December 21, 2012 07:24 PM PDT

Leverage Cancelled, Series Finale to Air Dec. 25

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leverage_hutton_bellmanIt’s going to be a blue Christmas for Leverage fans.

TNT announced late Friday that it has officially pulled the plug on the drama after five seasons; its series finale is set to air on Dec. 25.

“Leverage has thrilled audiences with its delightfully intricate plots, its stand up for the little guy attitude and its terrific performances 
from stars Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf and Aldis Hodge,” a TNT rep said in a statement. “But after five wonderful years, it’s time to say goodbye. Leverage will come to a close on Christmas at 10 pm, with a series finale that stands as one of the show’s best episodes… We want to thank the passionately devoted fans… who have been the driving force behind its success.”

Earlier this month, executive producer Dean Devlin told the show’s fans in an open letter that the Season 5 finale on Dec. 25 was designed to also serve as a “powerful” series finale. “[Fellow EP] John Rogers and I decided to end this season with the episode we had planned to make to end the series, way back when we shot the pilot,” he wrote.  As a result, the hour — perhaps inauspiciously titled “The Long Good-bye Job” — is “the series finale we had always envisioned.”



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Comments (124)

  • NOOOOOOO! So sad. Wish it had been on USA, would fit better and a longer run! Maybe they could do a Leverage movie…. I know but wishful thinking for the holidays!

    Comment by Jamey – December 22, 2012 06:50 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Can’t say I’m overly disappointed. “Leverage” stopped being must-not-miss-TV for me midway through Season 4. That’s around the time the cons stopped having the magic of the first three seasons.
    .
    I still watch it, I still DVR it, but it’s no longer a show I make a point of watching at airtime (like I do with “Burn Notice” and “White Collar”). I still watch “Leverage” out of a sense of loyalty, but if this were the first season, it wouldn’t be grabbing me enough to keep me as a viewer.
    .

    Comment by Emgee – December 22, 2012 07:51 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • This sucks! Bah Humbug!

    Comment by Andrea – December 22, 2012 08:25 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Way to ruin Christmas, TNT… canceling your best show!

    Comment by Moxie – December 22, 2012 08:57 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Totally upset by this.. don’t even know what to say.. hope another network will pick it up! LEVERAGE is the best tv has to offer!

    Comment by mary e brewer – December 22, 2012 09:13 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I love Leverage. So disappointed in TNT. The show still has much life in it.Wish another network would pick it up and now I’m worried that USA will do this to Psych. I hope USA renews Psych after making us wait so long

    Comment by Kelly – December 22, 2012 09:16 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Bah Humbug! TNT.

    Make it up to us with a Spin-Off featuring Kane, Hodge, & Riesgraf w/ Adam Baldwin!

    I’ve got the feeling that Nate & Sophie are ready to Retire and let the “kids” go on in their stead.

    Comment by Rich – December 22, 2012 09:42 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • It’s a shame, but what I have seen of this season….meh…at least they have a finale, a lot of shows don’t

    Comment by Scott Hoyt – December 22, 2012 10:04 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Well, this is probably the worst Christmas gift I’ve ever gotten. If the spinoff doesn’t happen, hopefully we will see Aldis as the Black Panther soon, and Beth and Christian picked up as regular’s on other shows, or whatever they would be hoping to do. I’m REALLY gonna miss Christian’s Eliot. I don’t see him picking up a character I like as much as I do the Retrieval Specialist. TNT, you just ruined my weekend.

    Comment by Really hate this – December 22, 2012 11:18 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I’m glad that they’re doing the finale they always intended to do, but I personally had no clue the show could end this season, and I’m really bummed to find that out only a few days before the series finale. I really like this show and the characters/actors.

    Comment by Carrie – December 22, 2012 01:27 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I have loved every episode of this show. I am glad the writers got to do the finale their way. I hate to see this show go, but I appreciate every episode.

    Comment by tvdiva – December 22, 2012 04:25 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I’m pissed this is utter BS. This is a unique show that is not like the rest and still has stories to tell and you pull it TNT? What the HELL is wrong with you? So disappointed and sad.

    Comment by Melina – December 22, 2012 05:21 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I have watched this show from the very first episode, mainly because I am a big fan of Timothy Hutton, the rest of the cast turned out to be the cherry on top…it is very disheartening that TNT powers that be cancelled this wonderful entertaining show….hiss boo to you TNT you suck. Maybe if you had qut moving their air dates around so much, always changing days, more people would have watched it in a regular slotted time. I will definitely really miss this great show, and all the characters, especially Nate and Elliott.

    Comment by Vicki Hunley-Black – December 22, 2012 08:12 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Sad. :( I hope the TNT nitwits don’t get any bright ideas when it comes to SouthLand.

    Comment by TW – December 22, 2012 08:36 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • TNT is the Grinch, with a brain as well as a heart 3 sizes too small. Programming that was bright, smart, entertaining and different. Lumps of coal in the TNT stocking, and I hope a big downturn in your audience. Let’s go steal a great show and find it a new home.

