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    Famed director and producer J.J. Abrams dishes on his new sci-fi show

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Another thought I'd drop -- on fox team director and producer JJ Abrams heads to the rock and and you take on -- attracts.

Wearing them.

There already known for pushing boundaries on fringe and groundbreaking shows like lost and alias.

Series follows a trio of investigators.

Are tracking more than 300 dangerous prisoners who read it here in San Francisco fifteen years after mysteriously vanishing.

I run a special division in charge of criminals will hold a particular under for -- all all it is is that that sort of gut feeling is this showed that.

I would world watches the show that would give me that feeling of and I wish that I've been involved -- that you know -- that that was what I felt when I heard the premise for this year.

How -- has itself has to -- community the sea island the notion of this place that that.

You know is sort of in plain view but kind of looks a little bit like a haunted -- that there's a sort of just a look at itself the name is having just -- about the name.

Having his share of hits and a few disappointments Abrams realizes there's no easy formula to achieve that fat.

You're learning -- all the time I mean every show every story every movie everything that.

I've been involved live.

I learned from and I realize -- I was -- or if something works out you think that we worked but I don't.

Know if it worked for any reason other than we tried again.

So it's it's not always quantifiable.

Thing the failure or success of something but you of course was redolent -- Abrams is currently producing another Mission Impossible blockbuster and getting ready to direct the next Star Trek -- Having his stamp on another project is just icing on the cake.

Could not feel luckier to get to do this job -- and I know for a fact that.

Any success that I have is because I work with amazing people who do you know.

Such great work that.

It you know when it works out it's it's because they've done it -- it -- Michael.

You know I don't believe we're pandering.

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