'Without A Trace'
For its latest Thursday night drama, CBS turned to Jerry Bruckheimer, the powerhouse producer best known for big screen blockbusters and another primetime hit, "CSI." And once again, it's crime time for Bruckheimer.
It's a white-knuckle race against time in a high-stakes game of hide and seek as the FBI's missing persons unit hunts high and low for those who've vanished in the new show, "Without A Trace." Series star Anthony LaPaglia says, "There's hundreds of thousands of people who go missing every year. Some people disappear because they want to, some people disappear through foul means, some people just fall through the cracks, and we try to cover all those."
Co-star Poppy Montgomery says it took plenty of rehearsal with the real feds before the cast was ready to take on their first case. She says, "I went in and did their basic training which was actually really enlightening."
In the wake of the recent rash of high-profile child abductions, LaPaglia says, "’Without A Trace,’ while timely, will not rip plots straight from the headlines." He continued, "You want to be current and you want to be relevant, but you don't want to take advantage of somebody else's misfortune. That's the delicate balance that you have, you don't want to be exploitive."
Series creator, Hank Steinberg revealed to "Extra" the show was actually inspired by a recent headlining missing person's case. He says, "It originated with the disappearance of Chandra Levy. She went missing and it became sort of this media sensation."
And Anthony hopes the nail-biting drama and heart-wrenching emotion will give viewers what they've been missing. He says, "I can honestly say that you never really know what's coming."
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