Burn Notice (TV Series 2011 )

The actors of Burn Notice.
left to right: Sharon Gless as Madeline Westen, Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe, Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona Glenanne Burn Notice Genre Drama
Action Created by Matt Nix Starring Jeffrey Donovan
Gabrielle Anwar
Bruce Campbell
Sharon Gless
Coby Bell (season 4–present) Ending theme "I Don't Know Why I Love You" by The House of Love Country of origin United States Language(s) English No. of seasons 4 No. of episodes 62 + 1 film (List of episodes) Production Executive producer(s) Matt Nix
Mikkel Bondesen
Jeff Freilich Producer(s) Michael J. Wilson,
Jason Tracey,
Craig S. O'Neill,
Mikkel Bondesen Location(s) Miami, Florida Camera install Single-camera Running time approx. 42 minutes Production company(s) Fox Television Studios
Fuse Entertainment
Flying Glass of Milk Productions Broadcast Original outlet America Network Picture format 1080i (HDTV) Original escape June 28, 2007 – present External links Website

Burn Notice is an American television series created by Matt Nix. The show stars Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, and, starting in the fourth season, Coby Bell.[1] The series premiered on June 28, 2007, on USA Network.[2][3] On April 15, 2010, the show was renovated for its fifth and sixth seasons.[4]

1 Plot 2 Cast three Episodes 4 Prequel and tie-in novels 5 Production 6 Awards 7 International distribution 8 DVD releases nine References 10 External links [edit] Plot

The series title refers to the burn placards published by intelligence agencies to discredit or declare the expulsion of agents or sources who are considered to have become unreliable. When spies are burned, their linkage to an espionage organization is aborted, leaving them without access to cash or affect. According to the narration during the opening credits, the burned spy has not prior work history, no money, no support web — in pith, no personality. The television series uses first-person narrative (including frequent voice-overs providing manifestation) from the attitude of covert-operations agent Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan. The voice-over editorial is in the fashion of tips for fledgling agents as if for a training or orientation film.

After running a beat operation in Nigeria and creature kidnapped and beaten, Westen finds himself in his hometown[five] of Miami, Florida. He namely tended apt along his ex-girlfriend, Fiona Glenanne, but he has been relinquished along all his normal intelligence contacts and is below continuous surveillance with his personal assets frozen. Extraordinary efforts to approach his U.S. government handler finally yield only a grudging admission that somebody powerful absences him "above ice" in Miami. If he leaves there, he will be hunted down and taken into custody; whereas, whether he stays, he tin remain relatively free. Consumed by the desire to detect out why he has been flamed, and by whom,Xena: Warrior Princess, Westen is reluctantly painted into working as one unlicensed personal investigator and problem solver for mediocre inhabitants to fund his personal investigation into his situation as a blacklisted proxy.

Westen invites his old friend Sam Axe to assist him, while Fiona invites herself to join them. With the occasional favour and sometimes hindrance of his mother, Madeline, Westen battles a cloud of such criminal figures as mobsters, con talents, arms traffickers, kidnappers, money launderers, and narcotic traffickers. At the same time, Michael must follow the track that leads him to the people responsible for his being burned, and later finding out why.

The series juggles these two relations; the overall series dealing with why Michael was burned,Crazy Boys, and individual episodes focusing on the cases he works for clients.

