J.J Abrams is pitching a new TV show called Alcatraz, with Lost writer-producer Elizabeth Sarnoff penning the spec script. If picked up by a network, the show will be made by Abrams' Bad Robot production company at Warner Bros TV. Bad Robot currently have two television shows in production; sci-fi drama Fringe for Fox (about to commence its third season), and spy drama Undercovers for NBC (debuting 22 September). Nothing specific is known about Abrams' Alcatraz project, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't set during the time Alcatraz Island was an active prison (1934-1963). But do we need another TV prison drama so soon after Prison Break finished? Will the show perhaps be based on a genuine escape plot? Alcatraz Island (aka "The Rock") has already inspired a number of movies on the subject -- the most famous being 1979's Escape From Alcatraz, with Clint Eastwood playing real-life escapee Frank Morris. Will Abrams similarly use history as a basis, or will Alcatraz be an entirely fictionalized story using the iconic San Francisco penitentiary as a recognizable setting?