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　　历史频道宣布续订《维京传奇》（Vikings）第二季10集，2014年同期播出。第一季季终集定于4月28日播出。新闻稿称该剧是今年有线网上排名第一的新剧（指常规剧集，不包括特别节目和短剧），平均每集620万观众，18-49收视率超过了同档期的广播网剧集。

　　CW官宣《闪电侠》第九季将于2023年2月8日开播，同时本季也将会是本剧的最后一季，CW电视网娱乐部总裁表示：“《闪电侠》将作为CW电视台历史上最伟大的剧集之一被铭记，现在是时候跟进并享受与史上最快之人奇妙的最后的旅程了。”

　　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.

　　CW将重启剧集《德州巡警》，贾德·帕达里克(《邪恶力量》)主演并担任执行制片人。Anna Fricke操刀剧本。贾德饰演科尔多尔·沃克，他的妻子去世，两人有两个孩子。他有自己的行事标准，在做了两年卧底工作之后，他回到了德克萨斯州的家中，发现有许多事情要做。他与孩子们建立联系，和保守的家庭发生冲突，并找到了同为骑兵的新伴侣。而此时，他对妻子去世的原因越来越怀疑。

　　在第 3 季中，乔伊和乐芙已经结婚并拥有了自己的孩子，他们搬到了北加州宜人的马德雷林达飞地，那里聚集着享有特权的科技企业家、爱指指点点的妈咪博主和网红生物黑客。乔伊一心扮演丈夫和父亲的新角色，同时也在担心乐芙又会冲动行事并造成致命后果。然而他的心也在蠢蠢欲动。他一直在寻找的女人会不会就住在隔壁？从地下室的笼子里逃出来是一回事。要想挣脱看似完美的婚姻牢笼，那可就复杂多了，尤其当你和妻子棋逢对手。

　　被残忍杀害的年轻女子、被虐的婴儿、被近亲性侵害的女童、家暴阴影下手足无措的妇女、失调扭曲的家庭关系、很想用心但每每力有未迨的父母、杵在社会家庭人际边缘人性的灰色地带。SVU每回总是触动那块让人无从防备的柔软地带，可爱的孩童，无辜的弱势个体(受性侵害者、同性恋、精神病患)，每个人都多少有些经验感触的亲子、家庭关系。不见得得是多复杂的剧情，像今天，忙於工作单亲母亲剧烈摇晃死自己的一岁多幼女(shake syndrome)，幼小无辜的女孩在母亲一时的暴怒下被辗压击碎，但另一方面你多了解那种拉扯在工作亲子关系中的心力交瘁，可爱时像天使哭闹起来却像恶魔一样让你抓狂的孩子，要怎么以审判指控那、为了不舍得看到无恢复希望的孩子继续受到病痛折磨而毅然决定停止呼吸器，哪怕这将使自己已因杀罪被起诉的母亲？是以就算这是再滥情的一种搬演、操控，每每总还是让观众溃不成军..
　　Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: 对于一部procedural drama来说情节及其设置是成功的关键，L&O: SVU在这方面是相当不错的，同是它也继续着L&O系列的传统：对各个主角的私生活几乎不接触。这样的好处就是可以使观众随时看任意一集而不必担心情节不连续；坏处就是观众群不断更换。Easier to attach, easier to detach. L&O: SVU最大的卖点是sex crime。

　　这季将讲到原作小说第5-9本的内容，也将“比第一季更复杂、野心更大”。紧接上季结尾，三姐弟被银行家Poe寄存在普鲁弗洛克预备学校，等待合适监护人，他们会遇见奇葩的同学Carmelita Spats。而尼尔·帕特里克·哈里斯饰演的大坏蛋欧拉夫伯爵，会伪装成欧洲拍卖商Günther来到学校。

　　剧集根据已故作家詹尼弗·沃斯的畅销回忆录改编，讲述了50年代伦敦东部多姿多彩的助产士和家庭故事，感人、亲密、有趣，而且最重要的是真实。当珍妮第一次来到Poplar区时，她对艰苦、贫穷甚至生活本身一无所知。珍妮是一名隶属于Nonnatus修道院的护理修女、助产士团队的一员，负责探访孕妇，并为最贫穷的妇女提供最好的照顾。在这里，街道上到处都是孩子，而只有一个八张床位的产科病房来服务整个地区，大多数分娩都在家里进行。跟随Jenny，我们穿过街道去探望她的病人——比如Conchita，她已是第25次怀孕，而妓女玛丽怀孕时才15岁——《呼叫助产士》提供了一个迷人的视角，让人们得以了解一个处于巨大社会变革边缘的真实社区。

在发现关键证据后，McCoy和Price寻求正义对抗一个国际犯罪集团，但复杂的情况威胁到他们的案件的结果

　　《神探可伦坡》第十三季共由以下五集组成：Strange Bedfellows、A Trace of Murder、Ashes to Ashes、Murder with Too Many Notes、Columbo Likes the Nightlife，这五集实际上是五部特别篇，分别于1995—2003年间推出。

　　ABC续订《实习医生格蕾》第20季，从第一季就在的Meg Marinis出任剧集运作人。

　　改编自《消失的爱人》作者吉莉安·弗琳的同名小说处女作，讲述记者Camile Preaker，刚刚从精神病院出来就面临了不少麻烦：她必须回到她的家乡小镇去报道两名未成年少女的谋杀事件。Camile一直和她的母亲还有同母异父的古怪妹妹很疏远，但却被逼和她们住在一起。此外随着调查的深入，她发现自己和被害者有很多共同点，在战胜自己心魔的同时她还要慢慢挖掘故事的真相。