Jeri Ryan has played her share of lawyers on TV (Shark, Boston Legal, Law & Order: SVU), but none of them was like the one she played in Leverage's summer-season finale.
"I've always played the sort of tough-talking, ball-buster kind of lawyers, but Tara is very much a do-gooder and by the book," Ryan tells TVGuide.com.
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Of course, anyone who watched the finale knows that there is more to the buttoned-up Tara Carlisle than meets the eye. "Part of the fun of Leverage in general is in the twists and turns and surprises, and this one definitely had that payoff," Ryan said.
In the closing moments of Wednesday's episode, Ryan's character reveals herself to be ...
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So You Think You Can Dance
8/7c Fox
Since the fifth season ended just over a month ago on Aug. 6, there's hardly been time to catch your breath before the sixth season gets under way. But your gasping for air will be nothing compared to the panting by the dancers hoping to follow in the footsteps of past winners Nick Lazzarini, Benji Schwimmer, Sabra Johnson, Joshua Allen and Jeanine Mason, and that journey begins tonight with the first round of auditions.
Read on for previews of America's Next Top Model, Glee, Leverage and The Real World.
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Leverage
9/8c TNT
The cool and catchy con-job drama wends its way to its summer-season finale (which airs next week) with some good news: The series returns to conclude its second season this winter, and TNT has renewed the show for a third season. Nate and his mates will be busy, for sure, but they get busier tonight when they try to deliver comeuppance to a corrupt diamond merchant. But this ice-man job is jeopardized by a slipup, resulting in the team's efforts to bust through Boston's most impregnable vault.
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TNT has ordered a third season of the con-artist drama Leverage, the cable network announced. The 15-episode new season will air next summer.
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Leverage, which wraps up its summer run Sept. 9 and returns to conclude its second season this winter, averages 4.1 million viewers a week.
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Top Chef: Las Vegas
9/8c Bravo
Season 6 of this palate-pleasing series begins tonight just as Top Chef Masters comes to a close. (That show's finale airs at 10:15 pm/ET.) It's viva Las Vegas when 17 fresh chefs roll the dice and infiltrate the gambling mecca to compete in culinary challenges galore. On the menu this season: Potential family drama when two chef brothers compete, plus a fine list of slated guest stars, including Natalie Portman, Penn and Teller, Wolfgang Puck and Tyler Florence. Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and Toby Young return in their series roles.
Read on for previews of America's Got Talent, Bobb'e Says, Leverage, Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage and In a Dream.
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