Rake (Australian TV series)

Rake
Genre	Comedy drama
Created by	Peter Duncan Richard Roxburgh Charles Waterstreet
Written by	Peter Duncan Andrew Knight
Starring	Richard Roxburgh Adrienne Pickering Matt Day Russell Dykstra Danielle Cormack Caroline Brazier Keegan Joyce Kate Box Damien Garvey
Theme music composer	Johann Strauss II / David McCormack
Opening theme	The Blue Danube
Composers	Michael Lira David McCormack Antony Partos
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producer	Miranda Dear
Producers	Peter Duncan Richard Roxburgh Ian Collie
Production locations	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Running time	60 minutes
Production companies	Blow by Blow Productions Essential Media and Entertainment
Original release
Network	ABC TV
Release	4 November 2010 (2010-11-04) – 7 October 2018 (2018-10-07)
Related
Rake (US version)
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Rake is an Australian television program, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that first aired on the ABC TV in 2010. It stars Richard Roxburgh as the rakish Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self-destructive Sydney barrister,^[1][2][3] defending a usually guilty client. The fifth and final series went into production in October 2017^[4] and premiered on 19 August 2018.^[5]