24 Season 7 - the trailer is UP

Tony Almeida is back..... and Jack is never gonna give him up.

Anyway, the REAL trailer is up here: www.skyone.co.uk/24

All the YouTube ones are getting taken down.

this looks like it's not taking place in L.A., maybe?

my parents used to have a videotape that contained like 4 hours of anne of green gables & 30 seconds of that video, apparently accidently recorded over the aogg tape by my dad

Show-runner Howard Gordon explained that Tony's "uncertain fate" left the door open for his return[3] and cited the lack of a silent clock as a deliberate move to keep his death ambiguous.[4] "We didn't give him the silent clock because we always wanted to keep alive the possibility for some kind of (admittedly) miraculous resurrection ... which we will explain," and followed up with "He's definitely not the Almeida we once knew."

http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/poitier/1005/cb9c8960.jpg

Ridiculous, but also yay

it looks maybe less of a total retread that 6 was... but it broke too much heart, dunno if i can come back

THE details of Jack Bauer's next big "24" adventure are out.

A new TV movie, "24: Exile," set to bridge the gap between seasons 6 and 7, will debut on Fox in November with super anti-terrorist agent Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) in Africa.

The action unfolds four years after the end of season 6, when viewers saw Bauer standing on the precipice of a mountain after ruining his personal life to save the world yet again.

In the film, Bauer has been seeking solace as a missionary in Africa, but finds himself in the midst of a bloody coupe in the small (fictional) nation of Sangala, where a ruthless dictator is drafting innocent children as soldiers.

Bauer embarks on a violent, personal crusade to save the children.

Fox will release the film on DVD immediately after the film has aired. Season 7 debuts next January.

The new film is expected to make it a bit easier for viewers to digest "24" when it finally returns after a year-long absence - the show was yanked this past winter when the Writers Guild strike made production impossible.

Besides the strike and Sutherland spending time behind bars for a DUI charge, "24" producers will try to recover from what was, at least creatively, the series' worst season - one that seemed to have two finales. The second story line felt tacked on, and it was, producers admitted afterward.

A separate, more expensive theatrical "24" film is expected, too - possibly slated to go into production next summer, according to sources.

I stopped caring about this show about three seasons ago. I dont' know what they could do to make me care now.

chloe pr0n?

If it doesn't feature a zombie Tony Almeida, I'm not watching it.

(er, the series/film, not the chloe pr0n)

a reality show following keifer around the bars of los angeles would be way more exciting than 24 at its peak

bring back the cougar

if you're talking about the blonde aussie actress from season 2 i concur

^ coulda done it better but hi-five anyway

I don't even remember this blonde aussie actress. Who did she play?

she played the sister of the blonde terrorist chick, the one whose fiance was a red herring.

she ended up helping/being rescued by/falling for jack

none hold a candle to Michelle

Oh, that wasn't season two was it? I thought it was one or two later.

Oh, you're quite right. Kate Warner.

REDEMPTION! lol
i sorta watched this while doing various chores, not sure if I'm in for the long haul this year after the last season's shit sandwich

TV's least accurate depiction of landmines yet.

Redemption is like a shit film which just happens to feature Jack Bauer in a supporting role.

aw I forgot to watch this

We've still got about 45 minutes to go. I have laughed about a zillion times so far at how rubbish everything is. No Chloe = not even worth airtime.

it's like tears of the sun with jack bauer imo. pretty entertaining and horribly sentimental. best part was a throwaway shot at the end of the corpse of some hapless innocent who happened to be privy to some intel being buried under concrete. this season looks better than the last couple i think.

"Hey, we're carrying out a coup in two hours and we don't have enough soldiers, so let's send 30 men to get killed whilst trying to kidnap 14 nine-year-old boys - they'll make more of a difference to the war effort than all those billions of dollars from US senator John Voight."

will all be worth it if the "mole" this season is a senator's adopted kid who is a secret child soldier sent to assassinate the president

Robert Carlyle remaining true to his one solitary actorly expression even when being blown up.

That pretty much took two hours to do what they usually do in one five-minute extended car commercial. Bah.

xpost mole = First Son's girlfriend, obviously

i never figured begbie would end up being a master of the harried worrying thing

i like those creepy/weird black ops dudes

Haha, stupid pussy ineffectual UN guy. Those yanks and, er, irish or something showed him how it's done.

It suffered badly from not having a ludicrously convoluted plot. It looked great though - I liked the contrast between the golden glow of the Africa segments and the washed out American colour scheme.

