Posted May 15th 2008 11:33AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming, 24, American Idol, House, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Prison Break, Bones, King of the Hill, Upfronts, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, New Amsterdam, Reality-Free
FOX announced its plans for the 2008-2009 season today. Here are the highlights:
Returning: The Moment of Truth, So You Think You Can Dance, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, American Idol, America's Most Wanted, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Bones, Cops, Don't Forget the Lyrics!, Hell's Kitchen, House, King of the Hill, Kitchen Nightmares, MADtv, The Moment of Truth, Prison Break, Talkshow with Spike Feresten, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, 'Til Death
Out: Back To You, Canterbury's Law, K-Ville, Nashville, New Amsterdam, Next Great American Band, Return of Jezebel James, UnhitchedNew: Sit Down, Shut Up; The Cleveland Show; Dollhouse (Midseason)
; Fringe; Do Not Disturb (formerly
The Inn)
; Secret Millionaire (Midseason)
Schedule and detailed descriptions of the new shows after the jump.
Continue reading The Upfronts: FOX
Posted May 15th 2008 10:21AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: 24, Reality-Free
In early March, FOX announced that a
24 two-hour Season 7 prequel would air this fall. At that time, not much was known about this special event expect that the action would take place after the Season 6 finale and before the
Season 7 premiere. Eventually, we got wind that
Jack Bauer would be heading to Africa even if
the idea was scrapped in September because of production cost.
Today,
FOX confirmed that Jack Bauer would battle an international crisis in South Africa in the two-hour prequel set to air on Sunday, November 23 at 8 p.m.
Continue reading FOX releases official information about the 24 prequel
Posted Apr 30th 2008 4:20PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: 24, Web, WGA Strike, Reality-Free
To tie us over until
24's seventh season premieres in January 2009 (it's closer than we think), Fox is appeasing us with
The Rookie, five-minute webisodes following the adventures of American Counter Terrorism agent Jason Blaine, played by Jeremy Valdez. Check out
Keith's post about The Rookie here.
It all ties in with the TV series. Blaine was first seen in
24's fifth season aboard a Russian sub. "If
Jack Bauer and Jason Bourne had a love child, it would be Jason Blaine," says co-writer Kevin Townsend in an
Associated Press story. "He's a younger, more ambitious, less experienced -- but no less talented -- version of those two characters."
Ok, that's kind of a creepy way to put it, but we get it. Now in its third phase, titled
Day 3 - Extraction, the web series finds Blaine sent to Mexico City to rescue his mentor, Alton Maxwell (Eric Beck), who's been kidnapped by drug czar, Estaban Salazar. Remember him? The Salazar brothers were introduced to us in
24's third season.
Continue reading Jack Bauer heads to Africa
Posted Apr 22nd 2008 9:03PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: 24, Video, Spoilers Anonymous, Celebrities, Early Looks, Reality-Free
Even if season 7 of
24 won't air for
another 9 months, it doesn't mean we can't get our hopes up when the first official cast picture leaks on the web. Mind you, it may have been out for weeks but today was the first time I saw it thanks to a tip who sent us to
SlashFlim.com.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who had never seen this cast picture before which is why I decided to share it with you all and take this opportunity to review what we know, including spoilers, about the seventh season of the FOX drama, including that
two-hour prequel that will air this fall.
Spoilers coming up!Continue reading An early look: '24' season 7 cast and episodes - VIDEO
Posted Apr 21st 2008 11:01AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: TV on DVD, 24, House, TV Squad Lists, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Reality-Free
We watch a lot of TV around this house -- hey, it's my job, man -- so the kids, ages 11 and 13, get to see a wide assortment of shows. Sure, there's a few I can't get them interested in (hard as I try), like
Lost,
Heroes, and
Grey's Anatomy (probably just as well, with all the bed-hopping). Still, there are lots of shows I've had to recap or review over the years that they've gotten hooked on. Here are a few of our favorites.
