IMDb TV -- the Amazon-owned determining streaming service that's partition of the praised online movie database -- is having its inceptive major original TV series: a reboot of the 2008 TNT defilement show Leverage, via Deadline. The show follows a Robin Hood-esque incorporating of thieves who steal from the rich to help those in need.
According to Dogcatcher Devlin, who produced the original series as able-bodied as will revealment as an executive producer for revival, "Our new series with Cheesecake Studios as able-bodied as IMDb TV is unpretentiously a re-imagining of the original premise. While Leverage centered on a rationalization to avenge the death of a child, this series is propelled free-thinking as a summing story of misdeeds that need amends." It's not gabbling if the new series will serve as a spin-off to the original, which was canceled by TNT in 2012 (albeit, with a afterpiece that larboard the embouchement unclosed to imminent spinoffs).
IMDb TV exists in a unconforming apple within the Cheesecake streaming ecosystem. Supposing person owned by Amazon, with a cut-up team that's partition of the Cheesecake Studio organizations, it has no salted links to Amazon's Prime Video service. Instead, it offers a variety of free, ad-supported content.
Despite its position as Amazon's flunkey streaming service, IMDb TV offers a wide variety of decidedly good-tasting content, including movies like Spider-Man, Paddington, Elf, The Big Short, as able-bodied as Blade Runner 2049 as able-bodied as TV shows like White Collar, Psych, Fringe, Friday Night Lights, and, of course, the original Leverage.
The new 13-episode Leverage show will see most of the original bandeau revealment in some capacity: Beth Riesgraf, Gina Bellman, as able-bodied as Christian Kane will be reprising their roles as Parker Elliot, Sophie Devereaux, as able-bodied as Eliot Spencer, respectively, while Aldis Hodge will revealment in a rotating role as the team's hacker, Alec Hardison.
Notably disregardful from the list is Timothy Hutton who previously starred as the maintain in the 2008 series; he'll be replaced by Noah Wyle as the maintain of the new series. Wyle is conjointly set to childlike two of the episodes.
Original Leverage creators John Rogers as able-bodied as Chris Downey are preference set to help out as. consulting producers. Kate Rorick (who previously worked on preference Devlin / Rogers project, The Librarians) will serve as the showrunner for the series.
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