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  • 1997
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  • 1997
  • TV-14
  • ABC

Summary David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning legal drama, The Practice, had eight amazing seasons, with promising, provocative, issue-related stories, coupled with the writer's trademark humor. Set in Boston, The Practice centers on a firm of passionate attorneys to whom every case is important and every client worth a fight to the end. Legal...

Created By: David E. Kelley

  • 1997
  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • 1997
  • TV-14
  • ABC

The Practice

8 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 4, 1997
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 27 User Ratings
8.7
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Summary David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning legal drama, The Practice, had eight amazing seasons, with promising, provocative, issue-related stories, coupled with the writer's trademark humor. Set in Boston, The Practice centers on a firm of passionate attorneys to whom every case is important and every client worth a fight to the end. Legal...

Created By: David E. Kelley

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
74
80% Positive
24 Reviews
20% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
74
80% Positive
24 Reviews
20% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Jul 23, 2013
Kelley does two things better than anyone else writing courtroom dramas on television. He exposes and unveils legal tactics in a detailed and inventive fashion, and he does so while creating and sustaining strong characterizations. [4 Mar 1997]
By David Bianculli FULL REVIEW
88
Jul 23, 2013
Blessed with Kelley's rich writing talent, "The Practice" zips along at a lively, "ER"-like pace. [4 Mar 1997]
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80
Jul 23, 2013
[The] series retains such Kelley trademarks as arch dialogue, colorful characters and interesting, quirky and socially relevant situations. [4 Mar 1997]
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75
Jul 23, 2013
In spite of predictable story lines, it is crisp writing from Kelley that makes such a group seem approachable, almost lovable. [4 Mar 1997]
By John Levesque FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 23, 2013
There isn't much that's not familiar. But Kelley usually targets his shows on characters and their character, which, as it turns out, enhances the emotional appeal in this new series of battles at the bar of justice. [4 Mar 1997]
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60
Jul 23, 2013
Too earnest, talky and hackneyed. [4 Mar 1997]
By Hal Boedeker FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 14, 2013
It's gone low-rent.
By Ken Tucker FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 27 User Ratings
8.7
93% Positive
25 Ratings
4% Mixed
1 Rating
4% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 27 User Ratings
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4% Mixed
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Production Company:
  • David E. Kelley Productions
  • Daydreamers Entertainment Inc.
  • Decode Entertainment
  • 20th Century Fox Television
Initial Release Date: Mar 4, 1997
Number of seasons: 8 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 15 Wins & 41 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 12 Wins & 40 Nominations

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