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Kidnapped
Format	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 seasons	1
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 – August 11, 2007
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Kidnapped is a short-lived American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC from September 20, 2006 to August 11, 2007. The series was officially cancelled on May 14, 2007.^[1]

Contents 1 Series Overview 1.1 Ratings 1.2 Scheduling 1.3 Cancellation 2 Cast 2.1 Main cast 2.2 Supporting cast 3 Episodes 4 External links 5 References

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.

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.

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.

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.

The series will rerun on Universal HD in 2008.

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

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
Tyler Pierce	ND Agent 1
Otto Sanchez	Otto
	James Sullivan

Main article: List of Kidnapped episodes

• Kidnapped at the Internet Movie Database
• Kidnapped at TV.com
• NBC's Kidnapped website

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