Jon Tenney and Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
On Monday, January 26, at 9 pm/ET, The Closer returns for the final five episodes of our fourth season, concluding our meditation on power.
How do these shows differ from what we do during the summer? They are both more personal and more experimental.
During our regular season last year, we concentrated on the story with the slow but steady deterioration of Det. Sanchez's life, the difficulty Brenda was having with following through on her commitment to get married to her long-time boyfriend, Special Agent Fritz Howard of the FBI and the sniping Gabriel and Daniels employed in the workplace as they failed to gracefully let go of their relationship. But, for the most part, these personal issues always took a back seat to the necessary business of the justice system.
Not anymore.
In our premiere ...
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Scientists, theologians and philosophers have been discussing it for years. Which is more powerful in the formation of our character: nature or nurture? Are we the product of our genes? Or are our personalities the end result of parenting and environmental conditions?
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First up this week, congratulations to our leading lady and my partner in crime, Kyra Sedgwick, for her third Emmy nomination. Everyone at The Closer is already so proud of Kyra that it’s hard to know how much higher she might climb in our esteem, but it’s good to know that other people share our admiration for her incredible work.This Monday’s episode, "Speed Bump," explores the justice system’s response to people with no power whatsoever. I refer to those poor parolees for whom the doors of prison open into airless halfway houses and the Sisyphean struggle of rebuilding an entire life while clutching a resume featuring crimes against the state. Don’t get me wrong. I am an advocate for our overworked and underappreciated law enforcement agencies, and my sentiments are always, first and foremost, with the victims they work so hard to represent. But our prison system (especially here in California) doesn’t work very hard to reintegrate prisoners into soc...
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Unbelievably, The Closer returns this Monday for its fourth season and I don’t know what’s been more amazing, the actual joy of working on something you love (with people you admire), or the challenge of creating, writing and performing fresh stories that entertain our audience. Personally speaking, these are the two things I consider most every day: gratefulness and responsibility. We believe our viewers depend on us for great performances in authentic crime stories with several twists and turns featuring a good look at the curious personal life of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson of the LAPD; the cast, crew and writers concentrate on delivering episodes that fulfill these requirements. My partners, Michael Robin, Greer Shepherd, Andy Sacks and Kyra Sedgwick hope and pray we won’t disappoint.This year’s series theme is all about power. Hence, we begin with the primal force of nature. Fire burns through LA’s Griffith Park, killing five people and leaving Br...
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Many, many thanks to Matt and those of you who have posted such positive feedback about The Closer, our most recent episode and our new season. You can't imagine how encouraging it is to have so much good credit from those who follow the show. On behalf of Mike Berchem, Steven Kane and our resident genius, Michael Robin, who directed "Ruby" and brought it to vivid life, and an amazing cast led by Kyra Sedgwick, I send you back our most sincere thanks. On a personal note, I have been home sick for the last five days recovering from a ridiculously serious cold, so all of your messages mean even more to me than usual. So, so kind of everyone to take time from their busy lives to post their thoughts. I'm being rather sternly ordered back to bed as I type this, but expect to hear from me again this weekend on the subject of criminal interviews and just why The Closer feels a little retro to some journalists. 'Til then, again, our thanks. — James Duff
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