TNT Greenlights Drama Series

ATLANTA, February 14: TNT
has ordered 13 episodes of Electric Entertainment’s new drama series Leverage, slated for a premiere later this year.

Starring Oscar winner
Timothy Hutton and executive-produced by Dean Devlin and John Rogers, the
series follows a team of thieves, hackers and grifters who act as modern-day
Robin Hoods. Hutton plays former insurance investigator Nate Ford, a once-loyal
corporate employee who had recovered millions of dollars in stolen goods for
his employer. But when that employer denied his son's insurance claims and
allowed the boy to die, he realized he could no longer work for such an entity,
and recruits a team to take revenge against those who use power and wealth to
victimize others.

Devlin, who owns Electric
Entertainment, makes his directorial debut on the pilot, which was written by
Rogers and Chris Downey.

"Leverage is great entertainment," said Michael Wright,
the senior VP in charge of the content creation group for TNT, TBS and TCM.
"It's fast-paced, smart and just great fun. Dean Devlin directed the pilot
to perfection. Timothy Hutton is outstanding, and he and the cast around him
have a great chemistry. This is a new genre for us in our series efforts, and
it's great to be able to tackle it with Dean. His Librarian movies for TNT have been huge successes. We
couldn't be happier having him and John Rogers bring that same sense of style
and storytelling to us in series form."

—By Ned Berke