Saving Grace (TV series)

Production
Saving Grace
Saving Grace title card
Genre	Crime drama
Created by	Nancy Miller
Starring	List of characters and cast
Opening theme	Saving Grace by Everlast
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	30 (List of episodes)
Running time	40–45 min. (not including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	TNT
Original run	July 23, 2007 – present

Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series on TNT, which premiered on July 23, 2007 and stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first TV series, Kenny Johnson, Bailey Chase, Laura San Giacomo, Leon Rippy, and Yaani King. The show is set in Oklahoma City — including numerous shots of local buildings and landmarks (such as the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the downtown skyline) — while much of the show is filmed in Vancouver and Los Angeles.

The theme song for the show is written and performed by US rapper/musician Everlast. Saving Grace is rated TV-MA in the United States for language, sexuality, and violence.^[1]

1 Plot
2 Oklahoma City
3 DVD release
4 Show run
5 Cast/Characters
6 Main Crew
7 Episodes
8 Awards
9 U.S. Ratings
10 References
11 External links

Plot

The plot focuses on Grace Hanadarko (Holly Hunter), a smoking, heavy drinking, and promiscuous Oklahoma City detective. In the series opener, Grace meets up with her "last-chance" angel, when after one of her drinking binges she runs down and kills a pedestrian with her Porsche. In desperation she calls out for God's help, and a scruffy, tobacco-spitting man who calls himself Earl (Leon Rippy) appears. Unfolding his wings to reveal his divine origins, Earl tells her that she's headed for hell, and asks if she's ready to turn her life over to God. When he finally disappears, the person she struck is also gone and it's as if the accident never happened. The only evidence left is a small amount of the victim's blood on her blouse, which she brings to her best friend, forensics expert Rhetta Rodriguez (Laura San Giacomo), to analyze. With Rhetta's help, Grace discovers that her accident "victim" is actually an inmate on death row, Leon Cooley (Bokeem Woodbine), who is also visited by Earl on a regular basis.

Passionate in her job, Grace investigates homicides and other major crimes with the fellow officers in her squad, including Ham Dewey (Kenny Johnson), Butch Ada (Bailey Chase), Bobby Stillwater (Gregory Cruz), and Captain Kate Perry (Lorraine Toussaint).

Off the job Grace drinks heavily, engages in numerous one-night stands and casual encounters with men, and is having an affair with her partner, Ham. Aside from her faults, Grace is an extraordinarily loving and generous person to those around her. In particular she loves her young nephew, Clay (Dylan Minnette), and devotes a great deal of her time to him.

Earl appears to Grace throughout the series, hoping she'll turn away from her more self-destructive tendencies and seek God's help. Saving Grace does not promote any one religion but does use Grace's story to discuss the topic of faith, and how difficult faith can be in such an imperfect world.

Oklahoma City

Series creator Nancy Miller ^[2] grew up in Oklahoma City, and as a result Saving Grace includes many references to Oklahoma City and the state of Oklahoma. For instance, many of the characters' last names are the names of Oklahoma towns: Hanadarko is derived from Anadarko, Oklahoma; also Clay Norman, Ham Dewey, Butch Ada, Bobby Stillwater and Captain Perry all have last names taken from Oklahoma towns and cities.

The 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and its aftermath are frequently incorporated into the plot and character development of the series. In the show, Grace's sister, who was also Clay's mother, lost her life in the bombing.

In an October 2007 trip to Oklahoma City by the cast, writers and producers, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett presented Miller and Hunter with Keys to the City.

DVD release

The Saving Grace - Season One DVD was released on July 15, 2008,^[3] and the Saving Grace - Season Two DVD was released on June 16, 2009. ^[4]

Show run

Following a 13-episode first season which ran from July 23 to December 18, 2007, Saving Grace ran for a second season of 14 episodes which began on July 14, 2008 and ended on April 13, 2009. The first half of this season ran in the summer of 2008, and its second half ran in the spring of 2009.

The third season of Saving Grace began airing June 16, 2009, changing from the Monday night slot it had for the first two seasons to Tuesday night.^[5]

Cast/Characters

Main article: List of Saving Grace characters

Main Crew

Artie Mandelberg
Tricia Brock
Guy Ferland
Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Gary A. Randall
Nancy Miller
Mark Israel
Denitria Harris-Lawrence
Roger Wolfson
Annie Brunner
Joseph Dougherty
Talicia Raggs
Hans Tobeason

Episodes

Main article: List of Saving Grace episodes

Awards

Main article: List of Saving Grace (TV series) awards and nominations

U.S. Ratings

Season	Timeslot	Season Premiere				Season Finale				Viewers Total (in millions)	Viewers Age 18-49 (in millions)	Viewers Age 25-54 (in millions)
Season	Timeslot	Date	Viewers Total (in millions)	Viewers 18-49 (in millions)	Viewers 25-54 (in millions)	Date	Viewers Total (in millions)	Viewers 18-49 (in millions)	Viewers 25-54 (in millions)	Viewers Total (in millions)	Viewers Age 18-49 (in millions)	Viewers Age 25-54 (in millions)
1st	Monday 10:00PM	July 23, 2007	6.4^[6]	1.94^[6]	2.47^[6]	December 18, 2007
2nd	Monday 10:00PM	July 14, 2008	5.2^[7]	1.61^[7]	2.29^[7]	April 13, 2009
3rd	Tuesday 10:00PM	June 16, 2009	3.5^[8]		1.6^[8]

For calendar-year 2008 on a first-run basis, the series garnered 1.59 million adults in the 18-49 demo. [1]

References

External links

sex

stock | retire | vm
Why are we here?
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
This page is cache of Wikipedia. History