A&E’s Popular Police drama The Glades will debut on DVD June 14th
Kiele Sanchez "The Glades"
A&E’s police drama, The Glades, in production for it’s second season is about alligators, palm trees and bodies, it’s all in a day’s work for Jim Longworth (Aussie Matt Passmore) an attractive, brilliant, yet hard to get along with homicide detective from Chicago who gets shot by his captain after being wrongfully accused of sleeping with his wife. Exiled from the department, Longworth relocates to the sleepy, middle of nowhere town of Palm Glade, Florida, where the sunshine and golf are plentiful and crime is seemingly at a minimum. Only this town outside the Florida Everglades isn’t quite as idyllic as he thought, as he finds people keep turning up murdered. Each case pulls Longworth off the golf course and reluctantly into his element as one of the sharpest homicide detectives to wear a badge. Between practicing his short game, trying to get a date with Callie – a quick-witted, beautiful medical student with a 12 year-old son and a husband in prison – and trying to solve countless homicide cases, Longworth’s transition to his new surroundings is a bit more difficult than expected. Welcome to The Glades, where it’s sunny with a chance of homicide.
The Glades, which is created by Clifton Campbell, executive producer on another smart police show, White Collar, also stars Kiele Sanchez (30 Days of Night: Dark Days), Carlos Gomez (TV’s Shark) and Michelle Hurd (TV’s Gossip Girl).
As well as the 13 episodes, The Glades: The Complete First Season will include these special features:
- unaired deleted scenes
- gag reel
- behind-the-scenes footage
- featurettes
- and director and cast commentaries.
The Glades will debut on DVD
"The Glades" is filmed in the Fort Lauderdale area of South Florida
Kiele Sanchez stars in "The Glades"
“The Glades,” a police drama set which follows a Chicago detective who relocates to South Florida, expecting to slide into a cushy job with plenty of time to hit the beaches and golf courses. But he quickly realizes that life isn’t going to be as simple or as relaxing as he thought it would be for the location. Besides being set in South Florida, the show is filmed in the Fort Lauderdale area. Most Florida-themed shows, like “CSI: Miami,” are filmed primarily in California. The USA Network’s “Burn Notice,” which recently began shooting its fifth season in Miami, is the only other show filmed totally in Florida.
The Glades creator and executive producer, Clifton Campbell, grew up near Miami and knew he couldn’t capture South Florida’s essence anywhere else. “I’ve noticed a lot of shows that try to be set there without actually shooting there, and it’s always sort of rankled me a little bit,” Campbell said. “So I decided that I wanted to set a show there, not just in South Florida, but in my South Florida, the part of the world that I grew up in, that I think is just as stunningly attractive and interesting and weird and cool as South Beach.” Clifton’s South Florida, for the purposes of the show, is the fictional town of Palm Glade. As a detective with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the show’s protagonist covers an area that includes beautiful beaches and gator-infested swamps. By filming in South Florida, Campbell said the environment will be like another character. Soundstages were built in an industrial space in Pembroke Park, a Fort Lauderdale suburb, but Campbell said they generally shoot outside on location five days a week. Campbell acknowledged that they probably could have faked Florida in California or somewhere else, but they wouldn’t have been able to do nearly as much location shooting.”I don’t know if the entire world or country would notice the difference, but anyone who’s been to Florida would know,” Campbell said. “You could cheat it and get away with it. But that’s what you would be doing, getting away with it.”
Regardless of the setting, the show’s success or failure could ultimately hang on how audiences respond to its lead, Matt Passmore and Kiele Sanchez. As an Australian, Passmore said he’s just as much a fish-out-of-water as Jim Longworth. “I’m an Aussie playing a Chicago cop who’s down in Florida,” Passmore said. After appearing on several television series in his native country, Passmore came to the U.S. to shoot a pilot for Fox. It didn’t get picked up, but that cleared the way for him to land on “The Glades“…”When this script came along, the characters kind of jumped off the page,” Passmore said. “It wasn’t your average cop show. And this character, it just looked like there was a lot of fun to be had.”
