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Revenge is an American primetime television series that airs on ABC, starring Emily VanCamp and Madeleine Stowe, which debuted on September 21, 2011. During its first season it aired on Wednesday nights at 10 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central time, and its second season aired Sunday nights at 9 pm Eastern/8 pm Central time.

The series was picked up for a full season by ABC after garnering a 3.3 Nielsen rating in the all-important 18–49 age advertising demographics for its pilot episode and regularly winning its timeslot against every other television network (CBS, Fox, The CW, and NBC) in 18–34 demos. Madeleine Stowe was nominated for the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a TV Drama, while the series was nominated for Favorite New TV Drama at the 2012 People's Choice Awards. Revenge has become ABC's highest-rated series in Wednesday’s 10 p.m. timeslot since Lost ' s 2006–2007 season and has become the only new series in more than four years to replicate the 18–49 demo ratings success that Lost had in its timeslot since leaving the air. On May 10, 2012, ABC renewed the series for a second season, which aired on Sundays at 9:00 p.m. Eastern/8:00 p.m. Central beginning on September 30, 2012, in the time slot previously occupied by Desperate Housewives.

On May 10, 2013, ABC renewed the series for a third season, premiering September 29, 2013.

Overview
Revenge is a show about retribution. Meet Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp), the newest resident of The Hamptons. When she was a little girl (and known as Amanda Clarke) her father, David Clarke, was framed for a horrific crime and subsequently sent to prison. While serving his time, the conspirators plotted and murdered David in order to prevent the truth from coming out. Emily is now back with a new identity and ready to take vengeance on the people that murdered her father and stole her childhood.

Central to all the conspirators are Victoria (Madeline Stowe)) and Conrad Grayson (Henry Czerny). Conrad is CEO of Grayson Global, David’s old employer, and Victoria is Conrad’s wife (David’s old lover to boot). At first we believe these two power players are the masterminds of the cover up, but we soon realize that they are only the tip of the iceberg.

Emily’s friend, Nolan Ross (Gabriel Mann), is there to aid Emily in her plans. Most notably, Nolan provides assistance to Emily is the areas of electronic surveillance and espionage and keeps Emily’s childhood friend and current secret love, Jack Porter (Nick Wechsler), out of harm’s way.Nothing will stop Emily’s pursuit of justice and no one is off limits.

(Official synopsis according to the ABC website)

Main cast
Notes: * Barry Sloane was on recurring status for the first thirteen episodes of the second season, before becoming a series regular in episode fourteen.

* Karine Vanasse was on recurring status for the first thirteen episodes of the third season, before becoming a series regular in episode fourteen.

Recurring cast

 * Characters are in order of episode appearance count.

Development and production
In January 2011, ABC ordered the script to pilot. In March 2011, actress Emily VanCamp was cast as the lead character, and shortly afterwards it was released that Ashley Madekwe was cast in the series. Madeleine Stowe and Henry Czerny joined the cast as well. Max Martini and Robbie Amell joined the cast as Frank Stevens, a private investigator and Adam, a wealthy student who is hoping to attend Yale. James Tupper replaced Marc Blucas in the role of Emily's father, after Blucas was forced to drop out due to his commitment on Necessary Roughness. Recurring Gossip Girl star Connor Paolo was cast as a series regular playing the character of Declan Porter. Former Nikita star Ashton Holmes landed a recurring role as Tyler Barrol, a Harvard classmate of Daniel Grayson. On 22 April 2013, it was announced that Mike Kelley was stepping down as the executive producer and showrunner after Season 2, current executive producer Sunil Nayar is expected to take over during the anticipated third season. On 3 May 2013, it was confirmed that Sunil Nayar would take the reins after signing a two-year deal with ABC Studios to remain as Executive producer. On 21 May 2013, it was announced that Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts had inked a two-year deal with ABC Studios which will see them serve as executive producers on the upcoming third season alongside Sunil Nayar.

On May 13, 2011, ABC picked the project up to series. On May 17, 2011, ABC announced that the series would air on Wednesday nights at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central, beginning in the 2011 fall season. The pilot was screened early on ABC's website during a promotional tie-in with Amazon Kindle.

Reception
The pilot episode has been met with generally favorable reviews, with 66/100 from 20 media reviews on Metacritic.