1. House, M.D. There's something refreshing about an infectious disease specialist who walks with a limp, pops Vicodin like dinner mints, and has the bedside manner of a schoolyard bully. The kids and I can't wait to gather around the TV and watch the tortured doc hurl insults at colleagues and break into patients' homes looking for mysterious mold or a DNA sample. We like to place bets on how long it'll take somebody to start seizing and spewing blood. Last season broke the record when a drug-addicted rock star started puking blood during the first five seconds of the show. Sure, this show is rated PG-14, but it's still a family favorite around here. My kids especially love the scenes where the camera goes inside the cells and arteries of a patient (not).
House, M.D. moves to Mondays at 9/8c, and returns with new episodes on April 28.
Continue reading Five shows I love to watch with my kids
Posted Apr 15th 2008 11:01AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, 24, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, The Office, TV Squad Lists, Lipstick Jungle, Reality-Free
Last week's episode of The Office now ranks high on my list of Awkward TV Moments. It got me thinking about other all-time great awkward TV moments. Sure, we've all seen the episode where a disheveled Mary Richards shows up at the awards banquet wearing one fuzzy pink slipper. And the one where Frasier and Roz nearly do it on a cruise ship. But let's take a look at a few recent awkward TV moments.
1. Jan heaves a Dundee at Michael's flat-screen TV. Okay, we'll start with last week's episode of
The Office, in which Michael coerces Jim and Pam into attending a couples-only dinner party at his and Jan's condo. The entire episode is one long awkward moment, from Dwight showing up with his former babysitter as his date to Pam realizing she'll be held hostage for three hours, thanks to Jan's poor culinary planning. But the topper is when Michael and Jan's love spat escalates into a huge fight, ending with her heaving one of his treasured Dundee awards at his new (and tiny) flat-screen TV. The cops show up after the neighbors report a disturbance, and Michael ends up going home with Dwight.
Continue reading Ten awkward TV moments
Posted Apr 11th 2008 10:40AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: TV on DVD, 24, Video, Reality-Free
We've got a long wait ahead of us until the seventh season of
24 (holy crap, it's been six seasons already?) hits the network -- January 2009, to be exact. Until then we have the reported
two-hour prequel movie coming sometime this year. And until then, we have further webisodes of
The Rookie. From the official description:
"The Rookie: Day 3 Extraction digital shorts chronicle the further adventures of American Counter Terrorism agent, Jason Blaine. Set within the same high-stakes world as
24, Blaine races against the clock to try rescue his boss, who is kidnapped by a nefarious drug cartel. This year's digital shorts will be released in six chapters, with each lasting three to four minutes."
Below we have the exclusive on the new episode, before it appears on the
official site next week.
Continue reading 24's The Rookie 2.0: Day Three, The Extraction (episode five) - VIDEO
Posted Mar 27th 2008 5:25PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: 24, Casting
Jack Bauer's daughter is trading in angst for romance. Actress
Elisha Cuthbert has been cast on the CBS pilot Ny-Lon. That's the one-hour romantic-drama-with-comedy
based on the British series of the same name that aired on the Channel 4 TV in 2004 (only there it was called
NY-LON; apparently the American version is initial cap only).
Continue reading Elisha Cuthbert cast on CBS romantic comedy
Posted Mar 6th 2008 10:43AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: 24, Casting
Fans of
24 will have to wait until January 2009 for the seventh season to commence, but in a move that's likely to be met with cheers all around, Fox has announced that the producers of the Keifer Sutherland action drama are creating
a 24 two-hour TV movie which will be a prequel to the next new season. The story will cover the two years between the end of season six and the beginning of season seven. The actors are being cast now, presumably the essential members of the team who survived the previous 24-hours of a nuclear disaster, terrorism, lies, betrayals, shootings and tragedies.
Continue reading 24 prequel TV movie set for fall
Posted Feb 28th 2008 10:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Prison Break, In the Limelight
Mysterious. Mesmerizing. Interesting. Dynamic. Compelling. Any and all of these words accurately describe actress Michelle Forbes. She is one of the finest actresses in television, and yet she has maintained a distinct quality that makes her as elusive a performer to come around since Garbo! Intensely private, there's not much known about the Austin, Texas native. (However, I can tell you that she collects clocks -- broken clocks. As she told me, quoting the movie
Withnail and I, "Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.")
