I was mistaken when I first believed that National Geographic’s Locked Up Abroad features, exclusively, naïve amateur drug dealers getting arrested in foreign countries. The show also featured a man who after herniating his disc, loses his job and his wife, renews his faith and becomes a missionary in the Philippines where he is kidnapped by ruthless terrorists. Another episode dramatizes a South African man who works as a military attaché in Taiwan and him and his family are held hostage by a violent sociopath. With a wider focus than I at first thought, Locked Up Abroad develops the theme of hard-fought wisdom and redemption in a wide range of real people. It’s one of the most addictive shows on television right now.
Reading my previous post, one of
National Geographic’s program directors emailed me and explained that, as I had
suspected, Locked Up Abroad is one of NG’s most popular shows and that all of
their “prison-themed programs” are strong ratings performers. National
Geographic is waiting to see how much public interest there is in the third
season before deciding the renew. I’m hoping for a fourth season.
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