Never before has so little information gotten me so excited about a TV show. Here's all I know. It's written by Christopher McQuarrie, who penned The Usual Suspects. That's good. It's about a group of strangers who wake up in a deserted town with no idea how they got there. They're being monitored by security cameras and have to work together on solving a puzzle to escape. It's Lost meets The Prisoner. That's it.
NBC picked up Persons Unknown for a thirteen-episode run and we're promised that it will be heavily serialized. I'm sold. I love the idea of different people from different backgrounds having to work together, and I have complete faith in McQuarrie. The Usual Suspects is one of the most brilliantly penned films I've ever seen.
Chazz Palminteri, perhaps best-known for his role in The
Usual Suspects, is coming to series television. He just signed on to co-star in a new cop series on ABC, called
Drift. It's about a detective with insomnia. Palminteri plays the guy's boss. According to his 
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