恰逢1993年2月28日发生在卡梅尔山的悲剧事件30周年之际,本剧聚焦于韦科灾难的余波:对大卫教派幸存成员的审判和本土恐怖分子蒂莫西·麦克维的崛起。这部五集的限定剧还为美国民兵运动的升级提供了更广泛的背景,这为俄克拉荷马城爆炸案和1月6日美国国会大厦的袭击埋下 了伏笔。
本剧集是BBC 2台2000年正式推出的以青年人为题材和对象的系列情景喜剧,创意和编剧均由Steven Moffat一人担当。三男三女的主要人物构成很容易使人联想到当时正走红(其实已经在走下坡路)的《Friends》,因此很有不少根本没看过本剧的媒体人士和评论家想当然地将本剧称作英国版的《Friends》,而在那些有幸欣赏过本剧的观众们看来,《Coupling》在情节设定、人物表演、喜剧元素的设计和表现等诸多方面所达到的水平,要比《Friends》高几个档次。相比之下,《Friends》只能说是一部“业余”水平的好作品而已。当然总体来说,英剧的水准本身就高于美剧,这和英剧注意保持创意、编剧一体化是分不开的,美剧的创意一般也就为最初几集编剧,以后主要的编剧工作都是由其它编剧根据最初的角色设定来自由发挥,编剧队伍的构成也是不断变化,老的走新的来,造成美剧情节连贯性差甚至前后矛盾,故事往往缺乏深度,人物性格平面化,缺少发展。这都是题外话了。《Coupling》的主要人物包括优柔寡断、性格不成熟的帅哥Steve,Steve的莫逆之交、举止语言古怪、总也找不到女友的Jeff,头脑简单、外表性感的“donkey” Patrick三位对Porn、特别是lesbian porn非常热中的男士,以及Steve的前女友、神神叨叨、擅用性感作武器的Jane,Steve的继任女友、Jeff的同事、曾经非常“不羁”(包括和Jeff还有Patrick)过的Susan,Susan的莫逆、对衰老和肥胖极度敏感的美容师Sally三位女士。本剧的主线包括Steve和 Susan之间逐渐正式起来的关系,Jeff寻找艳遇过程中的种种意外以及后来和上司发展出来的一段关系,Patrick和Sally之间若有若无到若即若离再到情深难舍的感情发展,还有Jane在事业和异性关系中的各种奇事,等等。本剧在情节设计中所达到的精致和完美程度让人叹为观止,而六位当时并不算大明星的青年演员的所展现精湛演技更是具有顶尖演员的水平,无怪乎播出之后立刻走红大洋两岸,在IMDB、AMAZON和BBC网站可以领略到其受欢迎的程度。
NBC在TCA活动上宣布一口气续订医务剧《#医院革命# New Amsterdam》三季,使其起码播到22-23年度(第五季),同时他们宣布正研究为《医院革命》制作衍生剧。
The second series, Ben Harper, husband and father to three different and often difficult children has spent his working life as a dentist. Just as well as most of his life seems rather like pulling teeth. His wife Susan is usually busy showing foreign tourists around London, a place she knows much better than her own kitchen. Ben and Susan have been married happily enough to have three children. However, Ben has the feeling that most of the time his children seem to speak a different language. Nick (20) has persuaded his parents he would benefit from a gap year to see something of the world. To date, he has hardly seen anything beyond the confines of the sofa. Janey (17) is into boys, fashion labels (expensive ones) and getting her own way. Michael (14) is the brightest of the trio. He is seriously into computers, and, not so seriously (yet) into girls.
This series chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie was a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, came to CI5 from the regular police force, and was more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship was often contentious, but they were the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
在印尼爪哇岛的郊区,荒凉之地伫立着一间从荷兰殖民时期就存在的古老旅店。没人知道它到底存在多久,也没人知晓里面发生过什么。神秘而美艳的女主人玛拉蒂(Alexandra T. Gottardo 饰)独自经营,各色人等从四面八方云集于此,他们怀着不同的目的,但不论如何,却很难有人再走出旅店。这一天,面带忧郁的女子玛丽安走进旅店,她试图查清父亲的失踪之谜。虽然玛拉蒂矢口否认,但玛丽安根本不相信,她坚信眼前这个过于美颜的女人隐藏着不可告人的秘密。万般无奈之下,玛丽安暂时在酒店落脚,可就当夜幕降临之时。恐怖的事情发生了。诡异的故事接连上演,谁都无法从这里轻易离开……
汤姆·琼斯是一位早年试图在世界上找到属于自己的一席之地的人。
Home for Christmas is back to save the holidays. Find out who was behind the door.
犯罪年代剧《巴比伦柏林》由汤姆·提克威自编自导,背景设置在上世纪二十年代的柏林,故事聚焦社会大环境下的生活百态。
《The Last Tycoon》预计将由Billy Ray执笔并掌镜,以好莱坞电影大亨Irving Thalberg为灵感,依托于原著主角好莱坞神童Monroe Stahr,讲述了上世纪三十年代好莱坞的权力斗争,以及以Stahr为焦点的充满暴力、性和野心的三十年代好莱坞的故事。
Series that explores national museum collections at a time of enforced closure.
影片探讨了难以想象的背叛如何摧毁人们的生活,以及人们在面对丑闻般的忏悔、秘密生活、可怕的暴力行为、经济崩溃等等困境时所需要的勇气,并表明当忠诚变成谎言时,真相不仅仅会让人心碎,还会改变一切。
英国ITV开始根据英国女作家Val McDermid的破案小说Dr.Tony Hill中的故事"Mermaids Singing"和"Shadows Rising"改编的英国悬疑破案剧集。之后又由其他人续写,后来在第四季度第二集"Torment"又改编自Val McDermid的Dr.Tony Hill中的故事"The Torment of Others"。 Dr. Tony Hill 这个角色是个大学里面的法庭心理学家,他一起与一位非常干练的女刑事探员Carol Jordan 合作破了一个又一个非常棘手的悬疑案件!