TV series
Shark
Overview
Notorious Los Angeles defense attorney Sebastian Stark becomes disillusioned with his career after his successful defense of a wife-abuser results in the wife's death. After more than a month trying to come to grips with his situation, he is invited by the Los Angeles district attorney to become a public prosecutor so he can apply his unorthodox-but-effective talents to putting guilty people away instead of putting them back on the street.
Details
- First air date
- 2006-09-21
- Status
- Canceled
- Seasons
- 2 seasons
- Episodes
- 38 episodes
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Crime
- Network
- CBS
- Production
- Imagine Television Studios, 20th Century Fox Television
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- James Woods as Sebastian Stark
- Jeri Ryan as Jessica Devlin
- Danielle Panabaker as Julie Stark
- Sophina Brown as Raina Troy
- Sarah Carter as Madeleine Poe
- Henry Simmons as Isaac Wright
- Sam Page as Casey Woodland
- Kevin Alejandro as Danny Reyes
- Carlos Gómez as Mayor Manuel Delgado
- Alexis Cruz as Martin Allende
- Michael Cotter as Lewis Slocombe
- Kevin Pollak as D.A. Leo Cutler
Creators and crew
- Ian Biederman - Creator
- Brian Grazer - Producer
- Adam Davidson - Director
- Paul Holahan - Director
- Marcos Siega - Director
- Rod Holcomb - Director
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