TNT Orders a Fifth Season of Leverage

Timothy Hutton and Gina Bellman The disadvantage continues: TNT has purchased a fifth season of Leverage.The network has purchased 15 additional episodes, that will begin airing in summer time 2012. The show's 4th season, which offered like a lead-into the lately restored Falling Skies, has averaged 4.8 million audiences, a ten percent increase within the previous season.Exclusive Leverage video: Nate comes face-to-face together with his enemy!"Although shows decline within their second, third or 4th seasons, Leverage has defied the chances and ongoing to climb,"" Michael Wright, executive v . p . and mind of programming for TNT, stated inside a statement. "Increasingly more audiences are finding this weekly pleasure ride through wonderfully complex schemes and disadvantage games, all introduced to existence through wise writing, sharp pointing along with a terrific cast."The series stars Timothy Hutton as Nate Ford, a crook whose team of grifters, cyber-terrorist and disadvantage-artists (Gina Bellman, Janet Riesgraf, Aldis Hodge, and Christian Kane) take lower the wealthy and effective. The show's 4th months are presently airing until Sunday, August. 28. It'll summary the growing season with episodes in November and December.Leverage airs Sundays at 9/8c on TNT.