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Leverage: Redemption[1] is an American action crime drama streaming television revival of Leverage with most of the main cast returning. The first eight episodes premiered on IMDb TV on July 9, 2021, with an additional eight episodes released on October 8, 2021.[2][3] In December 2021, the series was renewed for a second season.[4]

Leverage: Redemption
Genre	Action/Adventure Caper story Comedy drama Thriller
Created by	John Rogers Chris Downey
Starring	Gina Bellman Aldis Hodge Christian Kane Beth Riesgraf Aleyse Shannon Noah Wyle
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	19
Production
Executive producers	Dean Devlin Marc Roskin Rachel Olschan-Wilson Kate Rorick
Production company	Electric Entertainment
Distributor	IMDb TV
Release
Original network	IMDb TV
Original release	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09) – present
Chronology
Preceded by	Leverage

Premise

A year after the death of Nate Ford, his widow Sophie Devereaux reunites with her former crew of Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison and Parker. They make the acquaintance of Harry Wilson, a crooked lawyer searching for redemption, and help him con one of his amoral clients. Following the job, Harry convinces the team to stick together and return to "picking up where the law leaves off" while he tries to return to the side of good. The team is also joined by Hardison's foster sister, Breanna Casey, who takes Hardison's place on the crew while Hardison works with various pro-democracy and non-profit organizations around the world. Together, the new team opens a new Leverage Consulting office in New Orleans and continues working to take down rich criminals and help those who need their specific brand of justice.

Cast

Main

• Gina Bellman as Sophie Devereaux - the team's grifter and, following the death of her husband Nate, their new mastermind. Still struggling in the wake of Nate's passing, she finds new purpose by leading the team.
• Christian Kane as Eliot Spencer - the team's hitter. Since the ending of the original series, Eliot has spent his spare time working with veterans and giving them jobs with his food truck chain, Brick & Basil. His food trucks also serve as mobile command centers for the team's jobs.
• Beth Riesgraf as Parker - the team's thief and former mastermind following Nate and Sophie's retirement. Having become bored with the managerial duties of running the various Leverage teams around the world, she happily cedes the mastermind role to Sophie to return to being a thief, though she still does grifting roles in the jobs when necessary. She has also taken on the role of mentoring Breanna in Hardison's absence.
• Aleyse Shannon as Breanna Casey - Hardison's foster sister and the team's new hacker and tech master. Though not as skilled a hacker as her brother, she is a gifted engineer with a talent for physical builds. She also desires to learn other skills from the team, having grown up on the stories of their exploits.
• Noah Wyle as Harry Wilson - a former lawyer for the kinds of shady people the team targets until his wife and daughter left him because of his work. He now seeks to redeem himself and become the kind of man his daughter can be proud of.

Recurring

• Andrea Navedo as U.S. Marshal Maria Shipp - a no nonsense law enforcement officer whose assignments occasionally bring her into contact with the team. She begins a romantic relationship with Eliot.
• Lucy Taylor as Bligh - a high ranking member of RIZ, a private security company that engages in clandestine operations around the world and who the Leverage team sometimes encounters on their jobs. Their firm were among Harry's former clients.

Special guest star

• Aldis Hodge as Alec Hardison - the team's original hacker. Since the ending of the original series, he has lent his technical skills to various pro-democracy and humanitarian organizations around the globe. With Eliot's encouragement, Hardison continues his work, as he is uniquely qualified to do so, and leaves his role to his foster sister, Breanna, though he still returns to assist the team from time to time.

Guest stars

• LeVar Burton as Mr. Blanche - a small town librarian who is actually a former intelligence agent who went into hiding 30 years previously.
• Drew Powell as Jack Hurley - a former accountant and previous mark of the team who later befriended them and joined one of their crews. Hurley relates to Harry as they are both seeking redemption for their pasts.

