FOX has renewed its hit dramas, “Accused” and “Alert: Missing Persons Unit” for sophomore seasons to air in 2023-24. “Accused” is this season’s #1 new series and #1 new drama.
“Accused” is a collection of 15 intense, topical and exquisitely human stories of crime and punishment. Each episode is a fast-paced provocative thriller, exploring a different crime, in a different city, with an entirely original cast. Based on the BBC’s BAFTA-winning crime anthology, each episode opens in a courtroom on the defendant, with viewers knowing nothing about their crime or how they ended up on trial.
Starring Scott Caan, Dania Ramirez, Adeola Role and Ryan Broussard, “Alert’s” January 8 debut posted 8.5 million multi-platform viewers, a lift of +112% from L+SD.
“Alert: Missing Persons Unit” is a procedural drama set in the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit (MPU). Each episode features a heart-pounding, life-or-death search for a missing person that runs alongside police officers JASON GRANT and NIKKI BATISTA’s season-long quest to find out the truth about their long-lost son.
Six years ago, while working overseas, Jason received the call that every parent fears – he and Nikki’s son, KEITH (Graham Verchere, The Good Doctor), had gone missing. From that moment forward, the lives of Jason, Nikki and their daughter, SYDNEY (recurring guest star Fivel Stewart, Atypical), were turned upside down. The frantic search to find Keith began and the mystery about his disappearance continues to this day.
Throughout the search to find Keith, Jason and Nikki’s marriage deteriorated and they grew apart. Jason moved into private security, while Nikki was promoted within the Philly P.D. to Head of the MPU, where she has been able to do for others what she wasn’t able to do for herself, bring a loved one back home. At the MPU, she leads a team of highly skilled individuals including her current love interest MIKE whom Nikki met when he was assigned to oversee the search for Keith; KEMI who is proficient in many languages, highly discerning of visual clues, and uses her know-how as a shaman to take a holistic approach to her job. Together, the team works to find the missing, abducted, or kidnapped, and help reunite them with their loved ones before it’s too late.
