读心人 第五季

《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。

　　故事发生在十九世纪的伦敦，故事中所出现的人物均为著名作家狄更斯笔下的角色。亚瑟（约瑟夫·奎恩 Joseph Quinn）和艾米莉亚（塔彭丝·米德尔顿 Tuppence Middleton 饰）悲痛的埋葬了父亲的遗体，让亚瑟感到震惊的是，父亲竟然没有将一分一毫的遗产留给他，这让他在内心里偷偷买下了复仇的种子。
　　皮条客费金（安东·莱瑟 Anton Lesser 饰）打算将女孩南希（Bethany Muir 饰）送往雅各布（彼得·弗斯 Peter Firth 饰）所主持的晚宴助兴，为了确保南希的安全，小偷比尔（马克·斯坦利 Mark Stanley 饰）决定全程跟随南希，一步也不离开。就在晚宴即将拉开序幕之际，众人却在雪地之中发现了雅各布的尸体，这一宗谋杀案改变了所有人的命运。

　　Combining the comedic forces of Jeff Ross and Dave Attell, and filmed at New York's Comedy Cellar, the series features zingers, audience roasts, celebrity cameos, and mic bumps.

　　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。

DI Humphrey Goodman and the team are left stumped in the first episode of the new series when millionaire environmentalist and scientist Dan Hagen is shot on his boat while out at sea.

　　故事灵感来源于上世纪80年代-90年代发生在悉尼的、针对同性恋人群的系列案件。该剧将故事地点转移到虚构的Bondi市，Tori Lustigman侦探（Yael Stone）和Nick Manning侦探（Naoh Taylor）对序列人身伤害和谋杀案展开调查。(cr 天涯小筑)

　　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”.