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
1	16	8	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09)
		8	October 8, 2021 (2021-10-08)
2	13		November 15, 2022 (2022-11-15)	January 25, 2023 (2023-01-25)

Episodes

Season 1 (2021)

No.	Title [5]	Directed by [5]	Written by [6]	Original release date [7]
Part 1
1	"The Too Many Rembrandts Job"	Dean Devlin	Teleplay by : John Rogers & Chris Downey Story by : Dean Devlin and John Rogers & Chris Downey	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09)
When the team comes together on the anniversary of Nate's death to help Sophie, they intercept guilt-ridden corporate fixer Harry and decide to help him take down an evil billionaire making money on the back of an opioid crisis. Special guest star: Aldis Hodge
2	"The Panamanian Monkeys Job"	Dean Devlin	John Rogers & Chris Downey	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09)
With a new team member on board plus the arrival of Hardison’s genius foster sister, the team heads to Panama to pull an elaborate heist before an evil billionaire can get his money and flee to a non-extradition country. Special guest star: Aldis Hodge
3	"The Rollin' on the River Job"	Marc Roskin	Jill Weinberger	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09)
The Leverage team takes on a greedy riverboat casino owner, before he can bulldoze the homes of longtime New Orleans natives for his planned expansion.
4	"The Tower Job"	Noah Wyle	Marque Franklin-Williams & John Timothy	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09)
One member of the team seeks redemption and justice by convincing Leverage to con a developer out of an entire luxury apartment building.
5	"The Paranormal Hacktivity Job"	Marc Roskin	Chris Downey & Jill Weinberger	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09)
When a woman believes she is being haunted and runs from her home in terror, Sophie leads Breanna and Parker through a con to convince the two real estate scammers responsible to target Leverage HQ.
6	"The Card Game Job"	Francis Dela Torre	Teagan Wall & Matt Okumura	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09)
The Leverage team dives into the world of a high fantasy collectible card game with a devoted following to take down a pharmaceutical bad boy who is price-gouging drugs to fund his own house of cards.
7	"The Double-Edged Sword Job"	Jonathan Frakes	Marque Franklin-Williams	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09)
The team takes on a brilliant software developer who is selling a groundbreaking facial recognition system that threatens everyone’s privacy except his own.
8	"The Mastermind Job"	Dean Devlin	Josh Schaer	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09)
Sophie must keep her feelings in check when she discovers that someone has written a memoir of the team, casting himself as Nate – which leads an exiled criminal to kidnap Harry and “Fake Nate,” forcing the Leverage team to pull a heist.
Part 2
9	"The Bucket Job"	Beth Riesgraf	Kate Rorick	October 8, 2021 (2021-10-08)
The Leverage team's holiday good deed goes awry when their attempt to give a small-town librarian the spy-thriller adventure of a lifetime is interrupted by a shadowy spy organization.
10	"The Unwellness Job"	Noah Wyle	Alayna Heim & Josh Schaer	October 8, 2021 (2021-10-08)
The Leverage team sets out to discredit a lifestyle and wellness guru targeting desperate people and peddling snake oil instead of actual medicine.
11	"The Jackal Job"	Marc Roskin	Chris Downey	October 8, 2021 (2021-10-08)
The Leverage team explores the failing memory of a legendary grifter to try and find her greatest score before her abusive Elder Guardian gets his hands on it and takes over her life.
12	"The Golf Job"	Noah Wyle	Christine Boylan	October 8, 2021 (2021-10-08)
An old friend visits, sparking a self-doubting Harry to uncover an unlikely client on the link at his exclusive golf club.
13	"The Hurricane Job"	Marc Roskin	Josh Schaer	October 8, 2021 (2021-10-08)
Stuck together during a massive hurricane, Eliot and Parker must stop a band of corrupt cops who have taken over a small hotel, and find what the cops are searching for, before it's too late.
14	"The Great Train Job"	Beth Riesgraf	Matt Okumura & Teagan Wall	October 8, 2021 (2021-10-08)
Two local farmers are targeted by a hate group, but something more poisonous on the farm leads Team Leverage to a crooked green energy innovator and an old-fashioned Train Heist.
15	"The Muddy Waters Job"	Marc Roskin	John Timothy	October 8, 2021 (2021-10-08)
The Leverage team infiltrates an oil rig and a small-town trial to find evidence that a corrupt oil CEO is hiding a dangerous oil leak in the gulf, causing illnesses along the spill zone.
16	"The Harry Wilson Job"	Dean Devlin	John Rogers & Kate Rorick	October 8, 2021 (2021-10-08)
The team has to infiltrate the shadowy R.I.Z. to stop it from unleashing a worm that can take down the entire USA electrical grid, and they must use Harry to do it. Special guest star: Aldis Hodge

