A New Crisis at NBC

Actually, NBC has been doing well with new shows. In the last 30 days it has rolled out Believe, About a Boy, and Growing Up Fisher.  Now it is rolling out a new high-octane drama called Crisis on March16th.  Here is the basic story from NBC:

To bring the most powerful people in the world to their knees... threaten what they hold most dear.

It's field trip day for the students of Ballard High, a school that educates the children of Washington, D.C.'s elite, top-of-their-industry CEOs, international diplomats, political power players, even the President's son. But when their bus is ambushed on a secluded rural road, the teenagers and their chaperones are taken, igniting a national crisis.

Now, with some of the country's most powerful parents at the mercy of one vengeful mastermind, the question arises: How far would you go and what would you become to ensure your child's safe return? With so many parents and dignitaries put into play with nowhere to turn and no one to trust, the unthinkable grows from the select families at risk to an entire nation at stake.

Starring Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) and Dermot Mulroney (August: Osage County), the new drama is basically high-power parenthood.  Yes, expect to see helicopter parenting with real armed helicopters.  If this is the new "family show," then we seem to be moving towards the third world parenting methods of armed bodyguards and armored vehicles.