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　谁是我们这个时代的英雄？政坛名人？电影明星？体育明星？也许吧……可日常生活中的英雄呢？是辛辛苦苦养育我们的父母。在孝子们眼里，母亲才是最值得崇敬的「超级英雄」。
　　来瞧瞧我们的「超级英雄」Frankie Heck（Patricia Heaton扮演）。她有三重身份：贤妻，良母，二手车推销员。她有什么特别的地方？她住在美国中部，过着中产阶级的生活，岁数接近中年，她的生活里一切都带个「中」字。她有什么「超能力」？每天早上把丈夫Mike（Neil Flynn扮演）伺候得舒舒服服的，然后把三个孩子平平安安地送出家门！
　　Frankie Heck和Mike一辈子都住在小镇Jasper（印第安纳州）上，正好夹在两座工厂的中间－－一座是糕点厂，一座是轮胎厂。Jasper的居民呼吸什么空气，得看当天刮什么风。也许你上午闻到的是甜甜的蛋糕味，下午就变成了刺鼻的橡胶味。
　　Mike是个言语不多，但是出言必惊人的男人，他在镇上的采石场担任经理。而Frankie在当地一家二手车行工作，业绩排名第三。不过，车行里也就只有三个销售员……她也许工作能力不足，当不了女强人，也不可能出人头地。可只要回到家里，她「大展拳脚」的时刻就来临了。
　　Frankie的大儿子Axel（Charlie McDermott扮演）喜欢做白日梦，喜欢枪炮与玫瑰乐队，喜欢一切反传统的东西；女儿Sue（Eden Sher扮演）做事总是毛手毛脚，虽然爱好广泛，但却一事无成；只有7岁的小儿子Brick（Atticus Shaffer扮演）除了自己的书包外再无其他朋友。
　　这是一部描述家庭关系的情景喜剧，没有跌宕起伏的剧情，也没有浮华的气氛。本剧用平实的故事告诉观众：家庭总是第一位的。不管你做什么，都应该团结家人、形成家庭合力。

　　What will Catherine and Peter risk to preserve the crown?

　　白宫安全警报响起，美国总统（詹姆斯·麦斯登 James Marsden 饰）遭到刺杀，他的贴身保镖Xavier（斯特林·K·布朗 Sterling K. Brown 饰）即刻成为最大疑凶。但真相往往不简单，Xavier究竟能否摆脱嫌疑，找出真凶。

　　CBS续订《海军罪案调查处》第二十二季。

　　The Rookie will be back for another go-round. Ahead of the Season 6 finale, ABC has renewed the Nathan Fillion drama, produced by Lionsgate Television, for a seventh season.

　　亚马逊预定了一部8集的科幻剧集《环形故事》(Tales From The Loop)，基于瑞典艺术家Simon Stålenhag创作的科幻画作，Nathaniel Halpern(《大群》)编写剧本，马克·罗曼尼克(《别让我走》《黑胶时代》)执导，马特·里夫斯的制片公司6th & Idaho、瑞典的Indio、Fox 21联合制作。
　　画作探索了一群生活在“The Loop”之上的人民的生活，The Loop是一个为了探索和解开宇宙奥秘的机器，它使以前只有科幻小说里才有的东西成为可能。在这个奇幻、神秘的小镇上，讲述着辛酸的人类故事，讲述着赤裸裸的普遍情感体验，同时又利用了流派叙事的计谋。

　　Hulu 预订成人向校园喜剧《PEN15》，每集三十分钟共十集，由《随性所欲》女星Maya Erskine与《私家法医》女星Anna Konkle共同主创与主演，两人将在剧中演出十三岁的自己。
　　《PEN15》背景设定在 2000 年的某间中学，描述正值发育期的十三岁主角（美国 校园里有个梗，如果被问「你愿不愿意加入pen15俱乐部？」，如果说愿意对方就会恶作剧地把「penis」写在你手上）。

　　Netflix已续订《我本坚强》第二季。

　　Morse is taken seriously ill at a museum reception and is hospitalized. In the hospital, Supt. Strange, visits Morse to push him to take early retirement, while Dr. Millicent 'Millie' Van Buren gives him her book on a 140 year-old court case known as the Oxford Canal Murders. The case involved the murder and rape of a young woman, Mrs Joanna Franks, traveling by canal boat from Coventry to London. The case resulted in three boatmen being sentenced to death and two of them hanged. Morse starts to read Millie's book and dreams about it. He soon has a number of problems with the case.
　　Why weren't the three men also charged with theft? Why did Mrs Franks take a boat instead of a train that was much faster and comfortable and only slightly more expensive? Why didn't she abandon the boat after she complained about lewd behavior of the crew at the shipping office in Banbury? Why did she then drink and 'socialise' with the crew? What happened to her 'carpet bag' with which she arrived on the boat but which was not mentioned in the court case, nor was it stored in the archives with her, almost empty, trunk? The trunk was marked with initials of her first husband who had died. How did it happen that her shoes were found on the boat but nobody saw her return to the boat from the forest?
　　PC Adrian Kershaw does some brilliant leg work for Morse. He studied history and has invaluable background knowledge. For instance, he mentions that the boatmen had bad reputation because they worked on Sundays and did not attend church. Later a chapel was built for them in Oxford.
　　The dead woman's clothes and the shoes found on the boat are submitted to modern forensic investigation. The result is that the shoes did not belong to the dead woman found in the water because she was much taller.The shoes were never used in the forest.
　　Only Mrs Franks' husband, Charles Franks, was called to identify the body of the dead woman. He claimed that, while her face was darkened and disfigured, he found a birth mark behind her ear. The prosecutor welcomed that information "that only a husband or a lover would know". The accused were not shown the body. The defense attorney merely claimed that the guilt of the three men was not proved. All three accused claimed to the end that they were innocent. One of them was not executed because he embraced Christianity in prison.
　　Morse instructs Kershaw to investigate if Charles Franks benefited from his wife's death and, indeed, he pocketed 300 pounds insurance money. Case closed: Charles Franks murdered a tall women and dropped her in the canal after meeting Joanna in the forest. If Joanna Franks jumped off the boat at the same time as the dead body hit the water, she swam to the bank and joined her husband. The couple changed their names, in the case of 'Charles Franks' a second time after he 'died' as Joanna's first husband. The fourth boatman, a youngster who was not charged, was probably paid by Joanna to give false testimony.
　　Morse travels to Ireland and has a grave of Joanna's first husband exhumed. The coffin contains bags of sand and some stones.

　　USA剧《黑客军团》第三季确定在美国时间10月11日作新季首播，在新一季中会探讨每个角色的动机，以及Elliot与机器人先生（Rami Malek及Christian Slater饰）之间的分裂。

　　精神科女医生决意保护逃出神秘邪教的年轻女患者，怎料竟因此牵连家人，自己的小命都可能不保。

　　孩子们在球场内外长大成人，他们的前职业芭蕾运动员父亲适应了篮球后的生活，而女家长的母亲最终开始追求自己的梦想。