The Closer

By TV Guide This week on TNT's The Closer, Fritz "distracted" Brenda from thoughts of Kitty by luring her into helping out on an FBI case. Provenza, meanwhile, had a big surprise for the squad room. On with the recap! Fritz asks Brenda for a "favor" — even though it might run afoul of their pledge to separa...

By Sarah Jersild Brenda deals with Kitty's death the only way she knows how on "The Closer" -- by joining (and quitting) the FBI, catching a murderer and taking out a drug supplier. Things are quiet in the office, so Brenda has nothing to do with brood over dead Kitty and cook. Fritz tries to distract her by aski...

By TV Guide And for those anxious to discover how marriage has changed our happy couple, here comes Fritz Howard, unabashedly pursuing his own agenda, demanding that Brenda follow him on trust alone. Can she do it? I know many of you were upset that Brenda lost her cat ...

By TV Guide Gabriel starts to open up about how he has felt removed from the MCD gang ever since he bucked for the promotion Daniels got when BANG! Shots outside. Gabriel rushes out, gun waving. There's a body on the ground. In the dark, he sees someone fleeing. Gabriel fires multiple times ...

By Sarah Jersild It’s the battle of the formidable broads on "The Closer", as Brenda Leigh Johnson goes up against President Roslin Mary McDonnell. I honestly don't know which woman scares -- or thrills -- me more. Gabriel and Taylor meet for a drink when shots ring out outside the bar. Gabriel springs into ac...

By Mikaela Oh, squee and a half–it’s Mary McDonnell on The Closer tonight (and for at least a few episodes beyond)! You may recall Ms. McDonnell from her Emmy-winning–OR IT HAD BETTER BE–role as President Laura Roslin on Battlestar Galactica, in which she rocked the airlock hard. She also recently ap...

By TV Guide This week on TNT's The Closer (Monday at 9 pm), one of the Major Crimes Division's own — Det. Sgt. David Gabriel — finds himself facing tough questions in the wake of a shooting. Corey Reynolds previewed his character's crisis as well as the introduction of one of Brenda's most formidable foes...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 10.30 Royal Pains 11.30 The Closer 12.30 NewsRadio Royal Pains. Episode 2. "There Will Be Food" Ballerina keeps fainting. Lots to like here. 1. Hank is a genuine nice guy hero. One character describes him as the Robin Hood of medicine at one point and it fits. Considerable kudos to Mark Feuerstein for pulling this off. A lesser performer might not have been able to make us like Hank as he runs around saving the world and being everybody's best friend. But Feuerstein makes it work, even in these cynical times. The Closer. Season 5, Episode 2. "Blood Money" Rich guy kidnapped. NewsRadio. Season 3, Episode 9. "Stocks" Mr. James offers Beth some stock tips.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 09.00 Royal Pains 11.00 The Closer 12.30 NewsRadio 01.00 Greek Royal Pains. Episode 1. "Pilot" A doctor is blacklisted and moves... The Closer. Season 5, Episode 1. "Products of Discovery" An entire family is killed. By mistake. The closing moments of this episode go to the very core of why this is such a fantastic show, and why Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson is truly one of television's best ever detectives/characters. These two sides of her (imperfect) nature are why fans love Brenda so much. NewsRadio. Season 3, Episode 8. "Movie Star" James Caan visits. Greek. Season 2, Episode 4. "Gays, Ghosts and Gamma Rays" Casey likes Max. Rusty investigates a mysterious Kappa Tau member.   [read the full post]

By TV Guide Turbay: She appears in this week's episode, as the director of the SIS, a part of the LAPD that supports Brenda's squad when it's time to catch the bad guys. She does car-crashing, door-kicking, punching... all the tough stuff. And what has caught many people's interest is the fact that she is a ...

By fearlessfathers I happened to watch “The Closer” (Kyra Sedgwick) tonight. The first episode of season 5, whose title I could not find. Frankly, at the beginning, I was scared that the show would  sunk in one of the worst cliche ever. Brenda and her squad discovered that an entire latino  family has been murder...

