墨尔本风云第二季

　　威廉姆·H·梅西领衔主演的《无耻之徒》续订第十季，今年播出。

　　Lifetime台近日宣布续订都市剧《蛇蝎女佣》第三季。
　　《蛇蝎女佣》由《绝望的主妇》的主创马克·切利与伊娃·朗格利亚携手打造。改编自墨西哥系列喜剧《女佣》，讲述了在贝弗利富人区里当女佣的四位拉丁裔妇女的故事。已经结束的两季平均收视率达到220万人，而该剧在女性观众群中颇受欢迎，这无疑是《蛇蝎女佣》获得续订的重要原因之一。
　　《蛇蝎女佣》第三季依然由13集组成，定于2015年开播。

　　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.

　　关于开膛手杰克的故事在世界上广为流传，直到120多年后的今天，这位恶名昭彰的连环杀人犯依旧有着令人闻风丧胆的影响力，但谁都不知道真相。但这股暗黑和悬疑之风却让它多次被人挖掘和重演。
　　1888年，位于伦敦东区的白教堂一带发生连续杀害至少多名妓女的凶杀案，让维多利亚时期的伦敦陷入恐惧的疑云之中。凶手代号——开膛手杰克，犯案期间多次写信至警察局挑衅，却始终未落入法网。其大胆的犯案手法，又经媒体一再渲染而引起英国社会的恐慌。伦敦警局的H分部到任务，负责平息开膛手杰克犯案后的恐慌气氛，并且要将这个难以捉摸的罪魁祸首缉拿归案。负责这起案件的侦探埃蒙德·里德（马修·麦克费登 Matthew Macfadyen 饰）和班纳特·德雷克（杰罗姆·弗林 Jerome Flynn 饰）将并肩作战，寻找出开膛手杰克......

　　HBO亚洲剧集《亚洲怪谈》第二季共6集，每集的故事素材源于亚洲各地区不同的恐怖传说，包括中国台湾、日本、泰国、菲律宾、印度尼西亚和新加坡。

　　锁链、鞭子以及滑稽的俏皮话！对于研究生/调教师蒂芙（佐伊·莱文饰演）和她经济拮据的同性恋好友皮特（布兰登·斯坎内尔饰演）来说，性虐恋是一门生意，而不是一种乐趣。好吧，或许有点儿乐趣。他们的职业关系重新定义了彼此之间的友谊，但更重要的是帮助他们找到自己。

　　CBS宣布续订《新夏威夷神探》第4季。

《哈莱姆教父》由克里斯·布兰卡托和保罗·埃克斯坦创作，奥斯卡奖得主福里斯特·惠特克担任主演和执行制片人，灵感来自臭名昭著的犯罪头目Bumpy Johnson(惠特克饰)的故事，他在20世纪60年代初从11年的监狱中回来，发现他曾经统治的社区一片混乱。随着街道被意大利暴徒控制，跛豪必须采取热那亚犯罪家族夺回控制权。在残酷的战斗中，他与激进的传教士马尔科姆·X结成联盟，在社会动荡和一场威胁撕裂城市的暴徒战争的十字准星上抓住了马尔科姆的政治崛起。《哈莱姆教父》讲述了在美国历史上最动荡的时期之一，黑社会犯罪与民权运动的碰撞。

　　ABC宣布续订《美式主妇》（American Housewife）。

　　改编自史提芬京 (Stephen King) 畅销小说人物的 The Dead Zone 是一套集动作、浪漫、超自然及冒险于一身的心理学恐怖片集。
　　Johnny Smith (Anthony Michael Hall 饰演) 于小镇中过着平凡的生活，本身是自然科学教师的他喜欢向学生们展示出大自然的奥秘，在他身边的除了他深爱的未婚妻 Sarah (Nicole de Boer 饰演) 之外，还有以他引以为荣的母亲。Johnny 本拥有着几乎完美的生活，直至某天他发生车祸，使他一直昏迷不醒为止。
　　六年后，Johnny 终于恢复知觉及清醒，但他所认知的世界已变得面目全非。除了他的母亲已过身外，他的未婚妻 Sarah 亦下嫁了另一人且生了小孩。但这些事以他来说还不是太重要，因为他竟发现自已拥有一种惊人的 超自然力量，只要他接触到其它人或对象时便会发生。在离开医院之前，他p凭着超自然的幻觉得知其护士之女儿正身处险境，从而能够及时把她的女儿救出。
　　现在，Johnny 除了尝试适应昏迷六年后的生活外，还需要把不知道是福是祸的超自然力量弄走，继续以普通人的姿态生活。帮助 Johnny 恢服体能的物理治疗师 Bruce (John L. Adams 饰演) 由医院相识后因了解得太多而渐渐变成他的好友；而他母亲的牧师 Gene Purdy (David Ogden Stiers 饰演) 则为了他建立了一笔基金，待他有需要时便可使用；另外，Sarah 亦尝试一方面与 Johnny 保持关系，另一方面不影响与她丈夫 (Chris Bruno 饰演) 与及儿子的关系。
　　本剧集由 Star Trek 系列编剧 Michael Piller 及其子 Shawn Piller 制作，于2002年6月16日在 USA Network 首播，并创下六千四百万的收视纪录，同时亦打破基本有线电视节目首播的收视纪录。

　　Elise Wasserman and Karl Roebuck investigate when a couple are abducted from the Channel Tunnel in front of their young daughter. Events take a dramatic turn when a plane crashes into the Channel.

　　TNT宣布续订《陨落星辰》（Falling Skies）第四季，订数仍然为10集。该剧第三季平均观众人数（Live+7）为580万。在第四季中，Tom Mason和他领导的第二独立团决心一劳永逸地击败入侵地球的外星人，夺回属于人类的家园。《陨落星辰》开篇呈现给观众的是一 幕外星人袭击后地球几乎毁灭的景象。在外星人首次入侵6个月后，少数幸存者聚集到大城市的外围，打算进行一场艰苦的反击战。然而对他们来说，每天都是挑战，作为城市的守护者，他们需要不断地反抗外星人的侵略并保护那些难民们。 本剧的男主人公名叫汤姆?梅森（Noah Wyle饰），是波士顿一名历史学教授。外星人入侵使得他家破人亡。初袭时，他的妻子被杀害，三个儿子中有一个也被俘虏。