I'm beginning to think that this show won't get good again until I stop watching it.

tonight was dope i thought as long as you went along w/ the idea of tony as a bad guy

Watching the second hour now. When is somebody going to mention Die Hard 2?

Utterly utterly daft. You can contaminate a water supply by using computers can you? Really? Oh look, it's a tiny war-torn African nation with the wherewithal to blackmail the United States. A far more promising start than Day 6.

Also, y'know, Tony has a scar over his eye, therefore he is A Bad Mang.

(I am on UK pace at the mo, so only seen two eps, Merkins get another 2 tonight, yes?)

tony this season = http://imalbum.aufeminin.com/album/D20050416/96314_E4J6G1I7UNFHBV8N3X6NOEHFRCDQ5A_garthe_H204334_L.jpg

okay, actually kind of enjoying this again. seems more fun than it was last go around. far too much reiteration of WHAT.IS.AT.STAKE.

"we have to do this, to get to the bottom of the conspiracy!!!"

The moody and whiny FBI computer guy needs to die real fast.

Quite enjoying Janeane Garofalo as the new Chloe.

The split screen bit of Chloe vs Garofalo as one tries to lock the other out of the security camera intranet was pretty funny.

You know how last season only the first four episodes were any good? I reckon this time around the writers managed to get it down to two episodes.

The Bill/Chloe/Tony vs THE CONSPIRACY is just rubbish, frankly. And Billy Walsh's "my wife is on the plane" bit was laughable because it's been done to death in previous years.

i keep thinking this thread is about 7-up

The Bill/Chloe/Tony vs THE CONSPIRACY is just rubbish, frankly.

-this show has always been unrealistic if that's what you mean.

This year is much more promising because we have the best solo team (Bill/Chloe/Jack/Tony who are not rubbish characters) and I've seen 24 Redemption which is actually 2 hours in the middle of the season that takes place in Africa - where Jack is just kicking ass solo style. The new characters are no better or worse than the new CTU of previous seasons. The sarcastic guy - I saw a glimpse of him acting human during the first 4 hours - but I don't think is was the "my wife is on the plane" bit. Yes he kinda sucks overall (so far) but Janeane Garofalo is turning out pretty well.

But criticizing the show for being daft, is something we all already know (plotlines and CTU tactics have always been so fake) so let's put that book back on the shelf and pay attention to the endearing action elements and jack mother fucking bauer. That's all I got to say.

I wasn't going to watch this season, but then my sister told me that Jack, Tony, Chloe, and Bill had formed a superteam called CTU FOREVER! and were driving around solving mysteries in a van. This turned out to be a slight exaggeration but it was good brainless fun nonetheless.

I was also pleased to see the writers maintain the hilarious 24 tradition of ordering perimeters that are then immediately breached.

i have to say that this season is not that bad so far, like how the fbi offices are real shithole compared to the sleek digs of ctu (rip)

the terrorists otoh dwell in a fucking borg cube.

finally told my DVR to stop recording this thing.

aw, man. RIP Bill, you outlived CTU but you could never outlive being Head of CTU. The curse of George Mason and Ryan Chappelle caught up with you at last.

SHIT! Failed to click the UK-Friendly-Spoiler-Free thread! Fuck! (We're one week behind; we just had the double episode last night). Oh, well. I'm going to taser my computer in protest.

who's the new big enemy guy with that shipment coming in... wasn't he in previous seasons... didn't jack have a big confrontation with him at the end of one season (maybe on an oil drill in the ocean???)

really, anything you can tell me about him... its bugging me that I forgot.

big enemy guy is played by harvey keitel, he was in season 2 as the leader of a banking cabal.

episode completely redeemed by the awesome gas mask murder

er

So, are the FBI just standing around watching the video feed of what's going on inside the hospital room?

ha ha

Next week on a thrilling new episode of Larry Moss Stands Around Looking Pouty.

This week on Larry Moss Stands Around Looking Pouty: Larry realizes "asshole" isn't getting him anywhere with Renee and tries "sensitive" instead. It doesn't work. Also features the most awkward and skull-crushingly blatant plug for Cisco technology thus far. Cisco: the fast and easy way to grant Presidential immunity to lying terrorist jagweeds.

Also the President's daughter can feel free to get herself killed horribly any time now.

lol @ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

damn

This week on Larry Moss Stands Around Looking Pouty: ...oh.

this season keeps delivering.

All of Tony's lines tonight came straight out of the B-Movie Villian's Guide to Moustache-Twirling. Only blander.

the season was going well until the tony reveal imo
i am curious to see how first daughter thing plays out tho

the season was going well until the tony reveal

True. Evil Tony + shady secret organization = lazy plot twist (and it doesn't seem to be getting any better).

