Leighton Meester | Shark

• Genre: Legal drama
• Created by: Ian Biederman
• Starring: James Woods, Danielle Panabaker, Sophina Brown, Sarah Carter, Kevin Alejandro, Henry Simmons, Jeri Ryan
• Composer: Sean Callery
• No. of seasons: 2
• No. of episodes: 38
• Executive producers: Ian Biederman, Brian Grazer, David Nevins
• Running time: 43 minutes
• Production companies: Imagine Television, Deforestation Services, 20th Century Fox Television
• Network: CBS
• Release: September 21, 2006 – May 20, 2008

The show revolves around Sebastian Stark (Woods), a notorious Los Angeles defense attorney who becomes disillusioned with his career after his successful defense of a wife-abuser results in the wife's death; after more than a month trying to come to grips with his situation, he is invited by the Los Angeles district attorney to become a public prosecutor so he can apply his unorthodox-but-effective talents to putting guilty people away instead of putting them back on the street. Stark's relationship with the Los Angeles District Attorney's office, his staff, and his daughter, forms the central plot for the series.

"Blind Trust"

Stark puts his and his team's jobs on the line when he answers to the pleas of an old friend (Gary Cole) not to alert law enforcement that he found the body of one of his firm's interns--a young woman murdered as she prepared to blow the whistle on her immediate superior's embezzlement. Stark also has to continue dealing with Julie's DUI arrest.

"Trial by Fire"

Sebastian, deputy DA Raina Troy, a convicted serial murderer they are trying to give the death penalty, and the courtroom audience are taken hostage by a distraught man who is to be sentenced for a robbery he claims he did not commit.

"Porn Free"

Sebastian faces an uphill battle in court when the respected head of a women's shelter creates a positive "vigilante justice" media buzz for the killing of a predatory porn producer.