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The new season of “24” starts in January. Check out the extended trailer at 24trailer.com. Now this is some exciting stuff!
The 56th annual Emmy Award Nominations were announced this morning. And quite a few surprises I might add! Desperate Housewives was snubbed! EVERY one of them. (well, except for the creepy Betty - but not one of the main ladies!) And I can’t say I am just a slight bit giddy with delight. The show sucks. But am very upset by the fail to mention LOST as a contender in the Drama category. (Helloooo..they won last year!) And I might have myself a little cry over the fact that Veronica Mars was outed again, and the only Entourage hottie that made the list was Jeremy Piven. *sigh*
Here are some of the nominations. You can read the full list here.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David as Himself
The King Of Queens, Kevin James as Doug Heffernan
Monk, Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk
The Office, Steve Carell as Michael Scott
Two And A Half Men, Charlie Sheen as Charlie Harper
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
Rescue Me, Denis Leary as Tommy Gavin
Six Feet Under, Peter Krause as Nate Fisher
24, Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer
The West Wing, Martin Sheen as President Josiah Bartlet
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
The Comeback, Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish
Malcolm In The Middle, Jane Kaczmarek as Lois
The New Adventures Of Old Christine, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Christine Campbell
Out Of Practice, Stockard Channing as Lydia Barnes
Will & Grace, Debra Messing as Grace
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson
Commander In Chief, Geena Davis as Mackenzie Allen
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
Six Feet Under, Frances Conroy as Ruth Fisher
The West Wing, Allison Janney as C.J. Cregg
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Arrested Development, Will Arnett as Gob Bluth
Entourage, Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold
Malcolm In The Middle, Bryan Cranston as Hal
Two And A Half Men, Jon Cryer as Alan Harper
Will & Grace, Sean Hayes as Jack
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
Boston Legal, William Shatner as Denny Crane
Huff, Oliver Platt as Russell Tupper
The Sopranos, Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
24, Gregory Itzin as President Charles Logan
The West Wing, Alan Alda as Arnold Vinick
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Cheryl Hines as Cheryl David
Desperate Housewives, Alfre Woodard as Betty Applewhite
My Name Is Earl, Jaime Pressly as Joy
Weeds, Elizabeth Perkins as Celia Hodes
Will & Grace, Megan Mullally as Karen
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Boston Legal, Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt
Grey’s Anatomy, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang
Grey’s Anatomy, Chandra Wilson as Dr. Bailey
Huff, Blythe Danner as Izzy Huffstodt
24, Jean Smart as First Lady Martha Logan
Outstanding Comedy Series
Arrested Development
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Office
Scrubs
Two And A Half Men
Outstanding Drama Series
Grey’s Anatomy
House
The Sopranos
24
The West Wing
Outstanding Miniseries
Bleak House
Elizabeth I
Into The West
Sleeper Cell
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Below The Beltway linked with 24 Receives 12 Emmy Nods
Those who can’t get enough Jack Bauer now how a movie version to look forward to.
 The real-time TV thriller “24″ is headed to the big screen under a deal between movie studio 20th Century Fox and the show’s producers, trade paper Daily Variety said on Thursday. The Hollywood publication said no deals are in place with the cast, although star Kiefer Sutherland — an executive producer of the series — has said he would like to reprise his role as sleep-deprived action hero Agent Jack Bauer in a feature version.
However, the paper said the “24″ movie would likely abandon the TV show’s distinctive real-time conceit, meaning that all the murder and mayhem will no longer be squeezed into one day. A rough plot outline has been drafted, but no details have been disclosed, it said.
Fox, a unit of News Corp., struck a deal with series creators Robert Cochran and Joel Surnow, who will write the script, and executive producer Howard Gordon, who will work on the story, Daily Variety said. The feature could potentially shoot next spring and summer during the hiatus between season six and a likely seventh season of “24.”
The critically acclaimed “24″ series, which airs in the United States on News Corp.’s Fox Broadcasting unit, saw ratings improve by 14 percent for the just-wrapped fifth season, with nearly 14 million viewers tuning in every week, the paper said.
