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AccessHollywood.com’s Laura Saltman had a sit down chat with Katee Sackhoff (who plays CTU Analyst Dana Walsh) about the upcoming season of 24.
Source: Access Hollywood
24 Spoilers
Spoilers and news for the hit FOX television show 24
11.30
2009
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Fox has posted a video of a recent FOX Winter Photoshoot featuring 24’s Katee Sackhoff (aka Dana Walsh) among other FOX stars. The Katee Sackhoff segment is (appropriately) 24 seconds into the video:
Photos
The previous “So Fresh, So Fox” photo shoot (with Annie Wersching, Anil Kapoor, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and John Boyd) can be found here.
11.30
2009
2009
Cherry Jones role in 24 season 7 was nominated for Best “Supporting Actress in Series, Miniseries/Motion Picture Made for TV” at the 14th Annual Satellite Awards – the very same category that Cherry won an Emmy for earlier this year. Here’s hoping she has a repeat performance.
Cherry’s competition is Jane Lynch (Glee), Judy Parfitt (Little Dorrit), Chloe Sevigny (Big Love), Anika Noni Rose (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency), and Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty).
24’s Shohreh Aghdashloo (who played Dina Araz in the fourth season) was also nominated for best actress in a drama for The Stoning of Soraya M.
The Satellite Awards winners will be announced on December 20th.
11.30
2009
2009
Sky1 has announced their UK premiere date of 24 season 8 as Sunday January 24th at 9PM (with a double episode) – exactly a week after FOX’s January 17th US air date.
In response to a fan on Twitter, they replied:
We will air three weeks of double bills so we will catch up with the US. As per announcement Sunday is the new air day.
Source: Sky1 official website, Press Release, sky1insider Twitter
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11.23
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This one is mostly similar to the original debut promo but contains fifteen seconds of additional footage (one minute compared to 45 seconds).
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11.19
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Carlos Answers the Question that Everyone’s Been Asking
LM: Are you going to a part of Season 8 of 24?
CB: I’m asked this question on a daily basis, so I might as well answer it. I’ll never say never when it comes to 24. It’s been such a special part of my life and an honor working with all of the incredibly talented people that have helped make the show the success that it’s been. That being said, I have not been contacted by the studio or producers of 24 about season 8. They’re already well into filming next season and I’m about to start work on a film in South Carolina. So, at this point, I highly doubt that I’ll be involved in the next season of 24.
This is quite disappointing. There’s already a fan petition over at almeidaisgod.com asking for Tony’s return. There are still eight episodes left to shoot in season 8 so hopefully something will change before then. If this is the last season of the show, it’d be nice to have an original character return.
Source: Carlosbernard.com
11.18
2009
2009
The following takes place between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.
The newly re-formed Counter Terrorist Unit: New York branch is hidden in a Chatsworth, Calif., soundstage. As we prepared to infiltrate the set (see images below), techie extraordinaire Chloe literally provided decoy cover. Actress Mary Lynn Rasjkub got a makeup touchup outside, so we slipped into the studio while crew were focused on the pretty actress.
The hand scanner in the lobby accepted our prints for entry. Our plan to hack into the system to authorize our DNA for access worked, or maybe the hand scanner was just a prop. Either way, we were in. Through the bullpen of monitors capturing video feeds from high-population areas around town, past the medical bay where a monitor showed a flat line (someone dies this season!), we cornered new cast member Katee Sackhoff in the underground car park.
Sackhoff joins the cast of Fox’s sci-fi-ish spy series 24 this year and spoke with a group of reporters on the set. Her CTU training proved strong against interrogation tactics, but as 24 proves, repeated badgering and torture works. Here are seven pieces of intel she gave up. 24 returns this January on Fox.
Katee Sackhoff on the set of 24 Katee plays Chloe’s boss. Chloe has never let authority stop her from getting the job done, but she’s never dealt with anyone like Dana before. “Dana is permanently happy,” Sackhoff said. “I think that also pisses Chloe off, because Dana’s like, ‘Oh, no, it’s totally fine that you don’t get it. Let me help you. It’s great. I’ll do that. It’s fine. You don’t need to figure it out, because I’m good enough to do both our jobs.’ So that really pisses Chloe off.”
Dana kicks ass. But intellectually. Starbuck fans might be disappointed they don’t get to see Sackhoff beat up terrorists. The show’s writers have a different idea for utilizing Sackhoff’s talents. “I wanted to just blow s–t up, and they were like, ‘I don’t know if we can do that,’” she said. “I came in and sat down with the producers and writers, and we had a discussion as far as what they wanted from me and what I wanted to do, and hopefully we’ll all [meet] in the middle, so we’ll see.”
You’ll see Sackhoff in a whole new light. Dana may be locked inside the CTU offices all day, but the premise is that she’s had an earthbound life. That allows Sackhoff to finally get some sun. “The first thing I thought was, I’m going to constantly have a tan, which is fantastic for me, because I spent the last five years on a show that you were in space, so you weren’t supposed to have a tan,” she said. “So this is, like, the orange [stage light] bounces off your skin, and everyone just has a nice little glow. You’ve either just been to Mexico, or you’re pregnant, so it’s perfect. It’s really nice, and just new. Orange looks good on me, so it’s exciting. I went from a show where color was bad to you’re now in an orange set, which is awesome.”