[amend] Cast Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen: A covert operative who has been burned (identified as an unreliable or hazardous agent) who now finds himself in his hometown of Miami, incapable to depart. With his assets frozen, he is coerced to live off his wits and any small investigative jobs he can find when he searches for answers approximately who has burned him and why. Highly proficient and highly smart, he can calculate on his feet, constantly improvising electronic devices and using ordinary items ranging from duct tape to cake frosting in highly unorthodox ways in array to complete a job. He has two dark belts (or, as he puts it in an incident, "thirty years of karate") and is "rated with anything that fires a bullet or holds an brim." He has an uncanny ability to imagine cover identities, working in many regional patois and multinational accents. He believes that his pessimistic childhood, largely by the hands of an abusive father, has helped to make him into a normal covert operative while likewise making near relationships tough for him. He has a younger brother, Nate (Seth Peterson), who appears in several episodes. He presents himself as a cynic petrified by experience but sometimes reveals a soft, and sometimes vulnerable, side. His preference edible is yogurt, which is featured (or eaten by at fewest one of the personas) in every episode. He has a mercurial relationship with Fiona romantically. Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona Glenanne: A former IRA operative and Westen's ex-girlfriend. Fiona re-enters Michael's life while he is dumped in Miami and she decides to reside, fast making herself valuable to him. Aside from serving as his explosives specialist, she provides patronize to him on his investigations and, at intervals, helps him in missions to find out who burned him. In the pilot episode, she speaks with an Irish emphasis. In the second episode, she changes to an American emphasis, forward with a change in her manner of wear, in an effort to distance herself from her past and blend in, showing her own ability to adjust. She is both a complement to Michael and his mate in many ways, either intellectually and tactically. Series inventor Matt Nix has said about Michael and Fiona's relationship:[six] “ The thing about the relationship with Fiona is...They are 2 human who actually don't have anyone else they can be with. Anybody else is going to be terrified of what Michael does, and it sort of turns her on, and anybody else for Michael is going to be uninteresting. He is fascinated to her, but portion of what we explore over the first season is they really are preoccupied with each other, and already there is causative they broke up. She is an incredibly chaotic human who equitable thrives on muddle...Violence is foreplay for her. ” Where Michael is concerned, Fiona is not completely willing to let work of their past relationship, which continues to simmer. In the latter half of season three, it is shown that the two of them are close to reigniting their relationship. Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe: An aging, semi-retired covert operative and former Navy SEAL. With a cheap sum of cash-on-hand to his appoint, Sam spends maximum of his period slumbering with rich, older Miami women in commute for edible and shelter. He and Westen are antique buddies; Sam is too Westen's last, tenuous adjoin in the official spy community. He presents himself as "the guy who knows a fellow," and Michael frequently relies on Sam's seemingly inexhaustible catalogue of contacts. Sam also uses the alias "Charles (or 'Chuck') Finley" frequently during jobs. It is revealed in the pilot that he is also an FBI informant, reporting on Westen under duress. Knowing this, Westen is skillful to pass artificial message to the FBI via Sam, who is glad to transform his double agent. At some point in the past, Sam foiled Fiona's try to sell a large cargo of weapons to a Libyan arms seller, costing her a nice deal of money. As a result, Fiona initially is very hostile towards him, but the two eventually convert very opposing friends. Sam will occasionally query her for counsel concerning his relationships with women, and Michael has said that the two of them make a agreeable crew. Sharon Gless as Madeline Westen: Michael's mama, "Maddie" is a chain-smoking retiree. Although attempting to reserve a sense of gravitas and self-importance, she is family-oriented and entirely supports either of her sons in times of absence, as well as helping Michael with his clients. In the mid-season finale of the third season, she considers leaving Miami, but realizes her significance to his commerce. Until recently, she has had only rare communication with Michael, noting in the pilot that Michael has missed his father's funeral "by eight years." Michael does not relish her company. Despite this, her appeals for assist are Michael's one great weakness, and she has the aptitude to argue him to do as she wishes. Coby Bell as Jesse Porter (season 4–present): A counterintelligence expert whom Michael unwittingly burns in the Season Four premiere. Michael accidentally burned him when he went looking fknow next to nothing ofme classified files on a gangster that Jesse had information on. It was Vaughn's blueprint to have him burned by Michael so that they could extract the information he had by any means necessary, but Michael declines, saying that "he'll get it his course." Jesse subsequently comes asking for Michael's help, not knowing that it was he and Vaughn who burned him at first. Michael initially declines, but afterward does help him as a consumer to take care of a murderer named Khan who was trying to kill Jesse. After Khan is out of the picture, Jesse joins Michael's crew, hoping to find and slay the ones responsible for burning him. He briefly considers killing Michael, after discovering it was Michael who burned him. He grudgingly continues to work with the team, but states that it is only to "do what is right," not because of any loyalty to Michael or the others. However, eventually Michael's mama cheats Michael and Jesse into sitting down with each additional and they make up as friends another. [edit] Episodes

Season 1

Season 1 (12 episodes), follows Michael investigating for the person that burned him and why.

