Tag: Elizabeth Sarnoff

“Alcatraz” is happy to be a little bit “Lost.” At Comic-Con International, show-runner Elizabeth Sarnoff said the new drama’s creators “totally embrace” its similarity to “Lost.”  It’s not that surprising, considering she was a producer on that show, and both series are from J.J. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot. “Certainly there’s no better show” than “Lost,” Sarnoff said after screening the “Alcatraz” pilot episode Saturday evening in Ballroom 20. But “we’re our own show. We want to do our own thing…. We’re thrilled to be doing something else that will hopefully be somewhere near as entertaining.” “Alcatraz” tells the story of 256 of the country’s most notorious murderers, rapists and thieves who vanish from Alcatraz in 1963, only to turn up one by one in present-day San Francisco — unaged and ready to commit more crimes. A detective (played by ...