Leon Rippy, formerly of the TNT drama "Saving Grace," begins his guest-starring stint on the hit TNT caper series "Leverage" on Sunday. (Photo by Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman Archives)

Leon Rippy, who played the down-to-earth angel in the former TNT drama “Saving Grace,” begins his recurring guest-starring role on the cable network’s caper series “Leverage” at 9 p.m. Sunday.

Rippy’s first “Leverage” episode, titled “The Boiler Room Job,” will be the second of two new episodes airing Sunday on TNT. At 8 p.m., Anne Marie Johnson from the TV series …

Holly Hunter stars as hard-living Oklahoma City police detective Grace Hanadarko in the spiritual drama "Saving Grace." The show's series finale airs tonight on TNT.

The Oklahoma City-set spiritual/cop drama “Saving Grace” will end its four-season run with back-to-back episodes at 8 and 9 tonight on TNT.

The final season ends with nine episodes. TNT had wanted a full-season order, but Fox Television Studios, which owns the show, declined for budgetary reasons, reports my colleague Mel Bracht.

The series about Grace Hanadarko, a hard-living Oklahoma City detective whose life is …

Holly Hunter has starred for three seasons as hard-living Oklahoma City police detective Grace Hanadarko in the TNT series "Saving Grace," which makes its series finale Monday night.

After four seasons on TNT, the often-controversial spiritual/cop drama “Saving Grace” will make its series finale Monday night. Created, produced and written by Oklahoma native Nancy Miller, the show centers around Oklahoma City police detective Grace Hanadarko, played by Academy Award winner Holly Hunter.

“We will not soon forget the experience of having an Oscar-winning actress portray an Oklahoma City police officer …

“Saving Grace” creator Nancy Miller and actor Leon Rippy will attend Friday’s Operation: Relief, a fundraiser for the American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma. (The Oklahoman Archives photo)

The American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma is inviting supporters to back in time to a 1940s nightclub, where cigarette girls greet guests, swing music fills the air and libations freely flow.

Friday’s Operation: Relief at Oklahoma City’s Skirvin Hilton Hotel is the primary fundraiser for the American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma. Nancy Miller, Oklahoma City-raised creator, writer and executive …

With the fourth and final season of “Saving Grace” beginning tonight, star Holly Hunter says she has loved her experience on the spiritual/cop drama.

The final, nine-episode season of “Saving Grace” starts at 9 tonight on TNT.

Hunter told The Oklahoman’s TV Editor Penny Soldan that she still adores her often-controversial character, the gutsy, hard-living Detective Grace Hanadarko, an Oklahoma City cop who is visited by a last-chance angel (Leon Rippy) who tries to get her on the path of redemption.

“I’ve loved all the things I’ve gotten to do …

The final nine episodes of the TNT drama “Saving Grace” begin airing at 9 tonight on the cable channel.

In the series, Oscar winner Holly Hunter (“The Piano”) plays a hard-living Oklahoma City cop regularly visited by an unconventional angel named Earl (Leon Rippy). Earl’s job is to give Hunter’s Detective Grace Hanadarko her last chance at redemption.

Hunter’s performance has earned her two Emmy nominations and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

The show is set but not filmed in Oklahoma City and was created by Oklahoma City-bred writer/producer …

For the past three years, Oscar winner Holly Hunter (“The Piano”) has played a hard-living Oklahoma City cop regularly visited by an unconventional angel named Earl (Leon Rippy) in the TNT drama series “Saving Grace.”

Hunter’s performance as Detective Grace Hanadarko has earned her two Emmy nominations and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

But Hunter and fans of the show are getting ready to say goodbye to “Saving Grace,” which is set but not filmed in Oklahoma City. The show’s final season begins at 9 p.m. Monday on TNT.…

People skate around the BOK Center during Skate Date 2009.

Dust off that pair of ice skates—it’s back by popular demand! Tulsa’s BOK Center has announced the return of Skate Date, a Valentine’s Day event that will give Oklahomans another opportunity to take center ice inside the iconic arena and skate beneath a mirrored disco ball.

Skate Date will take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday at the BOK Center, 200 S Denver.  The public is invited to enjoy ice skating on the 17,000-square-foot frozen floor. A giant …

Nancy Miller and Leon Rippy (Photo by Paul Hellstern/The Oklahoman Archives)

The Oklahoman’s George Lang spoke Friday with Nancy Miller, the Oklahoma City-born creator, executive producer and writer on the TNT drama “Saving Grace,” about the news that the show will end next summer.

Miller told George that TNT wanted another full-season order for the series, but the show’s studio, Fox, declined for fiscal reasons.

Instead, word came down that the show will end next summer with a shorter nine-episode season.

“Saving Grace” is set in Oklahoma City …

Holly Hunter in “Saving Grace”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the TV series “Saving Grace” will end next summer with a nine-episode fourth season.

Created and executive produced by Oklahoma native Nancy Miller, the show follows the exploits of a hard-living Oklahoma City police detective (Holly Hunter) who is visited by an unusual named Earl (Leon Rippy).

Though it was filmed in Los Angeles, the show included numerous references to Miller’s home state and Oklahoma City in particular.

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