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Turner Network Television

Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

 crime drama The Closer

The Closer

The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who often closes her cases using sometimes-questionable methods...

. The series premiered on June 13, 2005. Each season is organized around a central theme, which drives both the criminal plot and Brenda's personal storyline. The crime story expands on an element of the theme, and often parallels or mirrors events in Brenda's personal life.

The series has concluded its sixth season of 15 episodes, and has been renewed for a seventh season. On December 10, 2010 TNT announced the seventh season will be The Closers last. It is now expected to contain 21 episodes, the final six of which will transition the show into the spin-off series, Major Crimes

Major Crimes

Major Crimes is an upcoming American drama television series starring Mary McDonnell, which will debut on TNT in the summer of 2012.-Cast:* Mary McDonnell as Captain Sharon Raydor-Development and production:...

, with Mary McDonnell

Mary McDonnell

Mary Eileen McDonnell is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Stands With A Fist in Dances with Wolves, and she is also very well known for her performance as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica, the President's wife...

 heading the cast as Captain Sharon Raydor.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Premiere	Finale	DVD release date
	1	13
	2	15
	3	15
	4	15
	5	15
	6	15
	7	21		Summer 2012	TBA

Season 1 (2005)

Season One opens with the LAPD's new Priority Murder Squad (PMS), soon renamed the Priority Homicide Division (PHD), investigating the murder of a technological genius under the direction of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. Brenda has recently joined the force after a long career in law enforcement, including with the Atlanta and Washington DC police. We soon learn Brenda is from Atlanta originally, CIA-trained, and was recruited by her former lover, Assistant Chief Will Pope. Brenda is resented as an outsider by much of the LAPD, and seen as an adversary by Robbery Homicide's Captain Taylor, who initially persuades the PHD squad to request transfers en masse in an unsuccessful effort to force Brenda's resignation. Brenda soon wins over her assistant, Sgt. David Gabriel, and the grudging admiration of the team when she shows them why she's called a closer, but her battle is far from over. As the season progresses, we see Brenda struggle to establish her authority and earn the respect of her squad, despite the efforts of Taylor and Detective Lt. Andy Flynn to both undermine her authority and hamper her investigations. Slowly, one-by-one, Brenda wins over her team, and by season's end has earned the loyalty of them all, even the hard-boiled Det. Flynn, as they stand united against Capt. Taylor's final attempt to remove Brenda from the squad.

According to James Duff, the theme for Season One is a woman alone largely in a man's world but also in a new city. Brenda struggles to be taken seriously as leader of the PHD while establishing a new life in Los Angeles.

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Season 2 (2006)

In Season Two, Brenda is now firmly established as leader of Priority Homicide, with her team firmly behind her.

The theme for Season Two is partnerships. The theme is established as the opening episode centers around an exploration of partnership within the LAPD and in Brenda's life. The theme plays out as the Flynn/Provenza partnership comes front and center early in the season, and as Brenda's relationship with Gabriel grows and strengthens while she forms an uneasy working alliance with Commander Taylor. At the same time, Brenda's romance with Fritz grows serious as they make the decision whether they should live together.

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Season 3 (2007)

The theme for Season Three is family. The PHD has now come together as a unified division, and their stories center on how they function as a family that must cope with a budget crisis. Episodes this season explore issues of family, beginning with a tale of bigamy, and ending with two stories of family pitted against one another. The season also explores the elements of family life in America, the secrets a family keeps and the horrors a family must face. In Brenda's personal life, we meet her father for the first time along with Fritz, with some interesting results. Brenda faces a personal health crisis even as her relationship with Fritz takes a large step forward.

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Season 4 (2008–2009)

The theme for Season Four is power. Brenda and the Priority Homicide Division deal with the power of the media this season, when a Los Angeles Times reporter shadows them, but with an agenda all his own. The power of the legal system, and those who both use and abuse it are explored throughout the season, as is the power gun violence exerts on lives. On the personal front, Brenda must confront the power plays that come as she and Fritz begin planning their wedding, with a bit of help from Clay and Willie Rae Johnson.

Unlike the previous three seasons, Season Four ran for 10 summer episodes, concluding September 15, 2008, and returned in January, 2009 with five additional episodes.

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Season 5 (2009)

The theme for Season Five is change. Brenda must adapt to the changes that come, both as she begins a new life as a married woman, and when she loses her beloved Kitty. Also this season, the Priority Homicide Division must adjust to the loss of Det. Irene Daniels, as it settled into its new role as the Major Crimes Division (MCD). There's change in Lt. Provenza's life as well, when he becomes involved with a much-younger woman with some new ideas, much to Lt. Flynn's chagrin. Meanwhile change isn't all good for Sgt. Gabriel, who pays the price for his role in Daniels' transfer. An officer-involved shooting brings a new figure into the lives of the MCD: the formidable Capt. Sharon Raydor of Force Investigation who is not at all impressed by Chief Johnson's approach to policing. We also learn a long-held secret: Lt. Provenza's first name.

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Season 6 (2010–2011)

The theme for Season Six is attraction.

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Season 7 (2011)

The theme for Season Seven is love and loss. Throughout the season, events are overshadowed by a lawsuit against Deputy Chief Johnson over the events that transpired with Turell Baylor at the conclusion of last season's War Zone (Season 6 episode 8). This season is also the final season of the series.

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