Deja Vu: NBC Cancels "Kidnapped"... Again

Call it the anti-Stockholm Syndrome.

NBC has abducted its serialized kidnapping drama, um, Kidnapped, from its primetime schedule... again.

Despite pulling the struggling freshman series last month and then announcing that it would air its remaining episodes on Saturday nights (and allow the drama to wrap up its storyline), the Peacock has now officially declared the drama dead on arrival and unceremoniously yanked it out of its Saturday night berth.

To date, Kidnapped has aired five episodes in two timeslots. It's unclear whether production will wrap immediately or whether the Sony-based program will finish its 13-episode original order. What is clear is that NBC won't be airing any more episodes on Saturday or any other day of the week, instead choosing to fill the timeslot with repeats of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, beginning this Saturday.

Sad but true. So, if you're one of the 3.7 million paltry viewers who tuned in this past Saturday to see if Knapp would inch closer to solving the mystery of Leopold Cain's kidnapping, you have my sincere apologies. Me, I'm more saddened by the fact that the incandescent Dana Delany keeps getting cast in fantastic series with incredible potential (cough, cough, Pasadena) that end up getting prematurely cancelled.