TNT Renews Legends for Season 2
From the moment Kevin Reilly took the reigns of TNT and TBS, he's been chopping down shows as if they're Sean Bean on Game of Thrones. But lucky for Sean Bean, Reilly is apparently a fan of the actor's new spy thriller Legends, as the series has been renewed for a 10-episode second season, TNT announced Thursday.
Based on the award-winning novel by Robert Littell, Legends follows Martin Odum (Bean), an undercover agent in the FBI's Deep Cover Operations division. Odum is particularly skilled at transforming himself into a completely different person for each job, but he eventually begins to question his own identity once it's suggested that he might not be who he thought he was. Ali Larter, Steve Harris, Tina Majorino, and Morris Chestnut also star.
Legends was developed for TV by Homeland producers Howard Gordon and Alexander Cary and premiered in August to a solid 3.6 million total viewers over two telecasts. The series now joins TNT's 2015 lineup alongside its fellow freshman dramas The Last Ship and Murder in the First, which were already renewed; the outgoing Falling Skies; and the veteran drama Major Crimes. The network canceled both Perception and Franklin & Bash last month, and put an end to Dallas in October.
Elsewhere, TNT has three new shows coming down the pike, including the 1960s-set Public Morals, which was created by and stars Ed Burns (Mob City). It follows the Public Morals Division of the New York Police Department and the cops who walk the fine line between morality and criminality. After that comes Proof, a series from The Closer's Kyra Sedgwick that stars Jennifer Beals as a brilliant doctor who begins investigating supernatural phenomena—including resurrections, out-of-body experiences, and hauntings—in the wake of her son's death. And finally, there's the recently ordered Agent X, a new thriller starring Sharon Stone as the vice president.
Will you be watching Legends in Season 2? What'd you think of Season 1?
