Telemystery: ABC Acquires Kidnapping Thriller Project

ABC has acquired a project from Castle executive producer Laurie Zaks titled Rise & Fall. The storyline, as provided by Deadline, involves the son of a kidnapped Chicago businesswoman, who must unravel the truth about what happened to his mother in order to clear his own name.

The kidnapping plot reminded us of series that we greatly enjoyed from a few years back titled Kidnapped, which aired briefly on NBC in Fall 2006 before the network moved the series to its website. We tend to enjoy multi-episode, even whole-season, stories if the characters are interesting and the overall situation in which find themselves is compelling. Another example of such is the first season of Murder One, which we thought at the time (1997) — and continue to consider today — to be brilliant television.

Here's hoping ABC moves forward with the Rise & Fall project; we'd like to see what they do with it.