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]
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 19 |
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Distributor | IMDb TV |
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Original network | IMDb TV |
Original release | July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09) – present |
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Preceded by | Leverage |
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.
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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) |
No. | Title [5] | Directed by [5] | Written by [6] | Original release date [7] | ||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||
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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 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by [8] | Original air date [9] |
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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) |
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]
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]
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]
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]
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