It certainly didn’t take long for ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson to fill the void left by Ben Silverman in the “what is he thinking?” department. Case in point: The news earlier this week that ABC is teaming with Friends creator Marta Kauffman for an adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Read More
To say that this year’s batch of season finales was disappointing would be an understatement. To wit: the not-really-a-comeback “comeback” season of 24 actually ended with (SPOILER ALERT!) Jack Bauer getting put into a medically induced coma… and that was it! Yet despite being completely horrendous, 24 ranked squarely in the middle on the season Read More
New York Post: It’s happened before: Vanity Fair breaks some news, and the New York Post floods the non-Vanity Fair demographic with all the goods. This morning it’s accused Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff’s secretary sounding off on what the guy was like before he got all lethargic and doughy. That apparently happened when the F.B.I. and Read More
Monday: 24
The laws of diminished expectations at work: The seventh season of 24 has been relatively free of both logic and tension, but because it is so infinitely better than season six, critics and fans alike have praised its resurgence. Don’t believe them. As we head into the final six episodes of the Read More
Monday: 24
Remember all that stuff you read about 24 taking it easy on the torture during its seventh season? Well, scratch that. Prolonged exposure to Jack Bauer could turn a nun into a Geneva Conventions violator. Just look at what happened to F.B.I. agent Renee Walker (played by Annie Wersching) during Read More
With television schedules becoming year-round events, Fox has gotten an early jump on the network competition by announcing their mid-season lineup… and if you’re a fan of Joss Whedon, prepare to be disappointed. Mr. Whedon’s latest series, the Elisha Dushku-starring spy-thriller Dollhouse, has been stranded on Friday nights at 9 p.m. If that Read More
Now that the election is finally (finally!) over, we can rest easy knowing that Sarah Palin will return to the backwoods of Alaska never to be heard from again. Ha! As if! The Alaskan governor has come too far and gained too much notoriety to just simply accept running a non-continental state. As Read More
Long before Jack Bauer became the chief architect of America’s torture and interrogation policies, he was on one of our favorite television shows. Yes, there was a time when we thought 24 was even better than LOST, though honestly that question was always like asking a parent which child they loved more. But Read More
MONDAY
It’s only been a week, but the strike has done plenty of damage. Late night TV is kaput. Saturday Night Live, too. (Poor Jonah Hill, of Superbad fame, was slated to host.) But it’s Mondays that may suffer the most. Production of 24 has been delayed, with the possibility that Fox may even Read More
Fox and ABC came to opposite conclusions about what to do with two popular shows with seasons left incomplete when the writers’ strike begain. Fox is postponing the premiere of its popular series, 24, rather than begin to air a season that isn’t finished; but ABC will go ahead and air episodes of Lost, which Read More
