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Primetime Show Reviews
"Leverage" by Suzanne
Airing on TNT Wednesdays 10/9
I love "Leverage" and have watched every episode. It's a cool show, with
lots of humor and good-looking people who can also act. It's light and fun,
always enjoyable.
I'm very glad it's coming back this winter. The episodes I have seen so far
that are coming up are awesome. Jeri Ryan joined the cast in the summer, so
we see more of her and what she brings to the gang. I know you will enjoy it
as much as I do!
The show returns Wednesday, January 13th at 10pm et/pt with the episode "The
Runway Job". The team infiltrates Fashion Week to fight some nasty people
who use slave labor. The following week, Jan. 20, they help an old friend of
Nate's save her bar from some Irish loan sharks in "The Bottle Job". This
episode is also directed by Jonathan Frakes (Riker on Star Trek: The Next
Generation, who is mostly a director now). The episodes after that include
"The Zanzibar Marketplace Job" Jan. 27, "The Future Job" Feb. 3, "The Three
Strikes Job" Feb. 10, and "The Maltese Falcon Job" Feb. 17. I have seen the
first two and they are awesome!
More info
TNT’s Fast-Paced Hit Series LEVERAGE,
Ready to Heat Up January with More Grifts, Games and Schemes
LEVERAGE Returns Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT),
Television’s coolest gang of thieves, grifters and con artists is ready to
put a sizzle in January as TNT’s hit series LEVERAGE returns with six all
new episodes. Academy Awardо winner Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People) stars
along with Gina Bellman (Coupling), Christian Kane (TNT’s Into the West),
Beth Riesgraf (Alvin and the Chipmunks) and Aldis Hodge (Friday Night
Lights). In addition, Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager) will be back as a
special guest star in a continuing story arc as a temporary member of the
team. LEVERAGE returns with new episodes Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 10 p.m.
(ET/PT).
As the second season opened this past summer, the LEVERAGE team reunited in
Boston to settle more scores against those who use power and wealth to
victimize others. The gang is led by former insurance investigator Nate Ford
(Hutton), who first got into the racket after his former employer refused to
pay for treatment that could have saved his son’s life. His highly skilled
team includes Sophie Devereaux (Bellman), a grifter who uses her acting
skills to corner her marks; Eliot Spencer (Kane), a “retrieval specialist”
with bone-crunching fighting skills; Alec Hardison (Hodge), a gadget and
technology wizard who keeps the team informed; and Parker (Riesgraf), a
slightly off-center thief adept at rappelling off buildings or squeezing
into tight places.
By the end of summer, the LEVERAGE team had scammed a hedge-fund manager who
happened to be in the custody of U.S. Marshals; used Eliot’s martial arts
skills to corner a corrupt fight promoter; and took over a private school to
recover millions of dollars lost in a Ponzi scheme. They also went
head-to-head with an almost identical team of grifters to recover a painting
that had been stolen by Nazis during World War II.
But for Sophie, something just wasn’t feeling right. Her conflicted
relationship with Nate left her questioning if she wanted to continue
working with the team. She decided to take some much-needed time away, but
not before she arranged for a friend and fellow grifter, Tara Cole (Ryan),
to fill in for her. Tara immediately proved her worth by not only helping
the team save a client’s estate from a corrupt lawyer, but also fooling
everyone into thinking she was the client’s attorney.
In the latest batch of new episodes, the LEVERAGE team will work to take
down an oppressive sweatshop owner, run a high-tech version of a classic con
on a predatory loan shark and corner a fake psychic out to drain the life
savings of his bereaved clients. They’ll also attempt to free Nate’s ex-wife
(guest star Kari Matchett – Invasion) from a Ukrainian jail.
LEVERAGE is executive-produced by Dean Devlin (Independence Day, TNT’s The
Librarian) and creators John Rogers (Transformers) and Chris Downey (The
King of Queens). LEVERAGE is produced for TNT by Devlin’s Electric
Entertainment.
Returning for its second season this summer, TNT’s LEVERAGE ranked as
ad-supported cable’s #1 Wednesday program among viewers (4.5 million),
households (3.2 million) and adults 25-54 (2.2 million). The show has
enjoyed outstanding growth when compared to its first season, with viewers
up 14%, households up 16% and adults 25-54 up 3%. It also scores
tremendously well with DVR users, garnering an extraordinary 75% among
adults 18-49 and 64% growth among adults 25-54 when comparing Live to Live +
7 viewing.
Electric Entertainment is a full-service film, television and new media
production company and studio, established in 2001 by veteran
writer/producer Dean Devlin (Independence Day, Stargate, The Patriot) and
led by Devlin along with partners Kearie Peak, Marc Roskin and Rachel
Olschan. Dec. 7, 2008, marked the TNT premiere of Leverage, the new
action-packed series from Electric Entertainment executive produced by
Devlin, who made his directorial debut on the pilot, and the debut of The
Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice, the third installment of the
company’s popular Librarian franchise, starring Noah Wyle (ER). Electric is
in pre-production on the animated feature film Tikis and the feature film
Ghosting, a supernatural thriller which Devlin will produce and direct.
Electric’s previous films include the World War I action/adventure Flyboys;
the politically charged documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?; Cellular,
starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans and Jessica Biel; and Eight Legged
Freaks, with David Arquette and Scarlett Johansson. The company’s television
credits include The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, starring Noah Wyle,
which aired on TNT in December 2004 and was the highest-rated movie on cable
that year; its sequel, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines; and
The Sci Fi Channel’s The Triangle, which won a Visual Effects Emmyо and was
the highest-rated miniseries on the cable channel since Steven Spielberg
Presents Taken. Electric Entertainment recently teamed with TNT for the
crime thriller Blank Slate, starring Eric Stoltz, a microseries that debuted
last fall on the network, as well as on tnt.tv. Additionally, Electric
Entertainment owns and operates the online pop-culture and entertainment
magazine IF (www.IFmagazine.com), which reports the entertainment industry’s
daily news.
TNT, one of cable’s top-rated networks, is television’s destination for
drama and home to such original series as the acclaimed and highly popular
detective drama The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick; Saving Grace, starring
Holly Hunter; HawthoRNe, with Jada Pinkett Smith; Leverage, starring Timothy
Hutton; Raising the Bar, with Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gloria Reuben and Jane
Kaczmarek; and Dark Blue, starring Dylan McDermott, as well as the newly
acquired Southland, from ER creator John Wells. TNT also presents such
powerful dramas as Bones, CSI: NY and Numb3rs; broadcast premiere movies;
compelling primetime specials, such as the Screen Actors Guild Awardsо; and
championship sports coverage, including NASCAR and the NBA. TNT is available
in high-definition.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and
programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media
environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the
world.
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