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French-American drama series based on the Taken film trilogy

This article is about the 2017 series. For other television series with the same title, see Taken.

Taken

Genre	Crime drama Action Thriller
Based on	_Taken_by Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen
Developed by	Alexander Cary [1]
Starring	Clive Standen Gaius Charles Brooklyn Sudano Monique Gabriela Curnen Michael Irby Jose Pablo Cantillo James Landry Hébert Jennifer Beals Adam Goldberg Jessica Camacho
Composer	Trevor Morris
Country of origin	United States France
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producers	Matthew Gross Edouard de Vesinne Thomas Anargyros
Producer	Luc Besson
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	41–43 minutes
Production companies	FLW Films EuropaCorp Television Universal Television Boomerang Productions Matthew Gross Entertainment
Original release
Network	NBC (United States) Altice Studio (France)[2]
Release	February 27, 2017 (2017-02-27) –June 30, 2018 (2018-06-30)

Taken is an action-thriller television series based on the Taken film series. It is an origin story for Bryan Mills (Clive Standen), the character played by Liam Neeson in the trilogy.[3][4] The series was commissioned with a straight-to-series-order in September 2015[5] and premiered on February 27, 2017, on NBC.[6] NBC renewed the series for a second season of 16 episodes on May 9, 2017, that premiered on January 12, 2018.[7][8] NBC removed the series from its schedule on April 18, 2018, and then announced that it would return on May 26, 2018.[9] NBC canceled the series on May 11, 2018, and the final episode aired on June 30.[10]

Former Green Beret Bryan Mills must overcome a personal tragedy in order to get revenge while becoming a CIA superspy.

Clive Standen as Bryan Mills
Jennifer Beals as Christina Hart[11]
Gaius Charles as John (season 1)[12][13]
Brooklyn Sudano as Asha (season 1)[13][14]
Monique Gabriela Curnen as Vlasik (season 1)[12]
Michael Irby as Scott (season 1)[13][15]
Jose Pablo Cantillo as Dave (season 1)[13][16]
James Landry Hébert as Rem (season 1)[12][13]
Adam Goldberg as Kilroy (season 2)[17]
Jessica Camacho as Santana (season 2)[18]
Dominic Fumusa as Harry Ward (season 1)
Jennifer Marsala as Riley (season 1)[19]
Simu Liu as Faaron (season 1)[20]
Ali Kazmi as Marzoki (season 1)[21]
Layla Alizada as Elena Morales (season 1)
Peter Outerbridge as James Casey (season 2)
Christian Bako as Krystiyan (season 2)

The funeral scenes, and scenes in and around the Mills family home were filmed at the Christ Anglican Church and a period home at the corner of George and William street in Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada.[22]

The rest of the series is filmed in Toronto, Ontario primarily at Cinespace Film Studios' Kipling Avenue facility.

At the end of the first season the show was radically overhauled, with showrunner Alexander Cary leaving the series, and Greg Plageman (Person of Interest) coming in as the second season showrunner. With the exception of Clive Standen (Bryan Mills) and Jennifer Beals (Christina Hart), all of the first season main cast exited the series at the same time.[13]

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the series an approval rating of 32% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 4.98/10, and says, "Taken's cast hits the right notes, but overall, the series fails to deliver a compelling narrative distinguished from its source material".[49] On Metacritic, the series has a score of 46 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[50]

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