Rake is a Australian television series, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that aired in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC1 in 2010. It stars Richard Roxburgh as rake Cleaver Greene, a Sydney barrister that is brilliant but self destructive. The show airs in the United States on DirecTV's Audience Network. The next season began on 6 September 2012. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has also revived the show for a third year Each incident entails Green-e defending a different client.The Fox Network in America has commissioned an American version of Rake, starring Greg Kinnear because the lead character, renamed Keegan Deane for audiences.