Treat Williams
Treat Williams will guest-star on an upcoming episode of Leverage, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
Williams will play Pete Rising, an ex-hockey player who now owns a professional team. After Rising sacrifices the team's star player to get ahead, Nate (Tim Hutton) and his group step in to protect the team from its ruthless owner. An air date for the episode, titled "The Blue Line Job," has not yet been scheduled.
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Timothy Hutton and Gina Bellman
The con goes on: TNT has ordered a fifth season of Leverage.
The network has ordered 15 additional episodes, which will begin airing in summer 2012. The show's fourth season, which served as a lead-in to the recently renewed Falling Skies, has averaged 4.8 million viewers, a 10 percent increase over the previous season...
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Timothy Hutton
Someone's been keeping tabs on Leverage's Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton) all season. In Sunday's episode, that man will reveal himself, and we have your exclusive first look!
Exclusive: Leverage recruits Saving Grace's Leon Rippy for recurring role
Guest star Leon Rippy (Deadwood, Saving Grace) returns as professional investor Jack Lattimer in Sunday's "The Boiler Room Job" (10/9c, TNT). His Warren Buffet-type character has figured out the Leverage team's game, and he has begun lining his own pockets by taking advantage of the companies Nate's team destroys...
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Tom Skerritt, Bailey Chase
Tom Skerritt and Bailey Chase are set to guest-star on Season 3 of White Collar, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
Skerritt, 77, will play Alan Mitchell, the discerning dad of Elizabeth...
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Michael Gladis, Leverage
Leverage's Nate Ford has out-conned some very ruthless opponents, but for his next job, he'll have to outsmart himself. Well, sort of.
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In Sunday's episode (9/8c, TNT) Nate (Timothy Hutton) and his team target a public relations whiz named Reed Rockwell (Mad Men's Michael Gladis). Rockwell's particular brand of PR involves protecting his clients by sniping at their enemies and sometimes launching full-scale character assassinations. The challenge in taking Rockwell down is that he's a bit of a wizard behind the curtain.
"He works from the shadows and behind the scenes, sort of like Nate," Gladis tells TVGuide.com....
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Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman
Leverage executive producer Dean Devlin says Season 4 is all about consequences, and few events are likely to have more fallout than the hookup between Nate and Sophie in the Season 3 finale.
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Devlin says the writers considered the "Moonlighting Curse" before agreeing to pair up Nate (Timothy Hutton) and Sophie (Gina Bellman). "It was a big, well-talked-out decision and we were very nervous about the idea," Devlin tells TVGuide.com. "Every season, we've tried to end the season as though it's our last. So we thought if last season was our last, we wanted them to be together. But we also threw in a big "Whoops!" at the end when they realize they're in bed together."
And that "whoops" will drive the early part of Season 4, as Nate and Sophie try to keep the secret from the rest of the team. In the season premiere ...
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Leverage, Leon Rippy
Saving Grace's guardian angel is trading in his wings for something more villainous: Leon Rippy has been cast as a recurring nemesis on the upcoming fourth season of Leverage, TVGuide.com has learned.
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Rippy will pay a mysterious Warren Buffett-type named Mr. Latimer. As we previously reported, Latimer begins spying on Nate (Timothy Hutton) and the rest of his gang of thieves with selfish intentions. Once Latimer figures out the Leverage team's game, he begins lining his own pockets by taking advantage of the companies Nate's team brings down.
Rippy's character is expected to appear in at least five episodes...
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Michael Gladis
Former Mad Men star Michael Gladis will guest-star on an upcoming episode of Leverage, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
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Gladis, who played beatnik copywriter Paul Kinsey for three seasons on Mad Men, will play Reed Rockwall, a public relations expert in crisis management. He ruthlessly protects his clients, often going after and destroying their enemies....
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The Closer
The Closer will return this July for its seventh and final season, TNT announced Thursday.
The drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick, will premiere Monday, July 11 at 9/8c followed by the return of 2010 freshman hit Rizzoli & Isles at 10/9c.
VIDEO: Kyra Sedgwick talks about The Closer's final season
Last summer's other debut, the Jason Lee comedy...
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The Black Eyed Pea
At least the Packers and Steelers brought it. If only the advertisers had fought as hard to be worthy of the Super Bowl hype.
In recent years, the cliché of saying "I only watch for the ads" has been supplanted by a new Super Bowl truism: The game on the field somehow upstaged the jousting from Madison Avenue. Even this year's most memorable and charming ad — a bit of wordless magic involving a child in a Darth Vader outfit tricked into thinking he had self-started the family Volkswagen — stole some of its own thunder by being leaked and disseminated online days before Sunday's showcase. For Volkswagen, this extra exposure is likely considered a win. It's the sort of ad you're happy to watch and re-watch — and online it even runs longer. But the surprise factor was gone by Sunday night, robbing the ad of its "event" status...
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