Hostages: Series Premiere ReviewGamersLedgeHostages: Series Premiere Review
With the success of Under the Dome — with its cable-style, shorter season and serialized storylines — CBS learned that risky, off-brand programming move could pay off. Now, however, they’re trying the shorter-season/limited-run thing in the fall, with a crime-conspiracy story more traditionally up CBS viewers’ alley.
Debuting Monday, September 23rd, Hostages, from Day After Tomorrow writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff (based, apparently, on an Israeli TV series idea that still hasn’t been produced), looks and feels like the kind of movie that would have been a hit for Harrison Ford in the ’90s (The Fugitive) and a flop for him in the 2000s (Firewall). Toni Collette (United States of Tara) plays Dr. Ellen Sanders, a top-of-her-field surgeon hand-picked by the president to perform a simple, but necessary, procedure to remove a non-malignant mass from his lung. Why did he pick her? To win over women voters, of course.
