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'''''Hostages''''' is an American drama television series that aired on [[CBS]] as part of the [[2013–14 United States network television schedule|2013–14 American television season]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/05/15/cbs-announces-2013-2014-primetime-schedule-659502/20130515cbs01/|title=CBS Announces 2013-2014 Primetime Schedule|work=The Futon Critic|date=May 15, 2013|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvline.com/2013/05/10/cbs-new-series-fall-2013-tv-shows-crazy-ones/|title=Fall TV Scoop: CBS Picks Up Six Series, Including Sarah Michelle Gellar's Crazy Comedy, Josh Holloway's Intelligence and Chuck Lorre's Mom|date=May 10, 2013|last=Ausiello|first=Michael|work=[[TVLine]]|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cbs-series-orders-mom-intelligence-crazy-ones-will-arnett-519502|title=CBS Orders Chuck Lorre's 'Mom,' Robin Williams' 'Crazy Ones,' Will Arnett Comedy, More |date=May 10, 2013|last=Rose|first=Lacey|last2=Goldberg|first2=Lesley|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref> Developed for American television by Alon Aranya and [[Jeffrey Nachmanoff]], it is based on the [[Israeli]] series of the same name created by Omri Givon and Rotem Shamir and produced by Chaim Sharir, which premiered on October 13, 2013, almost 3 weeks after the American version's premiere.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/cbs-orders-jerry-bruckheimer-produced-hostages-to-pilot-toni-collette-to-star/|title=CBS Orders Jerry Bruckheimer-Produced 'Hostages' To Pilot, Toni Collette To Star|date=January 17, 2013|work=[[Deadline.com]]|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref> [[Jeffrey Nachmanoff]] wrote and directed the [[television pilot|pilot episode]] for the American version. The series premiered on September 23, 2013.<ref name="ksitetv">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ksitetv.com/general-tv-news/cbs-announces-fall-2013-premiere-dates/22939 |title=CBS Announces Fall 2013 Premiere Dates |last=Byrne |first=Craig |date=June 17, 2013 |website=KSiteTV |publisher= |accessdate=June 22, 2013}}</ref>
'''''Hostages''''' is an American drama television series that aired on [[CBS]] as part of the [[2013–14 United States network television schedule|2013–14 American television season]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/05/15/cbs-announces-2013-2014-primetime-schedule-659502/20130515cbs01/|title=CBS Announces 2013-2014 Primetime Schedule|work=The Futon Critic|date=May 15, 2013|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvline.com/2013/05/10/cbs-new-series-fall-2013-tv-shows-crazy-ones/|title=Fall TV Scoop: CBS Picks Up Six Series, Including Sarah Michelle Gellar's Crazy Comedy, Josh Holloway's Intelligence and Chuck Lorre's Mom|date=May 10, 2013|last=Ausiello|first=Michael|work=[[TVLine]]|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cbs-series-orders-mom-intelligence-crazy-ones-will-arnett-519502|title=CBS Orders Chuck Lorre's 'Mom,' Robin Williams' 'Crazy Ones,' Will Arnett Comedy, More |date=May 10, 2013|last=Rose|first=Lacey|last2=Goldberg|first2=Lesley|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref> Developed for American television by Alon Aranya and [[Jeffrey Nachmanoff]], it is based on the [[Israeli]] [[Hostages (Israeli TV series|series of the same name]] created by Omri Givon and Rotem Shamir and produced by Chaim Sharir, which premiered on October 13, 2013, almost 3 weeks after the American version's premiere.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/cbs-orders-jerry-bruckheimer-produced-hostages-to-pilot-toni-collette-to-star/|title=CBS Orders Jerry Bruckheimer-Produced 'Hostages' To Pilot, Toni Collette To Star|date=January 17, 2013|work=[[Deadline.com]]|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref> [[Jeffrey Nachmanoff]] wrote and directed the [[television pilot|pilot episode]] for the American version. The series premiered on September 23, 2013.<ref name="ksitetv">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ksitetv.com/general-tv-news/cbs-announces-fall-2013-premiere-dates/22939 |title=CBS Announces Fall 2013 Premiere Dates |last=Byrne |first=Craig |date=June 17, 2013 |website=KSiteTV |publisher= |accessdate=June 22, 2013}}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==