Season 2

Season 2 (16 episodes) follows Michael trying find out more information about the odd Carla and use her to get to the male that burned him.

Season 3

Season 3 (16 episodes) has Michael trying to 'get back in' to being a spy, successfully stirring a lot of drama amongst his friends and family, while 'Management' (the man in dictate of the organization that burned him) withdraws his protection of Michael to try and get Michael to work for him again.

Season 4

Season 4 (18 episodes) follows Michael working for the people that burned him again, and trying to diagram out who let Simon go free at the end of Season 3. In the course of his investigation, Michael accidentally burns variant spy named Jesse Porter, who joins the team and helps them look while looking for who burned him, not realizing it was Michael.

Season 5

Season 5 (15 episodes)[seven] is currently in making and set to premiere in June 2011.

Future Seasons

Season 6 (18 episodes) has been ordered by USA Network.[7]

[edit] Prequel and tie-in novels

A prequel video based on Sam Axe set before the events of Burn Notice titled "Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe", was recently produced.[eight] The film, broadcast on USA on April 17, 2011,[eight] tells the article of Sam's days in the Navy SEALs guiding up to him going to Miami, and will serve as a lead-in to the fifth season of Burn Notice.[nine] Jeffrey Donovan directed the membrane and has a cameo outward. The cast includes Chandra West, RonReaco Lee, Kiele Sanchez and John Diehl.[10] West activities Donna, Sam's adore amuse. Diehl plays Sam's commander, Rear Admiral Lawrence, Lee melodramas Field Medic Ben Delaney, and Sanchez a humanitarian who doesn't believe Sam. Filming began in January 2011 in Bogota, Colombia.[eleven]

Since 2008, Signet Books has promulgated as series of Burn Notice novelizations under their Obsidian imprint:

Title Author ISBN Publication appointment The Fix Tod Goldberg 0-451-22554-6 August five, 2008 The End Game 0-451-22676-3 May 5, 2009 The Giveaway 0-451-22979-7 July 6, 2010 The Reformed 0-451-23200-3 January four, 2011 The Bad Beat 0-451-23409-X July 5, 2011[12] [edit] Production

The show is filmed on position in and nigh Miami, Florida. The show has a permanent set built in the former Coconut Grove Convention Center in Miami's Coconut Grove vicinity where most of the show is filmed.

[edit] Awards

The pilot episode written by Matt Nix won a 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award, crediting the best in secret, in the species "Best Television Episode Teleplay".[13] David Raines, Scott Clements and Sherry Klein were appointed for "Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series" for Burn Notice Series (One-Hour) at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2008.[14] Composer John Dickson won 2008 and 2009 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for "Top TV Series". Craig S. O'Neill and Jason Tracey were appointed for a 2009 Writers Guild of America, USA award for "Episodic Drama" (episode "Double Booked"). In 2010, the show received its first Emmy Award designation for deeding, as Sharon Gless was appointed for an Emmy in the category of "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama".[15] Burn Notice has also been nominated for Favorite TV Obsession at the 37th Peoples Choice Awards.

