Boston Legal
(Tuesdays, 10:00-11:00 p.m., ET)
Led by an Emmy Award-winning cast, “Boston Legal” returns for a third season to tell the professional and personal stories of a group of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. Fast-paced and wildly comedic, the series confronts social and moral issues, while its characters continually stretch the boundaries of the law.
Back-to-back Emmy Award winners James Spader and William Shatner play Alan Shore and Denny Crane, unlikely kindred spirits among the brigade of high-priced litigators at Crane Poole & Schmidt. In addition, Shirley Schmidt (played by five-time Emmy winner Candice Bergen), a founding partner of Crane Poole & Schmidt, has been coaxed back to the Boston law firm to help bring order to the chaotic office. She keeps a vigilant eye on all, particularly Denny Crane – with whom she shares a checkered past.
The firm’s other attorneys include Brad Chase (played by Mark Valley), an ex-Marine who often finds himself in a test of wills with Alan Shore, and Paul Lewiston (played by Rene Auberjonois), the “lawyer’s lawyer” who continually tries to save Crane from himself. Then there’s Denise Bauer (played by Julie Bowen), a tough, smart senior associate still desperate to make partner. New to the Boston office of Crane Poole & Schmidt is Jeffrey Coho (played by Craig Bierko), an intense, grandiose criminal defense attorney as comfortable with making enemies as he is with making friends.
“Boston Legal” stars James Spader as Alan Shore, Julie Bowen as Denise Bauer, Mark Valley as Brad Chase, Rene Auberjonois as Paul Lewiston, Craig Bierko as Jeffrey Coho, Constance Zimmer as Claire Simms, Gary Anthony Williams as Clarence/Clarice Bell, with Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt and William Shatner as Denny Crane.
“Boston Legal” was created by David E. Kelley. Kelley, Bill D’Elia and Janet Leahy are executive producers. The series is produced by David E. Kelley Productions in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television, and premiered October 3, 2004.