I can't believe Bill died for THIS!

this season is dope imo

That's two "days" in succession now with SHITTAY endings.

Renee was kind of awesome hanging off that moving truck shooting people, and then jumping off and rolling over and then shooting more people, though. Don't buy her as a rogue interrogator however.

I appreciated Kim's Jack-like "DAMMIT!" when her cell phone battery ran out.

I also like that they lit her on fire, for old times' sake. It's not 24 if Kim Bauer isn't being ludicrously imperiled somehow.

Can I just say how much I enjoyed the who's-who PowerPoint presentations (with top-secret graphics, so you know that shit is classified info!) cycling in the background during any given cabinet meeting.

LOL that was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. The whole time I was thinking "whoever made that is really good with After Effects!"

This season was dope imo, except Jack who was annoyingly empty throughout, except for his final monologue to Renee. The President/daughter thing was particularly great. Kim is not a very strong runner, huh?

renee walker is excellent

all the oval office sublplots this season were AWESOME - i thought this ended weirdly like they knew that the show was having a renaissance and didn't want to tie things up just yet - pretty incredible season i thought

renee walker is v excellent

this was on par with the first couple of seasons imo, the whole move to freshen up the show by moving it to DC and losing CTU was great, even if some of the plot points were ridiculous.

agreed - next season is in nyc i read

Also, Renee is back for next season.

yeah, so necessary

it's pretty amazing considering how many foul choices were made in season 6 after an ok start w/ the whole alexander siddig stuff. i never got past wayne palmer as president.

Kim is not a very strong runner, huh?

I couldn't tell if it was just her top flopping around or if she really really needed a sports bra.

i KNEW that the prez'd daughter would eventually get "sorry m'am"-ed by aaron! he's the best!

weird, from 24 producer evan katz's wikipedia page:

Katz was such a huge fan of Robert Forster and his friend Grant McLennan of the Australian band The Go-Betweens that he named the sinister corporation in 24's fourth season McLennan-Forster after them.

Oh yeah, I remember reading about that during said season.

i KNEW that the prez'd daughter would eventually get "sorry m'am"-ed by aaron! he's the best!

Yes! I was scared they were going to kill Aaron all season, when he escorted Olivia out of the room I half-thought she might shiv him at the last second.

This season was light years better than season 6, but I have to say I didn't enjoy it as much as earlier seasons. I'm growing less tolerant of typical 24 plot twists ("we break into the White House -- BY SEA!"), and a lot of the dialogue seemed more rote and one-dimensional than usual. But everyone at the FBI was awesome, and I'm glad Renee and President Cherry Jones are coming back next year.

So after watching six weeks straight of Larry Moss standing around looking at video feeds, I gave up on this.

Though I gave in and watched the last eight episodes during the past four or five days and was amazed how much better it is when viewed episode after episode after episode instead of having week-long gaps in between them. I think next year I'll just get the DVD.

Tony killing Larry was actually pretty well done, although whoever decided to name the evilest man ever to walk the earth as "Alan Wilson" either must have picked it as a funny production team in-joke or just grabbed the first name out of a hat. Couldn't take "Alan Wilson" seriously at all because it sounds like someone's next door neighbour or the head of photocopiers at a very dull regional franchise.

The "OMG will Jack die?" trick was just a blatant ploy to keep people watching until the end, though.

Also, I wonder how many video conferencing systems all that Cisco product placement actually sold?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=399Hiwua0J4

Jack Bauer can't be that great or he wouldn't age at three times the speed of a normal man.

* Mykelti Williamson as CTU Director Brian Hastings[9]
* Katee Sackhoff as Dana Walsh[9]
* Freddie Prinze, Jr. as Cole Ortiz[9]
* David Anders as Josef Bazhaev[10]
* Gregory Itzin as Charles Logan [16]
* Domenick Lombardozzi as John Mazoni[17]
* Benito Martinez as Victor Aruz[18]
* Jürgen Prochnow as Bazhaev
* Callum Keith Rennie as Vladimir Laitanan[19]
* Stephen Root as Ben Prady[20]

starbuck + leoben + sark + herc

charles logan is tan, rested and ready

+ david aceveda

Stephen Root, really? That's awesome!

re: that trailer I'm not thrilled that Jack has a teensy adorable granddaughter for terrorists to threaten now.

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga4nNSqsYp0

MY PHONE BILL IS CRAZY
BUT MY WORK PAYS FOR IT

Some amazing hair on the new season:

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eddie izzard and javier badem, picture two

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