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Burn Notice (TV series) |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Matt Nix |
| Starring | Jeffrey Donovan Gabrielle Anwar Bruce Campbell Sharon Gless |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 21 (List of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Matt Nix Mikkel Bondesen Jeff Freilich |
| Producer(s) | Michael J. Wilson, Jason Tracey, Craig O'Neill, Mikkel Bondesen |
| Location(s) | Miami, Florida, USA |
| Running time | One hour |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | USA Network |
| Original run | June 28, 2007 – present |
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Burn Notice is an American television drama1 series created by Matt Nix and starring Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless. The series premiered on June 28, 2007 on the USA Network. Burn Notice was renewed for a third season on October 9, 2008, receiving a 16 episode order.2
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The title refers to the burn notices issued by intelligence agencies to discredit or announce the dismissal of agents or sources who are considered to have become unreliable. The television series is a first-person narrative (including frequent stream of consciousness voice-overs providing nuggets of exposition) from the viewpoint of covert-operations agent Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan.
After fleeing a Nigerian operation blown apart by the sudden and unexplained non-cooperation of his U.S. contact, Westen finds himself in his hometown3 of Miami, Florida, USA, attended to by his ex-girlfriend but abandoned by all his normal intelligence contacts, under continuous surveillance with his personal assets frozen. Extraordinary efforts to reach his U.S. government handler eventually yield only a grudging admission that someone powerful wants him "on ice" in Miami; if he leaves the city he will "heat up fast", i.e., he will be hunted down and taken into custody, whereas by staying there he can remain relatively free. Consumed by the desire to find out why he's been burned, and by whom, Westen goes to work as an unlicensed private investigator and freelance spy for anyone in town who can pay him any money in order to fund his personal investigation into his own situation as a blacklisted agent.
| “ | The thing about the relationship with Fiona is…They are two people who really don't have anybody else that they can be with. Anybody else is going to be afraid of what Michael does, and it sort of turns her on, and anybody else for Michael is going to be uninteresting. He is attracted to her, but part of what we explore over the first season is that they really are attracted with each other, and yet there is a reason they broke up. She is an incredibly chaotic person who just thrives on disorder…Violence is foreplay for her. | ” |
Filming is done on-location in and around Miami, Florida, as well as in Hollywood, Florida generally around Hollywood Blvd. and Hollywood Beach.
The "Pilot" episode by Matt Nix won a 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award, honoring the best in mystery, in the category Best Television Episode Teleplay.5
David Raines, Scott Clements & Sherry Klein were nominated for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series for Burn Notice Series One at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2008.6
Burn Notice is shown internationally on the following channels:
Burn Notice Season One released on DVD June 17, 2008.8 The four-disc set includes cast/crew commentary on every episode.8
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