TNT Gives Fans of THE CLOSER Ultimate Holiday Package, Including All-New Two-Hour Special Event Airing Dec. 4, Thanksgiving Day Marathon of Season 1 and Re-Broadcast of Season 2
Emmy Nominee Kyra Sedgwick Stars in Ultra-Popular, Critically Acclaimed Detective Drama; Husband Kevin Bacon Directs Second Hour of December Event
What:
THE CLOSER, Two-Hour Special Event Monday, Dec. 4, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT)
Thanksgiving Day Marathon of Season 1, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. (ET/PT)
Re-Broadcast of Season 2, Tuesdays at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), starting Dec. 5
Produced by: The Shephard/Robin Company (Nip/Tuck) in association with Warner Bros. Television
Description: THE CLOSER stars 2006 Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominee Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, who heads up the LAPDs Priority Homicide Division. The two-hour Dec. 4 airing, entitled Serving the King, is a two-part episode with the first part directed by two-time Tony nominee Arvin Brown (The National Health, Ah Wilderness!) and the second part directed by Sedgwicks multi-talented husband, Kevin Bacon. In it, Deputy Chief Johnson is called upon by her old CIA mentor (two-time Emmy winner William Daniels) to assist in an off-the-record investigation of a would-be defector found murdered in Los Angeles. Through a winding and complex case, Brenda must find the common thread linking a former KGB agent, the murder of several CIA agents, a young Lebanese boy thought to be a terrorist and 20 pounds of missing, weapons-grade plutonium.
On Thanksgiving Day, TNT will air all 13 episodes from THE CLOSERs acclaimed debut season, beginning at 8 a.m. with the pilot episode and ending with the gripping season finale, Standards and Practices, at 8 p.m. Then on Tuesday, Dec. 5, TNT will kick off a weekly re-broadcast of the stellar second season, beginning at 10 p.m. with the record-breaking second-season opener, Blue Blood. Subsequent episodes will air each Tuesday at 10 p.m., with the record-breaking season finale, Overkill, slated to air Tuesday, March 6. The two-hour event, Serving the King, will then be re-broadcast on Tuesday, March 13.
Turner Network Television (TNT), a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., is televisions destination for drama and one of cables top-rated networks. It offers original movies and series, including the blockbuster detective series The Closer, starring Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards nominee Kyra Sedgwick, and next years eagerly anticipated television event The Company, executive-produced by Ridley Scott and starring Chris ODonnell, Michael Keaton and Alfred Molina. TNT is also home to powerful one-hour dramas, such as Without a Trace, Law & Order, Las Vegas, Cold Case, ER, Charmed and Judging Amy; broadcast premiere movies; compelling prime-time specials, such as the Screen Actors Guild Awards; and championship sports coverage, including NASCAR and the NBA. TNT is also available in high-definition.
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