If you’re a “Game of Thrones” fan, then your TV season already started and will wrap up before the calendar turns to September. Continuing a trend of short binge-able seasons for hit shows, this seventh season has only seven episodes, and the final season will feature a scant six-episodes.

Now that TV is arriving on-demand and often absorbed in binge sessions, creators have much more flexibility about how they serve up stories. That’s contributed to shortening seasons, and series finales coming well before popular shows jump the shark. For fans, it provides resolution, along with a new challenge: What to watch next?

To help you sort through the new shows on the way, we’ve put together the themes we’re seeing in the coming crop of fall debuts.

Comfort programming
The fall slate is chock full of remakes, reboots and spinoffs. ABC is reviving “Roseanne,” rebooting “American Idol” and releasing a spinoff of “Grey’s Anatomy.” NBC is reviving “Will & Grace.” The CW and CBS are giving us new versions of the old “Dynasty” and “S.W.A.T.,” respectively. “Curb Your Enthusiasm” will return to HBO after a six-year hiatus. Netflix is going to the “Wet Hot American Summer” nostalgia well once again, premiering a “10 Years Later” spinoff after last year’s “First Day of Camp.” Call it comfort programming. “In today’s unsettled environment, having television shows that feel positive and familiar are probably a good thing for viewers,” said Miro Copic, a marketing professor at San Diego State University.

The new cop show
Having run out of police departments, apparently, networks will now mine the U.S. military for its procedural dramas. CW’s new drama “Valor” features helicopter pilots battling enemies and inner demons. CBS will debut “SEAL TEAM,” a drama set among the special forces team. NBC’s “The Brave” is a journey into an elite corps of undercover military heroes.

More musicals
Networks have dotted prime-time with live musicals starring A-list talent—all in a bid to attract huge one-time audiences. If you record it, after all, you miss the chance to Tweet about it in the moment. Finally, ABC—with access to Disney’s huge library of musicals—is entering the fray with “The Little Mermaid Live!” NBC has “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” in the pipeline. Fox is doing “Rent” and “A Christmas Story.”

Super-crowded 
Superheroes are TV staples, but it’s getting ridiculous. As Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” enters its fifth season, ABC will premiere Marvel’s “Inhumans.” Marvels’ “The Defenders” on Netflix will bring together the title characters from “Jessica Jones,” “Luke Cage,” “Iron Fist,” and “Daredevil.” Still Jonesing for more Marvel stuff? Hulu will have “Runaways,” about angsty, super-powered teens battling their criminal mastermind parents, and Fox will have “The Gifted” about angsty, super-powered teens being protected by their parents. From the DC universe, we still have “Gotham” on Fox, and “Supergirl,” “Legends of Tomorrow,” “Arrow” and “The Flash” will lead The CW’s primetime lineup. For those needing a comic antidote to all this superpower: “The Tick,” a topic of much discussion at Comic-Con, will launch on Amazon later in August.

Seedy ’70s
Before the internet, there was Times Square. HBO’s “The Deuce” traces the rise of the porn industry in New York City in the ’70s and ’80s–looking at it in David Simon-fashion through the lens of labor, money and power. From David Fincher comes “Mindhunter” on Netflix. Set in 1979, the show follows two FBI agents who interview serial killers to help them solve an ongoing case.