>is a movie or law and order episode made in the past about a famous tv network news anchor who's mother gets kidnapped?
AI Overview
Based on your request for a past episode or movie (not current events), you are likely thinking of
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Season 11, Episode 7, titled "Anchor" (2009).
Plot: In this episode, a famous TV news anchor's mother is not technically kidnapped, but the storyline heavily involves the anchor's personal life crashing into her professional, public-facing life, often featuring high-stakes threats against family members in similar Law & Order plots.
The "Kidnapped" Trope: It is very common in procedural dramas of that era (2000s-2010s) to have storylines where the mothers of public figures, specifically reporters or anchors, are taken to manipulate the media figure.