孽扣(剧版)

　　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。

　　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.

　　弗兰奇（达科塔•布鲁•理查兹 Dakota Blue Richards 饰）自小被一对gay收养，因为特殊的家庭让她有着与周围格格不入的着装风格和不太合群的性格。在之前的学校备受排斥，遭受到同学的欺辱，弗兰奇转校来到一个全新的环境。开学第一天就跟学校的风云人物米妮（弗雷娅•梅弗 Freya Mavor 饰）误打误撞的相识。米妮带着她的跟班丽芙和格蕾丝主动示好弗兰奇，让她以为已经融入了这个新环境，却不想过后再三遭遇恼火的事情。陷入困顿的弗兰奇遇到了神秘男子马缇（塞巴斯蒂安•德•索萨 Sebastian De Souza 饰）的劝解，暗生情愫，意外得知他是米妮男友尼克（肖恩•蒂尔 Sean Teale 饰）的弟弟。而酷爱重金属摇滚的叛逆少年瑞驰（阿历克斯•阿诺 Alex Arnold 饰）也在格蕾丝芭蕾舞般的温柔中陷入恋爱。

　　When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian counterpart Gedeon though seems to have lost any ambitions in his job. Very soon, they discover more crime scenes with symbolically posed victims, reminiscent of pagan rituals. It all seems to be part of a bigger, sinister plan. Ellie finds herself under increasing pressure to understand the deranged killer's motives so she can stop him. The hunt leads them ever deeper in the dark valleys and archaic Alpine

　　Netflix宣布续订《女子监狱》第四季。

制片人泰勒·谢里丹(Taylor Sheridan)将讲述大家长雅各布(Jacob Ford)和女家长卡拉(Cara Mirren)的故事，探索“20世纪初，流行病、历史性干旱、禁酒令的结束和大萧条都困扰着西部山区，而达顿一家把这里称为家。”

　　伦敦市中心发生的致命爆炸摧毁了美国大使凯特·怀勒（凯丽·拉塞尔饰）的世界。凯特努力重建破碎的生活和四分五裂的团队，而她最担心的事情也随之而来：这场导致她被派往英国的袭击并非来自敌对国家，而是来自英国政府内部。在追查真相的过程中，她唯一真正的盟友是她的准前夫哈尔·怀勒（卢夫斯·塞维尔饰）— 他不仅活得好好的，还参与了很多事情。凯特面临着岌岌可危的婚姻、与英国外交大臣奥斯汀·丹尼森（大卫·吉亚西饰）的复杂关系，以及来自副总统格雷斯佩恩（艾莉森·珍妮饰）的一次威胁性访问。
　　豪宅、国家机密、叛国罪、下午茶 — 由创剧人、剧集主管兼监制黛博拉·卡恩执导的荣获艾美奖提名的剧集《头号外交官》推出第二季。贾尼丝·威廉斯、艾利克斯·格雷夫斯和凯丽·拉塞尔担任监制。演员阵容还包括阿丽·安、罗里·金尼尔和艾托·艾桑多。

　　YouTube打造的动作喜剧《韦恩》(Wayne，与布鲁斯韦恩没关系)正式预定成剧集，该剧去年12月预定了试播集。由马克·麦克肯纳(《唱街》)和席亚拉·博拉沃(《海军罪案调查处》《骨瘦如柴》)主演，Shawn Simmons(《腌黄瓜先生》《摇滚校园》)创作，《死侍》编剧Rhett Reese＆Paul Wernick担任执行制片人。目前一季共10集，将于今年在YouTube Red上推出。
　　讲述一个勇敢、有时又有点血腥的故事：15岁的韦恩骑着一辆脏自行车和他的新爱慕对象Del一起上路，为取回他父亲去世之前被偷的1978年款庞蒂亚克火鸟汽车，两人一同对抗世界。Joshua J. Williams(《泥土之界》)饰演循环角色奥兰多。