Alcatraz's J.J. Abrams: New Fox Drama Is With an Island, But It Is Not Lost

Alcatraz J.J. Abrams is heading to a tropical, simply not the area. "Theoretically, any land mass is definitely an island, which means you could reason that every show available [is much like Lost]," Abrams told reporters in the winter TV previews. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show was similar to Lost!" Nevertheless, the guy who introduced ABC's island mystery to existence has set his sights on another land mass for Fox's Alcatraz. Alcatraz concentrates on each day in 1963 in the well known Bay Area prison when a lot more than 300 pads and criminals disappeared into nothing. In each episode, one of these simple hardened crooks, named "the '63s," will come back in 2012 without getting aged. Bay Area cop Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Johnson), Dr. Diego Soto (Lost alum Jorge Garcia) - who literally authored it around the Rock - federal agent Emerson Hauser (Mike Neill) and the mysterious connect Lucy (Parminder Nagra) synergy to locate them before they are able to enact their anachronistic justice. Exclusive: Eric Manley, Michael Eklund mind to Alcatraz Eventually, the show will try to let you know that the '63s disappeared and why they have came back. But Abrams states he's learned his lesson from his previous serialized, mythological series - Alias, Lost and Fringe - to not keep audiences awaiting solutions. "You cannot expect audiences to sit down there asking fundamental questions for a long time,Inch he states. "It's unfair and it is wrong. We will make certain people aren't always banging their heads from the wall, but when we answer everything in the finish of Season 1, that's never a positive thing for just about any show." The 2-hour series premiere is on Monday, Jan. 16 at 8/7c on Fox.Are you going to stay tuned? Hit your comments ought to together with your ideas below.