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 television program
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, filmed in Vancouver, Canada, which premiered on the Fox Network
Fox Broadcasting Company

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 in October 2003. It ran for two seasons and a total of 26 episodes before being canceled in January 2005.

Season two of Tru Calling first aired in New Zealand
New Zealand

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 on TV3
TV3 (New Zealand)

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 beginning February 4 2005, with the final episode shown on March 11, 2005, in Croatia
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, the following March/April; and, after nearly a year-long hiatus, in the U.S.






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Tru Calling 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...
 television program
Television program

A television program , television programme , or television show is something that people watch on television. It may be a one-off broadcast or, more usually, part of a periodically recurring television series....
, filmed in Vancouver, Canada, which premiered on the Fox Network
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....
 in October 2003. It ran for two seasons and a total of 26 episodes before being canceled in January 2005.

Season two of Tru Calling first aired in 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....
 on TV3
TV3 (New Zealand)

TV3 is a large commercial broadcasting television station in New Zealand broadcasting via terrestrial to almost 100% of the country, and on Sky Network Television's digital platform....
 beginning February 4 2005, with the final episode shown on March 11, 2005, in Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
, the following March/April; and, after nearly a year-long hiatus, in the U.S. beginning March 31, 2005. In the 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....
, the second season began October 12, 2006, on Sky One
Sky One

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.

The complete series also aired in Argentina
Argentina

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, Brazil
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, Chile
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, France
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, Germany
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, Hong Kong
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, Hungary
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, Pakistan
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, India
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, Israel
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, Italy
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, Malaysia
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, Portugal
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, Singapore
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, Slovakia
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 and Bulgaria
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.

DVDs of both seasons have been released in the United States and the United Kingdom. The final episode filmed was not broadcast in the U.S. until January 21, 2008, when it aired as part of a marathon on SCI FI.

Premise

The lead character, Tru Davies (Eliza Dushku
Eliza Dushku

Eliza Patricia Dushku is an United States actress who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as True Lies, The New Guy, Bring It On , and Wrong Turn....
), is a young woman working the night shift at the city morgue
Morgue

A morgue or mortuary is a building or room used for the storage of human remains awaiting identification, or removal for autopsy, burial, cremation or some other post-death ritual....
. Occasionally, the corpse of a newly dead person appears to awaken and utter the words "Help me" to her. As they do, Tru wakens with a start at the beginning of the same day, finding herself compelled to stop the death, which may be the result of anything from suicide to murder. In the course of the re-run day, Tru often takes the opportunity to rectify various personal situations involving family and friends.

Supporting characters in the series include Harrison Davies (Shawn Reaves
Shawn Reaves

Shawn Reaves is an United States actor. He is most well known for the role of Harrison Davies, the brother of the main character Tru Davies on the FOX television series, Tru Calling....
), Tru's irresponsible younger brother (who becomes a loyal asset to Tru by the end of the first season), and Davis (Zach Galifianakis
Zach Galifianakis

Zacharius Knight Galifianakis is an United States comedian, actor, and writer....
), her friend, confidante, and supervisor at the Morgue.

As the series progresses, it is revealed that several years earlier, Davis had a fateful encounter with Tru's mother (who was, apparently, the last person to receive the "calling" before her daughter).

Supporting characters surviving only a portion of the series included: Meredith Davies (Jessica Collins), Tru's older sister; Lindsay Walker (A. J. Cook
A. J. Cook (actress)

Andrea Joy Cook is a Canadian actor more commonly known as A. J. Cook. She has appeared in several Hollywood films and television shows including The Virgin Suicides , Out Cold , Final Destination 2....
), her best friend in the first season; Luc Johnston (Matthew Bomer
Matthew Bomer

Matthew Staton Bomer is an United States actor.Bomer was born in Spring, Texas, the son of Sissi and John Bomer, who is a former Dallas Cowboys....
), her love interest in the first season; and Gardez (Benjamin Benitez
Benjamín Benítez

Benjamin Benitez is an American actor, who played Gardez on the TV Series, Tru Calling.External links...
), her former co-worker at the morgue.

Jack Harper
List of Tru Calling characters

This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
 (Jason Priestley
Jason Priestley

Jason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-born American actor and film director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role which catapulted him to fame in the early 1990s....
), a counterpart to Tru's character, is introduced midseason as a foil. He is there to make sure fate gets its way and introduces a philosophical aspect to Tru's endeavors: should she be saving the lives of people who may have been intended to die? In the second season, Tru and Jack compete to get to a person first — she to save them, and he to restore the order of fate and maintain the balance of the universe as he understands it. It is eventually revealed that Tru's father had played a similarly antagonistic role to Tru's mother.

Episode list


Cancellation

On April 20, 2005, Fox announced that the sixth and final episode would not be aired, and that the series would end its run one week early with the episode they originally intended to show the following evening.