Revision as of 22:40, 8 January 2014

Hostages
Genre
  • Drama
  • Suspense
Based onIsraeli series Bnei Aruba
by Omri Givon
Rotem Shamir
Developed by
Starring
Composers
Country of originTemplate:TVUS
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes15 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Omri Givon
  • Rotem Shamir
  • Chaim Sharir
  • Jeffrey Nachmanoff
  • Reid Eid
  • Jonathan Littman
  • Jerry Bruckheimer
ProducerScott White
Running time40 to 43 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseSeptember 23, 2013 (2013-09-23) –
January 6, 2014 (2014-01-06)

Hostages is an American drama television series that aired on CBS as part of the 2013–14 American television season.[1][2][3] Developed for American television by Alon Aranya and Jeffrey Nachmanoff, it is based on the Israeli series of the same name created by Omri Givon and Rotem Shamir and produced by Chaim Sharir, which premiered on October 13, 2013, almost 3 weeks after the American version's premiere.[4] Jeffrey Nachmanoff wrote and directed the pilot episode for the American version. The series premiered on September 23, 2013.[5]

Plot

The family of a doctor is taken hostage by a team led by a rogue FBI agent the night before she is scheduled to perform surgery on the President of the United States. She is ordered by the kidnappers to assassinate the President during surgery in order to save her family.

Cast

Main

  • Toni Collette as Dr. Ellen Sanders, a well respected thoracic surgeon at the Maryland College Hospital in Washington who is chosen to operate on the President of the United States.
  • Dylan McDermott as FBI Special Agent Duncan Carlisle, leader of the team that takes the Sanders family hostage. His motivation is to help his sick wife who has leukemia. Later in the season, He and Ellen find an intimate spark for each other having an affair on both of their spouses.
  • Tate Donovan as Brian Sanders, husband of Ellen Sanders and the owner of a real estate firm within Washington.He is having an affair with his assistant, Samantha
  • Quinn Shephard as Morgan Sanders, daughter of Ellen and Brian Sanders.
  • Mateus Ward as Jake Sanders, 15 years old, son of Ellen and Brian Sanders.
  • Billy Brown as Archer Petit, a member of the team that takes the Sanders family hostage. He and Duncan met 13 years ago after he was rescued from FARC guerrillas while working at the Colombian border.
  • Sandrine Holt as Sandrine Renault, a member of the team that takes the Sanders family hostage. She and Archer met while in Afghanistan.
  • Rhys Coiro as Kramer Delaney, a member of the team that takes the Sanders family hostage and Duncan's brother-in-law.
  • James Naughton as President Paul Kincaid

Recurring

  • Hilarie Burton as Samantha, mistress and assistant of Brian Sanders
  • Paul Calderon as Secret Service Agent Stan Hoffman, a hardworking family man assigned to the joint FBI-Secret Service taskforce tasked with investigating the threat on the presidents life
  • Jim True-Frost as Secret Service Agent Logan, inside man within the Secret Service who works for the organisation that is trying to have the president assassinated
  • Brian White as Colonel Thomas Blair, Marine and current NSA director. He is the head of the organization that is trying to have the president killed
  • Joanne Kelly as Vanessa Moore, sister of Mary Kincaid. Her belief that her brother died at the hands of Paul Kincaid fuels her desire to have the president killed.
  • Jeremy Bobb as Quentin Creasy, Chief of Staff within the Kincaid administration and a co-conspirator
  • Lola Cook as Sawyer Carlisle, Duncan's daughter
  • Larry Pine as Burton Delaney, Duncan's father-in-law and Paul Kincaid adviser when he was a senator
  • Tyler Elliott Burke as Boyd Norton, Morgan's boyfriend
  • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as First Lady Mary Kincaid, wife of President Paul Kincaid
  • Francie Swift as Nina Carlisle, Duncan's sick wife, later revealed to be the President's daughter, as well.

