Welcome to the Spoiler Roundup, the most comprehensive weekly spoiler wrapup on the internet. We scour the web for all the best spoilers on some of the most popular shows on the air. Catch it here every Wednesday at The TV Remote.
This week: 24, Bones, Boston Legal, Chuck, Cold Case, Dirty Sexy Money, Friday Night Lights, Ghost Whisperer, Greek, Knight Rider, Life, Mad Men, Nip/Tuck, Numbers, Prison Break, Psych, Pushing Daisies, Saving Grace, Smallville, Supernatural, The Closer and The L Word.
Continue reading The Spoiler Roundup 07.23.08
Michael Ausiello is reporting that Chloe will be out of action for part of the new season of 24. Mary Lynn Rajskub is about to give birth in real life any day, so producers are figuring out how to explain her absence. They are looking at having an emergency involving Chloe’s now-4-year-old child thats causes her to leave for a few hours/episodes. So who will replace Chloe as Jack’s go-to person? It looks like Morris O’Brian will be returning to 24 to fill in for Chloe. Carlo Rota has just signed on to appear in a handful of episodes, starting around the midday point after January’s official premiere.
Jon Voight has signed on as a recurring character on the upcoming seventh season of 24. Voight will play the nemesis of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), who is pulling the strings behind next season’s terrorist threat. The character will be introduced during 24’s two-hour Season 7 prequel and will be featured heavily in the latter half of the season. The prequel, now shooting on location in South Africa, is slated to air November 23, with Season 7 of the series kicking off in January. Voight’s role marks the first high-profile villain casting on 24 since Season 1, when Dennis Hopper appeared in the final episodes as Serbian nationalist Victor Drazen.
Eric Lively, Tony Todd and Gil Bellows have been cast in the 24 prequel. The two-hour 24 prequel to the upcoming seventh season will feature Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) battling an international crisis in Africa while the U.S. ushers in a new president on Inauguration Day. Lively, brother of Gossip Girl star Blake Lively, will play the president’s son. Bellows will play a State Department officer ordered to serve Bauer with a subpoena to appear before the Senate. Todd, who also will appear during Season 7, will play cruel African dictator General Juma. Todd has been recurring on NBC’s Chuck as CIA director Graham. On the prequel, Lively, Todd and Bellows join previously cast Robert Carlyle.
On Sunday, November 23 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), the wait will be over as Fox presents a special two-hour 24 prequel event. Shot on location in South Africa, Jack Bauer battles an international crisis, while here at home the nation prepares for a new president on inauguration day. Taking place just a few months before the new day dawns, the prequel will set the stage and raise the stakes for Season 7. “We’re excited about the prequel because it explores Jack’s complex emotional state of mind and still has all the signature excitement and suspense that fans have come to expect from ‘24,’” commented executive producer Howard Gordon. “Shooting in South Africa affirms everyone’s commitment to making this season especially memorable for our fans.”
Celebrating its 150th episode this season, the series has resumed production on Day 7 and will unfold without interruption in its regular time period Mondays (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) beginning in January 2009. Set in Washington, DC, “Day 7″ finds CTU dismantled and Jack Bauer on trial. Bauer’s day takes an unexpected turn when former colleague Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) returns. Meanwhile, President Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones) leads the country alongside White House Chief of Staff Ethan Kanin (Bob Gunton) and First Gentleman Henry Taylor (Colm Feore). A national security crisis prompts an investigation by a team of FBI agents including Agent Janis Gold (Janeane Garofalo), Agent Renee Walker (Annie Wersching), Agent Larry Moss (Jeffrey Nordling), Agent Sean Hillinger (Rhys Coiro) and security specialist Michael Latham (John Billingsley). Although CTU is no longer, Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub) and Bill Buchanan (James Morrison) are back for another momentous day of shocking events.
Created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, “24″ is a production of Real Time Productions and Imagine Television in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Howard Gordon, Evan Katz, Jon Cassar, Manny Coto, David Fury, Kiefer Sutherland and Brian Grazer are the executive producers.
Welcome to the Spoiler Roundup, the most comprehensive weekly spoiler wrapup on the internet. We scour the web for all the best spoilers on some of the most popular shows on the air. Catch it here every Wednesday at The TV Remote.
This week: 24, Army Wives, Battlestar Galactica, Bones, Brothers and Sisters, Burn Notice, Dirt, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, Lost, Moonlight, Numbers, One Tree Hill, Reaper, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Office and The Unit.
Continue reading The Spoiler Roundup 04.30.08
24 co-creator/executive producer Joel Surnow is leaving the Emmy-winning Fox drama says The Hollywood Reporter. Surnow’s departure is effective immediately. He served as an executive producer on the first eight episodes of the seventh season that were produced before and into the strike but will not be creatively involved in the remaining 16 episodes, slated to begin filming shortly. Surnow’s overall deal with 24 producer 20th Century Fox TV was up April 30. This week, the writer-producer asked the studio to release him early, and it agreed.
Instead of signing a show deal to continue providing services on 24, Surnow decided to go for “a clean break” and leave altogether to focus on new projects. (24 co-creator/executive producer Robert Cochran’s overall pact with 20th TV also expired last year, but he continues to work on the series.) As for his departure, Surnow said it was hard to leave the show that had been “a life- and career-changing experience” but knowing that 24 was in “the capable hands of Howard Gordon” made it easier. Gordon has run 24 since Season 6.
