Life (NBC TV series)
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Life title sequence
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| Genre | Crime drama |
| Created by | Rand Ravich |
| Starring |
Damian Lewis Sarah Shahi Brent Sexton Donal Logue Adam Arkin Brooke Langton Robin Weigert |
| Composer(s) |
Jon Ehrlich Jason Derlatka |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English German French Slovak |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 32 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Rand Ravich Far Shariat David Semel Daniel Sackheim |
| Producer(s) | Loucas George |
| Running time | 45–48 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Ravich-Shariat Productions Universal Media Studios |
| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | September 26, 2007 – April 8, 2009 |
| Website | |
Life was an American crime drama television program created by Rand Ravich that aired for two seasons on NBC. It was produced by Universal Media Studios under the supervision of executive producers Rand Ravich, Far Shariat, David Semel, and Daniel Sackheim. Semel also directed the pilot.
The series stars Damian Lewis as Charlie Crews, a detective released from prison after serving twelve years for a crime he did not commit. Life premiered on September 26, 2007 on NBC and aired on Wednesday nights at 10 ET. On May 4, 2009, NBC announced its cancellation, a month after the final episode had been aired. The series was later made available for streaming through Hulu and Netflix.
In an interview with seat42f.com, series creator Rand Ravich explained that Life came initially from Ravich's own long-standing interest in, and desire to work on, a police procedural show. Ravich first created the character of Charlie Crews as the basis for the show; upon the completion of the script, Ravich immediately considered actor Damian Lewis for the role.
Life was conceived as an episodic television show in the vein of 24, where emotional closure is provided as new clues to the main mystery (the conspiracy that sent Charlie Crews to prison) are revealed every few episodes, with Ravich stating that he and the writers disliked the serial nature of some shows where it feels "like you’re kind of wandering in the desert".
Life centers on Detective Charlie Crews, who at the start of the first season (set in 2007) is released from Pelican Bay State Prison after serving twelve years of a life sentence. In 1995, he was wrongfully convicted of the triple murder of his friend and business partner, Tom Seybolt, and all but one of the partner's immediate family. Thanks to the efforts of his lawyer Constance Griffiths, DNA evidence exonerates him of the murders. Having lost his job, his wife, his friends, nearly all contact with the outside world and even his grip on reality for a time while in jail, he emerges enlightened by the philosophy of Zen, a fixation with fresh fruit (which he acquired while in prison, as it is nonexistent on the inside), and an obsession with solving the murder that nearly cost him his life and exposing the conspiracy that framed him for it. After successfully suing the city of Los Angeles and the LAPD, he is reinstated to the police department and receives an undisclosed amount of money, rumored at $50 million.
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