes drop today.

(Apple TV+)

Jason Momoa returns to Apple TV+ in this historical nine-part drama set in Hawaii during the late 18th century, when the various kingdoms of Hawaii were at war. Momoa — native Hawaiian on his father's side, and executive producer here — plays Kaʻiana who returns home after travels abroad to find the islands at war, then takes a leadership role in the campaign for reunification. This could easily be Apple's biggest draw of the summer.

(Prime)

Another movie/comedy with big names that's goes straight to streaming — Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson as armor truck drivers who are robbed, with some surprising co-stars: Andrew Dice Clay and Marshawn Lynch. 

(Starz, 8)

Neither Sam Heughan — Jamie Fraser — or Caitríona Balfe — Claire Beauchamp — are expected to appear in this sequel to the original "Outlander," which will essentially unfold over two separate storylines. The first will look at the parents of Jamie, Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), in 18th century Scotland, and the other will focus on Claire's parents — Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) — during World War I.

(FX, 8, Hulu)

Ridley Scott returns to produce this first-ever TV extension of the great "Alien" franchise along with Noah Hawley, of FX's "Fargo" franchise. It's set in 2120, or just before events of the original movie (released June 22, 1979), while at the outset of this 10-parter, a research spaceship crash-lands back on Earth, with — any guesses? — some particularly horrifying life-forms aboard. There have been movie prequels that already got into the origins of those delightful "xenomorphs," by the way, but this will mark the first time "Alien" has been set on Earth. More backstory: A company has created a brand-new cyborg that combines machines with consciousness. The first of these immortal super beings is "Wendy" (Sydney Chandler), who will also be the first to confront the xenomorphs on that spaceship.