Big shots taking advantage of the little guys had better watch their backs for another year! TNT renewed its light caper drama (as the network calls it) Leverage for a fifth season, today, a few weeks in advance of the Season 4 summer finale. Season 5, due to launch next summer, will comprise fifteen episodes of hacking, smacking, and, uhhh, macking?
Season 4, which TNT has shamelessly boasted is the series' "best season yet!!!!," has performed well for the network, bumping up its average audience to 4.8 million viewers. It's not very common for a series to see its audience grow, but Leverage's is doing just that. Probably because everyone is unemployed and appreciative of stories about a ragtag group of specialists getting back at the corporations and fat cats who screw little guys over. Or maybe it's because of the show's jazzy soundtrack. Or maybe it's because Parker (Beth Riesgraf) is adorable and looks damn hot in her slinky cat-burglar outfits.
The Leverage renewal comes on the heels of a flurry of cable re-ups, including True Blood, Suits, Warehouse 13, and In Plain Sight. Congratulations to Leverage, a show I've always respected even though I only tune on occasion.
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love this serial,pls make it happen to be telecast on indian channels also.watched all the seasons of leverage,lie to me castle and loved it.
This is one of the best show i have seen in a long time love the characters. Realy greate actors for the show . Can't wait for the fifth season
now that is what i call a show
favorite show of all time. TNT keep this show forever!! longtime fan. very excited for new season. leverage cast you are all awesome!
One of my fav tv shows, leverage is so funny and entertaining make so easy to watch. I just hope TNT keep this show for more than 6 - 9 season. Hardison is awesome geek n funny as hell, I'm so in love with parker, but I love all the cast. So TNT please keep this show for a long time and im hoping the writer can keep this show entertaining, fun, and more unpredictable.
Parker is awesome.....
OK so I agree that Season 5 has incredible potential for character development...Parker and Hardison, wouldn't it be interesting if they reach a point where they in some ways change roles. Sophie and Nate, where Nate decides he wants greater definition and has to work at getting Sophie to agree. As for Elliot, I don't agree with Tara, I think he needs a mastermind (perhaps a cousin Ford from Ireland) with a strength of mind and focus but vulnerable when off the job. Bringing out his protective instincts and ability to let himself be somewhat vulnerable. Extremely confusing and safe both at the same time. And completely unable to cook lol...Just a couple of thoughts so to speak
Yah a guy like me named Andrew Ford who goes from "extra" to a main character...why not! As elliot and the team face more trouble they need more back-up from a silly, funny cousin, named Brad Ford who is Elliot's fellow tough-guy that looks like Jack Black but actually helps Elliot polish his Martial Arts skills while bringing more suspense and humor to Leverage.
I love Leverage, one of the best shows ever. I'm upset that we Canadians don't get it. We don't get TNT in Canada. I love Gina Bellman, Timothy Hutton, Beth Riegrath, Aldis Hodge, and Christian Cane. I hope that in the 5th season we see more of Nate and Sophie's relationship. i really want Nate and Sophie to get together. I want Parker and HArdison together, and i think that Eliot and Tara should get together. But hope to see Sophie and Nate's relationship grow. They belong together. HOpe that they put in this time that Nate tells Sophie that he loves her.
Why why why would they renew this show ?
because it is the best show of all time on TNT and all of cable television right now. i bet yo like law and order or somethin dont you?? leverage rules
Well if you pull your head out of your "Family Guy-Ass" you'll know!...Goood luck with thaaaat.
Yay for Season 5 of Leverage and True Blood
Great news about suits, true blood and warehouse13......
Oh, best news yet among all the renewals! Leverage is brilliant, and i'm a big fan so yay, super psyched about another season!
Good news. Add more screen time for Parker and it's gonna be perfect news.
Yay! Thank you, TNT, for renewing Leverage!
Yupiiii, love the show, it is just fun
Excellent news, TNT have made my Summer viewing easy and enjoyable this year with LEVERAGE and FALLING SKIES and they renewed both for 2012 so I'm happy.
It's because of the hot guy w/ the long hair. And the computer geek guy. He's cute too. But they reeeeeally need to give more screen time to hot long hair guy. Seriously.
Season 1 and 2 were the best, especially the episodes with Sterling. And the ones when Parker and Hardison pose as FBI agents and come across the other two, real FBI agents.
Happy to hear, thank you TBS!
deserve it !! A fig fan talking.
I like the show, so yay. But I really do hope that they stop the whole Nate self-destructing himself with booze thing. Also, I agree with estella87... this is probably my least favorite season.
Sweet News!
Yay :D!
what a great news!!!!!!!! really happy now
I love this show but I gotta say season 4 (until episode 6 at least) is its weakest season yet.
YAY!! That's what's up!
It's Parker... and the other stuff too.