Something happens at CTU. Gee, thanks for the big tip. Sackhoff’s allowed to reveal that something’s going on at CTU. “I was like, ‘Seriously? I don’t know if anyone thinks that’s actually a big secret,’” Sackhoff joked about her gag order. “Could you imagine? So this is a 24 episode, and the whole season is just about nothing. No controversy, nobody dies, nobody gets beat up, Jack Bauer doesn’t do anything. He might not even show up, and for 24 hours that would just be what it is. Could you imagine?” That might actually be funny for like the first six hours. “It would, and then people would go, like, ‘Are you serious?’ Just office lives. I’m handing my files to Chloe. They show us at lunch.”
Continuity is easy. A lot may happen in a day on 24, and by episode 20 it can be hard to remember what you were playing in episode 2. At least her wardrobe doesn’t have to change. “It almost makes it easier, because it all takes place in the same day,” she said. “It’s one of those things where the continuity as far as your wardrobe doesn’t change, so it’s like, ‘Something’s [off]… my watch isn’t here.” Because you’re so used to wearing it that it becomes kind of like the gunbelt from Battlestar. It would seem very odd to not have it on. You have to remind yourself what room you were in last, not what happened last episode, because it all is taking you to the exact same place at the end of the day, kind of. So I found that easier.”
She’s still got a potty mouth. The word “frak” might not exist in the world of 24, and the Fox network has stricter language guidelines for broadcast than did Syfy, but behind the scenes, Sackhoff still talks dirty. She endeared herself to the 24 crew right away by sharing a dirty story about Battlestar. While Edward James Olmos was shooting The Plan, he reveled in the chance to include nudity on the DVD release. “There’s a scene in the Head where everyone’s just naked, and Eddie on the day is going, ‘Zoom in on the c–k. Zoom in on the c–k,’” Sackhoff recalled. “The camera guy’s like, ‘I can’t zoom in the c–k. He keeps covering up the c–k.’ They’re like, ‘Zoom in the c–k. Get him to do something else with his hands. Make him shave.’ So then he’s shaving, and he’s like, ‘Now, zoom in on the c–k.’ That’s on the daily. That is so Eddie. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. ‘Zoom in on the c–k’ in Eddie’s voice. I think I told that story my first day here, and the crew was like, ‘We like you.’”
Source: SCI FI Wire
11.14
2009
2009
Back in May, we found out that Sarah Michelle Gellar hubby Freddie Prinze Jr. would be a big part of the upcoming season 8 of Fox’s 24 (which premieres Jan. 17), but now we’ve got an EW exclusive first look at one of his early scenes with Keifer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer.
The former teen heartthrob plays Cole Ortiz, head of field operations for a reconstituted CTU in New York City, where the action takes place in the upcoming season. “We’ve attempted to call him a young Jack Bauer, but he really is his own character,” says 24 executive producer Howard Gordon.
Much of Prinze’s storyline concerns his character’s romantic relationship with Dana Walsh, an agent at CTU played Katee Sackhoff. (Sci-fi nerds, try to contain yourself!) “We’ve got a really interesting story to tell with these two,” adds Gordon. “What we learn in short order is that she may not be who she says she is, and it has to do with her past, which comes back to haunt her in the present. This wonderful Boy Scout is about to learn that the woman who he’s about to marry—she’s kind of the perfect girl—has secrets. In the tradition of 24, work and personal lives don’t mix.”
But now to the big question: Does he get along with top-dog Jack Bauer? “The dynamic is that, from the very first moment, Cole is enamored with Jack,” Gordon reveals. “But he has a few encounters with his hero that make him question that—sometimes you don’t want to meet your heroes. But the two wind up having a great deal of respect for each other.” But is that a revelation? Anybody who watches 24 knows you better have respect for Jack Bauer—or, well, you know.
Source: EW.com (hi-res scan of the article can be found here)
11.13
2009
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Nazanin Boniadi (General Hospital’s Leyla Mir) has been cast on 24 as simply “blonde woman” – she can be seen in the set photos from yesterday wearing a (terrible looking) blonde wig.
It appears as if Michael Gaston (Jericho’s Gray Anderson) is playing a character named General David Brucker who first appears in the fourteenth episode (5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m.).
Actor and stuntman Chris Gann is playing a character named Mathis in the 14th episode. He actually played two characters on 24 before (in addition to doing stunt work for the show), both in the same season. First he was a CTU sniper, then he played Phillip Bauer’s henchman in the season 6 finale. No word on if his season 8 character is good or bad.
Jamison Haase seems to be playing a character named “Jim Payne” in the 16th episode (7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.).
Assaf Cohen has posted on his website that “he returns to 24 in 2010 as a bad guy” (Cohen had previously played a terrorist in the fourth season of 24).
Actor Larry Sullivan who played a Secret Service agent in season 7, updated his Twitter with the tweet “Fitting for 24 this afternoon…glad to be asked back…excited to work with the lovely and talented Cherry Jones again.”
Source: IMDB, assafcohen.com, Twitter
11.12
2009
2009
Another day brings us more pictures from the 24 set. The scene being filmed involved Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) running out of a building with lots of pigeons around him. You can also see Renee Walker (Annie Wersching) and President Hassan’s wife (played by Necar Zadegan) in the photos.
Source: Belgapicture and SpoilerTV
11.10
2009
2009
SpoilerTV has gotten some photos from the 24 set yesterday. They are currently filming episode pair 15 and 16 (hours 6AM-8AM) and these two are being directed by Brad Turner.
Source: SpoilerTV