I will definitely be back next week for "Kidnapped", starring Timothy Hutton and Dana Delaney. The pilot episode was amazingly tense and exciting - I'm not sure if they will be able to maintain that level, but I'll give it a shot.

I like Timothy Hutton alot, and have been renting DVDs of his old, stylized detective series, Nero Wolfe. Probably not coincidentally, his father Jim Hutton played detective Ellery Queen back in the '70s, and I recently purchased those DVDs. (I am a sucker for old detective shows - Hercule Poirot, Murder She Wrote, Columbo, even Diagnosis Murder and Mystery Woman.)

And how good a movie is Ordinary People? Timothy Hutton as the troubled teenager Conrad (also his name in Kidnapped), Donald Sutherland as his nice, but somewhat clueless father, Mary Tyler Moore as his not very nice on the inside mother, Judd Hirsch as the psychologist, and Elizabeth McGovern as Conrad's sweet girlfriend. The movie makes me sob every time I watch it.