TNT Pulls Plug on Heartland, Eyes Thief Drama

Treat Williams in Heartland Andrew Eccles/TNT

TNT has taken Treat Williams' Heartland off the donor list after nine episodes. The med drama opened with poor retention of lead-in The Closer's audience, and only waned further when it got bumped to an 8 pm slot. Its audience also skewed a bit old for Madison Avenue's liking.

Looking ahead, says Variety, TNT has greenlit production on Leverage, a pilot directed and produced by Dean Devlin (The Librarian) and concerning a team of high-tech thieves who target wealthy crooks, corrupt power brokers and slimy politicos. Ooh, it's as if Robin Hood watched those few episodes of Smith!

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Matt Webb Mitovich

Aug 31, 2007 9:59 AM

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oh well, i enjoyed watching it this summer. i liked the whole monday night lineup.
Posted by suzan189 Aug 31, 2007 10:42 AM Report Abuse

The show sucked! The Closer is where it's at!
Posted by bigstar Aug 31, 2007 11:07 AM Report Abuse

I was afraid it had been cancelled. I was looking for it the last 2 weeks. I really liked it. It was a little different but entertaining. I wonder if they will run off the remaining episodes sometime. Matt?
Posted by teri22 Aug 31, 2007 1:02 PM Report Abuse

Heartland was okay. I did have to work at staying awake while watching it! Leverage sounds like just my thing!
Posted by Ranger99 Aug 31, 2007 1:50 PM Report Abuse

They only made 9 episodes, there aren't any episodes to run off. It was a good show, though. I wish it'd have stuck around, it was nice to see Treat Williams in another show.
Posted by tonster Aug 31, 2007 3:59 PM Report Abuse

I liked it. It needed work but I thought the last 2 episode were much improved from the beginning. Treat Williams is a wonderful actor and a pretty decent singer. I really enjoyed the episode that showed off both of his talents. Leverage sounds like a rip off of Thief with Robert Vaughan
Posted by Victimized Vee Sep 1, 2007 8:32 AM Report Abuse

I was one of the people that liked the show. I liked the complete line up on Mondays. Of the two I would have canceled Saving Grace first! I don't think they gave the show a chance to find it's audiance. I ended up taping Law and Order before I realized it was not coming back. TNT you have a lot more shows that need to be canceled first.
Posted by rawlins36 Sep 4, 2007 7:53 PM Report Abuse

I am getting really pissed off at these networks for pulling great shows. It is beginning to happen much too often. What can viewers do to stop it??????
Posted by craziecrafter Sep 6, 2007 5:04 PM Report Abuse

also, I agree cancel Saving Grace it stinks and bring back Heartland.
Posted by craziecrafter Sep 6, 2007 5:57 PM Report Abuse

I don't know why you took Heartland off. It is was a great show. I hope you bring it back. I don't understand why you don't let the audience decide, maybe on a survey whether shows should be deleted or not. You rely too much on that Nielsen survey. You need other surveys besides, the Nielsen group. yogi garcia
Posted by artyogi Sep 10, 2007 6:11 PM Report Abuse

Treat Williams would be a great addition to Grey's Anatomy!! We need Dr. Andy Brown back on tv!!
Posted by suzannebritton Sep 22, 2007 8:57 PM Report Abuse

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