The Missing
- Synopsis: “The Missing” follows Tony, played by James Nesbitt, as a man devastated by the abduction of his young son, Oliver, during a family vacation in France. He becomes a man obsessed, unable to accept that his child may be dead and spends years searching for him.
- British TV series
- International co-production between the BBC and Starz
- Fiction and isn’t based on any real events
- Was initially released 28th October 2014 and finished 30th November 2016
- Series 1 is about the search for a missing boy who’s family traveled to Northen France for a holiday, however their car broke down and they had to take shelter for the night at the fictional small town of Châlons du Bois , but this proved to be a bad night for the British family
- Series 2 is a about a missing girl in Germany
- Series 2 is set near a British army garrison in Eckhausen and is paralleled by flashbacks to 2014
- Complex mainstream television product
- Provides a range of representational areas to explore gender, the family, place, issues, events, class
- Representations of gender (Judith Butler), place (Europe and the Middle East)
- Curran and Seaton – Neo-Marxian approach
Witnesses
- Synopsis: After witnessing a brutal murder, young Amish boy Samuel (Lukas Haas) and his mother Rachel (Kelly McGillis) seek protection from police officer John Book (Harrison Ford). When Book uncovers evidence of police corruption involving narcotics lieutenant James McFee (Danny Glover), Book must take Rachel and Samuel, and flee to the Amish countryside where Rachel grew up. There, immersed in Amish culture and tradition, Book and Rachel begin a cautious romance.
- Genre – Similar conventions, all have detectives and is a crime story – Stephen Neale