"There's No Aliens": Melissa Roxburgh Compares 'The Hunting Party' to 'Manifest'

Melissa Roxburgh is back at NBC but not in a reboot of Manifest, the mystery show she starred in for five seasons. The actress is now leadingThe Hunting Party, "a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist," according to the official description. The shows are similar in that they're all driven by mystery, but some aspects set them apart. During a set visit at which Collider's Samantha Coley was in attendance, Roxburgh was asked what makes The Hunting Party different from Manifest. "Manifest was very sci-fi based, and so there was like an out-of-world, out-of-body experience on that one," the actress responded. She added: