5×01

Howard Gordon on Gideon’s War, 24, and Dennis Haysbert

January 12, 2011 · 0 comments

President David Palmer 24

Howard Gordon is interviewed by Jamie Samuelsen of Mornings on 94.7 WCSX about his novel Gideon’s War. He also speaks about 24 and says the network petitioned them to change the heavily serialized real-time format during the first year of the show.

He talks about the low point being 24 Season 6 and says his favorite character aside from Jack Bauer was Charles Logan (the other being Dennis Haysbert’s David Palmer). [click to continue…]

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Dennis Haysbert refused to film death scene

May 15, 2007 · 0 comments

David Palmer's death scene

Is it true that you argued with 24‘s producers about the way they decided to kill off President Palmer?
“We didn’t really have an argument about it; I just refused to do it for a great many months. Then they sent one of my friends, who’s now the show’s runner, and he convinced me to do it because they needed to launch the season – I believe that was Season Five – and they said they really couldn’t do it without me having the characters assassinated. I acquiesced, but if I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t do it.” [click to continue…]

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24 Season 5 DVD Audio Commentaries

December 5, 2006 · 0 comments

Here are all twelve audio commentaries from the 24 Season 5 DVD.

24 Season 5 Episode 1 commentary by director Jon Cassar and writer Howard Gordon:

24 Season 5 Episode 1 commentary by director Jon Cassar and Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer):

24 Season 5 Episode 4 commentary by writers Joel Surnow and Michael Loceff:

24 Season 5 Episode 6 commentary by writer David Fury and John Allen Nelson (Walt Cummings):

24 Season 5 Episode 8 commentary by writer Evan Katz and director Brad Turner:

24 Season 5 Episode 9 commentary by director Tim Iacofano and Julian Sands (Vladimir Bierko):

24 Season 5 Episode 10 commentary by Jean Smart (Martha Logan) and Gregory Itzin (Charles Logan):

24 Season 5 Episode 11 commentary by writers Matt Michnovetz, Duppy Demetrius, Nicole Ranadive:

24 Season 5 Episode 15 commentary by director Jon Cassar and production designer Joseph Hodges:

24 Season 5 Episode 18 commentary by writer Howard Gordon and Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe O’Brian):

24 Season 5 Episode 21 commentary by writer Manny Coto and Jude Ciccolella (Mike Novick):

24 Season 5 Episode 24 commentary by writer/creator Robert Cochran and Gregory Itzin (Charles Logan):

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