ABC blog

October 2010

 

Brilliant, iconoclastic and innately self-destructive, Cleaver Greene, played by Richard Roxburgh,  is one of life's great addicts. Whether it's women, gambling or drugs, Cleaver can resist everything except temptation. His other addiction is the law – defending those who seem to be beyond redemption – society's hopeless: our drug dealers, our murderers, our cannibals. As charming and as irresistible as Cleaver Greene is, when you let him into your world, be warned, trouble is bound to follow. He is the very definition of a Rake.

Premiering Thursday 4 November, 8.30pm on ABC1, RAKE  is an eight-part comedy/drama, chronicling the trials and tribulations of criminal barrister, Cleaver Greene – defender of the indefensible and champion of the lost cause...both in the court room and the bedroom. 

On any single day, Cleaver Greene is described as many things. Whilst his ex¬-wife may call him ‘unreliable’, his son will call him ‘a mate’. To his learned friends at the bar table he is ‘a real wag’, to his jurors he is ‘hilarious’, and to most judges he is ‘an outrage’. To the Tax Office, he is ‘a defendant’, to a certain brothel owner ‘a legend’, and to his former cocaine dealer ‘a tragic loss’.

Rake also stars Matt Day, Russel Dykstra, Adrienne Pickering, Danielle Cormack and Caroline Brazier and features special guest stars Rachel Griffiths, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Lisa McCune and Noah Taylor.

Can't wait for RAKE?  Then catch it first on ABC iView, premiering Sunday 31 October, from 8.30pm