Close to Home (TV series)

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Close to Home is an American

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
crime

Crime

Societies define Crime as the breach of one or more rules or laws for which some Government or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment.The word crime originates from the Latin crimen , from the Latin root cerno and Greek ????? = "I judge"....
-drama

Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
television series co-produced by Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television is the television production company and distribution arm of Warner Bros., itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Paramount Television, it serves as a television production company arm of The CW Television Network , though it also produces shows for other networks, such as Chuck on NBC, Pushing Daisies on ABC, and...
and Jerry Bruckheimer Television

Jerry Bruckheimer

Jerome Leon Bruckheimer , better known by his professional name Jerry Bruckheimer, is an United States film producer and television producer....
for CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
. It first aired from October 4, 2005 to May 11, 2007 and starred actress Jennifer Finnigan

Jennifer Finnigan

Jennifer Christina Finnigan is a Canada actress. She is known for her role as Bridget Forrester in the United States soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2000 to 2004....
as Annabeth Chase, a Deputy Prosecutor

Prosecutor

The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the Civil law inquisitorial system....
for Marion County, Indiana

Marion County, Indiana

Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of July 2007 its population was estimated at 876,804 making it the largest county in the state and 55th List of the most populous counties in the United States in the country, greater than the population of List of U.S....
. Created by Jim Leonard, the series was primarily filmed in Southern California

Southern California

Southern California, or So Cal, is defined as the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its population centers on the cities of Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, San Bernardino, California, and Riverside, California....
.

On May 16, 2007, the series was officially cancelled by CBS.

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Close to Home is an American

United States

Crime

Drama

Warner Bros. Television

Jerry Bruckheimer

Jerome Leon Bruckheimer , better known by his professional name Jerry Bruckheimer, is an United States film producer and television producer....
for CBS

CBS

Jennifer Finnigan

Prosecutor

Marion County, Indiana

Southern California

Plot

Annabeth Chase is a criminal

Crime

Prosecutor

The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the Civil law inquisitorial system....
with a near perfect conviction record. Throughout the series, she lost only one case, in the first season's second-to-last episode. She was married to a construction worker, Jack Chase (Christian Kane

Christian Kane

'Christian Kane' is an United States actor and singer/songwriter and actor, best known for his role as the morally ambiguous Attorney at law Lindsey McDonald on the show Angel , as lead singer for the country rock band Kane , and for his role on the TNT series Leverage ....
), and has an infant daughter, Hailey.

The show revolves around her balancing her career and family life, as a prosecutor in the city of Indianapolis

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. The United States Census estimated the city's population, Indianapolis , Indiana the Unigov, at 795,458 in 2006....
.

First season

In the pilot episode, Chase returns from a 12-week maternity leave to find herself with a new boss, Maureen Scofield (Kimberly Elise

Kimberly Elise

Kimberly Elise Trammel is an United Sates film and television actress, winner of several acting awards....
), who has been promoted instead of her. Maureen is a no-nonsense woman who sometimes resents Chase's personal life. Above her is County Prosecutor Steve Sharpe (John Carroll Lynch

John Carroll Lynch

John Carroll Lynch is an American actor. He may be best known for his role as Drew Carey's cross-dressing brother on The Drew Carey Show and for his role as Norm, the unassuming husband of Margie Gunderson in Fargo ....
). Chase wins the first case she prosecutes upon her return to work: an abusive husband is sentenced to 25 years in jail without parole.

Second season

Annabeth returns to work four months after her husband was killed by a drunk driver on the first season finale. Annabeth's coming to terms with her husband's death, her grief, and her struggle to return to normalcy coupled with the guilt and trials of being a single parent

Single parent

File:Single mother with child - lonely.JPGA single parent is a parent who cares for one or more children without the assistance of another parent in the home....
are recurring themes throughout the season.

Annabeth and Maureen also face a new boss, Chief Deputy Prosecutor James Conlon (David James Elliott

David James Elliott

David James Elliott is a Canadian-born actor who was the star of the series JAG from 1995 to 2005, playing lead character Harmon Rabb....
), who has just arrived from New York, and whose methods appear to the two prosecutors to be too forceful and sometimes unethical.

Near the end of the season, Conlon attempts an attorney general campaign which is derailed as police corruption

Police corruption

Police corruption is a specific form of police misconduct designed to obtain financial benefits and/or career advancement for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest....
is discovered, resulting in several prosecutions. Scofield is assassinated as a result of these prosecutions. The season (and series) ends with Chase successfully prosecuting Scofield's assassin.

