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Raines

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Michael Raines is an eccentric but brilliant cop who solves murders by turning the victims into his partners. Raines knows these visions are figments of his imagination, but when he can't make the dead disappear, he works with them to find their killers.

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Jeff Goldblum
Michael Raines
Matt Craven
Captain Dan Lewis
Nicole Sullivan
Carolyn Crumley

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Pilot

Fri, Mar 9, 200745 mins

Michael Raines uses his imagination to "discuss" the case of a murdered young woman with the victim. She was found shot in the back in a parking lot surrounded by cash. Raines soon discovers the woman was a prostitute, but was using her skills to save money to help her mother start a new life. Among the suspects: her possibly abusive father, a private detective she was working with, a man she was possibly having an affair with, (and his wife). Motives might include blackmail, jealousy, greed, or just a random crime.As well as bouncing his ideas off the dead woman, Raines also discusses his ideas with his former partner, who was shot on duty and is no longer with the police force.

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Raines: Meet Juan Doe
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Raines: Season 1
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Raines: Raines Meets Juan Doe
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Awards

  • 2008 - ASC Award - Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Television Movie/Mini-Series/Pilot - nominated

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Ratings: Wedding Is Off, Race Can't Catch Repeats

Ratings bits from Friday and Sunday:• On Friday at 9, the time-slot premiere of Raines (8.62 million total viewers) trailed Close to Home by 2.7 mil, but delivered 1.5 million more heads than who last tuned in to the NBC newbie. • The Wedding Bells (4.52 million, down a mil week-to-week) took the ratings plunge, as did Six Degrees (3.18 mil), which (undeservedly! My wife likes it, darn it!) cooled off to the tune of 1.4 mil.• On Sunday, a two-hour batch of The Amazing Race (averaging nine mil) could best neither repeats of Extreme Makeover: HE (9.82 mil), nor Deal or No Deal (10.29 mil), nor a Desperate Housewives clip show (9.79 mil). • A special 10 pm offering of Cold Case (13.09 million) topped Brothers & Sisters (9.13 mil, down more than two mil from its last fresh eppy) and The Apprentice (6.01 mil).

Mon, Apr 2, 2007

What did you think of Raines?

Question: What did you think of Raines?Answer: I loved that A. Martinez was a guest star. But that's about it.

Wed, Mar 28, 2007

Ratings: Six Appeal Rouses Winchester Boys

This Thursday's ratings rundown:8 pmOpposite NCCA basketball coverage, Ugly Betty (10.76 mil) dropped 2.4 million total viewers from its last fresh outing to deliver its smallest audience since Nov. 23. Fox's 5th Grader (12.18 mil) won the hour, while Smallville (4.58 mil) slipped 500 thou from its last new episode.9 pmGrey's Anatomy (22.4 million) came out on top with 4.8 mil fewer heads than its boffo Feb. 23 outing, but the key demos race wasn't even close. Scrubs (6.37 mil) was up 470,000 and Andy Barker, P.I. (5.85 mil) debuted to an audience 650K larger than the most recent 30 Rock. The big story, though, is that Supernatural, which only recently hit a season low, came through with its best numbers since Oct. 26: 3.54 mil.10 pmIn the battle of the newbies, ABC's October Road bested NBC's Raines, 14.3 million to 10.3 mil. October Road did three mil better than the latest Men in Trees, while Jeff Goldblum was up just 420,000 from ER.

Fri, Mar 16, 2007