戏里戏外第四季

　　showtime秋季档大作Californication（《加州靡情》），能让我们一睹X档案中特别探员Mulder多年后重返银幕后的风采。
　　showtime依然延续了严肃主题黑色幽默的传统，本片以小说家Hank Moody为线索，这样一个失意作家，在毒品与性爱中徘徊不前。女儿的负担，前妻的尴尬。如此男人，到底怎样过活，尽在Californication、
　　我们的X档案中那个意气风发的探员转眼成了失意作家，年近50的他和剧中主角Hank有颇多相似之处，从X档案的光环到如今平平反响，可以说这部剧集也算为他量身定做了。
　　短短半个小时的pilot中，主要角色关系十分微妙，戏剧冲突感十分强烈。除此之外，一向以热辣大胆风为主的有线台在本剧中也是挥毫泼墨，灵与肉的撞击，理智与欲望的冲突，层层交织。
　　Californication，为您讲述失意男人们的故事！

　　米兰，1992年2月，冰冷的风吹过意大利企业家们的办公室。这是属于“净手运动”的一年，由米兰地区检察官发起的反贪污政治调查吹响了变革的号角，其目的是给“贿赂之都”带来终结。莱昂纳多·诺德是这个错综复杂的权力游戏中的一个关键，他是一个聪明的广告人，他只相信自己，他将是第一批拥护新的“统治者”踏上政治舞台的人.....

　　《午夜弥撒》由《鬼入侵》创剧人迈克·弗拉纳根倾力打造，故事背景设定在与世隔绝的小岛社区，身败名裂的年轻人（扎克·吉尔福德饰）再度回归，同时一名魅力非凡的牧师（哈米什·林克莱特饰）到访，加剧了这个社区的分裂。当保罗神父出现在克罗克特岛时，恰好发生了一些无法解释、不可思议的事件，令这个社区重新燃起了对宗教的狂热，但这些奇迹是否伴有相应的代价？

　　李·佩斯、杰瑞德·哈里斯将主演根据艾萨克·阿西莫夫创作的科幻小说《基地三部曲》改编的Apple TV+剧集《基地》。佩斯饰演银河系现任皇帝Brother Day。哈里斯则饰演预测帝国灭亡的数学天才Hari Seldon。[蝙蝠侠]系列编剧大卫·S·高耶与乔什·弗莱德曼([世界之战])操刀剧本及担任创剧人。《基地三部曲》由《基地》、《基地与帝国》、《第二基地》组成， 讲述银河帝国已有一万二千年悠久历史，一位心理史学家却作出惊人预言：帝国即将土崩瓦解，整个银河注定化作一片废墟，黑暗时期将会持续整整三万年。《基地》首季共10集。

　　60年来，“外星人劫持”事件屡有发生，但在2007年7月的一天，随着一颗彗星飞向地球，引起恐慌的撞击没有发生，却是4400个曾在不同年代被劫持的人一次性回归地球。经过一系列医疗观察，美国国土安全局计划安置他们，帮助他们回归社会，但是这些人身上逐渐开始显现出“特异功能”，他们中有的会意念治疗，有的有的可以“造梦”，有的能听到别人思想，但是对他们来说，如何继续生活下去才是最重要的，被“劫持”的一段时间似乎从他们生命中硬生生砍掉了，世界的变化令他们始料未及，仍有人在追寻“劫持”的真相，似乎有更大的使命在等待他们……

　　HBO Max续订《说唱女团》第二季。

　　在ABC台童话剧集《Once Upon a Time》中扮演警长Graham的男星Jamie Dornan日前签约加盟BBC台新剧《The Fall》，担任主演。
　　《The Fall》第一季共五集，讲述了因对一系列谋杀案的调查而牵扯出的相关人物的生活，包括凶手和受害者的 家庭成员。Jamie将在这部剧中扮演北爱尔兰首都贝尔法斯特的一名连环杀手Paul Spector。负责追捕他的警察Gibson则由女星Gillian Anderson（《X档案》中的Dana）扮演。
　　该剧的剧本由Allan Cubitt(代表作《Prime Suspect》)撰写，执行制作人为Allan Cubitt、JustinThomson-Glover和Patrick Irwin。

　　《广告狂人》第七季暨完结季共14集将拆分为两部分“创世纪”和“一个时代的落幕“，分别在2014年和2015春天播出，以此向陪伴《广告狂人》八年的新老观众告别。
　　在《广告狂人》第六季的结尾，背负着巨大谎言、并不断用酒精和出轨麻醉自己、寻求心理自偿的广告才子唐德雷珀糜烂不检点的私生活被女儿萨丽撞破败露，和二婚妻子梅根的婚姻又再度产生巨大裂痕。梦魇般阵阵袭来的成长经历、物是人非的同僚令唐德雷珀对充斥着虚伪人际的广告业乃至整个中产社会产生了巨大的排斥和疲惫情绪，渴望“洗净”自己的唐在SCDP的客户见面会上崩溃、坦白了自己的身世，令客户自觉受到羞辱，SCDP合伙人为了公司利益辞退了唐，职位由他曾经提拔起来的徒弟、如今叱咤广告业的才女佩琪接任。
　　被战争、民运和动乱裹挟、令所有人局促不安的的七十年代的脚步正渐渐靠近，佩琪在这个女性崛起的岁月中会否选择自立门户？唐在面对内心揭开的伤痛、决绝地离开他一手创造的充满甜蜜谎言的虚伪的广告业后，会如何继续自己的人生？这个惊心动魄的时代里，他们的命运究竟将如何画上句点？

　　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.

　　HBO Max将制作《欲望都市》的10集复活限定剧，剧名定为《就这样... And Just Like That…》。故事将讲述Carrie、Miranda和Charlotte面对50多岁的复杂人生和友谊。
　　Sarah Jessica Parker、Kristin Davis和Cynthia Nixon确认回归，Kim Cattrall缺席。回归的三人将和电影版编导Michael Patrick King共同担任执行制片。