Season 2 (2022–23)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by [8]	Original air date [9]
17	1	"The Debutante Job"	TBA	Chuck Maa & Mel Cowan	November 15, 2022 (2022-11-15)
18	2	"The One Man's Trash Job"	TBA	Josh Schaer	November 15, 2022 (2022-11-15)
19	3	"The Tournament Job"	TBA	Noah Wyle	November 15, 2022 (2022-11-15)
20	4	TBA	TBA	Danielle Nicki Motley	November 23, 2022 (2022-11-23)
21	5	TBA	TBA	Kate Rorick & John Rogers	November 30, 2022 (2022-11-30)
22	6	TBA	TBA	Jill Weinberger	December 7, 2022 (2022-12-07)
23	7	TBA	TBA	Dean Devlin & Alayna Heim	December 14, 2022 (2022-12-14)
24	8	TBA	TBA	Teagan Wall	December 21, 2022 (2022-12-21)
25	9	TBA	TBA	Chris Downey	December 28, 2022 (2022-12-28)
26	10	TBA	TBA	Jill Weinberger	January 4, 2023 (2023-01-04)
27	11	TBA	TBA	Josh Schaer	January 11, 2023 (2023-01-11)
28	12	TBA	TBA	Kate Rorick	January 18, 2023 (2023-01-18)
29	13	TBA	TBA	Chuck Maa & Mel Cowan	January 25, 2023 (2023-01-25)

Production

Development

On April 22, 2020, IMDb announced that a 13-episode revival of the series had been ordered to be broadcast on its streaming service, IMDb TV. Dean Devlin, who served as executive producer on the original series, returned as executive producer for the revival alongside original series creators John Rogers and Chris Downey, who served as consulting producers and writers.[6][10] Marc Roskin, Rachel Olschan-Wilson, and Kate Rorick are executive producers. Plans included Noah Wyle directing two episodes of the series and Beth Riesgraf also directing one,[11] although Wyle wound up directing three and Beth Riesgraf two. Filming began August 10, 2020 in New Orleans and had wrapped as of March 2021.[12][13] On April 5, 2021, Bellman tweeted that 16 episodes had been produced, up from the original 13.[14] On December 9, 2021, IMDb TV renewed the series for a second season.[4]

Casting

On April 22, 2020, IMDb announced that four of the original cast members would be returning with Beth Riesgraf, Gina Bellman, and Christian Kane in main roles and Aldis Hodge with a recurring role. Noah Wyle was announced as a new character; the only original cast member not returning for the revival would be Timothy Hutton, following rape allegations.[11] In August 2020, it was announced that Aleyse Shannon was joining the cast as a series regular appearing as Breanna Casey, a hacker who grew up with the same foster mother as Hardison.[12][15] In March 2021, it was announced James Marsters would be guest starring in the series.[16]

Release

The series was released in two parts, with the first eight episodes of the series premiering on IMDb TV on July 9, 2021, and the remaining eight episodes released on October 8, 2021.[17][3] In Canada, the series airs on CTV Drama Channel.[18]

Controversy

In February 2022, Timothy Hutton, who played Nathan "Nate" Ford in the original Leverage series, sued producer Electric Entertainment for breach of contract, claiming he was unfairly omitted from participating in the reboot of the drama series after he was accused of a 1983 sexual assault in Canada, a claim that was eventually dismissed by prosecutors.[19] This in turn led to a countersuit by the producers, who accused him of purposely withholding an attempt to settle with a victim in order to try and stop a story about the accusations from leaking out near the time of contract negotiations that would surely have stopped him from being offered a role due to it being a violation of the morals clause in a contract; the producers alleged that the allegations surfaced two weeks after principal term negotiations with Hutton had been successful, while Hutton disputed the idea that the clause existed. [20]

References

External links

• Leverage: Redemption at IMDb

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