Cast

Main Characters

  • Eliza Dushku
    Eliza Dushku

    Eliza Patricia Dushku is an United States actress who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as True Lies, The New Guy, Bring It On , and Wrong Turn....
     (Tru Davies
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2003-2005)
  • Zach Galifianakis
    Zach Galifianakis

    Zacharius Knight Galifianakis is an United States comedian, actor, and writer....
     (Davis
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2003-2005)
  • Shawn Reaves
    Shawn Reaves

    Shawn Reaves is an United States actor. He is most well known for the role of Harrison Davies, the brother of the main character Tru Davies on the FOX television series, Tru Calling....
     (Harrison Davies
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2003-2005)
  • Jason Priestley
    Jason Priestley

    Jason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-born American actor and film director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role which catapulted him to fame in the early 1990s....
     (Jack Harper
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2004-2005)
  • A. J. Cook
    A. J. Cook (actress)

    Andrea Joy Cook is a Canadian actor more commonly known as A. J. Cook. She has appeared in several Hollywood films and television shows including The Virgin Suicides , Out Cold , Final Destination 2....
     (Lindsay Walker
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2003-2004)
  • Jessica Collins (Meredith Davies
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2003-2004)
  • Benjamin Benitez
    Benjamín Benítez

    Benjamin Benitez is an American actor, who played Gardez on the TV Series, Tru Calling.External links...
     (Gardez
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2003-2004)
  • Matthew Bomer
    Matthew Bomer

    Matthew Staton Bomer is an United States actor.Bomer was born in Spring, Texas, the son of Sissi and John Bomer, who is a former Dallas Cowboys....
     (Luc Johnston
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2003-2004, recurring previously)


Special Guest Stars

Season two featured some recurring "Special Guest Stars", notably:
  • Cotter Smith
    Cotter Smith

    Cotter Smith is an United States stage, film, and television actor....
     (Richard Davies
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2004-2005)
  • Liz Vassey
    Liz Vassey

    Liz Vassey is an American actress, best known for playing Captain Liberty on the 2001 TV series The Tick. She also played Emily Ann Sago on the soap opera All My Children from 1988 to 1991 and also had a recurring role as Dr....
     (Dr. Carrie Allen
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2005)
  • Eric Christian Olsen
    Eric Christian Olsen

    Eric Christian Olsen is an United States actor....
     (Jensen Ritchie
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2005)


Guest Stars

Tru's two Medical School friends were also recurring characters in season two.
  • Lizzy Caplan
    Lizzy Caplan

    Elizabeth Anne "Lizzy" Caplan is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the CBS show The Class , in the 2004 film Mean Girls, and the 2008 film Cloverfield....
     (Avery Bishop
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2005)
  • Parry Shen
    Parry Shen

    Parry Shen is a Chinese American actor, best known as the lead actor in the 2002 movie Better Luck Tomorrow. He was educated at Archbishop Molloy High School, then an all boys, Roman Catholic school in Briarwood, Queens, in Queens, New York, and at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York....
     (Tyler Li
    List of Tru Calling characters

    This is a list of the main characters in the TV series Tru Calling....
    ) (2005)


The pilot episode was directed by famous Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce is an Australian film director.Noyce was born in Griffith, New South Wales, New South Wales, attended Barker College, Sydney, and began making short films at the age of 18, starting with Better to Reign in Hell, using his friends as the cast....
. He made a name for himself directing successful action movies such as Patriot Games
Patriot Games

Patriot Games is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is chronologically the first book focusing on CIA analyst Jack Ryan , the main character in almost all of Clancy's novels....
 and Clear and Present Danger
Clear and present danger

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. Tru Calling was created by executive producer/writer Jon Harmon Feldman
Jon Harmon Feldman

Jon Harmon Feldman is an United States screenwriter and film director.He has created and worked on TV series such as The Wonder Years, Tru Calling, Reunion , Dawson's Creek, Doctor Doctor ,American Dreams, Roswell , American Town, Dirty Sexy Money and Big Shots ....
. Marty Adelstein
Marty Adelstein

Marty Adelstein is an American television producer. He has produced many television movies and has worked as an executive producer on Tru Calling and Point Pleasant....
, Neal H. Moritz
Neal H. Moritz

'Neal H. Moritz' is a film producer. He has over 70 films to his credit. Among them include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend , Cruel Intentions, The Skulls , The Fast and the Furious , Not Another Teen Movie, xXx, S.W.A.T....
, Dawn Parouse and R. W. (Bob) Goodwin are also executive producers.

U.S. television ratings

Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of Tru Calling on FOX
Fox

A fox is an animal belonging to any one of about 27 species of small to medium-sized Canidae, characterized by possessing a long, narrow snout, and a bushy tail, or brush....
. The Last episode was shown on Sci Fi.

Note: Each U.S. network television season begins in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps.

Season Timeslot
(Thursdays)		 TV
Season		 U.S. Season
Premiere		 U.S. Season
Finale		 Season
Rank		 Viewers
(in millions)
1 8:00 / 7:00 pm 2003–2004 October 30, 2003 April 29, 2004 #151 4.50
2 9:00 / 8:00 pm March 31, 2005 January 21, 2008 #121 4.89
These episodes (intended for fall 2004) did not air in the United States until the Sci Fi Channel aired them,
  and that the second season originally aired in New Zealand from 4 February 2005 – 11 March 2005.


DVD releases

Trucalling S2

Region 1


Region 2 & 4


  • Tru Calling Season 1
    • Region 4 — August 9, 2005
  • Tru Calling Season 2
    • Region 4 — August 9, 2005


External links

  • The LiveJournal
    LiveJournal

    LiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free software and open source software Server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community....
     of Tru Calling staff writer Doris Egan
    Doris Egan

    Doris Egan is an American screenwriter, Television producer, and writer. She has worked on Smallville , Dark Angel , and House as well as many other television programs....
     revealing where the Season 2 story arc was going.
    (In reverse chronological order intermixed with other topics)
  • The Tru Calling posts archived in chronological order.
  • A virtual continuation of the series.