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 — February 25, 2009 @ 8:19 pm  Reply to this post

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

  Comment by Joe Brown — February 25, 2009 @ 10:05 pm  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 — February 25, 2009 @ 11:08 pm  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 — February 25, 2009 @ 11:37 pm  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 — February 26, 2009 @ 4:40 am  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 — February 26, 2009 @ 6:51 am  Reply to this post

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

  Comment by David Amron — February 26, 2009 @ 7:21 am  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 — February 26, 2009 @ 10:34 am  Reply to this post

• Good thing Leverage is not a comedy.

  Comment by Huh — February 26, 2009 @ 12:19 pm  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 — February 26, 2009 @ 12:22 pm  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 — February 26, 2009 @ 2:18 pm  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 — February 26, 2009 @ 3:56 pm  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 — February 26, 2009 @ 7:18 pm  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 — February 26, 2009 @ 8:22 pm  Reply to this post

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

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

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

  Comment by Gen — February 27, 2009 @ 9:20 am  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 — February 27, 2009 @ 12:43 pm  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 — March 3, 2009 @ 2:26 am  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 — May 25, 2009 @ 10:24 pm  Reply to this post