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13 Leverage
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2008-present
TNT (USA)
Showrunners: Chris Downey, John Rogers
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Aldis Hodge, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf
What is it? Hustle meets Spooks in a show about a thief, a grifter, a hacker and a retrieval specialist, headed up by former insurance investigator Nathan Ford, who use their skills to right corporate and governmental injustices inflicted.
Why should it be an honorary SFX show? The first in a number of shows in this list that combine credulity-stretching crime capers with reality-challenging technology, random sci-fi references and geek-gasmic guest casting (Mark Sheppard, Wil Wheton, Brent Spiner). Alec Hardison (the computer expert, of course) is the resident sci-fi expert, making most of the pop culture references – primarily Trek but Doctor Who also gets a nod – but the rest of the team aren’t averse to geeking out either. For example, Eliot, the team’s muscle, once admitted he wanted to dress as a Klingon. Amazingly, though it may be a bit of cliché to have the computer guy as the geek, Hardison isn’t the usual TV nerd – you could almost call him sexy.
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