Burn Notice is a television series that airs on the USA Network on cable television and was created by Matt Nix.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810788/maindetails It is a one hour 'dramedy' series that centers around covert operations agent Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan. The former spy uses his training as a Black Ops agent to help other people.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810788/maindetails Other actors starring in the show are Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless and Seth Peterson.http://www.usanetwork.com/series/burnnotice/theshow/characterprofiles/nate/index.html The fourth season also adds Corby Bell as a regular on the show. Bell will play Jessey Garcia who is a counterintelligence expert with a knack for posing as different people.http://tvjots.com/cool-casting-coby-bell-joins-burn-notice/

The series premiere was on June 28, 2007.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810788/episodes Although ‘’Burn Notice’’ is now in its fourth season, the USA network has already renewed it for seasons five and six.http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/04/16/burn-notice-renewed-seasons-5-and-6/

Covert operations agent Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan, is informed that he's black-listed while in the middle of an undercover operation. Someone higher-up within one of the government's intelligence departments puts out a 'Burn Notice' on Westen, requiring him to stay in Miami.http://www.usanetwork.com/series/burnnotice/theshow/overview.html Westen tries to figure out who put him on ice and why, and is further hampered in his attempts to secure this information by having his assets liquidated.

While trying to gain answers, he takes on various private investigation and freelance spying cases to earn a living. There are three major characters in his life: Fiona, played by Gabrielle Anwar, an ex-girlfriend of Michael's who is also an ex-Irish Republican Army operative; Sam, played by Bruce Campbell, a retired Navy SEAL who is secretively informing on Michael to the FBI, and his mother Madeline, played by Sharon Gless, a chain-smoking hypochondriac who constantly is nagging at Michael to make up for his many years away.http://www.starpulse.com/Television/Burn_Notice/Summary/

One of the angles the series takes is that Michael is not the normal type of spy seen in TV and the movies. Instead, he often has to use his years of training and skills to give him an advantage over those he is pursuing and/or protecting. Often, he makes use of electronic devices such as cell phones, clock radios, and pagers to provide him with low cost surveillance techniques to arm him in his case work. The show also includes Michael's situational narration, helping enhance the viewer's sensory experience of the given situation.http://www.usanetwork.com/series/burnnotice/theshow/overview.html