    Comment by Darlene – December 22, 2012 10:43 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I started watching leverage in reruns-I have all the seasons on DVDs.I think it’s a awesome show.I’m disappointed to hear it is being cancelled.

    Comment by Bill l – December 22, 2012 11:33 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • They should see if Netflix would be willing to produce 12 episodes a year

    Comment by kraw hitham (@_krawhitham) – December 23, 2012 12:52 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • This is very bad news, this is one of my favourite programs, I watch it over and over. A great program like this is cancelled, and yet programs like Grey’s keep going way after they have run their course.

    Comment by Pat – December 23, 2012 01:59 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • My husband and I love Leverage. Don’t cancel the show, get new writers. The chemistry these actors have is magical. Bah!

    Comment by Kitty – December 23, 2012 05:06 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Thank God! Evil giant box stores, evil drug companies, evil militia groups. What a crock of liberal, phag propaganda…

    Comment by Grr Time – December 23, 2012 10:51 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • This makes me a sad panda. 5 seasons! I would love to see a spin off provided hardison Elliot and Parker are in it. It’s the age of the geek, baby! Sad this is happening on Christmas! Guys lets steal Christmas EP: 2 needs to happen where Hardison hacks TNT an keeps them on the air! I hope to see any of these guys in future entertainment. Will follow them to other shows! Awesome cast awesome family times to remember, you all will be missed!

    Comment by Chris Perego – December 23, 2012 02:31 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • It is and always will be a great show. It had some low points but always made up for them. I wish all the actors and writers great success with any future endeavors. Hutton is still one of my favorite actors and I think TNT, which is already a useless network, is once again dropping another great show. But hey!!! Now they have an extra hour opened up for another Law and Order spin off! Hell Yea. More worthless reruns of horrible shows. Way to fail TNT. The only reason many people turned to that network is gone. At least now they can finally become a TV station for only people 55+. Maybe they will start airing old Matlock reruns in its place.

    Comment by Kryptic – December 24, 2012 11:20 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • SO sad about Leverage ending. Nate, Sophie, Hardison, Eliot, and Parker were my absolute favorite TV “family” to watch, and I will miss them terribly! Congrats to the cast and crew for a fantastic 5 seasons! I will be buying the DVD’s so I can watch them again and again. :)

    Comment by hazel – December 24, 2012 12:39 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Terrible move by TNT. This is a great show with a lot to offer and a devoted fan following. Maybe the “Neilsons” say the audience is less than 4 million, but I think something is off there, because everyone I have ever spoken to about it watches this show. Of course, they are only educated, employed, and generally between 25 and 50 with the corresponding buying power (if you happen to be selling commercial time). Guess that isn’t the audience they want.

    Comment by JGD – December 24, 2012 08:32 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • No more TNT for me. Leverage was a show that our whole family would watch together. My husband and I liked the Nate and Sophie characters . Our teens liked the 3 younger characters. Sorry to see it go. We bought the seasons on DVD as a family Christmas gift, so at least we can rewatch the eispdes. We think the writers should have done a flashback episode on each character when Nate was chasing them while working at IYS. Plus an episode on Nate and Maggie. Very sad Christmas

    Comment by Debbie – December 25, 2012 06:11 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Ruined Christmas for me. Any chance another network will pick it up? Anyone know if the actors are willing?

    Comment by Patricia C. – December 25, 2012 08:12 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Just like a huge,money making network like TNT to disregard its fans and cancel a fresh show like Leverage. They moved it from its great time slot to Tuesday nights….why not just put it on at 3am if they wanted to kill it? What’s going to replace it? Honey BooBoo? (What exactly IS a Honey BooBoo?) more reality shows (we have way more than enough of those), or yet another tired medical show. They brought back Dallas (was expecting to see Patrick Duffy in a hover round), and they are re-making shows from other countries, but they cancel a show that was a fresh new idea, and not a rerun or a remake of something from another country.
    Shame on you TNT. You are the epitome of Scrooge!

    Comment by Marna – December 25, 2012 09:17 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I can only hope that my suspicions are correct and a new show featuring the ensemble sans Nate and Sophie will come to fruition. Otherwise, I’m left wondering who makes these decisions at TNT. They leave shows like Suits and Dallas and cancel Leverage. I’ve been a fan of TNT for a very long time, but I’m finding I watch it less and less. Poor choices cost.

    Comment by ShaSha Dobson – December 25, 2012 10:32 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • You gave almost no notice that you were cancelling Leverage. I almost missed the final show. Speaking of which, I found very confusing and 24 commercials in less than an 1/2 hour. Really!!! Talk about a “Bum’s rush”!

    Comment by LinY – December 26, 2012 10:07 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • They need to do a leverage movie. I dvr the whole series thankyou comcast

    Comment by marisa24 – December 27, 2012 08:04 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • THIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY SHOWS ON TV THAT IS ENJOYABLE ANYMORE AND THE NETWORKS CONSISTANTLY CANCELL ALL THE SHOWS MOST SEEM TO LIKE. WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS WHO IN THE HELL ARE ALL OF YOU TALKING TO WHEN YOU DECIDE TO CANCEL THESE SHOWS.

