Forbes has published their third annual TV’s top money makers list and 24 comes in at third. It’s the only other FOX show besides American Idol to make the Top 10. Fox’s 24 rounds out the top three on our list of prime time’s top moneymakers. The long-running drama may be losing buzz–the current season… View Article
Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer was the answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle today. 24 fan Rachel Bartholomew tweeted the photo below: Pretty nice to see Jack Bauer as a pop culture phenomenon.
Here’s a video showing some cool before and after green-screen shots in the first nine episodes of 24 Season 8. Despite being set in New York, the eighth season of 24 was filmed entirely in Los Angeles and much of the skylines were digitally replaced by Stargate Studios using technology they refer to as “Virtual… View Article
Here’s a really fantastic writeup from Masked Scheduler, someone who was involved with 24 from the start. Yesterday FOX announced that this May 24 will be ending its 8 year run. As someone who was there from the beginning I thought I would share some moments from my small role in all this. 24 was… View Article
Update: The eighth season of 24 is arriving on Netflix February 12, 2011. More details here. Starting on April 1st, 24 Seasons 1 through 7 will be available to stream through Netflix’s Instant Watch service (but apparently not the 24: Redemption TV movie). UPDATE: 24: Redemption is also there, but listed as the first episode… View Article
Almost every single explosion from 24 in video form. Stan and Scott Blackwell do great work on this show. A lot more explosions than I remembered!
Here’s a fantastic special feature found on the 24 Season 1 Special Edition DVD. Kiefer Sutherland, co-creators Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, writer Howard Gordon, director Stephen Hopkins, composer Sean Callery, director of photography Peter Levy, and editor David Thompson are all interviewed. The feature runs a little over 24 minutes and is split into… View Article
I was hesitant to include this show after its sixth—and admittedly terrible—season. It’s easy to forget, though, how new and bracing the format that’s now routine once was. Created before Sept. 11 and debuted just weeks after, 24 captured the country’s edgy mood, and not just because it was about terrorism. With its breathless real-time… View Article
It’s a secret, last-second twist worthy of Jack Bauer: NBC is reportedly angling to poach the drama series “24” from rival FOX. FOX and 20th Century Fox TV, which produces “24,” are currently negotiating a license fee for renewal of the thriller, which stars Kiefer Sutherland as counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer. The show’s current license… View Article
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has emerged as the world’s biggest market for downloading pirated TV, driven by tech-savvy fans who are unwilling to wait for popular U.S. shows such as “Desperate Housewives.” Britain’s status as a TV downloading hotspot, revealed in a study by UK technology consultancy Envisional on Thursday, could pose problems for UK… View Article
Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan spoke with Mike Baker, a former cover field-operations officer that worked for the CIA for 14 years before becoming the CEO of Veritas Global, a security and risk-management firm. Here’s his take on what’s real and what’s not when it comes to 24: Main character: Counter-terrorism expert Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland)… View Article
The new issue of TV Guide is sure to ruffle a few feathers among television fans. The magazine has released its picks for the best shows of 2002. Topping the list this year is “24,” the Fox drama set in real time and starring Kiefer Sutherland as a secret agent battling terrorists in Los Angeles…. View Article
FOX re-edited the pilot for its new series “24” after the Sept. 11 attacks, and now the network is putting items from the show up for auction to aid victims’ families. The items will be part of online auctioneer eBay’s “Auction for America,” which is raising money for the Red Cross, the Twin Towers Fund… View Article