NY TV Festival to Open With NBC/Sony’s Kidnapped

NEW YORK, August 17: The New York Television Festival kicks
off September 12 with a premiere of Kidnapped, Sony Pictures Television’s buzzed-about series for NBC that makes its
broadcast premiere on September 20 at 10 p.m.

The show, set and shot in New York, will be screened at New
World Stages and will be followed by an exclusive gala held in association with
the Mayor's Office of New York City to celebrate its "Made in NY"
production initiative.

"NBC enjoys a wonderful relationship with New York City
for our many East Coast-based television productions," said Kevin Reilly,
the president of NBC Entertainment. "We're continuing that tradition with
our new New York-based series Kidnapped,
and it seems fitting to premiere this ambitious, suspenseful drama at the New
York Television Festival."

Jamie Erlicht, the co-president of programming and
production at Sony Pictures Television, added, "New York has been a great
partner and we're eager to find even more opportunities to take advantage of
this great relationship.”

In the hour-long serialized thriller, the teenage son of a
wealthy Upper East Side family is kidnapped and everyone is a suspect. The
series focuses on the kidnappers, the FBI and law enforcement, and the private
negotiating team contracted by this perhaps not-so-picture-perfect family.
Series stars Jeremy Sisto, Delroy Lindo, Carmen Ejogo, Linus Roache, Will
Denton, and Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton, with Mykelti Williamson, and
Emmy Award Winner Dana Delany, are all scheduled to attend the premiere.

"Two major goals of the New York Television Festival
are to celebrate innovation in TV programming and to promote television
production in New York City," said Terence Gray, the founder of the New
York Television Festival. "By showcasing an outstanding program such as Kidnapped, we have a unique opportunity to accomplish both. As
the birthplace of modern television, New York deserves a night of recognition
for its significant contributions to the industry."

Katherine Oliver, the Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of
Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, noted, "This year, we are particularly
excited that Kidnapped is one of seven
new New York City-based television shows on fall schedules. Our local
production industry employs 100,000 New Yorkers and contributes $5 billion to
our economy annually, and television represents the lion's share of production
spending, so we are thrilled to support television productions with free
permits, free police assistance, free access to City-owned property, sales tax
exemptions on production goods and services, and the "Made in NY"
incentive program, which offers qualified productions a fifteen percent tax
credit, free advertising and discounts at more than 500 vendors."