KIDNAPPED (TV SERIES)

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'''Kidnapped''' is an American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC beginning in the Fall 2006. The series was cancelled after one season.[1]

Contents
Series Overview
Ratings
Scheduling
Cancellation
Cast
Main cast
Supporting cast
Episodes
International Broadcasters
External links
References

Series Overview


The series premise was to feature a new kidnapping each season, with a core continuing cast who investigated the kidnappings, and additional cast members who changed each season, consisting of the kidnappers and the people affected. The show told the story from the discrete points of view of the victim, the parents, the investigators, and the kidnappers. However, this idea of a semi-rotating cast became moot after the show's cancellation.
The core cast included ex-FBI operative Knapp (Jeremy Sisto) offering privately contracted services to retrieve kidnapping victims, his technologically adept coordinator and assistant Turner (Carmen Ejogo) and FBI Agent Latimer King (Delroy Lindo).
Timothy Hutton and Dana Delany co-star as an affluent New York couple whose teenage son (Will Denton) is abducted. Other characters include Gutman (Mädchen Amick) and "The Accountant" (James Urbaniak), bodyguard Mykelti Williamson, and FBI agents played by Linus Roache and Michael Mosley.
Ratings

Nielsen Ratings for the premiere were 6.0, with total viewers of 7.5 million, and adults 2.8 in the 18-49 demographic. The second episode scored a 2.1 in the 18-49 demographic, with a total of 6.3 million viewers.
Scheduling

''Kidnapped'' was originally scheduled to air on Tuesdays at 9:00 PM ET in the U.S., as announced in a presentation made by NBC in advance of the normal upfront presentations. This placed ''Kidnapped'' in a timeslot against the popular series House on Fox. Because of this and similar problems with other shows, in an unusual move on May 25, 2006, NBC announced significant changes to its fall schedule, moving ''Kidnapped'' to a Wednesday 10:00 PM ET timeslot.
NBC and Netflix then announced, two months before the start of the 2006 fall season, that the pilot episodes of ''Kidnapped'' and ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'' (another new series) would be made available to Netflix subscribers on a specially issued preview DVD. The pilot for ''Kidnapped'' was also made available online at msn.com.
Premiering on September 20, 2006, ''Kidnapped'' started airing on NBC on Wednesday nights. After the third episode performed poorly in the ratings, NBC announced that the show would be completed and aired within the 13 episodes of the original production order, instead of the usual 22 of a full TV season, and that the show would be rescheduled to Saturdays at 9 PM starting October 21.
Cancellation

However, after the fourth and fifth episode aired, NBC announced that the show was being immediately removed from NBC's schedule. NBC then announced that the remaining 8 episodes would be shown online at nbc.com until completion of the story, with a new episode posted each Friday. The series finale was posted online on December 22, 2006 and the series was not renewed by NBC. The entire series was released on DVD on April 24, 2007.
Beginning June 24, 2007, NBC began to air the eight remaining unaired episodes of the series on overnight Sunday night/Monday mornings as part of the network's ''NBC All Night'' lineup after ''Meet the Press'', replacing the usual late night airing of ''Best of Dateline NBC'' at that time.[2] This is depending on local affiliates, however, as some stations only carry portions of the lineup, and some do not air ''NBC All Night'' at all.
Over the Summer of 2007, two cast members from ''Kidnapped'' were announced as having regular roles on NBC's ''Law & Order''. Jeremy Sisto and Linus Roache were cast as, respectively, a police detective and an Executive Assistant District Attorney.

Cast


Main cast

Actor Role
Timothy Hutton Conrad Cain
Dana Delany Ellie Rand Cain
Will Denton Leopold Cain
Jeremy Sisto Lucian Knapp
Carmen Ejogo Turner
Delroy Lindo Latimer King
Mykelti Williamson Virgil Hayes
Linus Roache Andrew "Andy" Archer

Supporting cast

Actor Role
Michael Mosley FBI Agent Atkins
Lydia Jordan Alice Cain
Olivia Thirlby Aubrey Cain
James Urbaniak The Accountant
Anthony Rapp "Larry" Kellogg
Mädchen Amick Gutman
Giancarlo Esposito FBI Agent Vance
Ricky Jay Roger Prince
Otto Sanchez Otto
James Sullivan

Episodes


''Main article'': List of Kidnapped episodes

International Broadcasters


Country TV Network(s) Series Premiere Weekly Schedule
Australia Nine Network
Brazil AXN March 13 2007 Tuesdays, 8PM
Belgium Kanaaltwee June 17 2007 Sundays, 9PM
Canada Global Television Network
Croatia RTL Televizija 2007 Sundays and Mondays, 9PM
Denmark TV3 2007 Mondays, 9PM
India AXN
Indonesia AXN on Astro January 2 2007 Tuesday, 9PM WIB
Israel AXN January 3 2007 Wednesdays, 10PM
Italy AXN February 7 2007 Wednesdays, 9PM
Japan AXN April 2007
the Netherlands RTL 8 July 2 2007 Mondays, 8:30 PM
New Zealand Prime May 20 2007 Sundays about 2200 (varies)
Philippines AXN
Portugal TVI Mondays, 1AM
Singapore AXN January 2 2007 Tuesdays
Slovakia JOJ July 4 2007 Wednesdays 21:00
Thailand AXN on True Visions January 2 2007 Tuesdays, 10PM
UK Channel 4 March 13 2007 Tuesdays, 10PM

External links





''Kidnapped'' at TV.com

NBC's Kidnapped website

References


1. [1]
2. [2]


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