左右不逢源第八季

　　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.

　　Surreal comedy with Mawaan Rizwan and Russell Tovey, following Jamma (played by Mawaan) and his quest for attention as he navigates chaotic family dynamics and literally stumbles through love.

　　FBI深度卧底组（Deep Cover Operations，简称D.C.O.）特工Martin Odum（Sean Bean）拥有超出常人想象的适应能力——无论执行任何任务，他都能完美地将自己「转化」成不同的人，从而成功混入敌人内部。然而一个神秘的陌生人声称Odum并 不是真正的Odum，令Odum开始质疑自己的真实身份，整个事件变得扑朔迷离。

　　Zac Efron is back on Netflix, traveling around Australia with wellness expert Darin Olien in search of healthy, sustainable ways to live.

　　本片讲述了一位富有的王子以交换生的身份前往美国生活的故事，而在隐姓埋名的生活中，王子也建立了一段意想不到的友谊。

　　列维·施瑞博尔、强·沃特主演Showtime剧集《清道夫》宣布续订第7季，明年春天开拍。

 As Murder, She Wrote saunters through its sixth (of an eventual 12) season, star Angela Lansbury maintains her eternally buoyant and inquisitive air as Jessica Fletcher, professional writer and amateur sleuth. Though Jessica continued to investigate murders in her home town of Cabot Cove and elsewhere (in the worlds of high finance, opera, and voodoo, among other settings), this season began the practice of guest detective episodes, introduced by Jessica as either a story she wrote or a tale told by a friend, but starring a variety of quirky investigators: An ex-football player (Ken Howard, The White Shadow) paired with a clever poodle; a television crime-show producer who solved crime in real life (Diana Canova, Soap); a stout Irish detective (longtime character actor Pat Hingle); an abrasive homicide cop (Barry Newman, Vanishing Point); as well as recurring Murder, She Wrote characters like former jewel thief Dennis Stanton (Keith Michell) and British secret agent Michael Haggerty (Len Cariou). The producers were obviously hoping to use Murder, She Wrote's popularity to spin-off new series, but nothing from this season took off and viewer resistance soon brought the practice to an end. Executives must have been surprised to discover that, though murder mysteries are plot-driven, this show's success depends heavily on the undeniable charm of star Lansbury. Still, these one-off episodes are of a consistent quality with Lansbury's, and viewers open to variety will enjoy them just as much. The rest of the season features the usual astonishing array of guests, including movie stars old (Donald O'Connor, Singin' in the Rain) and recent (Elliott Gould, The Long Goodbye), television stalwarts (Shirley Jones, The Partridge Family; Jerry Stiller, The King of Queens; Doris Roberts, Everyone Loves Raymond; Kevin Tighe, Battlestar Galactica; and Gavin McLeod, The Love Boat), and D-list celebrities to die for (Dack Rambo, Morgan Brittany, Susan Anton, and more).

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。”

　　该剧将以纪实性的传记风格呈现，从平江起义、抗日战争、解放战争到建国后的抗美援朝、庐山会议，彭德怀元帅一生的重要时刻均得以还原。

　　故事讲述在维多利亚统治的最后几年，伦敦被「Touched」所困扰，这是一个大多数为女性的群体，他们突然表现出异常的能力，有的能力很迷人，有的则令人不安。这群人中，就包括神秘、吝啬的寡妇Amalia True，和杰出的年轻发明家Penance Adair。两人是这个新产生的下层阶级的拥护者，为「Touched」建立起了一个家，同时与各方势力斗争，为那些所知历史上没有立足之地的人赢得空间。 本剧是Joss Whedon自2009年《玩偶特工》以来首部独自创作的剧集，他和《吸血鬼猎人巴菲》编剧Jane Espenson、Doug Petrie共同负责剧本。Whedon在负责完首季前半部分后，因故退出该项目，Philippa Goslett被选任为新剧集运作人，负责后半部分，Whedon仍然保留创作者和执行制片的头衔。