Century City (TV series)
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Century City is an American science fiction/legal drama television series set in Los Angeles in the year 2030.
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[edit] Synopsis
The show follows the legal team of Crane, Constable, McNeil & Montero. At the helm are the firm’s four partners, the founder and senior partner Hannah Crane; veteran attorney Marty Constable; the pleased-with-himself attorney Darwin McNeil; and the former Californian Congressman and newest partner, Tom Montero. The team is supplemented by the ambitious enthusiasm of two young associates, the self-critical and earnest Lukas Gold and the genetically enhanced first-year associate Lee May Bristol.
With the developments of cloning cells, genetic profiling, mind-altering antibiotics and even virtual rape, the attorneys of Crane, Constable, McNeil & Montero find themselves with an ongoing case-load of precedent-setting cases. In a time when lawyers can go before judges as holograms, the firm takes on such morally and ethically ambiguous cases as parents suing their doctor for withholding critical results of their unborn child’s genetic mapping; defending a man accused of robbery for “stealing” back his identity from his ex-fiancée who has uploaded his presence and personality; protecting the rights of a woman who has been virtually raped through nanotechnology; and defending a rock star who refused to alter the laws of human nature to help his band stay on top. The attorneys are exceedingly aware that progress and development bring both luxuries and challenges. Tackling uncharted legal territory, Century City provides an eye-opening look into the issues confronting society in the year 2030—the not-so-distant future.
In the year 2030, the United States has 52 states and universal healthcare, Oprah Winfrey is the President of the United States (her Vice President is an openly gay, retired, four-star U.S. armed forces general) and the Moon has been colonized. Life expectancy for American females is in the mid-nineties.
Century City aired on the US CBS television network on Tuesday evenings and premiered on March 16, 2004. CBS ordered nine episodes, but broadcast only four before cancelling the series. Universal HD began broadcasting episodes on November 29, 2004, including previously unaired episodes. [1] Century City premiered in the UK in a 5:00 p.m. daily slot on Monday April 3, 2006 on the Sci Fi Channel (United Kingdom).
Episode running time is 60 minutes.
[edit] Cast
- Nestor Carbonell—Tom Montero
- Viola Davis—Hannah Crane
- Hector Elizondo—Martin Constable
- Ioan Gruffudd—Lukas Gold
- Kristin Lehman—Lee May Bristol
- Eric Schaeffer—Darwin McNeil
[edit] Episodes
| Title | Original U.S. Air Date (Network) |
|---|---|
| Pilot | March 16, 2004 (CBS) |
| To Know Her | March 23, 2004 (CBS) |
| Love & Games | March 27, 2004 (CBS) |
| A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Lose | March 30, 2004 (CBS) |
| Sweet Child of Mine | December 23, 2004 (Universal HD) |
| Without a Tracer | December 30, 2004 (Universal HD) |
| The Face Was Familiar | January 6, 2005 (Universal HD) |
| The Haunting | January 13, 2005 (Universal HD) |
| Only You | January 20, 2005 (Universal HD) |