Cast

Jennifer Finnigan
Jennifer Finnigan

Jennifer Christina Finnigan is a Canada actress. She is known for her role as Bridget Forrester in the United States soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2000 to 2004....
- Annabeth Chase
Kimberly Elise
Kimberly Elise

Kimberly Elise Trammel is an United Sates film and television actress, winner of several acting awards....
- Maureen Scofield
Jon Seda
Jon Seda

Jonathan Seda is an American actor of Puerto Rican people descent....
- Ray Blackwell (Season 2)
Cress Williams
Cress Williams

Cress Williams is an United States film and television actor, best known for playing the hitman, Wyatt in Prison Break and Detective Ed Williams in Close to Home , he is also known for his role as Inspector Antwon Babcock in the final season of Nash Bridges, and as D'Shawn Hardell in season 5 of Beverly Hills, 90210....
- Detective Ed Williams (Season 2)
David James Elliott
David James Elliott

David James Elliott is a Canadian-born actor who was the star of the series JAG from 1995 to 2005, playing lead character Harmon Rabb....
- James Conlon (Season 2)
John Carroll Lynch
John Carroll Lynch

John Carroll Lynch is an American actor. He may be best known for his role as Drew Carey's cross-dressing brother on The Drew Carey Show and for his role as Norm, the unassuming husband of Margie Gunderson in Fargo ....
- Steve Sharpe (Season 1)
Christian Kane
Christian Kane

'Christian Kane' is an United States actor and singer/songwriter and actor, best known for his role as the morally ambiguous Attorney at law Lindsey McDonald on the show Angel , as lead singer for the country rock band Kane , and for his role on the TNT series Leverage ....
- Jack Chase (Season 1)

Recurring roles

Bruce Davison
Bruce Davison

Bruce Davison is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor and filmmaker....
as Defense Attorney Doug Hellman

