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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 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 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?
Posted Dec 3rd 2007 10:02AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: TV on DVD, 24
Ahh, 24. I'm not sure if watching Jack Bauer kick terrorist ass counts as an American pastime yet, but after six seasons, it sure counts for something. Ever since FOX came up with the brilliant plan of airing 24 with consecutive episodes from start to finish in January (starting with season four), the 24 DVD releases have become a staple of the Christmas season.
Despite the general consensus that season six was a disappointment, I still say cut it some slack -- season five was a huge act to follow. While the DVD set is nothing revolutionary, it's still worth buying. Factor in the WGA strike's impact on season seven, and this might be the only 24 fix we get in a while. So let's get to it.
Continue reading 24, Season Six - DVD review
Posted Nov 8th 2007 12:03PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Industry, Programming, 24, WGA Strike
It looks like Jack Bauer has finally met an enemy he can't kill -- the striking Writer's Guild of America. The seventh season of 24 hasn't exactly gone smoothly when you add in the California wildfires and Keifer Sutherland's drinking woes. So it comes as no surprise that 24 won't be premiering in January.
Continue reading Stop the clock: 24 falls victim to strike
Posted Oct 26th 2007 2:04PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: 24, Video
The video for the new season of
24 premiered yesterday. It first aired on the bigscreens in NYC's Times Square, became available online shortly after, and aired nationally later in the evening during game two of the World Series. A lot of you have probably already seen it, but may be wondering: hey TV Squad, why are you reporting on this a day late? Well, this sat forever on the "assignment desk" and to be honest, I think we were all afraid of incurring the wrath of you readers for spoiling the fun. Well I stepped up and here's your warning: read on with caution, because after the jump there is a trailer and I do talk about the season seven plot. There. I said it.
Continue reading New trailer for season seven of 24 - VIDEO
Posted Oct 11th 2007 4:22PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: 24, Celebrities
If I ever get arrested for drunk driving (which will never happen), I would like prosecutors and defense attorneys to come to an agreement where I can split my 48 days in jail into two different blocks of time, so I can blog all day long and watch a lot of TV shows I might otherwise miss.
That's what's going to happen to 24 star Kiefer Sutherland. He's going to jail for DUI for 48 days (not the 30 we reported the other day), but those days will be split up so it doesn't interfere with the production of the FOX show. He'll serve 18 days, then go back to filming the show, then serve the remaining days after production is over (he has to complete the 48 days by July 1).
Continue reading Kiefer Sutherland to spend 48 days in jail (but not all at once)
Posted Sep 20th 2007 11:28AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Programming, 24
In mid-April, we reported that the
'24' producers were studying potential story lines for the seventh season of the FOX hit series, one featuring Quebec's separatists. About two weeks later,
it was confirmed that Jack would go through his next action-packed awful day in a different scenery. In early July, we learned that writers had planned to have
the action set in Africa and the U.S. but that the network sent them back to the drawing board because that story line would be too expensive. Eventually, official spoilers started to leak and FOX announced the names of actors joining the show (more after the jump).
But yesterday, FOX sent out
a press release so juicy that it had some people pinch themselves to make sure they weren't dreaming!
Spoilers after the jump!Continue reading FOX Reveals Upcoming Plot Details for '24'
Posted Aug 21st 2007 9:02AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: 24, Casting
Here's an interesting casting choice: Janeane Garofalo is joining
24. According to
TV Guide, she'll be a regular cast member on the next season. Her character is a government agent who will be investigating Jack Bauer and his CTU co-workers. I can imagine her playing someone Jack (and the rest of the audience) really hates.
This is Garofalo's first return to mainstream television since she her role as Louise Thornton on
The West Wing in 2004-2005. She also starred in a dramatic pilot for CBS called
Law Dogs, but it has not been picked up by the network.
So,
24 fans, does the news about Janeane get you more excited for the next season? Or, would you rather have a decent plot line this time around rather than celebrity casting?
Posted Jul 27th 2007 5:44PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Industry, 24, Celebrities
24 director Jon Cassar and producer/writers David Fury, Evan Katz and Manny Coto fielded an hour's worth of questions from Comic-Con attendees and fans. I've posted some of their insights after the jump in case any of them might be construed as spoiler-esque in spirit.
Continue reading Comic-Con: 24 Panel Report
Posted Jul 21st 2007 10:11AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: 24, Celebrities, Casting
The rumors are true:
24 has
gone with a woman to be the President of the United States for its upcoming season.
The show has tapped Cherry Jones for the part. She is a veteran actress who you might remember as Matt Damon's mom in
Ocean's Twelve. She's made several appearances on Broadway in plays such as
Doubt,
Imaginary Friends and
A Moon For The Misbegotten.
This is a very cool choice. Not just to actually go ahead and make the role female but to cast Jones. She's a good actress, and has that been-there, commanding air that the role demands.
Posted Jul 13th 2007 8:10AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming
I'm not really sure if this should go in the Drama or Comedy category.
FX has six drama pilots in contention for this fall, and one of them is
The Patriot, which is being
described as "the anti-24," because it shows all of the mundane things an agent has to go through every single day and not the "there's a nuclear bomb going off/I'm being tortured/gun battle" stuff that Jack Bauer goes through. There's potential here for realistic drama (it's written by Steven Conrad, the man who wrote
The Pursuit of Happyness) or funny satire. Maybe they can show him getting coffee in the morning, getting a parking ticket, having a problem with human resources, that sort of thing.
Because there are so many dramas that might make the schedule, FX is going to add more episodes of
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, so there's enough comedy on the network too. It returns September 13.
Posted Jul 9th 2007 3:40PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Programming, 24, Watercooler Talk
TV Guide's Michael Ausiello reports that the production of Season 7 of FOX's hit show
24 will be delayed. The reason: Fox asked for a complete rewrite of the storyline writers came with for the upcoming season.
The trashed plot was not revolving around
Quebec separatists, as a rumor back in mid-April revealed. Instead, the show was set to partially take place in Africa. However, that turned out to be too expensive which is why FOX asked for a new storyline.
Continue reading 24 writers are sent back to work
Posted May 24th 2007 1:20PM by Meredith O'Brien
Filed under: 24, TV Squad Polls
The last minutes of Jack Bauer's day, 6.0, have ticked off the clock. Now you get the chance to weigh in. Below are eight categories for you -- the illustrious readers -- to select the best and worst of 24 in a TV Squad poll.
1. Best villain. (The guy you really loved to hate.)
a) Cheng Zhi
b) Abu Fayed
c) Phillip Bauer
d) Dmitri Gredenko
e) Noah Daniels
Continue reading 24: Reader poll of the best and worst of day 6
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