The Prisoner is a six-part 2009 television miniseries written by Bill Gallagher, based on the 1967 series of the same name. Produced by ITV Studios, the serial premiering on the US channel AMC in November 2009 before airing on ITV six months later. After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.