"The Grid" (2004) TV mini-series

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

19 July 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Global Mission. United Force.

Plot:

A team of American and British counter-terrorists are tasked with stopping a terrorist cell who's operating on a global level.

Plot Keywords:

Counter Terrorism | CIA | FBI | Sarin | Terrorist

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 4 nominations

Cast

Dylan McDermott	...	FBI Agent Max Canary (2 episodes, 2004)
Julianna Margulies	...	Agent Maren Jackson / ... (2 episodes, 2004)
Bernard Hill	...	Agent Derek Jennings (2 episodes, 2004)
Jemma Redgrave	...	MI6 Agent Emily Tuthill (2 episodes, 2004)
James Remar	...	Hudson 'Hud' Benoit (2 episodes, 2004)
Piter Fattouche	...	CIA Agent Raza Michaels (2 episodes, 2004)
Silas Carson	...	Dr. Raghib Mutar (2 episodes, 2004)
Barna Moricz	...	Kaz Moore (2 episodes, 2004)
Robert Forster	...	Jay Aldrich (2 episodes, 2004)
Tom Skerritt	...	CIA Deputy Director Acton Sandman / ... (2 episodes, 2004)

Runtime:

266 min (6 parts)

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English | Arabic

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Trivia:

The aerial shot of the CIA headquarters is stock footage from The Bourne Identity (2002). The establishing shot of the CIA headquarters entrance gate is from Spy Game (2001), and is in fact a location in England, not the real CIA headquarters.

Quotes:

Al-Q'aeda assassin: You have caught me, so I am a dead man
Derek Jennings: You're only as dead as you wanna be, really, aren't you? so why don't you put the pin back in that thing and hand it over to the officer over there?
[assassin hesitates, then throws grenade]
Derek Jennings: Grenade! Get the grenade!
Derek Jennings: [as assassin flees] Drop the grenade! Drop the grenade!
[assassin pulls another grenade, Jennings leaps on him, shoves the grenade under the assassin and it detonates]
Derek Jennings: [to corpse] Now you're a dead man.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (2005) (TV)

Great entertainment

the grid is fabulous -- beautifully written: Raza to Emily "Sex like love is an act of devotion," beautifully acted -- wonderful television. Go TNT! By the way, I believe that Raza Michael's name is Piter Marek. The casting is diverse as are the locations. The Grid could have very easily been a theatrical movie, albeit, it would have had to be shorten. But that is why television is great, especially when it is allowed to be great. TNT but together an intelligent piece of entertainment. The characters are very well drawn out. We are already seeing the many different shades of people that live in this vast world of ours. The Grid lets us see that not everyone of a particular culture or ethnicity is bad. And please Raza Michaels is Piter Marek.