平地风云第二季

《园丁》讲述了埃尔默和他控制欲极强的母亲拉希纳·茹拉多的故事。茹拉多经营着一个花园中心，背后隐藏着另一项蓬勃发展的地下雇佣谋杀生意。杀人对埃尔默来说轻而易举，一场事故让他变得麻木不仁。然而，在策划谋杀迷人的幼儿园老师维奥莱特时，他爱上了对方。埃尔默必须学会爱，而他的母亲则想尽一切办法结束维奥莱特的生命。

　　本剧叙述在野党影子内阁成员Jim Hacker在帮助本党大选获胜之后得到行政事务部（DAA）部长的职务，从此开始面对以部秘书Sir Humphrey Appleby为首的公务员体系，而他的公派私人秘书、同属公务员的Bernard则夹在了当中。在Hacker所代表的政客以及Appleby所代表的公务员之间因施政而发生的种种冲突之中，两人的关系不停地发生变化，既有互相捂盖子，也有互相揭老底。与此同时，英国政治体制（包括政党体制和公务员体制）中的种种不为外人所知弊端和黑幕也展现在观众眼前。当然所有这些都是通过大量喜剧情节和台词展开。在本系列后半部分的《Yes Prime Minister》中，Hacker通过党内角力当上了首相，而Appleby也已先他一步当上了首相秘书，两人的故事移到唐宁街10号继续展开。

　　1957年11月，距演播时刻被意外停播已有一年，缘于Lord Elms颇具争议的采访事件引起的诸多变动。Freddie被开除之后四处游历，而Bel为了留下奋力拼搏。她既要努力提高收视率还要确保Hector不要闯祸；工作狂Bel对伦敦日益猖獗的黑社会越来越感兴趣，可追踪的故事却缺人报导。苏联人造卫星2号的发射事件在新闻工作室内掀起核恐慌。在群情激昂的会议中途，结束旅程的Freddie翩然而至

制片人泰勒·谢里丹(Taylor Sheridan)将讲述大家长雅各布(Jacob Ford)和女家长卡拉(Cara Mirren)的故事，探索“20世纪初，流行病、历史性干旱、禁酒令的结束和大萧条都困扰着西部山区，而达顿一家把这里称为家。”

　　Mrs. Brown's Boys became a runaway success upon its initial broadcast. Every episode aired won its timeslot for RTÉ, with an average viewership of 753,500 in January, 2011. One episode's rating beat that of RTÉ's own ratings giant The Late Late Show, with 856,000 viewers tuning in to watch. However, critics disliked the show. "The whole thing is entirely predicated on viewers finding a man dressed as a foul-mouthed elderly woman intrinsically funny," noted Bernice Harrison in the Irish Times. "If you do, you’re away in a hack (and the viewing figures are astronomical), but if you don’t, and you think that died out with Les Dawson and Dick Emery, then it’s a long half-hour." The Irish Independent said that Mrs Brown's Boys was the type of TV programme that "that makes you vaguely embarrassed to be Irish". The Daily Telegraph's Sam Richards noted that show's comedy has a "rudimentary nature", consisting of "an old-fashioned blend of silly voices and slapstick, played out in front of a live studio audience who collapse into giggles at the mere mention of the word “willy”.