Airdate: Crisis

Next month ONE premieres new US drama Crisis starring Dermot Mulroney, Rachael Taylor and Gillian Anderson.

The NBC series begins when high school students from Washington DC are kidnapped and Secret Service and FBI agents find themselves at the centre of the situation.

The series premiered in the US in March but has been cancelled. Last November production was halted with reports writers would tweak storylines amid concerns it had veered from the direction of the pilot.

There are 13 episodes.

It’s field trip day for the students of Ballard High, a school that educates the children of Washington, D.C.’s elite, top-of-their-industry CEOs, international diplomats, political power players, even the President’s son. But when their bus is ambushed on a secluded rural road, the teenagers and their chaperones are taken, igniting a national crisis.

Now, with some of the country’s most powerful parents at the mercy of one vengeful mastermind, the question arises: How far would you go and what would you become to ensure your child’s safe return?

8:30pm Wednesday August 6th on ONE.