Awake is an American police procedural drama television series created by Kyle Killen for NBC. The series centers on Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs), a police detective living in two separate realities after a car accident. In one reality, his wife Hannah Britten (Laura Allen) was killed in the crash, and in the other his son Rex Britten (Dylan Minnette) was killed in the crash.

The series was conceived by Killen after developing the short-lived series Lone Star for the Fox network. It premiered on NBC on March 1, 2012, and concluded its 13-episode season on May 24, 2012. The series was canceled after one season due to low ratings.

Awake received mainly positive reviews from media critics. Many commentators praised Isaacs in the role as Michael Britten, and noted that the series' premise was interesting and the scripts were well-written.

Following a car crash, Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) returns to work and finds himself in one of two different realities every time he wakes up, one in which his wife Hannah (Laura Allen) has survived the accident and the other in which his son Rex (Dylan Minnette) has survived it instead. To differentiate between the two realities, Michael wears a red rubber band in the reality in which his wife is alive and a green one in the reality in which his son is alive. As a cue to viewers, scenes in the red reality use warm tones, while scenes in the green reality use cool ones.

Wakefulness is a daily recurring brain state and state of consciousness in which an individual is conscious and engages in coherent cognitive and behavior responses to the external world such as communication, ambulation, nutritional ingestion and procreation. Being awake is the opposite of the state of being asleep in which most external inputs to the brain are excluded from neural processing.

The longer the brain has been awake, the greater thing^{[clarification needed]} the spontaneous firing rates of cerebral cortex neurons with this increase being reversed by sleep. Another effect of wakefulness (which may or may not be related to this) is that it lowers the small stores of glycogen held in the astrocytes that can supply energy to the brain's neurons—one of the functions of sleep it has been proposed is to create the opportunity for them to be replenished.

The posterior hypothalamus plays a key role in the maintenance of the cortical activation that underlies wakefulness. Several systems originating in this part of the brain control the shift from wakefulness into sleep and sleep into wakefulness. Histamine neurons in the tuberomamillary nucleus and nearby adjacent posterior hypothalamus project to the entire brain and are the most wake-selective system so far identified in the brain. Another key system is that provided by the orexins (also known as hypocretins) projecting neurons. These exist in areas adjacent to histamine neurons and like them project widely to most brain areas and associate with arousal. Orexin deficiency has been identified as responsible for narcolepsy.

A television program (usually television programme outside North America), also called television show, is a segment of content intended for broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series. A single program in a series is called an episode.

A television series that is intended to comprise a limited number of episodes is usually called a miniseries or serial. Series without a fixed length are usually divided into seasons or series, yearly or biannual installments of new episodes. While there is no defined length, US industry practice tends to favor longer seasons than those of some other countries.

A one-time broadcast may be called a "special", or particularly in the UK a "special episode". A television movie ("made-for-TV movie" or television film), is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in cinemas or direct-to-video, although many successful TV movies are later released on DVD.

A program can be either recorded—as on video tape or other various electronic media forms—or considered live television.

series (singular/plural) may refer to anything of a serial form:

See also: sequence

Reinhold Heil (born 18 May 1954) is a composer and former member of Spliff and the Nina Hagen Band who has largely worked on film music but has produced pop music for Kim Wilde, Rosemarie Precht (AKA Cosa Rosa), and Nena. He has been nominated for several awards and has won four ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for his work on the music for television series Without a Trace and HBO series John from Cincinnati. His partners in scoring music are Johnny Klimek, and sometimes German film director Tom Tykwer.

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