The Rainmaker

SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, USA

- —Damian Holbrook

JOHN GRISHAM'S 1995 legal thriller—which inspired the 1997 Matt Damon feature about a law-school grad taking on an insurance company—gets a series treatment that's more “inspired by” than straight adaptation. “I think the film was pretty faithful to the novel, at least as far as the [main] case goes,” says showrunner Michael Seitzman, adding that, for TV, “you've got to be able to give it legs to last, in this case, 10 episodes.”