Raising the Bar

Name: Raising the Bar
Genre: Drama
Released: September 1, 2008
Rating: 48
Cast: J. August Richards, Natalia Cigliuti, Jane Kaczmarek, Gloria Reuben, Jonathan Scarfe

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Raising The Bar: Season 2

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TNT | Release Date: September 1, 2008

Starring: J. August Richards, Natalia Cigliuti, Jane Kaczmarek, Gloria Reuben, Jonathan Scarfe, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Currie Graham, Melissa Sagemiller, Teddy Sears

Summary: From the creators of NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, and L.A.Law; Raising the Bar is about a group of young lawyer friends and former law school classmates who find themselves on opposing sides in this fresh legal drama on TNT.

Raising the Bar is produced by ABC Studios in association with Bochco Media.

Creator: Steven Bochco and David Feige

Genre(s): Drama

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S2:E15. Happy Ending
Air Date: December 24, 2009
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S2:E14. Oh, Say Can You Pee?
Air Date: December 24, 2009
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S2:E13. Maybe, Baby
Air Date: December 24, 2009

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Verne Gay

Season 1 Review: Good show with fine cast, but it all still feels a little too familiar and old-fashioned. Read full review

Robert Bianco

Season 1 Review: Bar is so slow to start, it might as well be in reverse. The first episode is, simply, flat-out terrible. Which is why, if you're a Bochco fan, you'd be wise to wait for the fourth episode, when Bar moves to mediocre. Read full review

David Hinckley

Season 1 Review: Bochco delivers instead a solid lawyer show that fits comfortably into the mold formed by dozens of lawyer shows before it. Read full review

Tim Goodman

Season 1 Review: Although the cases in Raising the Bar are apparently influenced by real-life cases, they tend to be either predictable or predictably unpredictable, however you want to look at it. In combination with the characters, this makes Raising the Bar about an average law series. That's pretty good for TNT, but less than expected from Bochco - fair or not. Read full review

Tom Shales

Season 1 Review: Seriously, it is hard to take the show very seriously. It does traffic in issues and hot topics--and protests, in its way, the general corruption of the legal system--but not in particularly fresh or original terms. Read full review

Ginia Bellafante

Season 1 Review: Part of what makes Raising the Bar so loopy is its commitment to this peculiar politics of personal responsibility and to a sappy liberalism that means none of the accused represented by Jerry Kellerman (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and his compatriots in the public defender’s office are ever all that bad. They are just mentally ill, or poor and struggling, or innocent. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Season 1 Review: This shockingly ordinary new legal drama from Steven Bochco should seem right at home amid TNT’s ubiquitous Law & Order reruns. It feels like something you’ve seen before, maybe from way back when L&O was new. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

48

Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: June 8, 2009
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  S2:E15. Happy Ending
  Air Date: December 24, 2009
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  S2:E14. Oh, Say Can You Pee?
  Air Date: December 24, 2009
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  S2:E13. Maybe, Baby
  Air Date: December 24, 2009
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  S2:E12. Beating a Dead Horse
  Air Date: August 24, 2009
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  S2:E11. Bobbi Ba-Bing
  Air Date: August 17, 2009
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  S2:E10. Making Up Is Hard To Do
  Air Date: August 10, 2009
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  S2:E9. Trout Fishing
  Air Date: August 3, 2009
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  S2:E8. Trust Me
  Air Date: July 27, 2009
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  S2:E7. Fine And Dandy
  Air Date: July 20, 2009
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  S2:E6. I'll Be Down to Get You a Taxi, Honey
  Air Date: July 13, 2009
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  S2:E6. I'll Be Down to Get You in a Taxi, Honey
  Air Date: July 13, 2009
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  S2:E5. Is There a Doctor in the House?
  Air Date: July 6, 2009
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  S2:E4. No Child's Left Behind
  Air Date: June 29, 2009
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  S2:E3. The Curious Case Of Kellerman's Button
  Air Date: June 22, 2009
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  S2:E3. Curious Case of Kellerman's Button
  Air Date: June 22, 2009
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  S2:E2. Rules of Engagement
  Air Date: June 15, 2009
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  S2:E1. Hair Apparent
  Air Date: June 8, 2009
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 1, 2008