星期五晚餐(美版)第一季

Hannah has a past life. A past trauma. And a terrible fear of heights. Now, one late-night call brings her back to where it all began.

　　纽约警察和检察官的故事，跨越15个春秋，1990年首播，至今仍受到亿万观众瞩目的长剧。
　　law & order第55届艾美奖最大的遗憾，已连续11年入围剧情类最佳电视剧奖提名的这部热门电视剧，这次却意外地未被提名，粉碎了它原本想要缔造的12次提名新高。
　　本片融警匪与法庭于一体的电视剧，片中讲述的犯罪基本原于真实生活，往往是近期报纸上的头条新闻。节目分为两部分，上半部分介绍警察研究现场，征询证人，提审嫌疑犯等一系列的侦破活动，后半部分详尽记录了案件侦破的后期工作，案件转交到检查官手里，检查官衡量案情，起诉，直到庭审，节奏紧凑，扣人心弦。由于最终坏人不一定被绳之于法，所以观众看的时候往往暗自捏一把汗。
　　这个剧集除了已经播出的15季之外，还包括3个特别的系列，一个是
　　Special Victims meijubar.net Unit 系列（6季），一个是Criminal Intent 系列（4季），和Trial By Jury
　　系列。可见其火爆程度。堪称NBC历史上，乃至美国影史上最宏伟的剧集。
　　"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are there stories. "
　　这是Law & Order十四年如一日，也是我百听不厌的开场白，是以Law & Order franchise(包括spin-off的SVU)都兼有探员的办案过程跟检察官在法庭上的滔滔雄辩，这二者相互分庭抗礼成为Law & Order奠定其cop drama之教父地位的独特魅力，但是近来每回看Law & Order，都彷彿只是在等待后半小时的法庭戏上，也不是说前面的办案就不精采，但是总要在进入起诉过程中才显出本剧的成熟、世故，细腻精妙处的炉火纯青；一男一女老少两位检察官的不同考量而激盪出的互动、辩证，起诉的战略方针往往不只是黑白分明的司法正义考量，而牵扯到背后司法制度及其偏狭漏洞、细微的政治空气，Law & Order更不只是关在摄影棚里编造天马行空的离奇案件，它每回总是不犹疑地定睛盯上社会中的敏感命题。

　　Fox正式续订《嘻哈帝国》第5季。并将本季下半季接手的剧集运作人Brett Mahoney正式推到新季运作人的位置。允诺新季继续会有“《嘻哈帝国》标志性的、让人惊掉下巴的OMG时刻”。

《二当家/副总统》是美国总统大选年率先亮相的一部政治喜剧，接下来还有数部类似的剧集排队等候播出。 　　该剧故事描述前任女参议员Selina Meyer（Julia Louis-Dreyfus）当上副总统后 发现这个职位与她想象中的情况完全不一样－－她几乎没有任何真正的权力。参议院、众议员和总统都不把她当回事，可一旦遇到谁也解决不了的麻烦事就扔给她去处理。 刚刚上任的副总统Selina Meyer带着她的班子成员－－办公室主任Amy（Anna Chlumsky）、发言人Mike（Matt Walsh）、政治参谋Gary（Tony Hale）和执行助理Sue（Sufe Bradshaw）－－来到华盛顿。虽然他们还没有站稳脚跟，但Selina急于表现自己的能力。结果，一系列的失误导致她的手下人不得不放弃当初的设想，转头去做「损害控制」工作。该剧其实和Showt...

　　Season 3: 2001–2002
　　Cast: Rob Lowe, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford and Martin Sheen
　　The third season, which covers the administration's third and fourth years in office, starts off with Bartlet announcing his intention to run for reelection and is heavily devoted to the upcoming presidential election. Other prominent plotlines include Congressional investigations into whether Bartlet committed electoral fraud by concealing his MS, a death threat against C.J. and the ensuing relationship she develops with a Secret Service agent assigned to her, the Qumari defense minister Abdul Shareef plotting terrorist attacks against the US, and a troubling meeting between Toby and the President that leaves Bartlet with a bout of insomnia in "Night Five." The season finale, "Posse Comitatus" closes several of these storylines as Bartlet meets his opponent in the elections and reaffirms his commitment to beat him. The episode ends with the president finally deciding to order Shareef's assassination (a legally questionable act) and C.J.'s agent's murder, just after the man threatening C.J. was caught.
　　From a critical perspective, series creator Aaron Sorkin acknowledged in October 2002 that the terrorism-related plots designed to keep the series relevant after the real-life 9/11 attacks were awkward at times, saying "from week to week, you felt like you were writing the show handcuffed, a little bit. I didn't know how to write it anymore. It was a constant search for what I wasn't doing that used to make the show work. [...] Maybe there was a way to make it work; there probably was. I wasn't able to find it in twenty-two episodes." [1] Nonetheless, the show went on to win its third "Outstanding Drama" Emmy in a row.

　　Showtime正式预订萨莎·拜伦·科恩打造的讽刺剧集《谁是美国？》，该剧共7集，本周日首播。Showtime将该剧形容为“可能是电视史上最具危险性的一档电视节目”。

　　新一季的剧情据报会偏离原作播客的内容，引入新角色及演员。Janelle Monáe饰演一名固执的女子，醒来时发现自己在独木舟上漂浮，而且失去了为何来到此处﹑以及她是谁的记忆。