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Borrows from "Hustle"?


This is now being shown on Spike here in the UK. I thought it seemed a bit familiar. Wesley Snipes looks like Adrian Lester (Micky Bricks), and Charity Wakefield is Stacey!

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I used to watch Hustle, the shows are not really alike.

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I only saw the trailers on Spike (they're on all the time, they're plugging "The Player" as if it's the best thing since forever).

I won't be watching it, as it was cancelled after 9 episodes, and it looks like Spike are only showing it to fill a gap in their schedule, then they'll buy in something else, so there's nothing to get into, really.

I just thought the whole ambience of the trailer looked very like "Hustle", very slick & sophisticated, and Wesley Snipes came across like Adrian Lester, a cool dude!

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It was pretty decent for what it was. I was expecting something like Strike Back, just a show with elaborate excuses for action scenes, but it was on the next rung of the ladder up, haha. Enjoyable, but yeah, i wish i had known there was only nine episodes before watching. ><

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