Episodes

Season Episodes Originally aired DVD release date
Season premiere Season finale Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
1 15 September 23, 2013 (2013-09-23) January 6, 2014 (2014-01-06) TBA TBA TBA
No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production
code 		U.S. viewers
(million)
1"Pilot"Jeffrey NachmanoffTeleplay by: Alon Aranya and Jeffrey NachmanoffSeptember 23, 2013 (2013-09-23)2760627.41[6]
2"Invisible Leash"Jason EnslerRick Eid & Jeffrey NachmanoffSeptember 30, 2013 (2013-09-30)4X51525.96[7]
3"Power of Persuasion"Henry BronchteinRick Eid & Jeffrey NachmanoffOctober 7, 2013 (2013-10-07)4X51535.22[8]
4"2:45 PM"Russell Lee FineAron Eli ColeiteOctober 14, 2013 (2013-10-14)4X51545.16[9]
5"Truth and Consequences"Karen GaviolaJennifer CecilOctober 21, 2013 (2013-10-21)4X51555.16[10]
6"Sister's Keeper"David Von AnckenJennifer SchuurOctober 28, 2013 (2013-10-28)4X51564.90[11]
Ellen's sister Lauren unexpectedly arrives at the house and decides to stays while unaware of the current situation. Hoffman in his investigation of the disappearance of Nurse Angela discovers Archer's involvement and confronts Duncan about his lies. Meanwhile Kramer discovers a way that can get Sandrine the money that she needs with dire consequences by robbing a high stakes poker game and Morgan visits a OBGYN in a routine pregnancy checkup.
7"Hail Mary"Matt Earl BeesleyRick Eid & Alon AranyaNovember 4, 2013 (2013-11-04)4X51574.79[12]
Duncan gets Archer sent to prison in order to silence the accomplice that helped him dispose Nurse Angela's body who cut a deal with the ADA. Ellen decides to go to Burton Delaney, the lawyer who represented her in a case when she was a resident in the hope that he can have Duncan eliminated permanently. Meanwhile Kramer finds out that the limousine driver he assaulted died in hospital and Brian spends the day searching for a way to have Duncan killed.
8"The Good Reason"SJ ClarksonCassie PappasNovember 11, 2013 (2013-11-11)4X51584.53[13]
After finding out from Burton that the organization will have Ellen and her family killed if Duncan dies, she rushes home to find out that Brian has injected Duncan with the poison she was assigned to use when killing the president. In the process of trying to finding out Duncan's motives for killing the president she tries to gain insight to his life through his sick wife Nina. Meanwhile Kramer gets questioned for his involvement in the death of the limousine driver and Agent Hoffman questions Brian.
9"Loose Ends"Henry BronchteinRick Eid & Jeffrey NachmanoffNovember 18, 2013 (2013-11-18)4X51594.54[14]
Agent Hoffman's investigation further deepens when he discovers that a high ranking official within the White House forged documents in order to have the president choose Maryland College Hospital for his operation. Logan reveals to Duncan that Hoffman must be killed and his team devise a plan to prevent this from occurring. Meanwhile the president decides that he will release information related to NSA initiative "Operation Total Information" which targeted the privacy of citizens.
10"Burden of Truth"Phil AbrahamJoshua AllenNovember 25, 2013 (2013-11-25)4X51605.62[15]
Ellen gains further insights into Nina's past through Duncan and investigates the alternative possibility of saving Nina's life without having to kill the president. In the process she discovers that Nina's mother did not die during childbirth Meanwhile Duncan and his team continue to work against the organization trying to have the president killed and finds out that they hired a sniper to have him assassinated during his visit to New York.
11"Off the Record"Duane ClarkNick SantoraDecember 2, 2013 (2013-12-02)TBA4.51[16]
12"The Cost of Living"Frederick E. O. ToyeRick Eid & Jeffrey NachmanoffDecember 9, 2013 (2013-12-09)TBA4.69[17]
13"Fight or Flight"Bill JohnsonRick Eid & Jeffrey NachmanoffDecember 16, 2013 (2013-12-16)TBA5.09[18]
After Duncan's actions become aware to Nina through Brian, Ellen makes clear that she will not kill the president. They both devise up a plan that will allow them to get what they want. Meanwhile Archer discovers that Sandrine is working for the other side and Nina escapes from Burton's house only to be found by Blair
14"Suspicious Minds"Anton CropperRick EidJanuary 6, 2014 (2014-01-06)TBA5.07[19]
15"Endgame"Jeffrey NachmanoffJeffrey NachmanoffJanuary 6, 2014 (2014-01-06)TBA4.69[19]

