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      • • The premiere of TNT's Dark Blue copped 3.5 million viewers, retaining an impressive 90 percent of its Leverage lead-in. Leverage 's Season 2 premiere garnered 3.8 mil, a 24 percent gain over its series debut.
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  1. • The premiere of TNT's Dark Blue copped 3.5 million viewers, retaining an impressive 90 percent of its Leverage lead-in. Leverage's Season 2 premiere garnered 3.8 mil, a 24 percent gain over...

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    The action follows former insurance investigator Nate Ford and a small team of cons, who are hired to recover a set of stolen aviation plans for aerospace executive Victor Dubenich. When the team, made up of Parker, an expert thief, Alec Hardison, a computer hacker and Eliot Spencer, a so-called retrievals specialist discover it's they who have bee...

    Nathan (Nate) Ford (Timothy Hutton): Know as the team's mastermind, Nate is a former insurance investigator for I.Y.S. insurance who at one time chased each member of the team. Nate is initially a...
    Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman): A grifterwith a gift for characters and accents, Sophie has a long, complicated history with Nate. Sophie is a would-be actress with no talent for the stage, but a...
    Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane): The team's retrieval specialist with a marked distaste for guns, Eliot is often charged with protecting the team from physical threats during their cons. He is adept...
    Parker (Beth Riesgraf): Parker is the team's expert thief, with skills ranging from picking pockets to international jewel theft. Seemingly fearless, Parker uses a range of rappelling apparatus in...

    Nathan Ford, former insurance investigator for IYS Insurance, sits alone at a Chicago bar nursing a drink, when he's approached by Victor Dubenich, President of Bearing Aviation. Dubenich has assembled a team of expert thieves to retrieve plans for a new jet which were stolen by a competitor. All he needs to complete the team and recover the plans is one honest man to run the job. Nate agrees and that night the team, consisting of Eliot Spencer, a retrieval specialist, Parker, an eccentric th...

    With the team dispersed, Nate moves to Boston, and struggles with new-found sobriety. Determined to return to his old life, Nate interviews for a position with an insurance company, but disappears before the interview ends. On his way home, he witnesses an accident, and rescues the car's passengers, a teenage girl and her father. The girl asks for Nate's help, telling him the accident was no accident. That evening, Nate attends a performance of "The Sound of Music", starring Sophie. Also ther...

    Season three opens with Nate on trial, and the team conspiring to break him out of prison, against his wishes. He soon convinces the team he means to serve his sentence in a private supermax prison, but the case of a young black man serving a long sentence for a minor crime leads to the discovery that the warden was engaged in bribery and fraud for his own gain. Nate pulls the team back together, and with the help of Det. Bonnano, breaks out of prison and brings down the warden. Nate's freedo...

    Episodes typically consist of a short prologue that sets up the client's case, five acts, and an epilogue where the team debriefs on the case. Run time is approximately 42:30 without commercials. Beginning in Season 2, the prologue is followed by a 20-second "saga sell", which sets up the premise for the show and introduces the main characters; thi...

    Following production of the pilot in Chicago, Season 1 of Leveragewas set and filmed in Los Angeles, at Glendale Studios. The team's fictional headquarters were on the top floor of an office building in downtown Los Angeles; exteriors of the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel, Pacific Electric Building and adjoining buildings are used as various views of t...

    Viewership

    1. Leverageaveraged 3.9 million viewers for Season 1, 4.1 million for Season 2 and 4.5 million for Season 3 (figures are live + seven-day, including time shifted viewing). The premiere of Season 4 drew 3.42 million viewers (live + same day), up 10% from the Season 3 premiere, and 4.60 million Live + 3 Day, up 16% from the Season 3 premiere.

    Awards

    Leveragehas been nominated twice for a Saturn Award as Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series (2009 and 2010).

    Fan Conventions

    1. In March 2010, the show sponsored an official Leverage fan event, Con-Con, held at the Governor Hotel. It was at the time the only TNT show to have its own convention. A second Con-Con was planned for June 2011, but was canceled following poor ticket sales. A small group of fans "stole" Con-Con and held an informal "Fan-Con" in its place, which included a set tour, screening of the fourth season premiere and a series of social events. 2. In 2010, the cast appeared at San Diego's Comic-Con,...

  3. The December 7, 2008, premiere was watched by 5.6 million viewers and scored TNT's best original series telecast ever in delivery of adults 18–49 during the regular broadcast season. Through its first nine episodes, Leverage averaged 3.2 million viewers and 1.4 million adults 18–49 in Live + Same Day viewing.

  4. 11 Videos. 99+ Photos. Heist Crime Mystery Thriller. Nathan Ford and his five-member team of thieves and hackers come together like modern-day Robin Hoods in an attempt to steal from rich and powerful individuals who take advantage of others. Creators. Chris Downey. John Rogers. Stars. Timothy Hutton. Gina Bellman. Christian Kane.

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  5. Jul 16, 2009 · Last night's second-season premiere of LEVERAGE was watched by 3,890,000 viewers and 2,724,000 households. It also scored a 2.8 coverage household rating/2.4 national household rating.

  6. Mar 29, 2023 · Leverage season 1 is the shortest season of the show with 13 episodes, starting with "The Nigerian Job" and ending with "The Second David Job." Leverage and Leverage: Redemption can mostly be watched in any order.

  7. Leverage was canceled on December 21, 2012 amid falling ratings. The final episode, which was produced as a possible series finale, aired December 25, 2012. A total of 77 episodes of Leverage were broadcast over five seasons. A sequel, Leverage: Redemption, premiered in July 2021.

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