Articles tagged "24"

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‘24’ moves to New York for season 8

by Verne Gay [Newsday (MCT)]

[16.Jun.09] :. CTU is back. New York City has been added to the cast. And Jack Bauer has recovered. More details about the eighth season of “24,” bowing Jan. 17? There are a few. Fox last week...

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‘Battlestar Galactica’s’ Starbuck on ‘24’ team?

by Maureen Ryan [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[11.Jun.09] :. Fox has made official the news that Entertainment Weekly broke on Monday: Katee Sackhoff, who’s best known for playing Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on “Battlestar Galactica,”...

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Antiheroes like Jack Bauer are TV’s new heroes

by Noel Holston [Newsday (MCT)]

[6.May.09] :. British talk-show host and satirist David Frost once observed that television is “an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your...

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Great TV series aren’t easily duplicated

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[25.Feb.09] :. We’ve hit the season when news from Hollywood about possible new fall shows gets the TV world all kaflubbered and jumping to overstatement by declaring trends. The declaration this year, from...

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Jack Bauer is at the head of the class of TV’s tragic heroes

by John Timpane [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[12.Jan.09] :. A distant explosion rings through the jungle. Jack Bauer, longtime protagonist of the Fox show “24,” stiffens, a spasm of muted pain on his face. One of his closest friends has just...

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24: Season Seven Premiere

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jan.09] :. Jack's interrogation of the suspect Tony, on behalf of the Bureau, is vintage 24, full of close-up grimaces and slams into walls.

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‘24’ season premiere doesn’t waste a minute

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[8.Jan.09] :. So there he is, Jack Bauer, unstoppable hero, emotional wreck, sitting in a Washington, D.C., hearing room, getting worked over by a congressional subcommittee. Of all the indignities, of all the...

 

‘The Beast’ is real bad, but ‘24’ still knows how to thrill

by Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Jan.09] :. I have now watched two episodes of the new A&E series “The Beast,” which begins at 10 p.m. Thursday on A&E, and I am just filled with questions. How many brain cells did I lose...

 

24: Redemption

by Jake Meaney

[8.Dec.08] :. Redemption manages to locate an emotional center than had been missing from 24 since…well, if not ever, since at least the first season.

 

24: Redemption

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Nov.08] :. In Africa, where children are forced to soldier, Jack realizes, every day is full of terror -- not just the 24-hour spates he's used to confronting.

 

Sunday’s in action: ‘24’ and more

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Nov.08] :. It’s still November sweeps and every episode is supposed to be a really big deal, but for my money, all the best action happens on Sunday. And action is the word with “24:...

 

Fox drama ‘K-Ville’ set in New Orleans

by Chuck Barney [Contra Costa Times (MCT)]

[25.Jul.07] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Two years after Hurricane Katrina wreaked its destructive fury upon New Orleans, a new network television drama series is setting up shop there. Like all TV shows,...

 

Powers Boothe protects the office of the president on ‘24’

by Kate O'Hare [Zap2it.com (MCT)]

[20.May.07] :. “This is my thinking on (on the presidency),” says Powers Boothe, who plays Vice President Noah Daniels on Fox’s “24,” “I’ve had presidents in my lifetime -...

 

24: Day Six

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jan.07] :. As 24's sixth day takes shape, it looks as though moral certainty isn't what it used to be.

 

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by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jan.06] :. Nothing is ever quite what it looks like in 24, whose writers famously revise and rethink as each season barrels along.

 

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by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jan.05] :. Another season, another sad bad day in Jack Bauer's boystown.

 

24: Season 3

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Dec.04] :. When playing Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland observes, 'Everything that's happening at any given moment is more important than anything else in the world.'

 

24: Season 2

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Sep.03] :. 'This is a red meat show. People kill people and go eat a sandwich right after.'

 

24: The House Special Subcommittee’s Findings at CTU by Marc Cerasini

by Mark Dionne

[15.Apr.03] :. Halfway between a novel based on a TV show and a cut-and-paste 'Official Guide.'"

 

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by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Nov.02] :. 'Fiction' and 'reality' aren't so much opposites as they are of a piece.

 

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by Jonathan Beebe

At 12:38:54 a.m., Jack's somewhat estranged wife accidentally breaks what looks to be a really nice coffee cup.