"Leverage" Reboot Starring Noah Wyle Ordered at IMDb TV

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"Leverage" Reboot Starring Noah Wyle Ordered by IMDb TV; Original Series’ Team, 4 Cast Members Return
by Nellie Andreeva
April 22, 2020


Dean Devlin, John Rogers and Chris Downey’s cult 2008 crime drama series "Leverage" is coming back with a new lead.

IMDb TV, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service, has ordered a new "Leverage" series, headlined by Noah Wyle in a reunion with Rogers and Devlin after their collaboration on "The Librarians" franchise.

It marks the first major original series for IMDb TV, whose content team recently moved under the Amazon Studios umbrella.




The new series will include new characters, including one played by five-time Emmy nominee Wyle, who also will direct two of the 13 episodes. He will be joined by original cast members:

Beth Riesgraf as “Parker”
Gina Bellman as “Sophie Devereaux”
Christian Kane as “Eliot Spencer”
Aldis Hodge as “Alec Hardison”

Original series star Timothy Hutton is not set to return.




“Since the day it was cancelled, I’ve longed to return to the world of Leverage. The show, the characters, the cast and the people who made it happen all hold a very special place in my heart,” said Devlin.

“Our new series with Amazon Studios and IMDb TV is a re-imagining of the original premise. While Leverage centered on a crusade to avenge the death of a child, this series is propelled forward as a redemption story of misdeeds that need amends. I could not be more excited and fired up about returning to the world of Hitter, Hacker, Grifter, Thief!!”

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Leverage revival cast members are wearing face shields to their table reads

Beth Riesgraf posted an image from Wednesday's second table read of IMDb TV's revival of the TNT crime series. Earlier this week, cast member Gina Bellman posted a photo with the cast in close proximity, all wearing masks. However, Christian Kane and Aldis Hodge weren't wearing masks in an Instagram photo from Saturday. Meanwhile, co-creator John Rogers tweeted of the first table read on Tuesday: "Completely surreal, everybody’s right back in the voices."

Leverage reboot has been successfully filming with coronavirus precautions

The cast of the IMDb TV series were flown out via private jet earlier this month, and have been filming in New Orleans since Aug. 10. Cast and crew members last week posted of social-distanced table reads while wearing face shields.

Aldis Hodge gets a Leverage hacker sister

Charmed vet Aleyse Shannon has joined the IMDb TV revival as Breanna Casey, the younger sister of Hodge's Alec, who happens to share the same hacking skills as him.

IMDb TV's Leverage revival will be called Leverage: Redemption, Aldis Hodge reveals

The City on a Hill star disclosed the reboot's title, which showrunner Dean Devlin confirmed, while talking with Collider about potentially reprising his Leverage role. "Yeah, if (Leverage) continues and (my) schedule allows and permits," he said. "The first series for Leverage, I hold it near and dear to my heart. It's something that we all built, and living in the wake of its legacy, Leverage, now entitled Leverage: Redemption, 'is definitely something that I plan to continue with, just for the nostalgia of it. I know the fans love it and I have fun with it. We have a great new cast. We have a new cast member, her name is Aleyse Shannon and she's really fantastic. We also have Noah Wyle, as one of our cast members. Aleyse comes on playing my adopted little sister. She's a really bright light with great energy, and I'd love to see where she's at. I really wanna see where their brother-sister relationship goes."

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Leverage: Redemption puts an advisory to an episode involving a condo tower collapsing

The IMDb TV series, which premiered one day early on Thursday, features an episode reminiscent of the June 24 condo tower tragedy in Surfside, Florida that has accounted for 50 confirmed deaths so far. In the episode titled “The Tower Job,” a New Orleans real estate developer's cost-cutting leads to a New Orleans condo tower's collapse. The episode uses visual effects to show the condo tower collapsing. Leverage: Redemption has added an advisory reading: “Please note: due to recent events, select images in this episode may be unsettling for some viewers.”

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