Despite the fun Passmore is having, his character might not be so lucky. In the series premiere, Longworth gets pulled away from the golf course when he has to investigate a decapitated body found in a swamp. Other distractions in subsequent episodes include a corpse inside a plane on a nature preserve and a man found dead at a bikini contest. All the while, Passmore’s character is trying to kindle a romance with a medical student and single mother played by Kiele Sanchez. (more…)
'The Glades', Matt Passmore Solves Dark Crimes in the Florida Sunshine for A&E Network
“There’s a weird, off-speed criminality that happens in Florida,” Campbell says. “When we got A&E in on developing this into the series it has become, a lot of the conversation was, ‘It seems like every aberrant crime that happens, it happens in Florida, or someone has fled to Florida.” As to why this is, Campbell says, “I can’t put my finger on it. I grew up around it, so I’m used to it. It wasn’t until I got out in the world and talked to people about where I’m from, and they’d go, ‘That’s a weird place, isn’t it?’ I guess it is.”
In “The Glades,” Australian actor Matt Passmore stars as Jim Longworth, a newcomer to the Sunshine State. Previously a homicide detective in Chicago who was unjustly accused of a dalliance with his former captain’s wife, he decided to head to warmer climes, where he could pursue his love of golf. He now lives in the fictional town of Palm Glade, works for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as a detective, and in between tee times, takes up the occasional crime in his own idiosyncratic way. And the murders just keep coming, whether it’s a body in a swamp, one found in an airplane at a nature preserve or a guy who turned up dead at a bikini contest. Each time, Longworth reluctantly leaves the golf course and pesters people until he gets to the truth. (more…)
The Glades, the Case of the Charming Cop, Matt Passmore
Matt Passmore
The Glades star Matt Passmore says “He doesn’t mean to be annoying, but he just is…all the time,” who plays the role of homicide detective Jim Longworth. “Because he’s just right. He really likes being right. I think he looks at everyone else with pity, as wouldn’t you like to be as right as me? But, you’re not.”
“My goal was to write a murder mystery that has solid characters,” says The Glades executive producer Clifton Campbell. “I’m a native of Florida and know there are a lot of weird crimes here. I think it’s the perfect location for a guy like this.”
“I play Callie,” says The Glades star Kiele Sanchez. “At first my character can’t stand him, but there’s a little sexual tension there.” Callie is working as a nurse and caring for her 12-year-old son. She’s amused and annoyed by Longworth’s pursuit of her.
“They put this alligator on my table,” says The Glades star Carolos Gomez who plays the role of Carlos Sanchez. “I’m the medical examiner on the show and I kind of freak out. I’m not going to autopsy an alligator.”
The A&E dramatic series The Glades follows Jim Longworth, a brilliant yet hard to get along with homicide detective from Chicago who transfers to Florida after being exiled from the department. He learns this place outside the Everglades isn’t quite so idyllic, as he finds people keep turning up murdered. Each case pulls Longworth off the golf course and reluctantly into his element as one of the sharpest homicide detectives to wear a badge.
The Glades is a character-driven police procedural set in the fictional town of Palm Glade, Florida. It stars Australian actor Matt Passmore (McLeod’s Daughters, Underbelly), Kiele Sanchez (The Perfect Getaway, Lost, Samantha Who?), Carlos Gómez (Shark, Sleeper Cell) and Michelle Hurd (Law & Order SVU, Gossip Girl). The Glades is produced by Fox Television Studios for A&E Network. The series executive producer is Clifton Campbell (White Collar, Profiler, 21 Jump Street) for Innuendo Productions and Gary Randall (Saving Grace) for Grand Productions, Inc. The series creator is Clifton Campbell.
Good-looking wisecracking detectives shows have been a success with Castle and Mentalist, and much earlier with Remington Steele and Moonlighting. If you like those shows, you’ll want to check out The Glades.
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Hollywood Art and Culture Center Building Highlighted in Hit TV Series 'The Glades'
A&E Network’s new hit TV series “The Glades” uses the Art and Culture of Hollywood as one of its primary venues when filming its show. The Center’s beautiful example of Mediterranean Revival architecture serves as the exterior of police substation No. 3 in the series.
Formerly known as “Sugarloaf,” the show stars Australian actor Matt Passmore (“McLeod’s Daughters,” “Underbelly”) as Jim Longworth, a Chicago homicide detective who relocates to fictional Palm Glade, FL, a sleepy town that’s not as idyllic as it looks. Cast members also include Kiele Sanchez (“Lost,” “Samantha Who?”) and Carlos Gómez (“Shark,” “Sleeper Cell”).
Produced by Fox Television Studios for A&E, the series executive producer is Clifton Campbell (“White Collar,” “Profiler,” “21 Jump Street”) for Innuendo Productions and Gary Randall (“Saving Grace”) for Grand Productions, Inc. This production team also films USA’s popular “Burn Notice” in South Florida. Created by Campbell, the TV series is directed by Peter O’ Fallon.
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