By molecularshyness The show opens with a Latin@ family having been gunned down in their home in the midst of breakfast.  Only the father survived, because he wasn’t at home when it happened.  This made him a prime suspect.  He was taken into custody and interrogated, and it became obvious that he was not the kille...

By TV Guide As TNT's The Closer kicked off its fifth season, Brenda tackled a quadruple homicide, butted heads with an FBI agent, and came to a sad realization about an ailing loved one. Oh, and in a delicious piece of irony, chocolate helped save the day! On with the recap... Read More > The Closer

By Rich Heldenfels The Closer" was a solid enough episode. Not the best I've ever seen of the show, but good enough. As much as it focuses on a criminal case every week, "The Closer" is still a character show; Brenda's worries about her cat, and Provenza's grumpy streak, were as significant as the crimebusting. N...

By Mikaela Still, Fritz seems to be sticking it out, and the new season of The Closer that begins on TNT tonight finds the newlyweds negotiating both marriage and a case both the LAPD and the FBI want. Brenda and Fritz can be married all they want, as long as we get to see lots of Provenza (GW Bailey), Flynn...

By TV Guide Ah, well, that would give away some mysteries prematurely. Regular viewers might recall that Irene Daniels and David Gabriel both applied for the same promotion to the Criminal Intelligence Division of the LAPD. One of them succeeded; one of them stayed in Major Crimes. Who did what will be...

By tomoneil Turner's DVD campaign box reached Emmy voters this week — in a significantly scaled-down form compared to last year. Like most networks, Turner wants to go greener so it cut back. Here are the DVDs of TNT programs in the new box. Unlike the last two years, no TBS shows are included. Episode title...

By Allison Waldman On The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick rarely gets the chance to dance. She plays a homicide detective in Los Angeles, for goodness sake! But as the harried Brenda Leigh Johnson, the actress didn't even share a waltz with her new TV hubby Fritz after their wedding on the season finale last winter.

By Tempo Both "The Closer" and "Saving Grace" are crime dramas on TNT. Both star award-winning actresses of a certain age. So why is it that "The Closer" is more satisfying than "Saving Grace" (9 p.m. Monday, TNT; two and a half stars)?Because, at its best, “The Closer” showcases not just canny police i...

By Jason the TVaholic News & Notes Tonight, CBS has the first season finale of Worst Week. Medium (NBC): New. Allison is showing weird behavior after going to a crime scene. The Closer (TNT): New. Amy Sedaris guest stars as a psychic that says she can help with a case. Plays again later.

By TV Guide This week on TNT's The Closer, Brenda is forced to make "a deal with the devil" in order to apprehend a serial rapist. Here now the recap. It's night as police approach a house with stealth. A man runs out the back. Police dogs pursue the suspect up a tree. Inside, a woman, Jessica, lay murdered. The C...

By Allison Waldman Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free S04E11) "It's what you do. When you're a hammer, everything in the world looks like a nail." -- Pope to Brenda Continue reading The Closer: Good Faith (winter premiere) Permalink | Email this | | Comments

By Aleks Chan Saving Grace: Erik Heinila; The Closer: Ben Kaller It may have been The Closer (airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on TNT) that started the performance-over-plot trend we see a lot of in summer TV, but it should be said it... Saving Grace: Erik Heinila; The Closer: Ben Kaller

By dan@duckyxdale.com (Duckyxdale & GiveMeMyRemote) First up we tackle the mid-season shows we're looking forward to (including returning faves): Dollhouse, Cupid, Castle, Leverage, Truth in Advertising, Lost, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Damages, Nip/Tuck.   Don't forget that some of our favorite summer shows finish their runs as well......

