Rawson-Jones speaks favourably on Owen's role in the overall ensemble opining that he, along with Barrowman, Myles and David-Lloyd managed to guide the audience through the serial with "panache and verve".
More recently Darren's storylines have seen him form a relationship with Nancy Hayton Jessica Foxx) that "came out of nowhere" but was kept long term as the pairing was popular with the serial's audience.
This was surely one of the riskiest shows ever attempted on mainstream TV – one that invited the audience to identify with a serial killer, albeit one who operates to a rigorous code of ethics, dispatching only villains lacking his own moral finesse.
The serial averaged an audience of 4 million viewers over its run.
The serial gained an audience of 7.9 million viewers for its first three episodes, rising to 8.3 million for the fourth and fifth and concluding with 9 million.
The "gossip" is a soap opera role that author Christine Geraghty has described as "crucial to the audience's engagement with a serial and provides both a source of information and a means of speculation for the viewer".
Wong also stated "we don't want to have the audience expect to see a serial killer every week... We would like to make it so that it's a surprise to them, just like it is a surprise when you watch The X-Files".
With his graphic novels and book collections, he gained a wider audience than he had with his serial comic books, and he abandoned serial comics entirely to focus on original graphic novels after Louis Riel.
The audience for Undisclosed, while not Serial-sized, is impressive.
Ed Georger, executive vice president for ad sales at Crown Media and general manager of Hallmark Movie Channel, said he believed the "success that cable has had with original series" could be attributed partly to a desire among marketers to sponsor "serial programming" that audiences like enough to come back every week to watch.
