New Digs and Big Career Decisions on Tap as TNT's THE CLOSER, Ad-Supported Cable's #1 Series of All Time, Returns for Sixth Season Monday, July 12

A new multi-million-dollar headquarters and an internal political struggle over who will become the next police chief add a
whole new set of challenges for Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson as TNT presents the sixth season of ad-supported cable's #1 series of all time – THE CLOSER. Golden Globe winner and four-time Emmy nominee Kyra Sedgwick returns as Johnson, who heads up the LAPD's Major Crimes Division.

THE CLOSER, which is set to launch its new season Monday, July 12, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT), features an extraordinary Screen
Actors Guild Award®-nominated ensemble cast. The series stars Jon Tenney (Brothers & Sisters), J.K. Simmons (Juno),
Corey Reynolds (The Terminal), Tony Denison (Prison Break), G.W. Bailey (M*A*S*H), Michael Paul Chan (Arrested
Development), Raymond Cruz (Breaking Bad), Robert Gossett (Arlington Road) and Phillip P Keene (The DA).

As the new season of THE CLOSER opens, the squad is moving into its new high-tech digs. But it's not long before they're
wishing they could be back in their old space, where a plain white board nailed to the wall was more practical than the
troublesome sliding screens in their new murder room. But true to form, Brenda is determined to bend the space to her style.

With the LAPD on the hunt for a new chief of police, Assistant Police Chief Will Pope (Simmons) is among those in the
running. Should he get the job, it could mean a promotion for Brenda. The political juggling around the office soon leads
Brenda to do some career-minded soul-searching. It also has her colleague, Robbery-Homicide Commander Taylor
(Gossett), smelling a possible promotion for himself, even though he can't even seem to wrangle an office of his own in the
new facility.

On the home front, Brenda's husband, FBI Agent Fritz Howard (Tenney), has some career changes of his own in store. After
turning down a promotion that would have sent him to Washington, D.C., he's now in line for a job that could not only keep
him in LA, but give him and Brenda the chance to spend a lot more time together.

This season, Brenda and her squad will tackle cases involving a sniper shooting in a posh neighborhood, a possible serial
rapist who uses a stun gun to immobilize his victims and a drug-related custody battle that ends in two deaths. Meanwhile,
Detective Sanchez (Cruz) will struggle to care for a young boy involved in a case the squad investigated last year. And Lt.
Provenza (Bailey), Brenda's second-in-command, will once again find himself in a professionally embarrassing situation
when a one-night stand with a flight attendant leads to the discovery of a dead body in her bathtub.

Also this season, Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica) will reprise her role as Capt. Raydor, the by-the-book head of the
Force Investigation Division, who has butted heads with Brenda on several occasions. This time, her presence could have
major implications for Brenda's future in the department.

Since its premiere in 2005, THE CLOSER has numerous ad-supported cable viewership records, ranking as the #1 series of all time and scoring the #1 series telecast of all time. For its fifth season, the show averaged 7.7 million viewers.
THE CLOSER will be joined on Mondays by TNT's newest crime drama, RIZZOLI & ISLES, starring Angie Harmon and
Sasha Alexander. The series centers on Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli and her best friend, Medical Examiner Maura Isles,
characters created by novelist Tess Gerritsen. RIZZOLI & ISLES airs Mondays at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), beginning July 12.
THE CLOSER comes to TNT from The Shephard/Robin Company, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The
series was created by James Duff, who serves as executive producer with Greer Shephard, Michael M. Robin, Rick
Wallace and Kyra Sedgwick. The show is produced by Andrew J. Sacks, and Gil Garcetti, Los Angeles district attorney
from 1992 to 2000, serves as consulting producer.

TNT, one of cable's top-rated networks, is television's destination for drama. Seen in 99.6 million households, the network
is home to such original series as The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick; Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton; and Dark Blue,
starring Dylan McDermott; the upcoming Rizzoli & Isles, starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander; Memphis Beat, with
Jason Lee; Men of a Certain Age, with Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula; and Southland, from Emmy®-
winning producer John Wells (ER). TNT also presents such powerful dramas as Bones, Supernatural, Las Vegas, Law &
Order, CSI: NY, Cold Case and Numb3rs; broadcast premiere movies; compelling primetime specials, such as the Screen
Actors Guild Awards®; and championship sports coverage, including NASCAR and the NBA. The NCAA men's basketball
tournament will appear on TNT beginning in 2011. TNT is available in high-definition.