By noreply@blogger.com (RikerDonegal) Harry O. "Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On" Mixed bag. While there are elements of greatness here, there is no real indication of the great television series that would follow and I can understand why this (first) pilot was not picked up in 1973. What makes this worth watching (and re-watching) is the central performance of David Janssen as Harry Orwell: the actor is superb and the script gives him a superb character to play with. Orwell is more world weary than any other private eye that television has given us, and Janssen ensures that this is conveyed by every word and gesture that the detective makes. He rides the bus, has a bullet lodged in him and is more of a womanizer than other TV heroes. But he's all the more real for it. The story is good but meand...   [read the full post]

By RikerDonegal(noreply@blogger.com) The Closer. Season 4, Episode 7. "Sudden Death" A very sad episode (and a great performance from Raymond Cruz) as the brother of one of the best dressed cops on TV gets shot down in the street near his house. The episode tells a good story and delivers are lot of great moments for several of the characters. It's one of those outings where we get to observe the whole team in a moment of crisis and it's fascinating to watch how everyone reacts to Sanchez and to see who reaches out to him and how. The Closer has a great ensemble, but it's not an ensemble show and episodes like this make me wish that it was. Highlight? The Closer (sad) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book   [read the full post]

By Jane St. Clair A chopper descends as the team holds Sanchez and carries him in. Provenza tells them he probably has a collapsed lung, and he’s lost a lot of blood. Brenda gets in the ‘copter with him. Provenza tells Julio to hang in there; Sanchez tells Provenza (I love that he calls him “sir”) that he ran, and h...

By Lisa My second pick is barely a second pick, more like a tied for first pick, is Kyra Sedgwick (Brenda in The Closer). Even with the great writing and directing on the show, a lesser actress would have given us a one dimensional Brenda bordering on a cliché. Kyra Sedgwick has made Brenda so real and complex, my feelings as a viewer for her character are real and complex. The writing, directing, cast – everything about the show is award worthy, but the show was appropriately named The Closer, because in the end the show is what it is because of Kyra’s Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. Drama Series – I’m going with Lost. I enjoy both Boston Legal and House, but last season of Lost was incredible.   [read the full post]

By LillyKat(lilly_of_philly@hotmail.com) Do the folks over at The Closer know how to do their season finales or what? Yikes. Wow. Yikes. Detective Sanchez. New episodes of The Closer will return to TNT in January 2009. If you missed any episodes from the summer season, catch up on the show anytime over on the show’s official Web site.

By Lisa As the investigation moves forward, we see glimmers of our feisty Brenda Leigh. She's pissed. We also get a great scene with the coroner. All the coroners on this show are weird, and so far this weirdo is my favorite. I so love when he tries to flirt with Gabriel, especially since he's getting more overt, and Gabriel has finally caught on and gotten uncomfortable. Then there's the sponge ... the wipes ... how many times did Gabriel wipe himself off that day?  Loved Brenda with the priest, Brenda with her squad, and what about Brenda with Pope, Taylor and the reporter ... Hi, I'm Brenda and I'm now in charge of every criminal investigation.  All shall work for me.  We go from the demise of priority homicide to the rise of this major case squad - lots of new potenti...   [read the full post]

By rheldenfels And aren't Fritz and Brenda a little old to be having the kid conversation? According to IMDB, Jon Tenney is 46 and Kyra Sedgwick turned 43 today, and I don't get the impressiont their characters are supposed to be significantly younger.

By range The Closer is an American police drama starring Kyra Sedgwick, who plays a Deputy Chief of Police at the LAPD. Sedgwick plays Brenda Leigh Johnson, an ex-CIA interrogator. She is a southern belle and her easy going charm has surprised more than one criminal during an interrogation. She alwa...

The Closer (TV) Provenza's job is at stake after one too many mistakes.

By Lisa Loved The Closer this week:  Dial M for Provenza.  After all the intensity so far this season, it was kind of fun to have such a light episode and I LOVE Jennifer Coolidge, the guest star as the woman trying to kill her husband. She’s always funny.  One of the best scenes was at the end with Provenza and Pope and watching them bond over their settlements.  I would have liked to have seen a little more Fritz, but at least he got a couple of good lines in early on and then there’s his killer smile. Do they still do synchronized swimming? Loved The Closer this week:  Dial M for Provenza.  After all the intensity so far this season, it was kind of fun to have such a light episode and I LOVE Jennifer Coolidge, the guest star as the woman trying to kill her husband. She...   [read the full post]

 CA - Aug 5, 2008 The closing scene between actors Kyra Sedgwick and Jon Tenney was raw and heated. Tenney played Fritz's anger perfectly, and Sedgwick nailed Brenda's ... The Closer: Live Wire TV Squad all 2 news articles

By MysterLynch(noreply@blogger.com) Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Corey Reynolds, Robert Gossett, G.W. Bailey The Closer has managed to maintain a high standard of quality over three seasons. Anyone that enjoys smart strong characters and quality storylines will enjoy season three of The Closer.

