Medium (TV series)
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Medium is an American drama television series about a woman (Patricia Arquette) who is a research medium for an Arizona district attorney's office. The show was created by Glenn Gordon Caron. The series is produced by Picturemaker Productions and Grammnet Productions in association with CBS Paramount Television. At the 57th Annual Emmy Awards, Patricia Arquette won the Emmy for "Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series". The series is loosely based on the life of Allison DuBois, who claims to have psychic abilities that allow her to contact the dead, which she alleges she has used to help law enforcement agencies.
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Plot
Phoenix, Arizona, suburban mom Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette) is a strong-willed young mother of three, a devoted wife, and law student who begins to suspect that she can talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams, and read people's thoughts. Fearing for her mental health, she turns for support to her husband Joe (Jake Weber), an aerospace engineer, who slowly comes to believe that what his wife is telling him just might be true upon discovering that she dreams of a murder in Texas. The real challenge is convincing her boss, D.A. Devalos (Miguel Sandoval) -- and the other doubters in the criminal justice system -- that her psychic abilities can give them the upper hand when it comes to solving violent and horrifying crimes whose mysteries often reside with those who live beyond the grave. Murders and information on certain people or things come to her dreams or visions in cryptic forms and never really mean what they seem to as Allison soon discovers throughout the series. Her daughters, Bridget and Ariel Dubois, appear to have inherited their mother's gift since their 'visions' or 'dreams' usually occur when their mother is in a bind in searching for answers to her own dreams. Bridget (the second youngest child) never appears to be bothered by this, while Ariel usually has a harder time trying to cope with a gift she knows very little about. Allison is occasionally accompanied by local Arizona cop, and friend to Manuel Devalos, Det. Lee Scanlon (David Cubitt), who, at first, also did not believe that she had a "gift" upon finding out about it. Allison often bends the rules of the law when she is determined to stop a vision from happening. It is revealed later on in season two that Allison could see the dead and has been having visions since she was a child.Cast
- Patricia Arquette as Allison DuBois
- Jake Weber as Joe DuBois, Allison's husband
- Miguel Sandoval as District Attorney Manuel Devalos, Allison's boss
- Sofia Vassilieva as Ariel DuBois, Allison & Joe's oldest daughter
- Maria Lark as Bridget DuBois, Allison & Joe's middle daughter
- David Cubitt as Detective Lee Scanlon, Allison's coworker (Season 2-)
- Madsion Carabello and Miranda Carabello as Marie DuBois, Allison & Joe's youngest daughter
Executive producers
- Glenn Gordon Caron
- René Echevarria
- Ronald L. Schwary
- Kelsey Grammer
- Steve Stark
Awards
In 2005, Patricia Arquette was awarded the Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series'.Trivia
- Patricia Arquette who plays Allison Dubois on the show recently got married to Thomas Jane, with whom she has a three-year old daughter. They married June of 2006.
- Debuted on NBC January 3, 2005 and on CTV January 4, 2005.
- Debuts on BBC One September 5.
- Debuts on RaiTre December 28.
- Debuts on M6 January 27, 2006 in France.
- Debuts on ntv7 July 14, 2006, in Malaysia.
- It would appear that episodes are being shown on BBC One in production order, which is not the same sequence as originally shown in the US.
- Joe DuBois is a systems design mathematician for an aeronautical engineering firm who was trained in physics during graduate school.
- The 3-D effects in the episode Still Life were created by Montreal-based Sensio.[link]
- The S2 episode Method to his Madness features branding elements from the Montecito Casino a fictional casino chain created for NBC series Las Vegas.
- Kelsey Grammar, who is also a producer, played the Angel of Death in the episode Death Takes a Policy.
Episodes
Season 1
| # | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pilot | January 3, 2005 |
| 2 | Suspicions and Certainties | January 10, 2005 |
| 3 | A Couple of Choices | January 17, 2005 |
| 4 | Night of the Wolf | January 24, 2005 |
| 5 | In Sickness and Adultery | January 31, 2005 |
| 6 | Coming Soon | February 7, 2005 |
| 7 | Jump Start | February 14, 2005 |
| 8 | Lucky | February 21, 2005 |
| 9 | Coded | February 28, 2005 |
| 10 | The Other Side of the Tracks | March 14, 2005 |
| 11 | I Married a Mind Reader | March 21, 2005 |
| 12 | A Priest, a Doctor and a Medium Walk into an Execution Chamber | March 28, 2005 |
| 13 | Being Mrs. O'Leary's Cow | April 25, 2005 |
| 14 | In the Rough | May 2, 2005 |
| 15 | Penny for Your Thoughts | May 9, 2005 |
| 16 | When Push Comes to Shove | May 23, 2005 |
Season 2
| # | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | When Push Comes to Shove Part 2 | September 19, 2005 |
| 2 | The Song Remains the Same | September 26, 2005 |
| 3 | Time Out Of Mind | October 3, 2005 |
| 4 | Light Sleeper | October 10, 2005 |
| 5 | Sweet Dreams | October 17, 2005 |
| 6 | Dead Aim | October 24, 2005 |
| 7 | Judge, Jury & Executioner | November 7, 2005 |
| 8 | Too Close to Call | November 14, 2005 |
| 9 | Still Life | November 21, 2005 |
| 10 | The Reckoning | November 28, 2005 |
| 11 | Method To His Madness | January 2, 2006 |
| 12 | Doctor's Orders | January 9, 2006 |
| 13 | Raising Cain | January 23, 2006 |
| 14 | A Changed Man | February 6, 2006 |
| 15 | Sweet Child O' Mine | February 27, 2006 |
| 16 | Allison Wonderland | March 6, 2006 |
| 17 | Lucky in Love | March 13, 2006 |
| 18 | S.O.S. | April 17, 2006 |
| 19 | Knowing Her | April 24, 2006 |
| 20 | The Darkness is Light Enough | May 1, 2006 |
| 21 | Death Takes a Policy | May 8, 2006 |
| 22 | Twice Upon a Time | May 22, 2006 |
External links
- [Medium's NBC website]
- [CTV Official Medium website]
- [Allison DuBois' website] containing her thoughts on the TV series, and information about her life, her work and her book, Don't Kiss Them Goodbye.
- [Appearance at Public Shows] The Body Soul & Spirit Expo, sponsored by CTV
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