The Glades (TV series)

The Glades
Genre	Crime drama Police procedural
Created by	Clifton Campbell
Starring	Matt Passmore Kiele Sanchez Carlos Gómez Uriah Shelton Jordan Wall Michelle Hurd
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Clifton Campbell Gary Randall
Running time	45 minutes
Production company(s)	Fox Television Studios Grand Productions Innuendo Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	A&E
Original run	July 11, 2010 (2010-07-11) – present
External links
Website

The Glades is an A&E Network drama television series created by Clifton Campbell. The one-hour drama premiered on Sunday, July 11, 2010.^[1] The series stars Matt Passmore as Det. Jim Longworth, a Chicago detective who took a South Florida job with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) after being falsely accused of sleeping with his captain's wife.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast and characters 2.1 Main characters 2.2 Recurring characters 3 Development and production 4 Reception 4.1 Ratings 5 International broadcast 6 References 7 External links

Plot

The show's premise involves a Chicago detective taking a South Florida job with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) after being falsely accused of sleeping with his captain's wife.^[2] He assumes it will afford him a more relaxing lifestyle, but he finds things are more complicated than he had imagined.

Cast and characters

Main characters

• Matt Passmore as Det. Jim Longworth – a homicide detective from Chicago who leaves the city after being shot in the buttocks by his captain, who had wrongfully accused Longworth of having sex with his wife. Using the payout he received from the Chicago PD, Longworth searches for the simple life and moves to the (fictional) resort town of Palm Glade, Florida, joining the local bureau of the FDLE, hoping that the area will help him relax and "work on [his] tan". Longworth is surprised at the high murder rate in southeastern Florida, making his job there perhaps more stressful than it was in Chicago. His cockiness, annoying self-confidence, dry wit and self-serving humor rubs almost everyone around him the wrong way. Nonetheless, he is very intelligent and solves murders, making him a valuable addition to the FDLE. He has strong feelings for Callie but does not wish to break up her family.
• Kiele Sanchez as Callie Cargill – a thirty-something mother who leads a very complicated life. She is a registered nurse simultaneously attending medical school and is completely devoted to her studying and to her 13-year-old son, Jeff, whom she has been raising alone since her husband Ray was sent to prison. She is amused and annoyed by Longworth's pursuit of her, but is also intrigued by him and perhaps interested in a relationship, despite her general dislike of cops. She has mentioned having the desire to leave Ray but does not want to be "that woman" who gives her husband divorce papers while he is in jail. At the beginning of season 2 Callie has decided to ask Ray for a divorce.
• Carlos Gómez as Dr. Carlos Sanchez – Longworth's friend and colleague, a forensic pathologist who works the crime lab, supervising toxicology screens and autopsies. Longworth's persistence and intuition when it comes to crime-solving skills usually bothers him, especially since he often is forced into compromising positions to try and prove one of his partner's theories. He is also a devoted husband and father.
• Uriah Shelton as Jeff Cargill – Callie's son. He is a smart 13-year-old who struggles to reconcile his parents' odd and up-for-grabs marital status. With his father in prison, Jeff constantly tests his boundaries with his mother. He takes a quick liking to Longworth. In season 2 his father is out of jail and Jeff spends a lot of time with him. Not knowing of his mom's desire for a divorce, he wants his family to be together again.
• Jordan Wall as Daniel Green – a nerdy 23-year-old grad student at Tampa Tech who gets an internship working for Carlos in the medical examiner's office. His expertise of all things science-related comes in handy in surprising ways for Longworth as he helps him crack cases. Daniel is overzealous in helping Longworth on cases, especially if it means he gets to be involved with other police work that he finds cool and interesting.
• Michelle Hurd as Colleen Manus – the smart and tough regional director for the FDLE. She reluctantly hired Jim Longworth and, like Carlos, is frequently annoyed by his antics. Because of Longworth's track record and rate of closure, she gives him a lot of slack, but she has no problem yanking him back if he gets out of line — which is pretty much an everyday occurrence.

Recurring characters

• Clayne Crawford as Ray Cargill – Callie's husband who served time in Raiford for armed robbery. At the end of the first season he made a deal with the district attorney to become an informant in exchange for his release from prison. In season two Ray went into the Witness Protection Program.

• Natalia Cigliuti as Det. Sam Harper - Jim's former partner from Chicago with whom he had a romantic relationship with until she broke it off for a ill-fated engagement. She came to Florida to catch the Northside Strangler, a case she and Jim previously worked on.

Development and production

The series was originally titled Sugarloaf, and was set to take place in the Tampa Bay metro area.^[3] It is filmed in a former carpet warehouse in Pembroke Park, Florida in the Fort Lauderdale metro area, making it one of the four current series, along with Burn Notice, Retired at 35, and WWE, to be filmed exclusively in the state.^[4][5]

Matt Passmore was the first actor cast in the series, he plays the lead Det. Jim Longworth.^[6] Kiele Sanchez, Uriah Shelton and Carlos Gómez were the next actors cast, with Sanchez playing Callie Cargill, Shelton playing Jeff Cargill and Gómez playing Dr. Carlos Sanchez.^[7] On February 25, 2010, The Glades was given a series order of 13 episodes.^[8]

Though A&E advertises the show as a "CSI"-type series, it is more of a standard police procedural, with forensics playing only a peripheral role in the stories. On September 13, 2010, A&E announced that the show had been renewed for a second season.^[9] Season 2 of the series premiered on Sunday, June 5, 2011.^[10] On October 18, 2011, The Glades was renewed for a third season, which will premiere Summer, 2012.^[11]

Reception

The Glades debuted with 3.6 million viewers, breaking A&E's records for most-watched and highest-rated original drama series telecast ever according to Nielsen Fast Nationals numbers.^[12]The show has been met with positive reviews, with an initial score of 64 out of 100 from Metacritic.^[13]

Ratings

Season	Timeslot (ET/PT)	# Ep.	Premiered		Ended		TV Season	Viewers (in millions)
			Date	Premiere Viewers (in millions)	Date	Finale Viewers (in millions)
Season 1	Sunday 10PM	13	July 11, 2010	3.55[14]	October 3, 2010	2.69[15]	2010	10.8[16]
Season 2	Sunday 10PM	13	June 5, 2011	3.01[17]	September 5, 2011	2.38[18]	2011	9.0[19]

International broadcast

In Australia, subscription channel W aired the first season commercial free from Sunday December 5, 2010 at 8:30 pm, with a repeat shown at 7.30pm Monday.^[20] Also in Australia, The Glades will air on Network Ten a free-to-air channel. It is set to premiere the first season on Monday November 28, 2011.

References

External links

• Official website
• The Glades at the Internet Movie Database
• The Glades at TV.com