Alcatraz is an American television series created by Elizabeth Sarnoff, Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, and produced by J. J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions. The show premiered as a mid-season replacement, on January 16, 2012. Shifting between eras, the show focuses upon the Alcatraz prison, and this has been allegedly closed down in 1963 conditions for guards and its prisoners. The show's premise is the prisoners and the guards vanished in 1963 and also have reappeared in modernday San Francisco, where they are increasingly being tracked down with a government agency. The show starred Jorge Garcia Sarah Jones, Sam Neill and Parminder Nagra. The show was cancelled on May 9, 2012.