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''Medium'' is an American Drama Television Series about a woman (played by Patricia Arquette ) who acts as a research Medium for the Phoenix, Arizona , district attorney's office. The series is based on the life of Allison DuBois . The show was created by Glenn Gordon Caron and Produced by Picturemaker Productions and Grammnet Productions in association with CBS Paramount Television . PLOT Allison DuBois ( Patricia Arquette ) is a strong-willed 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 some of her dreams match the details 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 lie beyond the grave. Information on certain people or crimes come to her in dreams or visions in cryptic forms, and never really mean what they seem to. All of her daughters appear to have inherited their mother's gift, with Ariel ( Sofia Vassilieva ) and Bridgette ( Maria Lark ) also having visions or dreams, which usually occur when their mother is in a bind in searching for answers to her own dreams. In Season 3, Allison's youngest daughter, Marie ( Madison And Miranda Carabello ), is also shown to be paranormally inclined. Currently, her only ability is to watch a premium TV channel that the family does not subscribe to. Bridgette never appears to be bothered by her abilities, while Ariel usually has a harder time trying to cope with a gift she knows very little about. Allison's younger half brother, Michael "Lucky", has the family gift too, but doesn't like to acknowledge it much, since it always seems to bring him trouble. Allison is often accompanied by a local Arizona cop, and friend to Manuel Devalos, Det. Lee Scanlon ( David Cubitt ), who at first did not believe that she had a "gift". Allison often bends the rules of the law when she is determined to stop a crime about which she's had a vision from happening. Allison has also helped or been helped by Captain Kenneth Push of the Texas Rangers ( Arliss Howard ). He is the first law-enforcement person Allison revealed her gift to. CAST AWARDS In 2005, Patricia Arquette was awarded the Emmy Award for " Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series ". In addition, she was nominated for the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors' Guild Awards in both 2006 and 2007. In July 2007, Arquette was again nominated for a Primetime Emmy in the Oustanding Leading Actress in a Drama category. The Emmys will air on Sunday, September 16 on FOX. EPISODES See Also: List of Medium episodes DVD RELEASES U.S. TELEVISION RATINGS/NBC BROADCAST HISTORY Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of ''Medium'' on NBC . ''Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May Sweeps . Times mentioned in this section are in the Eastern & Pacific time zones.'' When NBC revealed the lineup for its Fall 2006 schedule, ''Medium'' was missing, despite a strong second-season finish in the ratings, and Arquette's Emmy win. The network announced it would return early in 2007. However, on , 2006 , with a two-hour season premiere. ''Medium'' replaced the time slot vacated by '' Kidnapped '', which was shifted to Saturday nights. Starting November 22 , 2006 , ''Medium'' aired at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday nights. On May 7 , 2007 , NBC announced that it has renewed ''Medium'' for a fourth season45, which will not begin until January 20 , 2008 . New episodes will air on Sunday nights at 9 p.m., after NBC Sunday Night Football finishes.67 It is, however, possible that NBC will, once again, bring Medium out earlier than January if one of the new series fails. Beginning on March 26 , 2006 , repeats of the program began airing on the cable network Lifetime . INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTERS REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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