You're not alone if you were a teen or tween who swooned over Mark-Paul Gosselaar on "Saved by the Bell." Gosselaar, who played blond trickster Zack Morris on the Saturday morning show, has had a long and successful television career since the original "Saved by the Bell" wrapped up in 1992, afterward appearing in "NYPD Blue," "Raising the Bar," "Pitch" and many other shows. He joined Salon’s Alli Joseph recently to discuss his new series "Found," which airs Tuesday nights on NBC and also streams on Peacock.
“'Found' is a procedural show about finding lost people,” says Gosselaar. “The main character is played by Shanola Hampton [of 'Shameless' fame]. She plays the character Gabi Mosely, and Gabi was abducted when she was 16.” The show, while fictional, plays on a real statistic: of the 600,000 missing persons reports filed in the U.S. annually, 300,000 are people of color, and there is less attention paid to their disappearance than that of white people. There are also fewer efforts to find them.
