High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rake is an Australian television series, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that first aired on ABC1 in 2010. It stars Richard Roxburgh as rake Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self-destructive Sydney barrister.. In the United States, the show airs on DirecTV`s Audience Network. The second season began on September 6, 2012. The ABC have also renewed the show for a third season