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Runaway

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53 Metascore
2006-2006
1 Season
The CW
Drama

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The Raders look like a normal middle-class American family, with a dad, Paul Rader, his lovely wife Lily, teenagers Henry and Hannah and 8-year-old Tommy. Those are their real names, but as they struggle to blend into a new life in Bridgewater, Iowa, they are all using secret identities. This family is on the run, hiding from the legal system that unjustly convicted Paul Rader of a terrible and violent crime. Adding to the danger, the real killer is now threatening the lives of the Rader children. As Paul works to protect his loved ones and uncover the evidence that will clear him, he lives with the daily fear that someone will accidentally reveal the family's dark secret.

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Donnie Wahlberg

Paul Rader

Leslie Hope

Lily Rader

Dustin Milligan

Henry Rader

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Episode 1

Pilot

Mon, Sep 25, 2006166 mins

Paul Rader, a successful attorney in Potomac, Maryland, finds his law firm employee Erin Baxter murdered. As he is set up, he breaks bail and uproots his family to Bridgewater, Iowa, posing as the non-existent Holland family. It's hard enough to lay false trails for Agent Raj Rao's US Marshalls team. Neither wife Lily nor kid son Michael 'Mikey' is good at keeping their cover. Firstborn Henry refuses to have his entire life ruined and abandon girl-friend Kylie for a previously absent father, whose innocence isn't obvious to him. Daughter Hannah soon takes to the part because of neighbor Bob Sullivan's equally friendly and hunky son Brady in her new class.

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A Runaway Joins the New 90210

The new Rob Thomas-penned Beverly Hills, 90210 redux is warming up, with casting news starting to trickle out.Former Runaway Dustin Milligan is the first actor to have been cast in the updated version of the show, says the Reporter. He's set to play Ethan, the big-man-on-campus star athlete at West Beverly High. Along with his TV work, Milligan also appeared in recent movies including creep-fest The Messengers and love-fest In the Land of Women. Without more cast announcements, it's tough to visualize his dynamic with the other as-yet-unnamed kids at West Beverly, but the floppy-haired Canadian's a good start for the spin-off. Are you ready for your new high-school heartthrob?  Anna DimondRelated: Who Will Cross Over to 90210 Remake? The CW's 90210 Spin-off: New Details

Tue, Apr 1, 2008

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CW Stops Runaway in Its Tracks

The fledgling CW network has given the hook to its first show, Donnie Wahlberg and Leslie Hope's Runaway, which struggled out of the gate and only averaged 1.8 million total viewers, even in a new Sunday time slot. For the time being, says Reuters, CW will fill the Sunday 9 pm slot with repeats. Everwood died for this? No, really.

Wed, Oct 18, 2006

Ratings: Every-1 Watched 100, Heaven Slips

FRIDAYRiding on the coattails  and them some!  of like-minded lead-in Deal or No Deal (which won the 8 o'clock hour with 11.4 million viewers to Ghost Whisperer's 9.95 mil), the 9 pm series debut of Bob Saget's 1 vs 100 was watched by a mob of 12.55 mil, followed not very closely by Close to Home (11.1 mil). (For more on 1 vs 100, read Angel's Surfer Girl blog.) Men in Trees, meanwhile, was down 350,000, to 7.15 mil.At 10, Numbers (with just shy of 11 million viewers) again topped Law & Order (a season low of 9.4 mil).SUNDAYThe only stories this week were NBC's football coverage (Broncos-Raiders) being down almost 4 million (to 9.4 mil); Housewives placing first at 9 but again with a new low (20.02 mil, down 750,000 week-to-week); and CW's transplanted Monday dramas  7th Heaven (3.15 mil) and Runaway (1.8 mil)  bringing in, across the two hours, nearly the same viewership as the Chris-All of Us-Girlfriends-The Game sitcom quartet, though Heaven was down m...

Mon, Oct 16, 2006

At the Emmys: All the Backstage Buzz!

Where do the winners go after accepting their Emmys? Backstage to the (overly air-conditioned, brrrr) press room! Here is your minute-by-minute guide to who said what about their most memorable night. 8:06: Show's just starting, and we're watching it back here like the rest of ya. Host Conan O'Brien's pretaped opening says it all: NBC (and The Office) gets second billing in a funny bit that leads off instead with rival ABC's Lost. 8:18: Alan Alda wins, giving The West Wing its 26th Emmy ev

Mon, Aug 28, 2006

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