Posts with tag keifer sutherland
Posted Jul 3rd 2008 4:24PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Programming, 24, Reality-Free
Even though
24 isn't actually coming back on the air for another, what is it? Nine years? Ten? (Okay, January '09, but still), there's news coming out about next season. While a very pregnant Mary Lynn Rajskub, who plays Chloe, has already begun filming on Day 7 of the series,
Rajskub's impending due date will force her to take a hiatus from Jack Bauer's really long, bad day. So who's going to lie for Jack and help him out with all of his nerd toys? None other than Chloe's sourpuss ex, Morris O'Brian (Carlo Rota).
Morris, who on Day 6 was kidnapped by terrorists, forced to arm a nuclear weapon, slipped up on his sobriety, broke up with Chloe, found out that he was going to be a daddy and got back together with Chloe, will be having some problems of his own come Day 7.
WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILER AFTER THE JUMP
Continue reading Will Jack Be Missing Chloe on 24?
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 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 Jan 14th 2007 7:29PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, 24
Fox is set to kick off the new season of
24 with a two hour premiere tonight. To get you in the mood, have a look at
this list of all the people Jack has killed in his first five days. If you're playing along at home, Jack's kill count stands at 136 going into day 6. Not a bad 120 hours worth of work.
This isn't just any list though. Along with who Jack killed, each entry has a video or picture of the kill as well as the method or weapon. It's well done, and the kind of crazy fanaticism that makes television and the internet a great match. Imagine how hard it was back in the day for
Green Hornet fans to track the kills of Britt Reed and Kato.
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Posted Dec 4th 2006 6:11PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, 24, Celebrities
Look, I know that his years on
NYPD Blue redeemed him from a crash course with the child star curse of reality shows and cultural irrelevance, but he'll always be Ricky Schroeder to me. Ricky Schroeder -
Silver Spoons star, friend to "Tap Dance Kid" Alfonso Riberio and owner of the racing car bed. Fortunately for Ricky, he overcame the 80s with the aforementioned three seasons on
NYPD Blue, a comedic turn as Nurse Paul Flowers on
Scrubs and his latest outing as Dr. Dylan West on Lifetime's
Strong Medicine.
Ricky has made another great career move - further distancing himself from that plucky young lad in
The Champ.
He'll be joining the cast of 24 as CTU operative Mike Doyle. Expect to see Schroder team up with Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer in executing "key field ops."
24 is really pulling out all the stops with its latest casting decisions. Schroder is just one of a list of fancy new cast members including Chad Lowe, Regina King, Powers Boothe, Peter MacNicol, James Cromwell, Kal Penn and David Hunt. That's right -
Deadwood's Cy Tolliver meets
Babe's Father Hoggett meets
The Boondocks' Huey Freeman meets Kumar. Who doesn't want to see that?
Posted Jul 10th 2006 11:42AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, CBS, Talent, 24, Numb3rs, Celebrities
Here's something you don't usually see: an actor joining a show as a series regular, but staying on his current show, on another network, also as a series regular.
Peter MacNicol will join the cast of 24 in the fall. He'll play a top government official on the spy drama when it comes back in January. But MacNicol is going to stay as a regular on Numb3rs, where he plays mentor and friend to Charlie.
Maybe Charlie can make a guest appearance on 24. He can help Jack Bauer solve an international conspiracy with, um, math or something. I mean, the show does have a number as its title.
Posted Jul 7th 2006 4:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Talent, 24, Celebrities
...himself!
Keifer Sutherland says that the upcoming season of 24 will have everyone's favorite, tired hero Jack Bauer not saving the world, but saving himself, from bad guys who are hunting him around the world and want to kill him.
I think this is a fantastic idea. It would make the show more Bourne Identity and less James Bond. Meaning, more a personal story about survival than a story about bad guys trying to destroy the world. I think I'll even watch this upcoming season, even though I haven't watched any of the other seasons (not a knock against the show. I love spy/action shows, but there was always something else on).
The FOX show returns in January.
[via TV Tattle]
Posted May 30th 2006 4:25PM by Chris Thilk
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Talent, 24
I'm taking this story with a grain of salt, but if true it's pretty funny.
While vacationing at a ski resort, 24 star Keifer Sutherland was approached by someone who said they worked for the CIA. That person
told him his portrayal of uber-efficient (and seriously sleep-deprived) Bauer had set expectations for CIA operatives too high. Seems the agent's mother had remarked to him that he should be more like Jack Bauer, who gets things accomplished quickly. No word on if the mother in question also advised her son to shoot people in the legs should they not cooperate willingly.
Posted Feb 13th 2006 9:06PM by Chris Thilk
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Talent, 24
Anna
mentioned earlier that Elisha Cuthbert
will return to the
24 universe tonight as Jack's daughter Kim. The character is rightly surprised to find her
father alive after believing he was...you know...not. In fact she's so surprised she hires a therapist to see if he
can't calm Jack down a bit. That therapist will be
played by none other than the Soul Man himself, C.
Thomas Howell. Howell's character will debut later this month. I mean later in the day. I mean.. oh just forget it.
Sometime after what's happening now and before what happens later. I'm keen (did I really just say that?) to see how
Jack will react to the idea of therapy in the middle of trying to contain the latest terrorist threat that only he can
prevent. Maybe if he just shoots Nina again everything will be fine.
Posted Jan 16th 2006 2:16PM by Tom Biro
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, 24
In advance of this fifth season of FOX's
24, we were told everything from "You don't know Jack" to the fact that the premiere would be
"explosive." Little did we know what the show's creators had in mind for us. Jack is playing "Frank
Flynn," and attempting to get some work on an oil site - apparently part of his cover since he's supposedly dead
to the U.S. government. Palmer is in the middle of working on his book, Tony and Michelle are back together, and even
Chloe's got someone in her bed (and who knew she had ink?!). But
24 wouldn't be
24 without a big way
of opening the show. Just minutes in, we see Palmer shot in the neck from a sniper at a building across from where he
is standing - and it appears that he really is dead, no faking. And it would only get more intense from there.
The last person we expect to be sleeping with a co-worker is definitely Chloe, but sure enough, there she is
with Spenser, who works for her, shortly after the open. Clearly she'll be integral to Jack's return to the living, if
she can only make it through the barrage of hitmen who are after anyone connected to Jack and Palmer. Seeing Tony &
Michelle at home was a nice scene, which wouldn't last long enough for us to say goodbye. We're quickly thrown into
asking who is behind this whole thing, and what's the point. Thankfully, the producers didn't make us wait too long to
figure out what was going on - this was clearly a way to spring Jack from wherever he was hiding, and get rid of a few
"loose ends" in the process.
Continue reading 24: Premiere - 7:00-8:00AM / 8:00-9:00AM
Posted Jan 10th 2006 5:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Industry, Programming
On the cover: juicy info on
the new season of 24 (returns January 15). - EW lists the bad shows
they love.
- Michael Slezak lists some things that Desperate Housewives needs to do to
get better.
- The Popwatch blog asks some questions
about this whole James Frey/Oprah mess.
- Poll: what returning show are you
most looking forward to in 2006? Prison Break? 24? Sopranos? Rescue Me?
Giveaways reminder: Office, Eli Stone, Supernatural, South Park
Giveaway Thursday: Tickets to the New York Television Festival ... all of it!
I miss the media-friendly John McCain - VIDEOS