There’s no reason “24″ can’t work as a movie. Indeed, the idea that major world crises occur and are solved within a single 24 hour period–repeatedly!–by the same guy is rather contrived.
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Below The Beltway linked with Big Screen Jack Bauer
The season five finale of Fox’s hit “24″ ended much like the first four: with Jack Bauer saving the day.
At the end of the day, Jack Bauer’s job was clear. By the 24th hour of Fox’s round-the-clock action drama “24,” the nerve-gas threat against Los Angeles had been contained; the submarine missile attack on California had been thwarted; and there was no bringing back murdered former President Palmer, only justice to be meted out. So what agent Bauer (series star Kiefer Sutherland) needed to do before calling it a day was extract from President Charles Logan a confession that he was at the center of all those murderous, treasonous plots.
Spoilers below the jump.
The fact is, Bauer’s usually effective interrogation style didn’t yield results with Logan. Instead, his fed-up wife, Martha (a wonderful Jean Smart), got the truth. When the sometimes unstable First Lady began calling her husband a liar during a public observance for fallen President Palmer, Logan (played with villainous relish by Gregory Itzin) took her aside for a heated private moment. Exploding in rage, he slapped and choked her, then, rightly concluding she wanted to bring him down, he searched her for a listening device. “You killed David Palmer!” she screamed. “You sold nerve gas to terrorists! You’re insane.” “I did it for the good of the country, as I saw it at the time!” he shouted back, then threatened her to keep silent, “or I will fill you so full of drugs you won’t remember your own name.”
Less than a half-hour earlier, Bauer had apprehended Logan in the presidential helicopter after it took off from Logan’s California ranch. “I suppose you want some sort of revenge,” said Logan. “I understand that. Bad things happened. I didn’t want them to happen. People who work for me, they went too far.”
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“Right now, right here, you are going to face justice,” Bauer told the president. “And if you think for a second that I’m scared to put a bullet in your brain, you don’t know me.” But after counting to three, Bauer couldn’t pull the trigger. Rescue arrived. Bauer was taken into custody. Logan went free. The time was 6:24 a.m.
This was all according to plan. A few minutes later, the U.S. attorney general was listening to a recording made from a microtransmitter Bauer had planted on Logan to capture the heated exchange he would soon have with his wife. Logan was taken away by federal marshals.
Happy ending? Not exactly. In the finale’s cruel, closing moments, the triumphant Bauer was abducted by the Chinese authorities he had faked his own death to escape 18 months before — to evade their revenge for the death of the Chinese Consul. “Kill me, just kill me,” a bloodied, defeated Bauer begged his captors. “You’re far too valuable to kill, Mr. Bauer,” he was told, as viewers were shown an awful sight: Bauer was imprisoned in the hold of a tanker presumably China-bound.
Thanks to Bauer, the nation was secure and an evil chief executive would pay for his crimes. But poor Jack can’t look forward to getting much relief between now and next January, when “24″ returns for his next rotten day.
Such a shame.
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The hit drama “24,” originally conceived as a mini-series, should go continue three at least eight seasons, now that Kiefer Sutherland has been inked to a contract extension. Reuter’s Hollywood Reporter Nellie Andreeva writes,
“24″ star Kiefer Sutherland has inked a multifaceted deal with 20th Century Fox Television. The rich pact, which is set to begin in June, calls for the actor to continue on the hit Fox drama for three more years and includes a two-year development deal for Sutherland’s soon-to-be-launched production banner. Details on the deal were sketchy, but sources pegged the acting portion alone at more than $40 million for the three seasons, which could make Sutherland the highest-paid actor in drama series.
While the deal with Sutherland locks him in for three additional years beyond the current fifth season of “24,” the 20th TV/Imagine TV-produced show so far has been picked up for one additional season.
Under the pact, Sutherland also will be elevated from a co-executive producer to executive producer on “24″ next season alongside Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran, Howard Gordon and Evan Katz.
One can’t imagine signing Sutherland for two seasons, at over $13 million each, and not having a show go along with it.
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