惨雨第三季

 PBS十多年前曾播过自己拍摄的剧集，但后来只播英国进口剧集，如今又打算播自己拍摄的剧集。作为PBS杀回「原创」领域的首部作品，该剧沿袭了PBS热门进口剧集《唐顿庄园》的历史风格。故事发生在美国内战时期，主人公是两名护士志愿者——来自新英格兰地区并支持废奴主义的Mary Phinney（Mary Elizabeth Winstead）和支持南方联盟国的南方佳丽Emma Green（Hannah James）。Green家族在弗吉尼亚州的亚历山大市经营豪华酒店生意，北方联邦军1862年占领这座城市后，他们的酒店被改造成专门治疗战争伤员的「大厦之屋医院」（Mansion House Hospital）。 Mary Phinney（Mary Elizabeth Winstead）是个寡妇，最近刚刚来到「大厦之屋医院」工作。Josh Radnor（没错，就是《老爸老妈的浪漫史》中的「老爸」）扮演医院雇佣的外科医生Jedediah Foster，他从小生长在一个南方权贵家庭中，父亲是马里兰州的大地主，家中有许多黑奴。Gary Cole扮演Green家族的掌门人James Green, Sr.，他很难在一座「敌人占领」的城市里维持家族生意。Hannah James扮演Emma Green，是「大厦之屋医院」的一名护士志愿者。Peter Gerety扮演Alfred Summers医生，「大厦之屋医院」的外科主任。他爬上这个职位完全因为他的年纪忽悠了所有人，并非因为他有真材实料。Norbert Leo Butz扮演守旧的军医Byron Hale，一切都循规蹈矩。他一方面密切监视护士们的一举一动，另一方面却与Anne Reading护士保持着密切的关系。McKinley Belcher III扮演黑人工人Samuel Diggs，他隐藏了一个秘密：他从一个年轻的男仆那里学会了医术。Shalita Grant扮演美丽的Aurelia Johnson，是医院里的洗衣女工，她试图忘掉自己的过去。Cherry Jones扮演令人生畏的北方联邦军护士长Dorothea Dix。Jack Falahee扮演Frank Stringfellow。AnnaSophia Robb扮演Alice Green。Cameron Monaghan扮演Tom Fairfax。Donna Murphy扮演Jane Green。Tara Summers扮演Anne Hastings。L. Scott Caldwell扮演Belinda。Suzanne Bertish扮演Matron Brannan。Wade Williams扮演Silas Bullen。Luke Macfarlane扮演Chaplain Hopkins。Brad Koed扮演James Green, Jr.。 本剧的素材大部分来源于这座医院医生和护士的回忆录及往来信件，具有一定的真实性。亚历山大市是美国内战时期南方联盟国占领时间最长的一座城市，后被北方联邦军收复。 ——转自“天涯小筑”

 Golden Globe® winner Angela Lansbury returns as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, and with more 'Cabot Cove Syndrome' happening, more people are turning up dead wherever she ventures. Jessica (Lansbury) is the only one clever enough to read between the lines and see the clues nobody else knew were there. Along for the chase are amazing guest stars like Harvey Fierstein (Independence Day), Jon Polito (Miller's Crossing), David Soul (Starsky & Hutch), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), plus many others.

 Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.