Boston Legal, the critically acclaimed and Emmy Award-winning quirky legal drama from David E. Kelley, creator of Ally McBeal, returns to LIVING for a fourth season. Boston Legal tells the professional and personal stories of a group of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. Fast-paced and wildly comedic, the series confronts social and moral issues, while its characters continually stretch the boundaries of the law.

Back-to-back Emmy Award winners James Spader and William Shatner return to play Alan Shore and Denny Crane, unlikely kindred spirits among the brigade of high-priced litigators at Crane Poole & Schmidt. In addition, Shirley Schmidt (played by five-time Emmy winner Candice Bergen), a founding partner of the firm, continues to help bring order to the chaotic office. She keeps a vigilant eye on all, particularly on Denny Crane, with whom she shares a chequered past.

New to the legal team this year are Lorraine Weller (played by Brit actress Saffron Burrows, Reign Over Me, Troy, Deep Blue Sea), a sexy, sophisticated litigator who once had a passionate affair with Shore, the chemistry of which still lingers and distracts, and senior partner Carl Sack (Emmy® Award winner John Larroquette) brought in by Schmidt from the New York office, considered a worthy nemesis by Denny Crane. Jerry “Hands” Espenson (Christian Clemenson), Shore’s friend and fellow lawyer who suffers from Asperger Syndrome, and Clarence Bell (Gary Anthony Williams), who suffers from such an extreme case of social inadequacy and shyness that he can morph into a number of personalities at the drop of a hat. Fresh out of law school and eager to learn is Katie Lloyd (Tara Sumers), a new young associate, alongside Whitney Rome (Taraji P. Henson), a premier though unconventional litigator from the New York office who transfers herself to Crane Poole & Schmidt in Boston.

Starts January – exclusive to LIVING