The first season of the CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 crime drama series Hawaii Five-0 premiered on September 20, 2010 and concluded on May 16, 2011. It consisted of 24 episodes. The series was developed by Alex Kurtzman

Alex Kurtzman

Alex Kurtzman is an American film and television screenwriter and producer.Kurtzman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he met his high school friend and long time collaborator Roberto Orci...

, Roberto Orci

Roberto Orci

Roberto Gaston Orci is a Mexican-American film producer, television producer, and screenwriter.-Biography:Orci was born in Mexico City to a Mexican father and a Cuban mother. His mother had left Cuba for Mexico after Fidel Castro came to power. He is the older brother of screenwriter-producer J....

 and Peter M. Lenkov based upon the original series

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...

 created by Leonard Freeman

Leonard Freeman

Leonard Freeman was an American television writer and producer whose most famous achievement was the creation of the CBS television network series Hawaii Five-O in 1968. The show ran for twelve seasons. At the time that was a record for a crime drama. In 1960, he wrote for the series Route 66; in...

, which premiered exactly 42 years earlier. The series centers on the "Five-0", a specialised task force established by the Hawaiian Governor

Governor of Hawaii

The Governor of Hawaii is the chief executive of the state of Hawaii and its various agencies and departments, as provided in the Hawaii State Constitution Article V, Sections 1 through 6. It is a directly elected position, votes being cast by popular suffrage of residents of the state...

 that investigates a wide series crimes on the islands, including murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

, terrorism

Terrorism

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 and human trafficking

Human trafficking

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.

Hawaii Five-0 received generally positive reviews from critics and became one of CBS' top rated programs. It has been renewed for a second season, which premiered on September 19, 2011.

Main cast

• Alex O'Loughlin
  Alex O'Loughlin
  Alex O'Loughlin is an Australian actor, currently starring in CBS's Hawaii Five-0 as Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett. His best known earlier roles include Kevin Hiatt in The Shield, Mick St. John in Moonlight, Dr. Andy Yablonski in Three Rivers, and Stan in The Back-up Plan...
  
   as Steve McGarrett
• Scott Caan
  Scott Caan
  Scott Andrew Caan is an American actor. He stars in the CBS television series Hawaii Five-0, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe award. He is the son of actor James Caan.-Early life:...
  
   as Danny "Danno" Williams
• Daniel Dae Kim as Chin Ho Kelly
• Grace Park
  Grace Park (actress)
  Grace Park is an American-born Canadian actress. She gained recognition as Sharon Valerii on Battlestar Galactica, as well as Shannon Ng in the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont...
  
   as Kono Kalakaua

Recurring

• Teila Tuli as Kamekona
• Teilor Grubbs as Grace Williams
• Claire van der Boom
  Claire van der Boom
  Claire van der Boom is a Logie Award winning Australian film and television actress of Dutch ancestry. Internationally, she is best known for her appearance as Stella in the third episode of the HBO miniseries The Pacific, and her recurring role playing the ex-wife of Det...
  
   as Rachel Edwards
• Jean Smart
  Jean Smart
  Jean E. Smart is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her comedic roles, one of the best known being her role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women. She later gained critical acclaim for dramatic work, with her portrayal of Martha Logan on 24...
  
   as Governor Pat Jameson
• Mark Dacascos
  Mark Dacascos
  Mark Alan Dacascos is an American actor and martial artist. He won numerous karate and various styles of kung fu championships between the ages of 7 and 18....
  
   as Wo Fat
• Masi Oka
  Masi Oka
  Masayori "Masi" Oka is a Japanese-American actor and digital effects artist.He has performed in numerous feature films and TV series, most prominently as Hiro Nakamura in the NBC TV series Heroes from 2006 until its cancellation in May 2010. He resides in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:Oka...
  
   as Dr. Max Bergman
• James Marsters
  James Marsters
  James Wesley Marsters is an American actor and musician. Marsters first came to the attention of the general public playing the popular character Spike, a platinum-blond yobbish English vampire in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series, Angel from 1997 to 2004...
  
   as Victor Hesse
• Will Yun Lee
  Will Yun Lee
  Will Yun Lee is an Korean American actor.He is best known for his roles on TNT's supernatural drama series Witchblade as Danny Woo and as Jae Kim on NBC's science fiction television drama Bionic Woman...
  
   as Sang Min
• Larisa Oleynik
  Larisa Oleynik
  Larisa Romanovna Oleynik is an American actress. She came to fame in the mid-1990s, after starring in the title role of the popular television series, The Secret World of Alex Mack, and has also appeared in theatrical films, including The Baby-Sitters Club and 10 Things I Hate About You...
  
