聖誕節最值得期待的英美劇一覽

Most of what is on TV this Christmas will be as unsurprising as someone yelling at someone else in the Queen Vic, but there is some original programming amid the glut of Christmas specials, and even a few things to stretch the over-indulged mind.
今年聖誕播出的電視劇多到不讓人驚奇，如同維多利亞酒吧裏互吼一樣稀疏平常。但是仍然有一些原創劇集在聖誕特別篇裏顯得令人期待，更有一些可以讓你耳目一新。

電視劇

Doctor Who (BBC1)

神祕博士

Jenna Coleman’s Clara returns to the bosom of the Tardis and Peter Capaldi’s tetchy Doctor, but is it just (as has been rumoured) for one last, climactic send-off? Of course we wouldn’t and couldn’t tell even if we knew. Suffice to say that it all takes place in the Arctic, Nick Frost plays Father Christmas and Michael Troughton, son of 1960s Time Lord Patrick Troughton, features.
由珍娜·科爾曼扮演的克萊爾迴歸了Tardis和彼得·卡帕爾迪版脾氣暴躁的博士身邊，但是這是爲了（如傳言所說）最後一次，高潮迭起的盛大告別？當然我們不會也不能劇透啦。我只能告訴你們故事發生在北極，由尼克·弗羅斯特扮演聖誕老人，而邁克爾·特勞頓——這位20世紀60年代的時間領主帕特里克·特勞頓的兒子，也會登場。

Downton Abbey (ITV)

唐頓莊園

A Downton Christmas special that’s actually set at Christmas for a change, with snow and all that, but which once again sees the Crawley family on the move, this time spending the season with the newly-wed Rose and Atticus (the episode was filmed at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland – the setting for Hogwarts in several of the Harry Potter films). Matthew Goode guest stars, George Clooney won’t, and Tom Branson and Daisy might both leave.
唐頓的聖誕特別篇是真正的在聖誕的一次變動，有雪，有所有冬季的元素，不過又一次我們要目睹克勞特家族的變遷，這一次劇集圍繞新婚的羅斯和阿提庫斯展開（劇集在諾森伯蘭郡的阿尼克城堡取景——這裏也是幾部哈利波特系列電影裏霍格華茲的取景地），馬修·古迪友情出演，喬治·克魯尼不會來了，而且湯姆·布蘭森和黛西可能都會缺席。

FAMILY

家庭劇

Esio Trot (BBC1)

小烏龜是怎樣變大的

Dustin Hoffman and Dame Judi Dench bring some seriously high-wattage star-power to Richard Curtis’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic about a shy old bachelor, Mr Hoppy, and his plan to win over a tortoise-loving neighbour (Dench). Whatever next – Tom Cruise reads Jackanory?
達斯丁·霍夫曼和朱迪·丹奇女爵爲理查德·柯蒂斯改編羅爾德·達爾的經典兒童文學增添了一百二十瓦的明星風采。這個故事講述了一個害羞的老單身漢霍比先生，想要贏得鄰居——一個十分喜歡小烏龜的女子（丹奇飾演）的芳心的故事。所以接下來會是啥——湯姆·克魯斯也去讀《童話天地》？

On Angel Wings (BBC1)

天使羽翼之上

Produced by the same team who made The Snowman back in 1982 – and repeated every year since – this animation is based on the book by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo. A reworking of the nativity story, the voices include those of Michael Gambon and Juliet Stevenson.
1982年《雪人》翻拍的製作團隊每一年都會製作新劇，這部動畫是由《戰馬》的作者邁克爾·莫爾普戈的小說改編的。這是一個聖誕頌故事的重置，配音演員有邁克爾·岡本和朱莉葉特·斯蒂文森。

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special (BBC1)

舞動奇蹟特別篇

Everyone seems to agree that it was refreshing to see two women presenting the latest series instead of the usual older man-younger woman combo, but Christmas sees the return of Sir Bruce Forsyth and his hoary gags. Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Lisa Riley, Louis Smith and Russell Grant are among the former celebrity contestants working their way through the ballroom repertoire.
每個人都更想看到在最新一季中，原先的老人-年輕女子的組合，被兩個女人所取代，不過這個聖誕，布魯斯·福賽斯爵士要帶着他的老段子迴歸了。蘇菲·埃利斯，麗莎·賴利，路易斯·史密斯，還有拉塞爾·格蘭特都在全明星陣容中，在臺上“舞動奇蹟”。

COMEDY

喜劇

The Wrong Mans (BBC2)

誤打誤撞

The return of Bracknell council co-workers Sam and Phil (Matthew Baynton and James Corden), whose lives were turned upside down when Sam answered a ringing phone at the site of a car-crash. Now stranded in a high-security jail in Texas (“do you have a code for the wi-fi?”, Phil asks rather hopefully”), can they get home in time for Christmas?
布拉克內爾委員會的工作人員山姆和菲爾（馬修·貝恩頓和詹姆斯·柯登）又回來了：自從山姆在車禍現場撿了一隻電話後，他們的生活發生了翻天覆地的變化。如今被困於德克薩斯戒備森嚴的監獄中（“你這有無線的密碼嗎”，菲爾抱着一線希望問道），他們能在聖誕節按時回到家嗎？

Black Mirror Christmas Special (Channel 4)

黑鏡聖誕特別篇

Comedy of a much darker hue as Mad Men’s John Hamm – a big fan of the last series of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian drama – joins Rafe Spall and Game of Thrones’s Oona Chaplin for a one-off, 90-minute tale that will be, according to Channel 4, “the most mind-bending episode yet, showcasing three inter-woven stories of Yuletide techno-phobia”.
第四頻道宣稱，這次這部暗色調喜劇加入了《廣告狂人》中喬·漢姆——查理·布魯克上一季反烏托邦劇集的狂熱粉絲——以及拉菲·斯波，還有《權力的遊戲》中的奧娜·卓別林共同傾情出演了這次90分鐘的特別篇。“這將是最爲離奇古怪令人費解的一集，故事展示的是互聯網交織下的，三個聖誕季節高科技恐懼症的故事。”