Dorothy Rabinowitz of The Wall Street Journal praised the series, writing that "The arrival of one pure and unadulterated drama about a passion as old as man is something to celebrate. That's particularly true when that drama is as spellbinding in its satisfyingly gaudy way, as Revenge turns out to be", whilst awarding particular praise to Van Camp for a "beguiling and entirely chilling study in revenge lust." Writing for The New York Times, Alessandra Stanley compared the series favorably with Gossip Girl, concluding that it has "just enough campy suspense to be enjoyable." Episode 5 of the series received particular acclaim, with C. Orlando of TV Fanatic writing that "Revenge took things to a whole new level this week", and noting with reference to the set-up of David Clarke that "Victoria seems the only one with a conscience".

Yahoo! TV mentioned the series among the top television programs of 2011.

The series made the covers of Parade, Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide, and was featured in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue, People, Us Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Teen Vogue magazines.

On May 10, 2012, ABC announced that it had renewed Revenge for a second season. The Hollywood Reporter reported that it was one of the first series to get a "stamp of approval" from ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee, who called the show "sexy" and "sticky," telling critics in January, "You just want more of it."

Ratings
The pilot episode scored 10.02 million viewers in live plus same day, winning the 10 p.m. hour time slot against CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It was reported that Revenge is the highest rated television series in the hour for ABC since Lost. On October 22, 2011, it was reported that Revenge regularly won its hour in the 18–34 and 18–49 age demographics ahead of CSI and Law & Order: SVU.

After a nearly two month hiatus since February 29, 2012, Revenge returned on April 18, 2012 at No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings and won its timeslot against every other television network with a first-place finish among Total Viewers, Adults 18–49 and Adults 25–54. Revenge won over an original episode of NBC's Law & Order: SVU in Total Viewers (+33%), Adults 18–49 (+53%) and Adults 25–54 (+45%) and generated big year-to-year time-period gains in Total Viewers (+81%), Adults 18–49 (+35%) and Adults 25–54 (+38%), rising over first-run programming on the same night last year. The April 18, 2012 episode attracted ABC’s largest audience to the hour since the middle of February sweeps on February 15, 2012.

Revenge was ABC’s highest-rated series overall in Wednesday’s 10 p.m. hour in more than five years since Lost during the 2006–07 television season.

Revenge premiered strongly during its second season, with a 3.2 adults 18-49 rating. However as the season went on, due to negative feedback on the storyline as well as the scheduling of episodes against The Golden Globes, NFC Championship and The Grammys, Revenge hit lows of 2.0, 1.7 and 1.4 in the adults 18-49 rating respectively, within 3 consecutive episodes. The ratings never recovered back to the levels of the Fall 2012, and eventually ended the season with a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating.

The third season of Revenge premiered down sharply from its second season premiere, with a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating. In addition to that it also has a high rating of 8.2/10 on imdb which shows the general reception has been quite positive.

Soundtrack
The music for Revenge is composed by iZLER. In 2013 Intrada released an album featuring selections from his work for the first two seaons.

Tracklisting:
 * 1) Mortal Vindication (Revenge Main Theme) 2:30
 * 2) Lose Your Compassion 1:38
 * 3) Previous Investments 2:03
 * 4) Destiny 3:23
 * 5) The Wrong Amanda (Emily And Aiden Theme) 1:43
 * 6) Who Is The Falcon? 2:07
 * 7) Meet The Graysons 2:25
 * 8) The Christening 1:51
 * 9) Tyler Goes Nuts 2:03
 * 10) Return To The Fire And Ice Ball 1:46
 * 11) Don't Say A Word 1:52
 * 12) The Marriage Of Jack And Fauxmanda 3:12
 * 13) Honor Thy Father 2:00
 * 14) High Tension Boating (SOS Theme Pt.1) 3:48
 * 15) The Sinking (SOS Theme Pt.2) 4:44
 * 16) Requiem For Amanda 4:56
 * 17) Sins Of The Mother 3:23
 * 18) Farewell Fauxmanda 3:25
 * 19) Darkness 2:39
 * 20) Stabbed In The Back 2:28
 * 21) A Farewell To Porters 2:03
 * 22) I Am Amanda Clarke 7:23
 * 23) Adagio For Emily/Let It Play 1:32

From season three's "Dissolution" onwards, iZLER is credited as Fil Eisler.

Awards and Nominations
Revenge was nominated for Favorite New TV Drama at the 2012 People's Choice Awards. Madeleine Stowe received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a TV drama.