The Glades (TV series)
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The Glades is an A&E Network
A&E Network
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 drama
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 television series created by Clifton Campbell. The one-hour drama premiered on Sunday, July 11, 2010. The series stars Matt Passmore
Matt Passmore
Matt Passmore , an Australian actor. He is known for McLeod's Daughters , Blue Heelers , and his first American television show, The Glades .-Personal:Passmore grew up in Wynnum-Manly, Brisbane....

 as Det. Jim Longworth, a Chicago detective who took a South Florida job with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is a Florida government agency. FDLE is composed of five programs: Executive Direction and Business Support, Criminal Investigations and Forensic Science, Criminal Justice Information, Criminal Justice Professionalism, and the Florida Capitol Police...

 (FDLE) after being falsely accused of sleeping with his captain's wife.

Plot

The show's premise involves a Chicago detective taking a South Florida job with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is a Florida government agency. FDLE is composed of five programs: Executive Direction and Business Support, Criminal Investigations and Forensic Science, Criminal Justice Information, Criminal Justice Professionalism, and the Florida Capitol Police...

 (FDLE) after being falsely accused of sleeping with his captain's wife. He assumes it will afford him a more relaxing lifestyle, but he finds things are more complicated than he had imagined.

Main characters

  • Matt Passmore
    Matt Passmore
    Matt Passmore , an Australian actor. He is known for McLeod's Daughters , Blue Heelers , and his first American television show, The Glades .-Personal:Passmore grew up in Wynnum-Manly, Brisbane....

     as Det. Jim Longworth – a homicide detective from Chicago
    Chicago
    Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

     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
    Chicago Police Department
    The Chicago Police Department, also known as the CPD, is the principal law enforcement agency of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Chicago. It is the largest police department in the Midwest and the second largest local law enforcement agency in the...

    , 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
    Kiele Sanchez
    Kiele Michelle Sanchez is an American actress who stars in the A&E Network drama The Glades. Previously she starred as the second-eldest Sorelli sister, Anne, a therapist in her mid-twenties, in The WB's comedic ensemble drama, Related. She was cast as a co-star in the third season of the ABC...

     as Callie Cargill – a thirty-something mother who leads a very complicated life. She is a registered nurse
    Registered nurse
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     simultaneously attending medical school
    Medical school
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     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
    Carlos Gómez (actor)
    Carlos Gomez is an American actor.-Biography:Carlos was born in New York, the son of Cora Gomez. He is a versatile character actor who has starred in both film and the small screen since the late 1980s. His first part in a film came in the form of a dancer looking to make it big in "Dance to Win "...

     as Dr. Carlos Sanchez – Longworth's friend and colleague, a forensic pathologist who works the crime lab, supervising toxicology
    Toxicology
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     screens and autopsies
    Autopsy
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    . 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
    Uriah Shelton
    Uriah Shelton is an American teen actor and singer. He is the son of accountant Allen Shelton and house-wife Cindy Shelton. His name means "God is light" in Hebrew. Shelton was born in Dallas, Texas but spent spent most of his childhood in Magnolia Springs, Alabama with both of his parents. ...

     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
    Jordan Wall (Actor)
    Jordan Wall, is an American television and film actor.-Biography:Jordan Wall was born and raised in Clearwater, Florida, where he attended Clearwater High School. Jordan's parents are Dr. David and Batia Wall and his sister is Alona 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
    Michelle Hurd
    Michelle Hurd is an American stage, film, and television actress. She is married to actor Garret Dillahunt.-Early life:...

     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
    Clayne Crawford
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     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
    United States Federal Witness Protection Program
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    .

  • Natalia Cigliuti
    Natalia Cigliuti
    Natalia Cigliuti is an American actress. She best known for her role as Lindsay Warner on Saved by the Bell: The New Class and as Anita Santos Warner on the soap opera All My Children.-Career:...

     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. It is filmed in a former carpet warehouse in Pembroke Park, Florida
Pembroke Park, Florida
Pembroke Park is a town in Broward County, Florida, United States. The town took its name from its location along Pembroke Road. As of the 2010 census, the population was 6,102. It is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010 census. Close to half...

 in the Fort Lauderdale metro area, making it the second current series, after Burn Notice
Burn notice
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, Retired at 35
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, and WWE, to be filmed exclusively in the state.

Matt Passmore
Matt Passmore
Matt Passmore , an Australian actor. He is known for McLeod's Daughters , Blue Heelers , and his first American television show, The Glades .-Personal:Passmore grew up in Wynnum-Manly, Brisbane....

 was the first actor cast in the series, he plays the lead Det. Jim Longworth. Kiele Sanchez
Kiele Sanchez
Kiele Michelle Sanchez is an American actress who stars in the A&E Network drama The Glades. Previously she starred as the second-eldest Sorelli sister, Anne, a therapist in her mid-twenties, in The WB's comedic ensemble drama, Related. She was cast as a co-star in the third season of the ABC...

, Uriah Shelton
Uriah Shelton
Uriah Shelton is an American teen actor and singer. He is the son of accountant Allen Shelton and house-wife Cindy Shelton. His name means "God is light" in Hebrew. Shelton was born in Dallas, Texas but spent spent most of his childhood in Magnolia Springs, Alabama with both of his parents. ...

 and Carlos Gómez
Carlos Gómez (actor)
Carlos Gomez is an American actor.-Biography:Carlos was born in New York, the son of Cora Gomez. He is a versatile character actor who has starred in both film and the small screen since the late 1980s. His first part in a film came in the form of a dancer looking to make it big in "Dance to Win "...

 were the next actors cast, with Sanchez playing Callie Cargill, Shelton playing Jeff Cargill and Gómez playing Dr. Carlos Sanchez. On February 25, 2010, The Glades was given a series order of 13 episodes.

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. Season 2 of the series premiered on Sunday, June 5, 2011. On October 18, 2011, The Glades was renewed for a third season, which will premiere Summer, 2012.

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.The show has been met with positive reviews, with an initial score of 64 out of 100 from Metacritic
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.

Ratings

Season Timeslot (ET/PT
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)
# 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
October 3, 2010
2.69 2010
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3.8
Season 2
Sunday 10PM
13
June 5, 2011
3.01
September 5, 2011
2.38 2011 3.0

International broadcast

In Australia, subscription
Foxtel
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 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. Also in Australia, The Glades will air on Network Ten
Network Ten
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a free-to-air channel. It is set to premiere the first season on Monday November 28, 2011.
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