Posts with tag spies
Posted Sep 12th 2006 4:11PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Talent, Celebrities
Yup, ol' Zephram Cochrane/Stretch Cunningham/Dudley Smith himself will play Kiefer Sutherland's father on the upcoming season of FOX's 24.
The story is a more personal one this season. Instead of saving the world again, Jack Bauer will be trying to save himself. Also joining the cast is Eddie Izzard, who will play a bad guy. The new president this season? President David Palmer's brother, played by DB Woodside.
I haven't seen one episode of this show (I was an Alias fan), but if this season is a self-contained story where I don't have to know what happened exactly in the past few seasons, maybe I'll give it a shot. What exactly do I need to know as a first time 24 viewer (besides the fact that Jack's a spy, his wife was murdered in the first season, and that he was captured at the end of last season)?
[via TV Tattle]
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 10th 2006 3:50PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, TV Royalty, Talent, OpEd, Alias
Here's a good example of why some people are destined to write TV shows and movies and why some people are destined to write
about them.
Julia Turner at Slate is in the latter category. She has
an article that pretty much calls J.J. Abrams a "hack," and a "self-plagiarist," because he borrows ideas and themes from
Alias for the new
Mission: Impossible movie.
Of course there are similarities. That's bound to happen, especially when you consider that Cruise hired Abrams
because he had seen Alias and loved it.
In fact, Turner sort of debunks her own thesis when she says "of course, every action movie rips off the action movies that came before it, and
Alias itself is filled with references to spy capers past: It's no surprise that secret agents spend time in ducts and sewers, that prisoner transport is dicey, or that there's ample use of the body double and the dazzling speedboat getaway." She also dumps on him for using flashbacks in both, then mentions that
Lost uses them a lot too. She then wonders if Abrams is a hack.
I think it's clear who the hack is.
Posted Dec 19th 2005 5:19PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Short-Lived Shows
So, raise your hands: who remembers this show? It
lasted for a whopping two episodes (a two hour pilot and another episode). They ran the two episodes in 1992, and then
the next episode was pre-empted by some major breaking news (can't remember what), and then the show was never seen
again! But oh, was it good.
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