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Production Biographies

James Duff, Executive Producer/Creator/Writer

James Duff began his professional writing career with the Broadway drama Home Front, which was later retitled The War at
Home before having a successful worldwide run in London, Stockholm, Athens, Tel Aviv, Johannesburg, Brussels,
Amsterdam and Sydney. The play was made into a feature film starring Kathy Bates, Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez,
Kimberly Williams and Carla Gugino. Duff's play, A Quarrel of Sparrows, went from regional theater productions to off-
Broadway's Promenade Theatre and won a Dramalogue Award during its run in Los Angeles.

Duff has written three television films: Without a Kiss Goodbye, Betrayed: The Story of Three Women and Doing Time on
Maple Drive, which earned him an Emmy􀀀 nomination. In series work, he has written and produced episodes for Popular, Felicity, Wolf Lake and The Agency. He also created and produced the series The D.A. with Greer Shephard and Michael M. Robin.

Duff has written an episode of Enterprise, as well as four pilots: Long Island Fever, Texas Graces, 911 Fifth Avenue and The
Travel Agency.

The Shephard/Robin Company

Founded in 1998 by producer Greer Shephard and director Michael M. Robin, The Shephard/Robin Company continues to
win audiences by bringing thought-provoking characters and stories to television. With more than 30 years of development
and production experience between them, Shephard and Robin serve as executive producers of THE CLOSER.
In 2003, they launched the critically-acclaimed original series Nip/Tuck for FX, which won the 2005 Golden Globe® for best
drama. In 2004, Shephard and Robin developed The D.A. for ABC, while State of Mind, from acclaimed novelist Amy
Bloom, premiered the summer of 2007 on Lifetime.

The Warner Brothers Television-based company began developing and producing programming for Touchstone Television.
During their three-year Touchstone deal, they executive-produced two series for the WB Network: Popular and Brutally
Normal. They also executive-produced the pilots Brookfield, Metropolis, and Elementary for ABC; the pilot Aces for the
WB; and an ABC movie-of-the-week, Bailey's Mistake.

Greer Shephard, Executive Producer

A co-founder of The Shephard/Robin Company, Greer Shephard is former vice president of drama series programming for
ABC. In that role, she supervised both drama development and current series programming.

Shephard began her television career in 1989 as a manager of comedy and drama development at Walt Disney Television.
She joined ABC in 1991 as associate director of current series programming. She was promoted to director, dramatic series development, in 1993, and then elevated to vice president in 1995.

During her tenure at ABC, Shephard helped develop the Peabody Award-winning Nothing Sacred, the Emmy® and Golden
Globe®-winning The Practice; Robert Altman's Gun; Cracker; and Relativity. Shephard then served as a producer on
Nothing Sacred and C-16 before launching The Shephard/Robin Company. She has since directed episodes of THE
CLOSER, Nip/Tuck, Trust Me and State of Mind.

Michael M. Robin, Executive Producer/Director

Michael Robin has worked in the episodic television world for fifteen years. In addition to awards at The Shephard/Robin
Company, his accomplishments include two Emmy® Awards as well as a nomination for Best Director. He has directed eight drama pilots, including THE CLOSER.

Robin started as a production assistant on the hit series L.A. Law, where he worked his way up to producer in the fourth
season and later received an Emmy® for his work on the series. He then segued to Cop Rock as a producer, where he made his directorial debut. Robin continued directing as the supervising producer on Civil Wars, and he evolved into a coexecutive producer on NYPD Blue. His four years of work on NYPD Blue earned him a second Emmy for Best Dramatic
Series, in addition to a nomination for Best Director.

After an 11-year association with Steven Bochco, Robin struck out on his own to co-create, executive produce and direct
multiple episodes of the ABC drama C-16, before partnering with Greer Shephard to launch The Shephard/Robin Company.

