老友记第八季

　　该剧根据弗兰克·塔利斯的小说改编，由《神探夏洛克》的编剧史蒂芬·汤普森负责撰写剧本，故事设定在20世纪的维也纳，讲述师从弗洛伊德的年轻医生Max协助奥地利警探Oskar破案的故事。Max对于人类行为的深入理解，让他为一些神秘莫测的案件提供了不一样的侦破角度...

　　改编自Robyn Carr小说的《维琴河 Virgin River》讲述女主Melinda Monroe（Alexandra Breckenridge饰）来到加州偏远小镇维琴河当护士，她认为这处是开展新生活﹑丢下痛苦回忆的好地方。不过她发现小镇生活没其预料般简单，如果Melinda真心希望以维琴河为家，她得自己振作起来。《维琴河》原著是多达20本的系列作，被列入Harpercollins 200大书榜中。

　　继将好兄弟Wilson的爱车开进旧情人Cuddy的客厅后，备受伤害的House终于在等待假释的看守所内找到了新的刺激。当然，编剧没有忘记为House安插新的小朋友进行调教：这次被House征服的是具有一副混血面孔的美丽女医生Adams。
　　House在新剧集里再次展现了惊人的天赋。过人的观察力、大胆的推理、剑走偏锋的行事风格和神乎其技的查体功底一览无遗。曾在Hopkins训练过的高材生Adams医生态度也从开始的倨傲转向惊奇，并最终成为House式行动的追随者。
　　本集的病例依旧稀有。与往常不同，House这次并没有充沛的医疗资源可加利用，诊断完全依靠最原始的手段。一名年轻男子在狱中相继出现了关节痛、发热、皮疹等症状，Adams起初认为是淋病，但House以更有说服力的红斑狼疮推翻了Adams。不过患者的表现远不止这么简单，该男子被烟草熏黄的手指和接下来发生的骨折使House转向晚期肺癌的诊断。此时的House表现出神乎其技的听诊技能：在没有听诊器的情况下House准确地查出患者肺部存在阴影。有经验的临床专家通过轻拍即可了解患者两肺的情况，更有奇人可仅凭听诊估算患者心脏的EF值（射血分数，通常需要心脏超声的帮助来进行模拟计算）。House的天赋大概集中了全世界最有经验医生的传奇，当然，对于绝大多数中庸之资的凡人来说，追求这种境界其实远不如读好一张胸片或安排一次可靠的超声来的保险。House的神奇并没有帮到这名患者，胸片显示该男子的肺部阴影并非癌症。患者极易流血不止的表现也不符合肺癌晚期常有的高凝状态，病情更趋复杂了。除此之外，患者又发生了过敏性休克，幸好有医生在场，简易情形下的气管切开术挽救了这个年轻人的生命。现在，所有的临床表现终于齐全了：凝血功能障碍、皮疹、骨质疏松、过敏，答案会是什么呢？即将离开的House想到了肥大细胞增多症（Mastocytosis）。这种血液系统疾病能够侵犯全身多个系统，并常常表现为发作性过敏。肥大细胞释放组胺等炎症介质，使得患者产生荨麻疹、喉头水肿甚至窒息。不过，潮红、低血压等类过敏征象并非仅限于肥大细胞增多症，在做出此项诊断之前，还需要谨慎考虑脓毒症、类癌综合征、神经内分泌肿瘤如VIP瘤或嗜铬细胞瘤、甲状腺髓样癌等疾患。而这些疾病的排除需要细致的全身检查和多种实验室检查。House的编剧在此简化了细节，选择利用阿司匹林来进行简易诊断。阿司匹林（乙酰水杨酸）是一种环氧化酶抑制剂，可抑制前列腺素（PG）的生物合成，同时又可促进产生过敏介质白三烯（LT），增强肥大细胞诱发的过敏反应。因此，当已有过敏潜质的患者服用阿司匹林后，很可能当场诱发过敏性休克。这将有助于排除上述其他原因造成的类似表现。晚餐上的纸条证明，House又一次猜中了结局。
　　当然，本剧的亮点远非这个case本身。House在深陷江湖危机之时还不忘为室友拯救中毒的宠物蟋蟀，所用的手段仍然令人耳目一新。而这个成功的解救也为后来House乱中解围埋下了伏笔。
　　House的天赋来自编剧。能够写出各种各样奇怪病例的House编剧，医学功底也相当了得。凑巧的是，在《新英格兰医学杂志》上，就刊有一篇关于肥大细胞增多症的病例报告。在这份报告中，患者在使用阿司匹林后过敏症状加重，麻省总医院（MGH）的现实版House们终于经过周密的诊治手段确认了病情。当然，在鉴别分析及治疗细节上，专业的医学期刊所体现的又是另一种美感了。本集House的故事原型，是否脱胎于此呢？而如此专业的态度，大概也正是国内编剧所无法企及的高度了吧。