International broadcasting

Country	Title	Station	Premiere
Argentina Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....	Close to Home	telefe Telefe Televisi?n Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and recently referred to as TLF, is an Argentina television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel....	2006
Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....	Close to Home	Nine Network Nine Network The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....	2006
Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....	Close to Home	ORF 1 ORF (broadcaster) ORF is the Austrian national Public broadcasting broadcaster. Funded from a combination of a television licence fees and revenue from limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast Mass media....	April 13, 2007
Belgium Belgium * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....	Close to Home	VijfTV VIJFtv VIJFtv started in october 2004 as SBS Broadcasting's second channel and a sister channel to VT4. The first thing VIJFtv broadcast was a soccer game....	June 8, 2006
Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....	Em Nome da Justiça (on SBT, Portuguese Portuguese language Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago.... for In Name of Justice; Warner Channel uses the original title)	Warner Channel Warner Channel Warner Channel is a Latin American and Southeast Asian cable television channel owned by the HBO Latin America Group that focuses on airing United States-produced series and films.... and SBT (dubbed)	November 7, 2005
Bulgaria Bulgaria The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....	? ?????? ??????? (Latin alphabet Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin.... : V Opasna Blizost)	Nova Television Nova Television Nova Television is the first Bulgarian commercial television network launched on July 22, 1994. Since 2000, it was entirely owned by the Greece company ANT1 Group....	2006
Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....	Close to Home	CTV CTV television network CTV is a Canadian English language television network. It is Canada's largest privately owned network, the main television asset of CTVglobemedia, one of the country's largest media conglomerates....
Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....	Blizu doma	HRT2
Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....	Zlociny ze sousedství (Crimes from Neighbourhood)	TV Prima TV Prima TV Prima is a Czech private television station. Its channel is broadcast from Prague. Its current owner is firm FTV Prima, spol. s r. o., general manager Marek Singer....	2007
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina ....	Close to Home	OBN OBN OBN may refer to:* Oban Airport, the IATA code for the airport in Scotland* Omni Broadcasting Network, a small over-the-air broadcast television network in the United States of America...	2008
Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....	Kodinpuolustaja	MTV3 MTV3 MTV3 is a Finland Commercial broadcasting television station owned by Bonnier Group. Until recently it had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels when Finnish Broadcasting Company's YLE1 took the lead....
France France France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....	Close to Home - Juste cause	TF1 TF1 TF1 is a private France TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 25-35% makes it the most popular domestic network.... and TMC Télé Monte Carlo T?l? Monte Carlo or TMC Monte Carlo, traditionally known as TMC is a Monaco general entertainment television channel....	September 6, 2006
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....	Close to Home	VOX	09 February 2007
Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....	??a??t??ta? t?? ????e?a (Seeking Truth)	Star Channel Star Channel Star Channel is a Greek television network that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek programming. It launched in December 1993 and is owned by Nea Tileorasi A.E.....
Ireland Ireland Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....	Close to Home	RTÉ One RTÉ One RT? One is Republic of Ireland's oldest and most popular television channel, operated by Irish state broadcaster Radio Telef?s ?ireann. RT? One is almost universally available on the Very high frequency and Ultra high frequency bands on the island of Ireland , and is available on the Sky Digital satellite service in both the Republic of Ire...
Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....	Close to Home - Giustizia ad ogni costo	RaiDue Rai Due Rai Due is one of the three main television channels broadcast by Italy public television company RAI alongside with Rai Uno and Rai Tre. Rai Due first started transmissions on November 4 1961....	11 June 2007
Korea, South South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....	??? ? ? (RR Revised Romanization of Korean The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea, used as a replacement for the 1984 McCune-Reischauer?based romanization system.... : Keulloseu tu Hom, MR McCune-Reischauer McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000.... : K'ullosu t'u Hom; vocal transliteration Transliteration Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system or system of rules for such practice.... of the English English language English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa... title Close to Home)	On Style
Latin America Latin America Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....	Close to Home	Warner Channel Warner Channel Warner Channel is a Latin American and Southeast Asian cable television channel owned by the HBO Latin America Group that focuses on airing United States-produced series and films....
Malaysia Malaysia Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....	Close to Home	RTM 2	2008
Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....	Close to Home	SBS 6	September 13 2007
New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....	Close to Home	TV One Television New Zealand Television New Zealand is a state-owned television broadcasting corporation in New Zealand....
Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....	Close to Home	TV3 TV3 (Norway) TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viasat, which is a part of the Sweden media group Modern Times Group. It was separated from the common Swedish-Norwegian feed in the early 1990s....
Philippines Philippines The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....	Close to Home	C/S on RPN (after C/S made a test broadcast on local and sister channel RPN, they effectively became a local channel from being a cable channel on New Year's Day 2008)
Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....	Krok od domu	TVN TVN (Poland) TVN is a major Poland commercial television network, founded by Mariusz Walter and launched on October 3 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A. Group which in turn is controlled by the ITI_Group, the largest Polska media company, holding around 62% ownership interest as of September 2008....	December 19 2006
Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....	Perto de Casa	FOX Fox Broadcasting Company The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.... , RTP2	RTP2 - November 17 2008
Quebec Quebec Quebec , in French language, *Qu?bec* , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....	Juste Cause	Séries +
Slovakia Slovakia Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....	V tieni zlocinu	Markíza Markíza Mark?za is the leading private television station in Slovakia. Shortly after its launch on 31st August 1996, it became the most watched TV channel in Slovakia and retains this position until today....
Slovenia Slovenia Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....	Zlocini pred domacim pragom	POP TV POP TV POP TV is a private television network in Slovenia that began broadcasting on December 15, 1995. The station is known for broadcasting United States TV series, such as Lost , Desperate Housewives, Prison Break, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Monk , Without a Trace, Ugly Betty, Dexter , Brothers & Sisters , House , Califo...
South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....		SABC 2 SABC 2 SABC 2 is a South African Broadcasting Corporation List of South African television channels that carries programming in English Language, Afrikaans Language, the 3 Sotho languages spoken in South Africa, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga....
Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....		TV3 TV3 (Sweden) TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience owned by Modern Times Group . It was founded on December 31, 1987 by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck as joint Scandinavian channel, but Denmark and Norway soon got their own versions of TV3....
Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland.... (Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands.... )		TSI1 Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana is a Switzerland public broadcasting organisation part of SRG SSR id?e suisse. RTSI handles production and broadcasting of radio and television programs in Italian language for Switzerland....
Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....	Fiscal Chase	Fox	October 2006
Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably.... (Catalonia Catalonia Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east .... )	Fiscal Chase	TV3 TV3 (Catalonia) TV3 is the name of Catalonia's first public broadcasting Television station. It belongs to Televisi? de Catalunya , a subsidiary of the Corporaci? Catalana de R?dio i Televisi?....	January 9, 2006
Thailand Thailand The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....	Close to Home	True Series True Series True Series is a Thailand television channel owned and produced by TrueVisions. It features series, lifestyle programs and reality shows from around the world....	September 28, 2006
Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....		Mymax	March 23, 2007
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....	Close to Home	Dubai One	February 10, 2009
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....	Close to Home	Living and Ftn Ftn Ftn was a television channel from Virgin Media Television transmitting free-to-air on Freeview and Virgin Media, and as a subscription channel on Sky Digital ....	January 23, 2006
Israel Israel Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....	???? ????	Extra HOT	2006

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