    I MEAN REALLY DO YOU NEED ANOTHER REALITY SHOW OR COOKING SHOW I THINK NOT

    BRING BACK LEVERAGE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by Kim – December 28, 2012 08:15 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I am going to miss this show. It has a different drama idea and good actors. If the cancellation was due to money issues, I hope they can deal with them and come up with a compatible show with compatible actors.

    Comment by Yvonne – December 28, 2012 09:03 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Too bad it is over, agree it would be quite a change without Nate and Sophie, but not impossible. This was such a great show and found a way to do it without investigating a death every week. Great show and Great concept.

    Comment by Randy – December 28, 2012 10:29 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I didn’t even know they were getting cancelled!! I can’t believe it. Love love love the show. TNT sucks. They leave these stupid reality shows and cancel great shows. Hope another picks them up

    Comment by Lenore – December 29, 2012 07:08 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • ALL FANS OF LEVERAGE.
    i have made a petition for Turner Broadcasting System, TimeWarner and TNT to stop leverage from being cancelled. please sign it and maybe we can keep our show from being cancelled! click on this link to sign it! and leave your comments at the bottom explaining why leverage shouldn’t be cancelled and MAYBE we’ll be able to get TNT to change their mind!!

    http://www.change.org/petitions/don-t-cancel-the-tv-show-leverage

    Comment by danielle – December 30, 2012 10:07 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • Thank you for the petition. I’ve signed Change.org petitions before, and they make a difference if enough people sign. I also urge people to email TNT directly. We can at least let them know how many people care.

      Comment by Patricia C. – December 30, 2012 08:55 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Here is the contact info for TNT:

    << back
    Addresses and Telephone Numbers

    How can I write to TNT?
    Please send comments and questions via email to tnt@turner.com or you can write us at:
    1010 Techwood Dr. NW
    Atlanta GA 30318

    What is the phone number for TNT Programming?
    The number for the TNT Viewer Comment and Question Line is 404-885-4538.

    Comment by Patricia C. – December 31, 2012 07:40 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • This really sucks! I just watched the last show and am really sad it has been cancelled. They set up for a return with Parker, Hardison and Eliot but I am probably dreaming! I watched for all 5 years and loved the storylines.. What was TNT thinking???

    Comment by PJ – December 31, 2012 09:12 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • bring leverage back PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by kram – January 1, 2013 02:07 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Leverage was great entertainment that entire family could enjoy together. TNT please consider a spin-off with a mission impossible type scenario for Hardison,Parker, & Eliott.

    Comment by J. Shaw – January 6, 2013 06:59 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Congrats to Leverage cast, crew, writers, producers and all on winning the People’s Choice Award to Cable TV Drama. I’m thinking Nielsen ratings shortcomings and network neglect gave the wrong impression of Leverage’s true audience and views.

    Comment by nkael1 – January 10, 2013 04:52 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Leverage still seem to have good ratings. Wonder why they choose to cancel it now? One more season would be the magic “6″ season.

    Comment by Six Season would mean re-run syndication – January 20, 2013 10:48 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • As most of us know by now, the last moments of the show were endearing. Though to ME- not knowing it was the finale- I thought to myself ‘what a great new beginning’ —- two months later I wonder where it all went and fell into this website. All I can say is it was the one single show I was excited to see (especially their seven hour marathons :) — and I see everyone felt the same. I’m almost speechless. It’s very sad.

    Comment by Steph – February 19, 2013 12:49 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I like the show and i don’t want it canceled.

    Comment by Cynthia Harmon – March 10, 2013 08:07 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • This is completely insane, and very disturbing to me. I am deeply saddened, disappointed, and now troubled. It is very disturbing to me that Leverage was cancelled. I came home daily filled with so much enthusiasm, looking forward to sitting down to enjoy watching Leverage have a completely contented heart, with a mind full of intense curiosity as to how to stick it in someone’s face the harm that they caused to another; and for those who know, “the devil comes not but for to steel, kill, and destroy, and it’s about time someone is doing something about it. So bring back the Leverage series, make some more shows, and give the devil a Black Eye!
    M.J.C.

    Comment by Michael Cain – May 11, 2013 03:17 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I wish they bring Leverage back, i use to look forward to watching the series.

    Comment by Cynthia Harmon – May 12, 2013 07:13 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • Yes, I’m so sorry, still feeling blue. May God give us grace to press on; and think of all the Wisdom that God has for us to make a difference in this world, through faith in Jesus Christ.
      Amen
      Michael Cain
      P.S. Take courage all you Leverage fans, we must carry on.

      Comment by Michael Cain – May 16, 2013 05:24 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • TNT will cancel Leverage and replace it with some crap by the Rock. I like the Rock, but I love Parker more.

    Comment by Mikie – June 17, 2013 12:31 AM PDT  Reply To This Post
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