Kidnapped is available on DVD.

It seems that NBC will be cancelling Kidnapped, but allowing 13 episodes to be completed and aired... sometime. (Kudos to NBC for doing that! )

Maybe it's because I set my expectations of this show so low, but I actually found this hour to be watchable.

Or maybe it's because I'm depressed and wanted to see the senator die.

Then again, it could have been the writing. And the fact that this episdoe had fewer of those "Look! We've got a computer and can fly around the city with it!" "camera" moves.

Whatever it was, I only switched over to WifeSwap once during the hour. (Okay, twice.)

The second episode was a definate improvement. It went from meh to eh.

The first 20 minutes were great. Non-stop action in the spirit of 24. Then came the rest. 40 minutes of drudgery.

I'm almost at the point where I don't care who kidnapped Sara Collins. Or whoever she is. (Although it's probably the Senator's Aide.)

So I just saw the premier of Fox's new thriller/drama Vanished. I thought it was good. Really, nothing amazing about it.

The series is about a senator's wife who gets kidnapped. But, as in most tv, it's more complicated than that. She had gone missing 12 years before; but that was covered up. She's pregnant, but can't have children. And she may not even be Sara Collins.