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We begin this week on "Alcatraz" with former guard Guy Hastings (Jim Parrack) in his former quarters on Alcatraz. He has opened a spot in the baseboard that contains a gun and old photographs. A park ranger, whom he beats to death, surprises Hastings. Hastings replaces the baseboard and leaves the i ...

This week's criminal for "Alcatraz" is Cal Sweeney (Eric Johnson), a bank robber of the 1950s. He would seduce tellers to gain access to a bank's safety deposit boxes and rob them. If nothing goes wrong, no one gets hurt. But unfortunately something goes wrong. Madsen (Sarah Jones) and Diego (Jor ...

The new Fox series "Touch" impressed both critics and audiences, and its preview episode is now at the top of the genre ratings heap. In a single episode, the Kiefer Sutherland series earned a 7.0 rating/11 share, according to Fast National overnight ratings from The Nielsen Co. That average may ...

It's the third episode of "Alcatraz" and the pattern is already set. But I guess there's not much they can do with a series that revolves around catching bad guys from the past. But then again, they really don't seem like they are from the past. I have to say that I wasn't terribly interested ...

“On March 21, 1963 Alcatraz was officially closed due to rising costs and decrepit facilities. All the prisoners were transferred off the island. Only that's not what happened.” Fox brings us a new series from producer J. J. Abrams, which is trying to be the new “Lost.” It uses flashbacks ...

Apparently Fox remembers ABC's history with "Lost." And the lesson learned? Don't put anything after a J.J. Abrams production. The supposed "Lost" curse seem to affect any show that served as a lead-out for the series. Inexplicably, no show seemed to survive in that slot, no matter how much hype ...

Fox's upcoming midseason drama "Alcatraz" is getting a rough start. Two weeks after the network halted production on the series temporarily, it appears there are new people in charge of the time-traveling "Prison Break" style show. Elizabeth Sarnoff, a co-creator of the show who wrote the succ ...

It's hard to argue the ratings -- serialized dramas with complex storylines struggle to hold on to audience, and replace departing viewers with new ones. That's probably why many new shows on the network 2011-12 slate are procedurals. But not the new series from "Star Trek" director J.J. Abrams, ...

Fox already has "Terra Nova" premiering in the fall and cult favorite "Fringe" coming back for a fourth season. And now the network is completing its genre trifecta by picking up "Alcatraz" for its upcoming 2011-12 season. Created by the team of "Star Trek" director J.J. Abrams, Elizabeth Sarnoff ...