VIDEO: ‘Leverage’ Writers Room Spoof

COMMENTS (19)

• A lot of people talk to me about this show and every time I’m obliged to answer: please watch Hustle!

  Comment by Thierry Attard — Wednesday February 25, 2009 @ 8:19pm PST  Reply to this post

• Leverage is a good show but it has that “artificial” video look.

  Comment by Joe Brown — Wednesday February 25, 2009 @ 10:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• C’mon Nikki: Come clean. You put this up for us to ridicule it, right?

  Comment by Embarrassed to be a Writer — Wednesday February 25, 2009 @ 11:08pm PST  Reply to this post

• I think Leverage is much better than Hustle. Smarter, faster, funnier, more relevant. Hustle could have aired in the 80′s. Leverage is definitely a show for our years.

  Comment by Benjh — Wednesday February 25, 2009 @ 11:37pm PST  Reply to this post

• @Thierry
  I do watch Hustle. I also watch Leverage. Hustle is 6 eps per year, Leverage is 13 now and 16 this summer. They aren’t mutually exclusive. The most recent season of Hustle seems to have pushed itself much more in the direction of Leverage — it’s interesting to watch how the two shows will interact (I suspect mostly indirectly) going forward.

  Comment by cyberjoek — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 4:40am PST  Reply to this post

• I like Leverage quite a bit, but if you think…

  “Leverage is much better than Hustle. Smarter, faster, funnier, more relevant.”

  You’re far too stupid for anyone to care what you think.

  Comment by Del Coro — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 6:51am PST  Reply to this post

• Crickets. Hope the show’s funnier than that.

  Comment by David Amron — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 7:21am PST  Reply to this post

• Wow. Lame AND stupid. Any curiosity I might have had about the show has been extinguised by this limp attempt at humor. Also, don’t you have to be a highly watched, highly talked-about show to have anyone care about your “what goes on in the writer’s room” spoof? What show do these people think they write for, “Lost”?

  Comment by Quentin — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 10:34am PST  Reply to this post

• Good thing Leverage is not a comedy.

  Comment by Huh — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 12:19pm PST  Reply to this post

• Is that the same Dean Devlin credited on Who Killed The Electric Car? Coz that’s some range. Shame he couldn’t send the Leverage team in to sort THAT mess out.

  The show’s a different league to Hustle – it’s witty, sexy and the actors all look like they’re having a good time. It’s infectious in a good way, whereas the Hustle set seems to infect actors with a bad case of BritishEarnestFaceitis. Hope it runs for years, it’s a welcome relief from forensic murder gore and hospital porn.

  Comment by working actor — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 12:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• Never seen Leverage and never will after that.
  Incredibly boring and unfunny.
  Why would you post something this bad?

  Comment by yikes — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 2:18pm PST  Reply to this post

• Hey, look! Isn’t that the infamous beaver/bigfoot on the writer’s door at the very beginning??

  Comment by Jon — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 3:56pm PST  Reply to this post

• Well, if the spoof is any indication of the entertainment value of the show, I won’t be tuning in anytime soon.

  Comment by Max — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 7:18pm PST  Reply to this post

• I’ve never seen Hustle (though I love love love British tv) but I quite enjoy Leverage. There’s room on the tube for similar shows; why must we only love one or the other?

  Comment by shelly — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 8:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• Leverage is great and hopefully gets the recognition it deserves as a light and entertaining / exciting series.

  Comment by Jonah — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 9:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• I love the show, really glad I stumbled across it.

  Comment by Gen — Friday February 27, 2009 @ 9:20am PST  Reply to this post

• The video is *supposed* to be silly and dumb. It was obviously designed to be a shot-out to the show’s hardcore fans. The snarky bastards who read Nikki Finke probably aren’t the target audience here.

  Regardless, it’s a great series. Hustle is a stale crapfest in comparison… and in the current season they seem to have run out of their own cons because now they’re literally STEALING from Leverage’s playbook.

  Comment by Get Over Yourselves — Friday February 27, 2009 @ 12:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• I think hustle and leverage are two great shows.

  Leverage is great, although it does have the artificial look about it sometimes. I think what i like about leverage over hustle, is find it more funny.

  Comment by Iain — Tuesday March 3, 2009 @ 2:26am PST  Reply to this post

• I’ve seen both now. i prefer hustle, as i like it’s elegant understated style, and how the twist is usually delivered like a magician’s sleight of hand – a bit like The Prestige, which is to me a great movie. leverage is more epic than understated, with the fairly clear ‘good side’, which should appeal to americans.

  Comment by Kirana — Monday May 25, 2009 @ 10:24pm PDT  Reply to this post