She's currently making HBO's new drama
In Treatment appointment TV, drawing her loyal following to find her latest work as she did in
24, Prison Break, Homicide and
Battlestar Galactica. And that doesn't even take into account the millions who first discovered this chameleon when she first burst onto the scene in
Guiding Light, and then
Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Continue reading Michelle Forbes: In the Limelight
Posted Feb 27th 2008 1:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, 24, CSI, NCIS
It doesn't take a rocket scientist, let alone a forensic specialist, to detect that the
CSI franchise is hot. CBS currently boasts three shows with
CSI in the title --
CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York -- four if you include the non-Jerry Bruckheimer produced military procedural
NCIS. So, then, it shouldn't come as a surprise that
CSI is expanding. No, there's not a new
CSI TV show happening, but there is an amusement park variation on
CSI coming to life at Magic Mountain, the Valencia, California tourist attraction. (By the way, isn't it nice that Valencia didn't get nuked for real like it did on
24 last season?)
Continue reading CSI: Magic Mountain - it's true
Posted Feb 22nd 2008 11:04AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, OpEd, 24, CSI, Daytime, Cable/Satellite, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, Psych, Project Runway, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, TiVo, Damages, Lipstick Jungle
Is it really a big surprise that television advertising isn't as effective as it used to be? As TV watchers -- okay, we're uber-watchers -- we know that with DVRs and TiVos we're zooming through ads, or we're channel surfing in between segments of our favorite shows, or renting/buying content in formats that allow us to avoid commercials altogether. Now, according to the Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research's TV & Technology Survey,
we learn that six out of 10 marketers believe that TV advertising has become less effective in the past two years. And it's getting worse.
Continue reading Products galore...and you can't avoid them
Posted Feb 13th 2008 8:00AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Programming, 24, Watercooler Talk, WGA Strike
Now that the writers' strike is over, watercooler talks shifted from "when will the strike be over" to "what shows will come back, when, and for how many episodes." One show that fans were extremely looking forward to (mostly after seeing the video after the jump) was
24. The series, first set to return in January 2008, was
shelved by FOX so that season 7 could air uninterrupted.
When FOX made that announcement, some of us predicted that the show wouldn't return until at least mid-August. Since the network is known for starting it's fall season a bit early for certain shows (e.g.,
Prison Break), maybe the series could have aired from mid-August until the end of December with a few 2-hour long episodes. But it looks like this option won't happen. Instead, we will have to wait 11 months to see what happens next in Jack Bauer's life!
Continue reading No 24 until... January 2009! - VIDEO
Posted Feb 10th 2008 12:09PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, 24, Watercooler Talk, TV Squad Lists
Last week, I revealed the
Top 25 things that only happen on TV (and in the movies) according to the
Have Happy Fun Time blog (and supposedly many other blogs and websites). Since the release of this article, many TV Squad readers commented to add their own item to the list. Since some of them are really true and funny, I thought it would be a nice idea to share with everyone.
Continue reading The top 14 things that only happen on TV according to TVS readers
Posted Jan 22nd 2008 12:02PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: 24, Celebrities
Actually it's just Kiefer Sutherland being released after serving his 48 day sentence for DUI and violating his probation from a prior DUI. Thank god production on
24 was willing to wait for him to serve his time because other-- oh wait. There is no production. At least now there won't be any issues when they do need to get back to work on saving the world.
I've got to be honest, though, I don't understand what happened. Help me out here. Isn't Kiefer Sutherland a Hollywood star? And yet he served his full 48 day sentence in prison? Why didn't they let him out after nineteen minutes? Lindsay and Paris and Nicole all got out after a few minutes, so what's the deal? Is it because he doesn't have breasts? Because that's discrimination and I won't stand for it. I demand that
all my celebrities serve only token gestures towards jail sentences for real crimes. It's not right that Kiefer had to suffer like a real person for his crimes. Where's the justice?
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