　　是一部带有强烈悬疑色彩的剧集，被称作「律政惊悚剧」。该剧由《实习医生格蕾》（Grey’s Anatomy）和《丑闻》（Scandal）的制片人Shonda Rhimes及其制片公司Shondaland策划，这是该公司今年卖出的第四个新项目（同时也是该公司第二部以黑人女性为头号主角的剧集）。故事描述一群满怀抱负的法学院学生和神秘的犯罪辩护学教授Annalise DeWitt（Viola Davis）卷入一场谋杀阴谋，导致他们所有人的生活被彻底改变。DeWitt不仅教学，还是一位著名的刑事案件诉讼律师。她聪明、热情、迷人、有创意，在法庭上和课堂里均冷酷无情。她很善于操纵别人，特别是她的学生。她亲自挑选了几名最优秀的学生到自己的事务所打工。她与一位心理学教授结了婚，但却保持着一段绝不能让第三人知道的婚外情。

　　4年的时间，81集案件以及一次濒临死亡的经验之后，Kate Beckett警官（Stana Katic饰）才终于和畅销书作家Richard Castle（Nathan Fillion饰）在感情上同步而走到了一起。但他们有一个不得不面对的现实就是纽约警局一个不成文的规定：不允许同事之间谈恋爱。怎么隐藏二人的甜蜜在稍后的剧情中更为棘手，周末Castle拐带Beckett来到他汉普郡的别院，想过二人世界，结果谋杀案如影随形纠缠着他们。不过外因可不是纠缠他们的唯一问题来源。Andrew说：“他还是那个长不大的老男孩，她呢，又个性执拗，他们还有很多事情需要相互磨合，有很多的小秘密要一点点坦白。”

　　Eminent Boston Psychiatrist, Frasier Crane, last seen gracing the bars of Cheers has left his life there to start afresh in Seattle. He now has a spot as a popular radio Psychiatrist, giving him the chance to spread words of wit and wisdom to the masses. He shares his apartment with his retired cop father, Martin, and his father's physical care assistant, Daphne Moon. Add in brother Niles, Eddie the dog, some bizarre situations and plenty of humour and you've got all the ingredients for an excellent show and worthy successor to Cheers.

　　美国经典电影台（AMC）自制影集阵容中最受赞誉之作品《广告狂人》第六季将在美国东部时间四月七日晚上九时隆重首映。由艾美奖得奖作品《黑道家族》编剧马修.维纳担纲制作和首席编剧的《广告狂人》二〇〇七年首播以来共计获得六十八项艾美奖提名及十五座艾美奖大奖，包括连续四届艾美奖最 佳电视影集殊荣，《广告狂人》成为新千年第一个十年首部也是唯一一部保持这一得奖记录的电视作品。同时《广告狂人》连续五年位列《纽约时报》、《电视指南》、《今日美国》、AV Club等数百家美国主流媒体年度十佳剧集名单，连续五年被权威的AFI美国电影学会评为年度最佳剧集，《滚石》称赞其为“永不过时的经典
　　”（The greatest TV-drama of all time）。
　　《广告狂人》以上个世纪六十年代年代的美国为背景，以麦迪逊大街上的SCDP及其他广告公司为舞台，真实刻画了一众广告从业者的生活、工作和惊心动魄的商业博弈。《广告狂人》除了揭开广告业运作的神秘面纱、勾勒沧桑巨变的时代脉搏，更试图探索在一个遍布伪善、欺骗、欲望、压力的复杂社会里每一个普通人内心的挣扎，解构普通人在面对婚姻、家庭、工作、人际、情感、中年危机、性别歧视甚至道德困境时所作出的艰难抉择，呈现不同价值观的激烈碰撞和小人物不同的命运走向，对观众极富启发意义。
　　在第五季的结尾，莱恩面对漏税指责选择自缢、佩吉.欧尔森跳槽到其他广告公司、琼被迫出卖肉体挽回客户，SCDP公司也搬进了更大的办公地点。在一个全新的起点上每一个人又将上演怎样的人生大戏？
　　AMC是近年来最受瞩目的美国有线频道，成功制播《广告狂人》、《绝命毒师》、《行尸走肉》、《谋杀》和《地狱之轮》等倍受评论界赞誉、收获超高收视的佳作，全新定义了美国电视剧的标杆。2013年4月，AMC推出全新台标，频道宣传语由“荟萃好故事”（Story Matters Here）升级为“更多精彩”（Something More），显示其“顶级制作，雅俗共赏”开辟更多节目的目标

　　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.

　　博世开始了他职业生涯的下一个篇章，发现自己与他曾经的敌人哈尼·钱德勒（Honey Chandler）共事。

　　《摩斯探长前传》第九季获得预订，共三集，预计2023年播出，同时也确认本季是该剧的最终季。

　　Time for the truth to surface. Blood & Water returns 24 September. Only on Netflix.