一戏之间》(Episodes)完全是为原《老友记》(Friends)核心演员Matt LeBlanc一个人开发的新剧,他的个人魅力将直接决定这部剧集的生死。在这部剧集中,他将扮演他自己。夫妻编剧组合Sean(Tamsin Greig扮演)和Beverly(Stephe n Mangan扮演)开发了一部反映高级寄宿学校校长和学生之间的故事,在英国播出后大获成功。他们决定将这部剧集搬到好莱坞,但好莱坞有个不成文的规矩:凡是外来文化必须经过「改造」实现「本土化」。好莱坞素有「乱改剧本」的恶名,这次也不例外--他们不仅将这部引得无数英国人发笑的知识性和趣味性并重的优秀剧集改成纯粹的「好莱坞样板戏」,还请来Sean和Beverly夫妇很讨厌的喜剧演员Matt LeBlanc担任主角。更要命的是,Matt LeBlanc的到来彻底搅乱了Sean和Beverly的生活,甚至让他们本来十分牢固的婚姻出现裂痕。Matt LeBlanc在访谈中告诉记者:「我的经纪人告诉我,这部剧集是反映你的,你应该去试试。我去了,结果发现试镜准备室里一堆演员打扮成我的模样,穿着我最常穿的衣服,口里念叨着我在《老友记》里最有名的台词(How you doin"?)。我感觉非常滑稽。更滑稽的是,人事导演竟然说我并不是参与试镜的演员中最出色。嘿!别人扮演我比我扮演我还要出色?
After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for. Just as she’s getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned an infamous unsolved case that will put her under intense scrutiny; from her boss, from the media, and ultimately, from sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past.
The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again.
Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnap. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick DC Jason ‘Mint’ and the brilliant – but romantically complicated – DS Phil Parhatka. With the international renown of the kidnap and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant, the team take on the biggest challenge of their careers to date. As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear… the past is far from dead.