Ex-DEA agent Alex Walker’s (Christian Kane) days working alongside the police within the Philippines are over. TV Insider has confirmed that Nearly Paradise ended when Freevee did. However there could also be hope.
“We’re on the lookout for a brand new residence,” government producer Dean Devlin tells us. “I’ve by no means had a present that was this profitable and but couldn’t keep on the similar place multiple season.” He’s referring to the truth that the primary season aired on WGN America in 2020, earlier than it was picked up for its second by IMDb TV, which grew to become Amazon Freevee, in February 2022. The ten-episode second season dropped on the streaming service in July 2023.
“However it is likely to be my most beloved present,” Devlin says. “It’s actually attention-grabbing. And the individuals who like it, they’re not from anybody demographic group. I imply, I’ve had professors at Ivy League faculties writing me in regards to the present, and I’ve bought guys who work on the loading dock writing me in regards to the present. It appeals to sort of everybody. In order you possibly can inform from Leverage: Redemption, I don’t hand over. So in some unspecified time in the future, Nearly Paradise shall be again. I simply don’t know when.” (Leverage: Redemption is the sequel to Leverage, which aired 5 seasons on TNT, from 2008 to 2012. Redemption‘s Season 3 premieres on Prime Video on April 17, after the primary two have been launched on Freevee.)
Season 2 ended with Alex and Kai (Samantha Richelle) virtually leaving the island behind — he thought of going to his ranch in Texas, she had a job provide in Manila — earlier than deciding to remain. He advised her he has a purpose to remain … just for Ernesto (Artwork Acuña) to interrupt for a toast. It appeared like Alex and Kai have been arrange for a gradual burn.
“I don’t know the place that’s going to go. I actually, truthfully don’t,” Kane advised us on the time. “I want I may let you know, however that’s one thing that was constructed and it was inbuilt on the finish, and I actually favored the truth that we didn’t construct it within the first half.”
The second season of Nearly Paradise additionally “stole from Leverage,” as he put it, with a on line casino heist throughout which Kane bought to say one thing he by no means does as hitter Eliot Spencer.
“Alex stated, ‘Let’s go steal a on line casino.’ Eliot Spencer has by no means stated, ‘Let’s go steal’ something. It’s at all times been Nate [Timothy Hutton], it’s at all times been Noah [Wyle, who plays Harry], it’s at all times been Parker [Beth Riesgraf]. I don’t even assume it’s been Aldis [Hodge, who plays Hardison]. However it’s at all times been Gina [Bellman, who plays Sophie]. Anyone else on the Leverage crew stated it, however Eliot Spencer has by no means. That’s not his job, that’s not his forte, that’s not what he does,” he shared.
“So to see Alex Walker or, I gotta be sincere, to see Christian Kane use that line … And the director, God bless her, she wasn’t actually conversant in that a part of Leverage, so I stroll out the door, [and] she was like, ‘Please don’t stroll out.’ And I am going, ‘I’ve to stroll out.’ She’s like, ‘What do you imply?’ I am going, ‘It’s Leverage. I’ve to depart. As soon as I say that, no person sticks round. All of us go away,’” he continued.
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