Alcatraz

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This could potentially be of interest fellow Losties.

Alcatraz is an American TV series produced by Warner Bros. Televison and Bad Robot Productions and airing on the FOX network.

Created by Elizabeth Sarnoff, Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, the series is executive produced by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Elizabeth Sarnoff and Jack Bender. The network describes Alcatraz as, “A thrilling new series that follows a San Francisco detective and an Alcatraz historian as they investigate the shocking reappearance of inmates of the infamous prison – 50 years after their mysterious disappearances”

Alcatraz is set to premiere on FOX on Monday, January 16th.

Alcatraz stars Sarah Jones (Det. Rebecca Madsen), Jorge Garcia (Dr. Diego Soto), Sam Neill (Emerson Hauser), Parminder Nagra (Lucy Banerjee), Robert Forster (Ray Archer), Santiago Cabrera (Jimmy Dickens), Jonny Coyne (Warden Edwin James) and Jason Butler Harner (Associate Warden E.B. Tiller).

Abrams, Sarnoff, Burk, Bender and Garcia all previously worked together on ABC's Lost.

KoolKid

I think I might be liking this.

Psychedelic

Thanks, I'll check this out.

Another show worth checking out is Once Upon A Time, produced by ABC and created by former Lost writers. A very different show to Lost but it is character driven. It's in the middle of its first season at the moment.

Niles

I'm tempted to give this a chance. I thought Sarnoff had left it though?
Person of Interest might be worth checking out too, another JJ Abrams show and starring Michael Emerson no less.

Sad Professor

Yeah, Sarnoff stepped down late last year. The network wasn't happy with the show apparently and ordered a bunch of re-shoots. I was never impressed with Sarnoff's work on Lost anyway.

I'll give be giving this a pass, I think. Abrams just slaps his name on these shows. He has next to no involvement with them once they are are up and running.

Niles

Sad Professor wrote: »

Abrams just slaps his name on these shows. He has next to no involvement with them once they are are up and running.

Yeah that's a fair point. Most of the Lost we know and love is down to Lindelof and Cuse more so than Abrams. I don't think he had much involvement with Alias after a certain point either.

As for Sarnoff I'm not sure... some of her episodes were among the better ones: The Candidate, Meet Kevin Johnson, What They Died For (albeit with the Kitsawitz pair who are generally strong writers).

Then again she also wrote the gem of an episode that is Stranger in a Strange Land. :rolleyes:

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Niles wrote: »

Stranger in a Strange Land