Basic cable made its mark in the nominations for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, with AMC's "Mad Men" and FX's "Damages" both nominated in the drama category. Leading the pack overall is HBO’s “John Adams” with 23 nominations. NBC’s “30 Rock,” with its 17 nominations, takes over as the most...

By Tempo That part of it makes it so much fun for me to play," Sedgwick said. "If it started becoming just about the plot, I would hang myself. That's when I would say, let's just stop. I don't think that would ever happen with me and James [Duff] at the helm." Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson of "The Closer...

By Jason the TVaholic Kyra: Right. Kyra: Did I what? Question: I was wondering what you have learned as an actor from being on The Closer? Season four of The Closer premieres Monday, July 14th. The first episode kicks things off with a “Controlled Burn” and is very good. Look for a review in the near future.

By dan@duckyxdale.com (Duckyxdale & GiveMeMyRemote) So You Think You Can Dance, The Closer, Big Brother, My Boys, The Mole, The Next Food Network Star, Design Star, Swingtown, Fear Itself, Army Wives, Ice Road Truckers, America's Best Dance Crew, Wipeout, Flashpoint, Psych, Monk, Mad Men, Burn Notice and more... there's no reason to be outsi...

So You Think You Can Dance, The Closer, Big Brother, My Boys, The Mole, The Next Food Network Star, Design Star, Swingtown, Fear Itself, Army Wives, Ice Road Truckers, America's Best Dance Crew, Wipeout, Flashpoint, Psych, Monk, Mad Men, Burn Notice and more... there's no reason to be outsi...

By Jayden Scott Fandom: The Closer Pairing: Brenda Johnson/Irene Daniels Rating: PG Summary: A longing is defined as "a strong, persistent desire or craving, especially for something unattainable or distant," Daniels looked it up in the dictionary. ...

By range The Closer is an American television police drama series. The show, which focuses upon the character of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick), is shown on TNT (Turner Network Television). Since its inception, the show has chronicled the cases of Johnson, who comes from Atlan...

By Tempo The Closer" and "Saving Grace" both return Monday, "The Closer" for a two-hour holiday special (7 p.m., TNT) and "Grace" for the start of a four-episode miniseason (9 p.m., TNT). And though it would make for an easier metaphor, it’s not quite fair to pit the shows against each other...

During the recent season of The Closer, Tarrant County's Barry Corbin had a recurring guest role as the father of Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson, the lead character played by Kyra Sedgwick. He reprises the role in a special two-hour holiday episode of The Closer airing Monday, part of a busy y...

Til Death Do Us, Part 2 (TV) Brenda comes out on top is this season three finale.

By dan@duckyxdale.com (Duckyxdale & GiveMeMyRemote) TV Podcast 10: Ducky and GMMR strap on their tankinis, floaties, and hit the pool to tackle the chaos of the summer television schedule in the sweltering heat. Shows we're watching: Age of Love, Top Chef, The Next Food Network Star, Kathy Griffin's D-List, The Closer, Rescue Me, Traveler a...

TV Podcast 10: Ducky and GMMR strap on their tankinis, floaties, and hit the pool to tackle the chaos of the summer television schedule in the sweltering heat. Shows we're watching: Age of Love, Top Chef, The Next Food Network Star, Kathy Griffin's D-List, The Closer, Rescue Me, Traveler a...

By Mel Odom Tonight’s episode, “Grave Doubts” offered a closer look into some of the chief characters in the series. Brenda’s father has discovered she’s “living in sin” with Fritz, her FBI boyfriend. She’s beside herself and doesn’t know quite what to do. In fact, halfway through this episode Brenda...

A number of notable TV on DVD releases reviewed recently including: The Closer - The Complete Second Season - an excellent show with well thought out scripts, interesting stories, developed characters, and some very funny moments; Roots - 30th Anniversary Edition - one of those progra...