Kidnapped (TV series)

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Kidnapped

Genre	Drama
Starring	In Photo: Delroy Lindo Jeremy Sisto Carmen Ejogo Mykelti Williamson Dana Delany Will Denton Timothy Hutton Not Shown: Linus Roache
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jason Smilovic Michael Dinner Sarah Timberman Carl Beverly
Running time	42 mins.
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	September 20, 2006 – December 22, 2006
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Kidnapped is a US television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC beginning in the Fall 2006. The series was cancelled after one season.

1 Series Overview
2 Cast
- 2.1 Main cast
- 2.2 Supporting cast
3 Episodes
4 Trivia
5 International Broadcasters
6 External links
7 References

[edit] 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.

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).

The first season also starred Timothy Hutton and Dana Delany as an affluent New York couple whose teenage son (Will Denton) is abducted. Also specific to the first season were various characters involved in perpetrating the kidnapping, including Gutman (Mädchen Amick) and "The Accountant" (James Urbaniak), and current and former FBI agents played by Mykelti Williamson, Linus Roache, and Michael Mosley.

[edit] Ratings

Nielsen Ratings for the premiere were 6.0, with total viewers of 7.53 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Cancellation

However, after the fourth and fifth episode aired, NBC announced that the show was being immediately removed from NBC's schedule. [1] 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. [2] The series finale was posted online on December 22, 2006 and the series was not renewed by NBC. The entire series is scheduled for release on DVD on April 24, 2007.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Main cast

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

[edit] Supporting cast

Actor	Role
Michael Mosley	FBI Agent Atkins
Lydia Jordan	Alice Cain
Olivia Thirlby	Aubrey Cain
James Urbaniak	"The Accountant"
Tyler Pierce	ND Agent #1
Anthony Rapp	"Larry" Kellogg
Mädchen Amick	Gutman
Giancarlo Esposito	FBI Agent Vance

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Kidnapped episodes

[edit] Trivia

Several unusual literary references are made on the show:
In the first episode two characters are talking across the street from the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant, this was inspired by the movie Forrest Gump. Mykelti Williamson played the character of Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in this movie.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] International Broadcasters

Country	TV Network(s)	Series Premiere	Weekly Schedule
United States	NBC	September 20, 2006	(cancelled)
Canada	Global Television Network
Singapore	AXN	January 2, 2007	Tuesdays
Israel	AXN	January 3, 2007	Wednesdays, 10PM
Thailand	AXN on Hot (Israel)	January 2, 2007	Tuesdays, 10PM
Australia	Nine Network
Indonesia	AXN on Astro	January 2, 2007	Tuesday, 9PM WIB
Japan	AXN	TBA 2007
Philippines	AXN
UK	Channel 4	March 13, 2007	Tuesdays, 10PM
Croatia	RTL Televizija	2007	Sundays and Mondays, 9PM