Rick Wallace, Executive Producer/Director

Rick Wallace began his professional career as the artistic director of Pegasus Productions, a theatre company in Los Angeles. He began directing television in 1981 on the much-acclaimed series Hill Street Blues where he began a long association with Steven Bochco. That association has led to their continued collaboration on six more series.
Wallace came to THE CLOSER last year as executive producer having directed five episodes over the first four years of the
series. He has directed episodes of more than thirty-five other series and has won three Emmy® awards for Best Dramatic
Series. He was nominated twice for Best Directing in a series. His directing credits include episodes of: Hill Street Blues,
NYPD Blue, Murder One, Ed, Smallville, Law & Order, Law & Order: S.V.U., Law & Order Criminal Intent, Karen Sisco
and Sleeper Cell. He has served as an Executive Producer / Director on series including L.A. Law, City Of Angels, Philly,
Peacemakers, Commander In Chief, Men In Trees, Women's Murder Club and now THE CLOSER. Wallace has directed
seven television pilots including Doogie Howser M.D. and The Pretender, which he also executive produced.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

Andrew J. Sacks, Producer

Academy Award® winner Andrew Sacks started his career as a project coordinator with Landmark Entertainment Group,
helping to create a theme park in Oita, Japan. After returning to the United States, he began his work in television on the
series Beverly Hills 90210.

He continued to work on several projects for Spelling, Touchstone and Warner Bros. Television. Sacks' feature credits
include The Opposite of Sex; Shirley MacLaine's directorial debut, Bruno; and Adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze. He has
worked on several projects for The Shephard/Robin Company, including Brutality Normal, Elementary and Beck and Call, as well as co-producing the series The D.A with executive producer James Duff.

In 2004, Sacks won an Oscar® for producing the short film Two Soldiers. In 2005, he was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Sacks is a volunteer and the Los Angeles event coordinator for the Sunshine Kids Foundation. This non-profit organization,
for which THE CLOSER cast member G.W. Bailey is executive director, serves children with cancer from all over the
United States and Canada.

Character Descriptions

Kyra Sedgwick returns in her Golden Globe®-winning role as Dep. Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson
Brenda is a top-notch investigator and interrogator who pinpoints a suspect, traps the person in a lie and draws a confession.

Despite Brenda's brilliance as an interrogator, she is hopeless at LAPD politics, and her drive to close the case often
interferes with her personal life.

J.K. Simmons as Asst. Police Chief Will Pope
Chief Pope is Brenda's strongest ally, but his support is sometimes limited by pressure from his superiors to follow the rules, make budget cuts and create greater synergy between the divisions of the LAPD.

Jon Tenney as FBI Special Agent Fritz Howard
Fritz and Brenda were finally married at the end of last season. This year, they are determined to keep their personal and
professional lives separate, which may prove difficult because their cases so frequently cross division lines.

Robert Gossett as Commander Taylor
Once Brenda's rival in the Robbery-Homicide division, Commander Taylor now finds himself helping the Major Crimes
Division on many cases. He frequently acts as a press liaison for Brenda and has proven to be a strong ally for closing cases.

Corey Reynolds as Sgt. David Gabriel
Sgt. Gabriel is Brenda's closest aide and her one-time favorite. But he jeopardized his relationship with Brenda last season
by ending a difficult inter-departmental romance that forced a member of the squad into another division.

G.W. Bailey as Lt. Provenza
The squad's resident old-timer still has a few tricks up his sleeve. He likes to bend the rules to avoid doing too much work
and will surprise the squad this season with a change in attitude.

Tony Denison as Lt. Andy Flynn
Lt. Flynn is passionate about his job but sometimes lets his friendship with Provenza get in the way. He always has a wise
crack to keep the squad lifted, even in stressful situations.

Michael Paul Chan as Lt. Mike Tao
Lt. Tao is the go-to guy for anything technology related. He thrives on using his expertise to crack cases; the more complex,
the better. But he also tends to go overboard on details when explaining things, especially to someone as technologically
challenged as Brenda.

Raymond Cruz as Det. Julio Sanchez
Det. Sanchez is knowledgeable about the complications of gang warfare in Los Angeles and can be a bit intimidating to a
suspect. Even when his emotions run high, Sanchez knows how far he can push without crossing the line. Last season, he
endured the loss of his brother to gang violence and even took a bullet for Provenza.

Philip P. Keene as Buzz Watson
Buzz is the electronics room technician. In addition, he is the videographer of all crime-scene documentation for the Major
Crimes Division. The outdated equipment provided by the LAPD causes Buzz constant frustration, but his instruments often
prove useful in cracking a case.