   as Jenna Kaye

Notable guest stars

• William Sadler
  William Sadler (actor)
  William Thomas Sadler is an American actor who works in film and television. His television and motion picture roles have included Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller in The Pacific, Luther Sloan in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Sheriff Jim Valenti in Roswell, convict Heywood in The Shawshank Redemption,...
  
   as Jack McGarrett
• Peter Stormare
  Peter Stormare
  is a Swedish film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director, playwright and musician.- Early life :...
  
   as Drago Zankovic
• Balthazar Getty
  Balthazar Getty
  Balthazar Getty is an American film actor and member of the band Ringside. He is known for the roles of Thomas Grace on the American action drama Alias and Tommy Walker on the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters.-Early life:...
  
   as Walton Dawkins
• Patrick Gallagher
  Patrick Gallagher
  Patrick Gallagher may refer to:*Patrick Gallagher , Canadian actor*Patrick Gallagher , soccer player*Patrick Gallagher , former Irish politician with Sinn Féin the Workers' Party, Workers Party of Ireland and Democratic Left*Patrick J...
  
   as Carlos Bagoyo
• Kevin Sorbo
  Kevin Sorbo
  Kevin David Sorbo is an American actor best known for the roles of Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda and Kull in Kull the Conqueror.-Early life:...
  
   as Carlton Bass
• Robert Loggia
  Robert Loggia
  Robert Loggia is an American film and television actor and director.- Early life :Loggia, an Italian American, was born on Staten Island, the son of Elena Blandino, a homemaker, and Benjamin Loggia, a shoemaker, both of whom were born in Sicily, Italy...
  
   as Ed McKay
• Vanessa Minillo as Susan
• Nick Lachey
  Nick Lachey
  Nicholas Scott "Nick" Lachey is an American singer, songwriter, actor, producer and television personality. Lachey rose to fame as a member of the boy band 98 Degrees. He later starred in the reality television series Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica with his then-wife, Jessica Simpson. He has released...
  
   as Tyler
• Dane Cook
  Dane Cook
  Dane Jeffrey Cook is an American stand-up comedian and film actor. He has released five comedy albums: Harmful If Swallowed; Retaliation; Vicious Circle; Rough Around The Edges: Live From Madison Square Garden; and Isolated Incident. In 2006, Retaliation became the highest charting comedy album...
  
   as Matthew Williams
• Rick Springfield
  Rick Springfield
  Rick Springfield is an Australian-born singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He was a member of pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 and then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the United States...
  
   as Renny Sinclair
• Sean "Diddy" Combs
  Sean Combs
  Sean John Combs , also known by his stage names Diddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. He has won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards, and his clothing line earned a Council of Fashion Designers of America award. He was originally...
  
   as Reggie Cole
• Masaharu Morimoto
  Masaharu Morimoto
  is a well-known Japanese chef, best known as the third Iron Chef on the Japanese TV cooking show Iron Chef, and an Iron Chef on its spinoff, Iron Chef America. He is also known for his unique style of presenting food....
  
   as Himself

Episodes

Series no.	Season no.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code	U.S. viewers (million)

Production

The first season was executive produced

Executive producer

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 by the three co-creators Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Peter M. Lenkov with the latter serving as head writer

Head writer

A head writer is a person who oversees the team of writers on a television or radio series. The title is common in the soap opera genre, as well as with sketch comedies and talk shows that feature monologues and comedy skits, but in prime time series this function is generally performed by an...

 and day-to-day showrunner. Len Wiseman

Len Wiseman

Len Ryan Wiseman is an American film director best known for his work on the Underworld series and Live Free or Die Hard. His latest project, Total Recall, is set for release in summer 2012...

 also executive produced the pilot episode, which he directed. Brad Turner

Brad Turner (director)

Brad Turner is an award-winning Canadian film and television director who has worked on several popular series. Born in Bayfield, Ontario, Canada, on June 22. He graduated with honors from the Television Arts Program at H. B. Beal Secondary School in London, Ontario.In all he has directed thirteen...

, Sarah Goldfinger

Sarah Goldfinger

Sarah Goldfinger was a television writer/producer for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, for Brothers and Sisters and for the new Hawaii Five-0.-Education:She graduated from Hampshire College with a BA in creative writing and literature....