[edit] International distribution

Burn Notice is shown internationally on the emulating channels:

 Ecuador : Teleamazonas the sequence is titled Operación Miami ("Operation Miami")  Argentina : FX Latin USA, Telefé the series is captioned Operación Miami ("Operation Miami")  Australia : Network Ten, W Arab World : USA Plus, MBC Action  Brazil : FOX Brasil, Rede Bandeirantes  Belgium : 2BE RTL-TVI  Bulgaria : bTV theater; the series is titled "Извън играта" ("Out of the game")  Canada : Showcase, Super Channel, Séries+ the series is titled (at Série+ only) Agent Libre ("Free Agent")  Chile : FX Latin USA  Colombia : FX Latin America, RCN Television; the series is titled Burn Notice: Operacion Miami  Costa Rica : FX Latin America  Croatia : FOX Crime; the series is titled Odstrel ("The Culling")  Czech Republic : Prima Cool; the series is titled Status: Nežádoucí ("Status: Ineligible")  Denmark : JHM Network  Estonia : TV3, the series is titled Viimane Hoiatus ("Last Warning")  Finland : MTV3  France : W9  Germany : VOX  Greece : NovaCinema one  Honduras : FX,the series is entitled Burn Notice  Hong Kong : FOX  Hungary : RTL KLUB; the series is titled Minden lében négy kanál (Four spoons in all fluids. From the maxim "Minden lében kanál." /He is a spoon in all liquids./ Meaning: "He has a finger in every pie.")[16]  Iceland : Stöð 2  India : Star World  Indonesia : FOX  Ireland : FX  Israel : Yes Stars Action; the series is titled סוכן מחוק ("Erased Agent")  Italy : Fox; the series is titled Duro A Morire ("Die-hard")  Japan : Fox Channel Asia・FOX Crime・NTVnetwork  Latvia : TV6  Lithuania : TV3; the series is titled Vilko Bilietas ("The Ticket of the Wolf")  Malaysia : 8TV,FOX ASIA  Mexico : FX Latin America, Canal 5  Netherlands : RTL5  New Zealand : TV3, The Box  Nigeria : M-Net West  Norway : Viasat 4  Panama : TVMax; the series is titled Operación Miami ("Operation Miami")  Peru : FX Latin America, Canal 22  Philippines : Solar television, Jack television, FOX  Poland : TV Puls, AXN; the series is titled Tożsamość szpiega ("The Identity of a Spy")  Portugal : FOX; the series is titled Espião Fora-de-jogo ("Offside Spy" a soccer expression averaging "Out of the Game Spy")  Puerto Rico : WAPA-TV  Russia : TV-3 (Russia)  Serbia : FOX Crime and Radio Television of Serbia; the series is titled Nepouzdani agenti ("Unreliable Agents")  Slovenia : POP TV; the series is titled Vohun v nemilosti ("Spy Out of Favor")  Singapore : FOX and MediaCorp Channel 5  South Africa : M-Net Action Channel[17]  South Korea : Fox  Spain : Fox and Cuatro, by March 2011 in FdF; the series is titled Último aviso ("Last Warning").  Sri Lanka : Star World  Sweden : TV6  Switzerland : TSR 2 (Swiss-French), La_2 (Swiss-Italian)  Thailand : Fox Thailand  Turkey : Fox TV  UK : FX, FIVER  Venezuela : Televen; the series is titled Atrapado en Miami ("Trapped in Miami"), FX Latin America [edit] DVD releases

20th Century Fox has loosened the first three seasons of Burn Notice on DVD in Region one. Season two was also unlocked on Blu-ray.[18]

DVD Name Ep # Release Date Additional Information Season One 12 June 17, 2008 Audio Commentaries Gag reel Audition footage Characters montage Girls Gone Burn Notice montage Action scenes montage Season Two 16 June 16, 2009 Audio Commentaries Gag reel Deleted scenes Behind-the-scenes featurette Season Three 16 June 1, 2010 Smash, Crash, Boom: Inside the Burn Notice Stunt Unit 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International Season Four 18 June 7, 2011 [edit] References [edit] External links Wikiquote has a accumulation of quotations related to: Burn Notice Official Website Burn Notice at the Internet Movie Database v · d · eBurn Notice List of episodes (Season 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) · Quotes Characters Creator Other v · d · eUSA Network programming Original
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