The song “Everything Old is New Again,” with words and music by Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager, comes to mind when looking at some of the new series being launched on the ABC Television network this fall.

During the recent summer television press tour, Paul Lee, the head of ABC Entertainment, during a conference in front of the nation’s TV critics, observed that the network was sold on the return of “The Muppets” because the team behind it was “reinventing and reinvigorating the brand.”

As long as anyone can remember, “The Muppets” have been around in various TV shows and films. Lee said the network fell in love with the new show because “the idea of making fun of documentaries where you once made fun of variety shows seems incredibly fresh.”

The notion of “what’s old is new again” certainly applies even to a reboot of “The Muppets,” as all of the lovable, even irascible, characters are back.

Advertising this show as bringing “full frontal nudity” to television is part of cultivating a new comic edge.

The premise of “The Muppets” is a mock documentary of a late-night talk show that is hosted, naturally, by the emotional diva Miss Piggy, allowing her to be bossy once again to the universe of Jim Henson-inspired creatures.

While the beloved Kermit the Frog remains front and center in many respects, the tension between the most famous green felt character and Miss Piggy is at a fever pitch now that Kermit has been linked romantically to a younger pig named Denise.

Miss Piggy is furious that Kermit has booked Elizabeth Banks as a guest on her show. Fozzie Bear is dating a human and has to meet her parents at an awkward dinner. Rowlf runs a tavern where the crew hangs out. With an 8 p.m. time slot, “The Muppets” will aim for family viewing.

The oil business has been a topic for primetime soap opera programming, going back to the late seventies and the eighties with long-running shows like “Dynasty” and “Dallas.” With the oil boom in North Dakota, there’s a new stage for a soap opera in the series “Blood & Oil.”

Don Johnson just might be the right guy to be an oil magnate in the style of Larry Hagman and John Forsythe. Johnson’s Hap Briggs, now married to the younger, ambitious Carla (Amber Valletta, a former fashion model), is known as the Baron of the Bakken of North Dakota.

A young, recently married couple, Billy (Chace Crawford) and Cody Lefever (Rebecca Rittenhouse), pack up and move from their small town in Florida to the wild boomtown of Rock Springs, North Dakota, with plans to open a laundromat financed by friends and family.

After a rough start getting settled in a new place, Billy becomes eager to cash in on the new world that surrounds him. When he makes a go of trying his hand in the oil business, he crosses paths with the Briggs clan as they embark on expanding their empire into new territory.

“Blood & Oil” consists of the type of intrigue and back-stabbing common to the nighttime soap opera. For instance, Wick Briggs (Scott Michael Foster) is in constant conflict with his father Hap.

Delroy Lindo’s local sheriff has the thankless job of trying to maintain the peace and order in the new frontier. Not surprisingly, Billy and Cody will have inevitable marital troubles.

Following “Blood & Oil” on the Sunday night schedule is most likely ABC’s best new drama “Quantico.” Judging by the pilot episode, there’s much to absorb in this thriller involving new recruits to the FBI Academy at the training camp in Virginia.

The person to watch in this series is the beautiful Priyanka Chopra, a former Miss India and Miss World, an adored celebrity in her homeland but relatively unknown in the United States. That’s likely to change with “Quantico” if this series catches fire, as it should.

Chopra’s Alex Parrish is a recruit found at the rubble of an attack on Grand Central Station in the show’s first scene, which is described as the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11.

The show flashes back nine months to the start of the training at the Academy, allowing the viewers to become acquainted with the class of recruits, one of whom is suspected of masterminding the attack in New York City.

The diverse bunch of new recruits includes the openly gay Simon (Tate Ellington), the hijab-wearing Muslim Nimah (Yasmine Al Massri), the pious Mormon Eric (Brian J. Smith), the cocky Caleb (Graham Rogers), steely-eyed Shelby (Johanna Braddy), and the mysterious Ryan (Jake McLaughlin).

There’s no question that diversity is a major element in this series, and Priyanka Chopra told the critics that “ABC is the biggest network in terms of taking diversity forward on television, and ‘Quantico’ is a testament to that.”

Given that each episode will involve the FBI investigating the bombing and with Alex Parrish as a person of interest, it’s telling that Chopra noted that her character is “Jason Bourne in female form.” This may be reason enough not to miss an episode of “Quantico.”

Tim Allen’s successful Friday night comedy “Last Man Standing” is to be followed by “Dr. Ken,” a new comedy series starring the wildly funny Ken Jeong, who is best-known for his comedic work in “Hangover” and the NBC television series “Community.”

What may not be widely known about Ken Jeong is that he graduated from medical school and completed his residency in New Orleans. Now he’s playing an insolent, sarcastic doctor who does not manage his practice or family roles very well.

With Ken Jeong at the helm, “Dr. Ken” looks like it could be a winner, proving that “laughter is the best medicine,” but only in terms of delivering a successful television comedy program.

Coming later in the fall season is “Wicked City,” and at this moment little is known about it other than it involves a serial killer on the loose of Sunset Strip in 1982.

Tim Riley writes film and television reviews for Lake County News.