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Leverage - General Information
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Status: Returning Series
Premiere: December 07, 2008
Classification: Scripted
Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Network: TNT (USA)
Airs: Sundays at 09:00 pm
Runtime: 60 Minutes
Season 4 -- 18 episodes -- June 26, 2011 to January 15, 2012
Season 5 -- 15 episodes -- July 15, 2012 to Unknown/TBA
On August 12, 2011, TNT renewed Leverage for a fifth season of 15 episodes.
Note: The following two articles state "summer episodes".
Note: The past two seasons aired 10-13 episodes during the summer, before taking a mid-season break, and the remaining episodes started airing in the last week of November or first week of December.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/03/15/tnt-announces-premiere-dates-for-the-closer-falling-skies-leverage-rizzoli-isles-franklin-bash-four-brand-new-series/124573/
>> Season Premiere: Sunday, July 15, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT)
>> Season 5: 10 summer episodes
>> Television's coolest gang of thieves, grifters and con artists are back in the fifth
>> season of this fast-paced, light-hearted caper series from blockbuster executive
>> producer Dean Devlin and Electric Entertainment. Academy Award winner stars,
>> Timothy Hutton along with Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf
>> and Aldis Hodge.
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About the show
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The rich and powerful, they take what they want. We steal it back for you. And sometimes, bad guys make the best good guys. We provide... leverage.
Timothy Hutton stars as Nate Ford, an insurance investigator known for his ability to recover stolen goods for his employer. However, after the firm denies insurance claims for his dying son, Ford decides to go against the corporate world taking freelance jobs. Ford is soon hired by an aeronautics executive in order to recover stolen designs. Helping Ford are Parker (Beth Riesgraf), a thief; Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge), an Internet specialist; Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane), a "retrieval specialist" and martial artist; and Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman), a grifter whose acting skills play an important part in setting up difficult scams. Together, this group of con artists have the ability to target the greediest and most unjust people.
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Date of last review or update: March 23, 2012
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