, J. R. Orci, Elwood Reid

Elwood Reid

Elwood Reid is an American novelist and short-story writer. He worked as a cook, barkeeper, teacher and spent two years in Alaska working as a carpenter. He is a 1996 graduate of the University of Michigan Creative Writing MFA Program...

 and Paul Zbyszewski

Paul Zbyszewski

Paul Zbyszewski is an American television writer and producer. He has worked in both capacities on the series Lost and Day Break, and he is the creator of Day Break. He also wrote the feature film After the Sunset.-Career:...

 all served as co-executive producers along with Carol Barbee

Carol Barbee

Carol Denise Barbee is an American television writer, actress and producer.-Biography:Barbee graduated from Central Cabarrus High School in Concord, North Carolina and attended Wake Forest University for Undergraduate School. She graduated from UCLA for Graduate School.She is married to actor...

 and Shane Salerno

Shane Salerno

Shane Salerno is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He has written or co-written several blockbuster films including Armageddon and Shaft and is also one of the writer-producers of the successful CBS drama series Hawaii Five-0...

, who were consulting producers. The season's twenty-four episodes were directed by thirteen different directors. Brad Turner accumulated the most credits with eight episodes, including the season finale

Season finale

A season finale is the final episode of a season of a television program...

. Matt Earl Beesley

Matt Earl Beesley

Matthew Earl "Matt" Beesley is an American television director. He has directed episodes of television series such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Prison Break, Lost, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Criminal Minds, The Closer and CSI: Miami. He directed the 1998 Mickey Rourke film Point...

 directed three episodes while Duane Clark

Duane Clark

Duane Clark is an American television director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed episodes for number of notable television series namely Highlander: The Series, Dark Angel, The Practice, Boston Public, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and XIII.He is the son of...

 and Chris Fisher

Chris Fisher

Chris Fisher , is an American director, writer, and producer.-Career:Fisher grew up in Newport Beach and studied philosophy and law at the University of Southern California, going on to work as a corporate lawyer in London before deciding to work in the entertainment industry...

 directed two each. The remaining eight episodes were directed by Paul Edwards, Alex Zakrzewski

Alex Zakrzewski

Alexander "Alex" Zakrzewski is an American television director and cinematographer. He has directed episodes of The Wire, Numb3rs, Cold Case, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has worked on several Tom Fontana produced shows including Oz, Homicide: Life on the...

, James Whitmore, Jr., Elodie Keene

Elodie Keene

Elodie Keene is an American film/television director, producer and editor. As a television director her credits include ER, NYPD Blue, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Charmed, Felicity, The Wire, House, M.D., The Closer, Nip/Tuck and among other series.She has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, two for...

, Frederick E. O. Toye

Fred Toye

Frederick E.O. Toye is an American television director and producer. He has directed several episodes of the ABC series, Alias, as well as for the FOX science fiction series Fringe...

, Eric Laneuville

Eric Laneuville

Eric Gerard Laneuville is an American television director, actor and martial artist. His first prominent acting roles were in the science-fiction film The Omega Man with Charlton Heston and the ABC television series Room 222 . His role as Luther Hawkins in the television series St...

, Larry Teng

Larry Teng

Larry Teng is an American television director and producer.He has directed and produced for the television series Medium from 2007 to the series end in 2011. He also served as music and post-production supervisor on Ed. In 2011, He directed an episode of Hawaii Five-0.In 2005, Teng married actress...

 and Steve Boyum

Steve Boyum

Steve Boyum is a long time Hollywood stunt performer, television director and film director. He has appeared in over 60 films as a stunt performer.-Selected filmography as a director:*Human Target...

.

CBS initially announced that a pilot for a possible Hawaii Five-O reboot had been ordered into production on February 18, 2010. Len Wiseman was announced as the director a few days later. Based on the strength of the pilot, the network ordered Hawaii Five-0 to series on May 19, 2010. It was given a full season order of 24 episodes on October 21.

Ratings

The series premiered on September 20, 2010 and received a total of 14.19 million viewers with 3.9/11 ratings share amongst adults 18-49. It quickly became the season's top rated new series. Ratings hit an all-time high with its fifteenth episode, "Kai ee", which was watched by 19.34 million viewers and garnered a 5.6 ratings share with adults 18-49. A ratings low came with the penultimate episode, "Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau", which earned 9.45 million viewers. The finale jumped by almost a million viewers and was seen by 10.45 million people.

Critical reaction

On entertainment site Metacritic

Metacritic

Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...

, the first season of Hawaii Five-0 scored 65/100 based on 29 critical reviews, constituing a rank of "Generally favorable reviews."

External links

• List of Hawaii Five-0 episodes at The Futon Critic