Practice - The lawyers

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Television series
German title Practice - The lawyers
objection! - Donnell & Partner law firm (seasons 1–4)
Original title The Practice
The practice pilot opening title.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1997-2004
length 44 minutes
Episodes 168 in 8 seasons
genre drama
idea David E. Kelley
music Stewart Levin (1997–1999),
Christophe Beck (1999–2000),
Tom Hiel (2000–2004),
Marco Beltrami (2000–2004)
First broadcast March 4, 1997 (USA) on ABC
German-language
first broadcast
June 5, 2000 on ProSieben
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Practice - The Lawyers is an American justice series by David E. Kelley .

A total of eight seasons were produced between 1997 and 2004. The series started with the leading actors Dylan McDermott , Lisa Gay Hamilton , Steve Harris , Camryn Manheim and Kelli Williams . With the conclusion of the seventh season, McDermott, Williams and Hamilton were replaced by James Spader and Rhona Mitra .

Since its inception, the series has won 15 Emmys and three Golden Globes, among others .

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The series describes everyday life in the young law firm Donnell, Young, Dole and Frutt , and later Young, Frutt and Berluti in Boston , which specializes in US criminal law .

In addition to suspected murderers, drug dealers and rapists, clients also include previously inconspicuous people, such as a 13-year-old boy who shoots his mother out of anger that he is not allowed to go on a camping trip, or an 11-year-old who shoots his crazy father kills to free his mother from terror.

The boundaries between victims and perpetrators, law and justice, compassion and disgust, power and impotence from and before laws, the balancing act between responsibility for the client and one's own conscience, legal and human morality , runs fluidly , realistically - and, for American series, almost brutally honest.

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The series was set to music at the Arena Synchron in Berlin . Georg Bischoff and Karin Lehmann wrote the dialogue books, Peter Wesp directed the dialogue.

Role name actor Main role
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Main role
(episodes)
Guest role
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Guest role
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German speakers

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Robert G. "Bobby" Donnell Dylan McDermott 1-7 1-146 8th 167-168 Stefan Staudinger
James "Jimmy" Berluti Michael Badalucco 1-8 4-168 1 2-3 Uwe Paulsen
Rebecca Washington Lisa Gay Hamilton 1-7 1-146 Diana Borgwardt
Eugene Young Steve Harris 1-8 1-168 Peter Reinhardt
Ellenor Frutt Camryn Manheim 1-8 1-168 Sonja German
Lindsay Dole Kelli Williams 1-7 1-146 Debora Weigert (episode 1–97)
Bianca Krahl (episode 98–146)
Lucy Hatcher Marla Sokoloff 3-7 44-146 3, 8 36-43, 162-164 Dascha Lehmann
Jamie Stringer Jessica Capshaw 7-8 125-168 Melanie Hinze
Claire Wyatt Chyler Leigh 7th 138-146 7th 137
Alan Shore James Spader 8th 147-168 Nicolas Boell
Tara Wilson Rhona Mitra 8th 147-168 Tanja Geke

Prosecutors

Helen Gamble Lara Flynn Boyle 2-7 7-9, 13-16, 21-146 Irina von Bentheim
Richard Bay Jason Kravits 5 80-101 4th 58-79 Michael Pan
Alan Lowe Ron Livingston 6th 102-114 Peter Flechtner

Guest cast

In addition to the regular cast, various well-known actors from film and television were seen in the series, including Rene Auberjonois , Lake Bell , Tony Danza , Patrick Dempsey , Lisa Edelstein , David Garrison , Linda Hunt , John Larroquette , John C. McGinley , Christopher Reeve , William Shatner , Sharon Stone , Armin Shimerman , Betty White and Anton Yelchin . Some of her characters were later seen again in guest roles in the series offshoot Boston Legal or were part of the regular cast there.

Episodes

Broadcasts in Germany

ProSieben only broadcast the first four seasons in Germany. From June 5 to September 25, 2000, only 79 out of a total of 168 episodes were shown. The 3rd and 4th seasons under the title Objection! - Donnell & Partner law firm broadcast. From May 2001 to June 2002, kabel eins repeated all 57 episodes of the first three seasons. Since May 20, 2008, the pay-TV broadcaster FOX Channel has been repeating the first three seasons of the series. According to the FOX Channel, the rights to broadcast only the first three seasons have been acquired. From March 5 to June 4, 2010, Kabel Eins broadcast the final eighth season every Friday at 11:15 p.m. or later at 00:15 a.m. As a result of bad ratings on Friday evening, the broadcast of the new episodes was canceled after 13 episodes. In early 2010 it was announced that FOX Channel now has the rights to seasons four through seven. These were broadcast from April 19, 2010. The 5th and 6th seasons were shown for the first time in German, while the seventh season was not shown.

From June 14 to July 5, 2011, the eighth season from the beginning was broadcast on 9Live . Episodes 14 to 22 of the eighth season were broadcast in German for the first time. Then the eighth season was repeated several times until broadcasting was stopped. This means that the seventh season remains the only one that has not yet been broadcast in German.

Offshoot

Boston Legal is an offshoot of the series. Boston Legal was introduced in the eighth season of Practice with the last seven episodes. In Boston Legal, the actors James Spader and Rhona Mitra and their roles were taken. The roles of Denny Crane and Sally Heep were also introduced in these final episodes.

DVD

The first 13 episodes have been available on DVD in the US & Australia since June 2007. The DVD box is available under the title Volume One .

In the UK, the first and second seasons were released on DVD on February 27, 2012.

From January 2014, the series will gradually be released on DVD via Studiocanal in Germany.

From January 2014 to March 2014, volumes 1 to 3 were published, which together correspond to seasons 1 and 2. After about two years, seasons 3 and 4 (this time not as a volume) will be released on January 21, 2016. The final 8th season will be released on April 7, 2016. This means that seasons 5 and 6, which were previously only shown on PayTV, and Season 7, which have never been broadcast on German TV (neither PayTV nor FreeTV), are still missing. When asked by Studiocanal, it was announced that they do not have the rights to seasons 5 to 7.

Individual evidence

  1. Practice - The Lawyers . fernsehserien.de. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  2. German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | Practice - The lawyers. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  3. Practice - The Lawyers: Fox Channel Broadcasting Dates . fernsehserien.de. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  4. The Practice - Date, Details & Artwork For The Practice - Volume 1 Hits Retailers . tvshowsondvd.com. March 14, 2007. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  5. STUDIOCANAL: The publications in January 2014 . studiocanal.de. February 20, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  6. Amazon.de: Practice - The Lawyers - The Final Season . amazon.de. January 19, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  7. wunschliste.de: Practice - The Lawyers . wunschliste.de. January 19, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2016.

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