Raising the Bar (television) Television series for TNT debuting on September 1, 2008, and ending on December 24, 2009. The story follows the lives and cases of young lawyers who have been friends since law school but who now work on opposing sides. Stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Jerry Kellerman), Gloria Reuben (Rosalind Whitman), Jane Kaczmarek (Judge Trudy Kessler), Teddy Sears (Richard Patrick Woolsley), Melissa Sagemiller (Michelle Ernhardt), Currie Graham (Nick Balco), J. August Richards (Marcus McGrath), Jonathan Scarfe (Charlie Sagansky). From ABC Studios.