Reception

The series received generally mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 56% of 39 reviews were positive, with the consensus: 'Hostages has an intriguing premise and handsome production values, but its twisty plot sometimes strains credulity.'[20] David Hinckley of the New York Daily News gave the show 4 out of 5 stars.[21] Robert Bianco of USA Today awarded it 3 out of 4 stars.[22]

Locations recorded

A list of filming locations:

References

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  2. ^ Ausiello, Michael (May 10, 2013). "Fall TV Scoop: CBS Picks Up Six Series, Including Sarah Michelle Gellar's Crazy Comedy, Josh Holloway's Intelligence and Chuck Lorre's Mom". TVLine. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
  3. ^ Rose, Lacey; Goldberg, Lesley (May 10, 2013). "CBS Orders Chuck Lorre's 'Mom,' Robin Williams' 'Crazy Ones,' Will Arnett Comedy, More". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
  4. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (January 17, 2013). "CBS Orders Jerry Bruckheimer-Produced 'Hostages' To Pilot, Toni Collette To Star". Deadline.com. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
  5. ^ Byrne, Craig (June 17, 2013). "CBS Announces Fall 2013 Premiere Dates". KSiteTV. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
  6. ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (September 24, 2013). "Monday Final TV Ratings: 'The Voice' & 'How I Met Your Mother' Adjusted Up; No Adjustment for 'Hostages' or 'The Blacklist'". TV by the Numbers.
  7. ^ Bibel, Sara (October 1, 2013). "Monday Final TV Ratings: 'The Voice' Adjusted Up; 'The Blacklist' & 'iHeartRadio Music Festival' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
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  11. ^ Bibel, Sara (October 29, 2013). "Monday Final TV Ratings: 'The Voice', 'How I Met Your Mother', 'Dancing With the Stars' & '2 Broke Girls' Adjusted Up; 'Hostages' Adjusted Down & Final World Series Numbers". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
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  13. ^ Bibel, Sara (November 12, 2013). "Monday Final TV Ratings: 'Sleepy Hollow,' 'Castle' & 'Mike & Molly' Adjusted Up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 12, 2013.
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  15. ^ Bibel, Sara (November 26, 2013). "Monday Final TV Ratings: 'The Voice' & 'Mom' Adjusted Up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  16. ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (December 4, 2013). "Monday Final TV Ratings: 'How I Met Your Mother' Adjusted Up; 'The Blacklist' & 'The Voice' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  17. ^ Bibel, Sara (December 10, 2013). "Monday Final TV Ratings: 'The Voice' & 'Sleepy Hollow' Adjusted Up; 'The Great Christmas Light Fight' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
  18. ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (December 17, 2013). "Monday Final TV Ratings: 'The Sing-Off' & 'The Great Christmas Light Fight' Adjusted Up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  19. ^ a b Bibel, Sara (January 7, 2014). "Monday Final TV Ratings: 'Almost Human' Adjusted Up; 'Castle' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
  20. ^ "Hostages: Season 1 Reviews". Flixster. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
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  22. ^ "'Blacklist,' 'Hostages' each have suspenseful charms". USA Today. September 22, 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2013.
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