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在首播二十年后，Lisa Kudrow携艾美奖获奖角色Valerie Cherish再度归来。

 CBS已续订《警察世家》第七季。

 As Murder, She Wrote saunters through its sixth (of an eventual 12) season, star Angela Lansbury maintains her eternally buoyant and inquisitive air as Jessica Fletcher, professional writer and amateur sleuth. Though Jessica continued to investigate murders in her home town of Cabot Cove and elsewhere (in the worlds of high finance, opera, and voodoo, among other settings), this season began the practice of guest detective episodes, introduced by Jessica as either a story she wrote or a tale told by a friend, but starring a variety of quirky investigators: An ex-football player (Ken Howard, The White Shadow) paired with a clever poodle; a television crime-show producer who solved crime in real life (Diana Canova, Soap); a stout Irish detective (longtime character actor Pat Hingle); an abrasive homicide cop (Barry Newman, Vanishing Point); as well as recurring Murder, She Wrote characters like former jewel thief Dennis Stanton (Keith Michell) and British secret agent Michael Haggerty (Len Cariou). The producers were obviously hoping to use Murder, She Wrote's popularity to spin-off new series, but nothing from this season took off and viewer resistance soon brought the practice to an end. Executives must have been surprised to discover that, though murder mysteries are plot-driven, this show's success depends heavily on the undeniable charm of star Lansbury. Still, these one-off episodes are of a consistent quality with Lansbury's, and viewers open to variety will enjoy them just as much. The rest of the season features the usual astonishing array of guests, including movie stars old (Donald O'Connor, Singin' in the Rain) and recent (Elliott Gould, The Long Goodbye), television stalwarts (Shirley Jones, The Partridge Family; Jerry Stiller, The King of Queens; Doris Roberts, Everyone Loves Raymond; Kevin Tighe, Battlestar Galactica; and Gavin McLeod, The Love Boat), and D-list celebrities to die for (Dack Rambo, Morgan Brittany, Susan Anton, and more).

 《深空九号》的设想萌发于1991年，就在吉恩·罗登伯里逝世之前不久。《深空九号》的故事发生在一座太空站深空九号上（前卡达西人采矿站“Terok Nor”），由星际联邦和贝久政府共同管理，而贝久星不久前才刚从卡达西人的殖民统治中解放。根据作者之一的伯曼介绍，他和皮勒本来设想的是以一个殖民地行星为故事背景，但是他们认为一个太空站可以吸引更多的观众，并节省更多用于外景和星球表面上拍摄的资金；与此同时，他们也十分不希望这个新电视剧是发生在星舰上的，因为当时《下一代》仍然在播放中。用伯曼的话说，就是“同时有两部电视剧——两组角色——都在朝着前人所未至的领域进军，看起来真有些荒谬可笑。” [1] 在《深空九号》的首集中，太空站就从贝久星的轨道上移动到了不远处发现的贝久虫洞附近。这个虫洞通往了遥远、未知的第三象限，随之不久，深空九号就成为了新的星际贸易、探索中心，具有重大的战略价值，并且最终成为了战争的前线。 《深空九号》同其他《星际旅行》系列的不同之处，在于其连续几集甚至一个季度的剧情。而其以前的《星际旅行》电视剧，常常是在每一集结束后尽量减小甚至消除它的影响，使其他各集可以脱离这一集的剧情独自制播。但是《深空九号》则不相同，它某一集的剧情通常与上一集相衔接的。有时候一个故事情节甚至会连续上许多集，并环环相扣。这个现象在在整部电视剧后期尤为明显，这使得整部电视剧看起来似乎是刻意地被做得像连续剧。 这种方式加强了整个剧情的表现力，让角色和剧情都得以充分发展。 主要角色内部的人性冲突（例如道德和纪律，自我和集体的选择）在罗登伯里监制的两部星际旅行电视剧——《星际旅行：初代》与《星际旅行：下一代》中都是极力避免的，但是在《深空九号》中却成为了剧情的主要组成部分。这是由《下一代》的编剧们建议的（他们中的大多数也参与了《深空九号》的编剧），他们认为那样的设定限制了他们写一些精彩故事的能力。用皮勒的话说，“来自不同地域的人们——无论是多么的可敬与高贵——很自然的会有一些冲突”。