Hustle

Season 4

Seris 4 of the BBC's taut con artist series "Hustle" opens with a key cast change. With group leader Mickey Bricks in absentia on an overseas sabbatical, a new leader must rise to the fore. Danny (Marc Warren) steps in to fill this role. It becomes clear to everyone else that the group needs one additional member, but Danny isn't so sure, and the others set out to convince him of this. Various marks this season include such unsavory characters as a porn lord, a criminal fleecing local charities, and a crooked nursing home proprietor; locales include Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Season 5

Series 5 of the BBC's critically-acclaimed con artist drama "Hustle" opens with Mickey 'Bricks' (Adrian Lester) returning to London to face an upsetting situation: the members of the original gang have parted and gone their separate ways. Soon they do reunite, albeit with some key personnel changes; still present are Mickey, the newly paroled Albert (Robert Vaughn) and strategic planner Ash (Robert Glenister); new recruits include siblings Sean Kennedy (Matt Di Angelo) and Emma Kennedy (Kelly Adams). Marks this season include two nefarious intellectual property wizards and a wealthy bumbler named Alfie Baron (Tom Goodman Hill); meanwhile, Albert's parole is put at risk when the prison governor catches him running an illicit betting ring and the whole team risks being discovered by authorities while posing as lawyers and attempting to save a local community center.

Season 6

Series 6 of the BBC's popular, suspense-laden crime drama "Hustle" opens with London's wiliest gang of swindlers - including Albert (Robert Vaughn), Ash (Robert Glenister), Sean Kennedy (Matt Di Angelo) and Emma Kennedy (Kelly Adams) - in classic form, out cheating and robbing the most repulsive criminals. Marks this season include an avaricious ex-banker named Sir Edmund "Piggy" Richardson (Patrick Ryecart) and an aspiring playboy with a giant gold tiger. Meanwhile, an unexpected personal dimension emerges when Sean and Emma re-encounter their estranged father for the first time in years, and a police officer posing as a mark threatens to bring a permanent end to the group's con artistry.

Season 7

Series 7 of the BBC's popular, taut crime drama "Hustle" resumes the adventures of England's most clever and altruistic band of con artists. Back for more adventures are Albert (Robert Vaughn), Ash (Robert Glenister), Sean Kennedy (Matt Di Angelo) and Emma Kennedy (Kelly Adams).This season, a series of personal ties and alliances complicate the group's activities, including an opener where associate Eddie's (Rob Jarvis) niece Kacey (Emma Pilson) gets swindled and must rely on the group for help; later in the season, Albert must settle an old family score with a casino proprietor from the U.S.., an old friend of Ash and Mickey's named Benny (Denis Lawson) turns up and reveals that he's marked for death; and Ash attempts to save his former football club from a dire fate.

Season 8

The BBC's taut, successful crime drama "Hustle" ends its run with this eighth and final series that finds London's most ingenious con artists taking on such scams as setting up and bilking the slick yet corrupt owner of a gold exchange, ruining two sleazy health product shysters and bringing down a property developer so hip to the game that he has seen and heard every trick in the book. Along the way, they must rescue team member Mickey (Adrian Lester) from a dire fate in a race against time, and evade the machinations of a slimy, crooked cop. In the end it remains unclear if the team will manage to land one final score or will be felled in a final shower of bullets. Returning characters include thieves Albert (Robert Vaughn) , Ash (Robert Glenister), Sean (Matt Di Angelo) and Emma (Kelly Adams).