A&E Television Renews ‘The Glades’ For a Third Season, Summer 2012
A&E Television Renews ‘The Glades’ starring Kiele Sanchez
A&E has renewed its central flagship drama series The Glades for a third season, which will launch next summer 2012. The news comes a month after the cop series starring Matt Passmore and Kiele Sanchez ended its second season, which averaged 3.9 million viewers, 1.55 million of them in the 18-49 demographic and 1.74 million in adults 25-54. In 18-49, The Glades was up 12% from Season 1. With the renewal, A&E will have three original series on tap for next year: The Glades; Breakout Kings, which will return for a second season; and the recently picked up newcomer Longmire.
The news comes as the net looks to expand its scripted footprint, with other scripted dramas Breakout Kings and upcoming Longmire.
For its part, The Glades second season grew 12 percent in the advertiser beloved 18 to 49 demographic –and 2 percent in the adults 25 to 54 demo– compared to a year earlier. On average, the series, starring Matt Passmore and Kiele Sanchez lured 3.9 million total viewers.
The Glades is produced by Fox Television Studios, is executive produced by creator Clifton Campbell (White Collar, 21 Jump Street) and Gary Randall (Saving Grace.)
THE GLADES, Iron Pipeline, Premieres August 7, 2011
A popular high school teacher and soccer coach is found shot to death under the bleachers at school. Jeff is especially affected by his coach’s murder. Not only was the victim Jeff’s mentor, he was his security blanket for those awkward times a freshman often faces. Longworth’s investigation leads him to a bullied freshman, but leaves him wondering where a 15-year-old got a gun. Jim and the FDLE track two new suspects, a shady at a flea market and a sporting goods store owner, ultimately ending in two tense standoffs
THE GLADES stars Kiele Sanchez, Matt Passmore. Iron Pipeline, Premiere Date: August 7, 2011. Share
Update by Kristen Nuzzi, The Glades Examiner
Callie and Jeff arrive at the high school soccer fields. She is dropping him off for what will be his last soccer camp before he starts high school as a freshman the coming school year. Callie walks with Jeff over to the field to give the coach his registration check but the coach is nowhere to be found. Callie tells Jeff that she has to get to work and starts to leave. As she begins walking away she hears the distant shouts of a female student waving and yelling for someone to call 911 from across the field. Callie runs over and finds the coach shot lying on the ground. Jeff and his teammates look on in horror as Callie gives him CPR but it’s already too late, he’s dead.
Jim arrives on the scene and notices immediately that Callie is all shaken up. He asks her what happened and she tells him that she was dropping Jeff off at soccer camp and some runners found the coach shot under the bleachers. She tried to resuscitate him but it didn’t do any good. She tells Jim that she has known the coach since Jeff was just eight years old and that he is pretty upset. The coach had taken him under his wing when his father first went into prison. He observes that in the middle of the day someone must have seen something. Callie tells him that one of the parents mentioned that supposedly a freshman, Shane Wyatt, had brought a gun to school.
THE GLADES, 'Second Skin', July 31, 2011
THE GLADES, ‘Second Skin’, A man found dead in a church lying face down in a box full of poisonous snakes sets Longworth and the FDLE into motion. Who’s the killer–the caterer, the con or someone else entirely? And to make mattes worse, in the middle of the investigation someone is bitten by one of the deadly vipers. You won’t want to miss this new episode of THE GLADES on Sunday at 10/9c. THE GLADES, ‘Second Skin’ Episode: 8, Premiere Date: July 31, 2011 Stars Kiele Sanchez, Matt Passmore. KieleSanchez.com. Share
The Glades – All New, Sunday July 24th (Promo)
An all new episode of THE GLADES airs Sunday night at 10/9c! Things are not what they seem when Jim Longworth and his crew investigate the murder of a doctor.
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'The Glades' ,10PM Sundays on A&E
Kiele Sanchez, The Glades
‘The Glades’ (10PM ET Sunday, A&E) may not have risen to the level of must-see TV, but it’s certainly gotten better.
If you think of the Florida-set detective drama as a less ambitious ‘Burn Notice’ or a throwback to the moderately competent police procedurals of years gone by, it may well work as a pleasant summer diversion.
The biggest change is that the lead character, relocated Chicago police officer Jim Longworth, is no longer off-puttingly obnoxious, as he was in last year’s wince-inducing pilot for ‘The Glades.’ Jim, who’s played by Matt Passmore, has been wisely dialed down several notches and given relatively interesting cases to work.
Jim still barges in where he isn’t wanted and insouciantly plucks snacks from other people’s fruit baskets (no, that’s not an analogy), but he now resembles an actual person, rather than a robotic collection of cocky-cop stereotypes.
Another surprise is that Longworth’s personal life gets a fair amount of attention on the show. It’s not a bad idea, given that what goes on in his relationships tends to balance out the detective’s on-the-job brashness. Still, some of the relationship stuff drags. Longworth’s dating a nurse named Callie (Kiele Sanchez), but the complications she brings to the table — a spouse who was recently released from prison — tend to slow down the show’s brisk pace.
There’s much more chemistry at work in the second episode of the season, when an old law-enforcement friend who shares Longworth’s brand of brashness flies in from Chicago to work a big case with him. Natalia Cigluiti, who plays Illinois cop Samantha Harper, has much more of a spark with Passmore, not that I’m hoping that a full-blown love triangle develops. It’s just good to know that, given emotional moments to play, Passmore’s more than capable of doing good work.
If there’s one arena in which the show could use work, it concerns the show’s supporting characters — that’s one of the areas in which the ‘Burn Notice’ comparison falls apart (on ‘The Glades, there also aren’t any voiceovers or bombs built out of Super Glue and paper clips, alas). Michael Westen’s sidekicks are fully capable of carrying almost entire ‘Burn Notice’ episodes by themselves, but Jim’s boss and co-workers don’t really distinguish themselves in any notable ways. The performances aren’t bad, the characters just tend to be utilitarian and underwritten.
‘The Glades’ isn’t doing anything particularly new, but as a Twitter correspondent noted, it’s the perfect show to fold laundry to. A few notches below that “must-see” category are those “laundry-folders,” if you will — programs that occupy some your attention but don’t distract you unduly from household chores. ‘The Glades’ has certainly worked its way into that category, and considering where it started, that’s something.
The next bit of intel may be considered spoilery, so check out if you don’t want to know about one of season 2′s story lines: An A&E rep says that Samantha Harper will indeed play “a significant role” in the new season as a possible love interest for Jim. It’s good to know, given that her bold character tends to give Jim as good as she gets; their professional and personal partnership has potential. Again, I’m not hoping for a predictable love triangle, but this show needs a few sparks in the supporting-character department. Share