2007五大强势美剧预览

What to Watch: Five New TV Hits for 2007

Heroes

As a total eclipse[日蚀] casts its shadow across the globe, a genetics[遗传学] professor in India is led by his father’s death to uncover a secret theory there are people with super powers living among us. A young dreamer tries to convince his politician brother that he can fly. A high school cheerleader learns that she is totally indestructible[不能毁坏的]. A gifted artist can paint the future. A Los Angeles cop[警官] can hear people’s thoughts. In Japan, a young man develops a way to stop time through sheer will power. Their ultimate[最终的] destiny is nothing less than saving the world――

Brothers & Sisters

William Walker dies unexpectedly at a family birthday celebration. Now his family will be forced to face some new life realities. Kitty’s radio success has led to a TV job offer in Los Angeles, but her New York boyfriend has just proposed[求婚]. Tommy has joined forces with his sister, Sarah, in an effort to fix the family business. Justin, an Iraq War veteran[退伍军人], suffers from addictions[沉溺] which keep him from moving forward in his career and love life. These siblings[兄弟姐妹] are about to find out that, underneath[在下面] the idyllic[田园诗的] family facade[正面], lie many secrets that threaten to either tear the family apart or bring them closer together.

Ugly Betty

Betty Suarez doesn’t fit in with her coworkers, because she’s a normal girl. Hired by a publisher to be his son’s assistant because she is plain so he might not fall for[爱上] her the plump[丰满的], unstylish girl finds herself working at a fashion magazine. She’s sweet, she’s hardworking, she has a lot of good ideas, all qualities that aren’t valued in her new world. Her new boss has no idea what he’s doing, and will come to need her help. They’re both surrounded by the razor[剃刀]-thin, superficial[肤浅的] and sharklike inhabitants of the high fashion world.

The Nine

Nine strangers end up in a Los Angeles bank on a fateful morning as two men lock the doors, pull their guns and announce a bank robbery[打劫] that will nly take five minutes.But 10 minutes into the pilot[试映的] episode, it’s revealed that the bank robbery has gone terribly wrong. SWAT注 storms the bank, rescuing the hostages[人质] and capturing the robbers. These nine survivors are now banded together as an unlikely family, as they re-enter their lives and grapple[格斗] with how this seminal event has changed them forever.

Jericho

A nuclear mushroom cloud[蘑菇云] suddenly appears on the horizon[地平线], plunging[使陷于] the residents of a small, peaceful Kansas town into chaos[混乱], leaving them completely isolated and wondering if they are the only Americans left alive. Fear of the unknown propels[驱使] Jericho into social, psychological[心理的] and physical mayhem[大混乱] when all communication and power is shut down. The town starts to come apart at the seams[裂痕] as terror, anger and confusion bring out the very worst in some residents.

《英雄》

一次日全食的阴影掠过整个世界，一位印度的遗传学教授在父亲死讯的引领下发现了一个神秘理论―在我们当中生活着拥有超能力的人。一个异想天开的年轻人想让当政客的哥哥相信自己能飞；一个高中啦啦队队长发现自己拥有不死之身；一个天才画家能描绘未来；一个洛杉矶警察可以听到人们在想什么；在日本，一个年轻人仅靠念力便能让时间停止。而他们最终的命运就是拯救世界……

《兄弟姐妹》

威廉・沃尔克意外地在一次家庭生日会上死去。于是他的家人被迫面对新的生活现实。因为在电台的出色表现，凯蒂获得了一份在洛杉矶的电视台工作，但是她的纽约男友刚刚向她求婚。汤米与姐姐莎拉一起努力，力图挽救家族的生意。参加过伊拉克战争的贾斯廷陷在旧日经历的泥潭里，职业与感情生活停滞不前。这些兄弟姐妹很快便发现，（过去）那种田园诗般的家庭生活中存在着各种各样的秘密，这些秘密可能会导致家庭分裂，也可能会将他们更加紧密地凝聚在一起。

《丑女贝蒂》

贝蒂・苏亚雷斯没有办法和她的同事打成一片，因为她只是一个平凡的女孩。一个出版商雇了她做他儿子的助手，原因就在于她毫不起眼―这样他儿子或许就不会看上她了―于是这个胖乎乎且土里土气的女孩开始了她在一份时尚杂志的工作。尽管她待人亲切、勤奋刻苦而且有很多好主意，这些优点在这个全新的环境中并没获得重视。她的新老板不知道自己在干什么，所以总是需要她的帮忙。他们周围满是服装界上流社会中那些瘦削、肤浅且像鲨鱼般贪婪的各色人等。

《劫后新生》

一个上午，两名男子突然锁上洛杉矶一家银行的大门，掏出枪支并宣布要进行一次“只花5分钟”的抢劫，9个陌生人被困在这里，他们的命运也被从此改写。但就在故事开始10分钟之后，这次银行抢劫便出了大问题。特警对银行进行了旋风式的突击，解救了人质并捕获劫匪。于是这9名幸存者像一个被意想不到的方式连成一体的家庭一般，重新回到自己的生活中，同时应付着这起彻底改变他们的重大事件的余波。

《核爆危机》/《浩劫余生》

一个核爆蘑菇云突然出现在地平线上，堪萨斯州的一个宁静小镇从此一片混乱；人们与外界彻底失去联络，也不知道自己是不是唯一幸存下来的美国人。当所有的通讯与动力设备都失灵之后，对未知的恐惧给小镇杰里科带来了社会、心理和生理上的重重危机。当恐惧、愤怒和混乱使一些居民显露出最丑恶的一面时，小镇开始陷入分裂。