24 Day 7 begins on Sky1 in January, but for those of you who just can’t till then, we bring you the first 17 minutes of the new series, which feature as one of the extras on the recent DVD release of 24: Redemption. Enjoy!
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As if 24: Redemption wasn’t cool enough, we now have Day 7 to look forward to. Here’s a little teaser, featuring interviews with Keifer Sutherland and Cherry Jones…
We’ve got a short interview with 24: Redemption star Robert Carlyle in the next issue of TV & Satellite Week, but there wasn’t nearly enough room in one page for everything he told us, so we’re putting the full transcript here for your enjoyment. Robert gives us a few hints about 24: Redemption, tells us about his old pal Kiefer, and also updates us on the other projects he’s got in the pipeline. Top geezer.
What’s the story of Redemption?
Redemption is a two-hour stand-alone piece that bridges the gap between Season 6 and Season 7 of 24. It tells you where Jack has been - he is an exile and he’s been wandering the world, through Afghanistan and several countries in the Middle-East. He ends up in the fictional country of Sangala to bed down with his old friend, Carl Benton.
Carl trained with Jack in the Special Services and turned his back on that world a long, long time ago. He explains why he turned his back on it all and you begin to think that Jack might find the same peace in his life and that his life might follow the same route. Carl is teaching in a school, trying to stop young kids being rounded up into tin-pot dictator armies so they can be used as cannon fodder.
Jack joins Carl in this mission but, in typical 24 style, the peace is pretty quickly disturbed. It all happens in real time over two hours and Jack’s faced with a massive dilemma at the end, deciding whether to go back to that 24 world or not. It’s not giving too much away to say he goes back, but how he gets back is very interesting. It’s a terrific dilemma.
So Carl Benton’s Jack’s buddy rather than his mentor?
They were considering making Carl his mentor in the original script and maybe using an older actor. It goes back to my relationship with Kiefer. We made a movie about eight years ago, got on really well and have always kept in touch. In fact, he was actually reading the very first 24 script when we did that film together. Through the years he’s been trying to get me to do 24. Last year I was going to join the show but I already had a couple of other things going on. This part was perfect though because Jack and Carl haven’t seen each other for about 10 years either. That was great as an actor to play on our own relationship.
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“I bless the rains down in Africa…” That’s all well and good, Toto, but you wouldn’t be singing that if you’d seen 24: Redemption…
Yes, we’ve managed to get our greedy mitts on a preview copy (one of the perks of working somewhere like TV Spy!) and it’s every bit as over-the-top as any 24 fan could wish for.
We’re sworn to secrecy about what happens, of course, not least because we don’t want to spoil it for you (my calculator reckons it’s now just 13 more sleeps ’till it’s on Sky1), so what can we tell you?
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Not long to go now, thankfully, until the 24 TV movie Redemption hits our screens (it’s currently scheduled to air here in the UK on Sky1 on Monday 24 November) and, to get us in the mood, Fox has just posted this little series of behind-the-scenes clips which give you a good flavour of what to expect. Not sure about the cheesy African muzak, but otherwise it all looks very promising indeed…
We can hardly contain our excitement. Not only have we got the 24 TV movie Redemption to look forward to at the end of November, but then a full-on new series in January.
And judging from this trailer, it’s going to be action, action, action as Jack takes on the back-from-the-dead-turned-bad Tony Almeida. “So help me God,” says Jack, “I will kill you, and you will stay dead this time.”
Oh my….
Who’s about to crop up in 24: Redemption? What’s secretary Elaine been up to since she ditched her face bra? And whatever happened to that damn irritating dancing baby? Well, in the second of TV Spy’s brand new ‘where the Dickens are..?’ series we probe the current televisual and other careers of the former cast of Ally McBeal… Continue reading ‘Ally McBeal | Where are they now?’
You may decide 2008 is the year you start celebrating the American tradition of Thanksgiving, since that’s when the one-off 24: Redemption episode will be airing in the States, with the promise of Sky1 airing it not long after here in the UK… Here’s a new, very short trailer, complete with plenty of drums, drama and explosions. Let the countdown begin! By the way, if you fancy yourself as a bit of a Jack Bauer type, why not go the whole hog and get the costume? Not sure if the facial scars come with it, or if they’re model’s own…
When’s it back? Sky1, November
Previously on 24… Well, it’s been an awful long time since we’ve had a previously, that pesky writers’ strike in America resulting in a long delay from the end of the last series – the sixth – to the start of the seventh.
But you can never write Jack off, and, cue drumroll, he’ll be back this November in 24: Redemption, a two-hour feature-length drama that will give fans their adrenalin fix until the seventh series screens on Sky1 early next year.
The film – which was orginally titled 24: Exile but has recently been renamed – finds Jack trying to be somewhere he can ‘be at peace’. but there’s no way that’s going to happen. Before our hero can say ‘dammit’, he finds himself caught up in a military coup in Africa on the day that Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones) is sworn in as the first female US President in Washington.
The prequel is filmed in South Africa, which stands in as the fictional country of Sangala, and the cast includes Robert Carlyle as a mentor of Jack’s who runs a school for rescued child soldiers, and Jon Voight as a seriously bad bad guy.
24: Redemption is directed by Jon Cassar and promises us all the action we can handle, but there’s still no sign either here or in Day 7 of Jack taking a break for a coffee or grabbing a sandwich. ‘Whenever they cut to the White House,’ Sutherland has joked, ‘Jack is in the bathroom. And not only is he peeing, he’s having a drink and getting something to eat.’
Below you’ll find a trailer, and you can find more clips and trailers at the excellent fansite 24fans.net.
If cameras stopped working tomorrow, we’d have to rely on good old-fashioned drawings of our favourite stars. Here are six leading men rendered in pencil. Can you tell who they are?
ANSWERS: Top row - Michael C Hall (Dexter), Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes), Jensen Ackles (Supernatural). Bottom row - Kiefer Sutherland (24), Wentworth Miller (Prison Break), David Boreanaz (Bones).
It’s not going to be on TV for another four months, but there’s no hiding our excitement at the prospect of seeing Kiefer Sutherland back in action as Jack Bauer in 24.
As previously reported, 24 will be back this November with a two-hour movie, leading into a full series in January 2009. A leaked trailer was posted on YouTube last week (we’ve embedded it again at the end of this post in case you missed it) and more information is slowly but surely trickling our way.
Here’s what we know so far…
- The prequel is called 24: Exile and takes place on inauguration day, as the country’s first woman President, Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones), is being sworn in.
- The bulk of the action takes place in the fictional African country of Sangala, where Jack is now working with his old special forces friend Carl Benton (Robert Carlyle) helping run a school for child war victims.
- Jon Voight plays the film’s big bad, a character called Jonas Hodges who is the leader of what executive producer Jon Cassar describes as “a Blackwater-type organisation” (referring to the controversial American private military company/mercenary organisation). Hodges will also feature in the seventh series proper.
- Other significant new casting includes former Ally McBeal actor Gil Bellows as a US State official working in Sangala and Colm Feore as President Taylor’s husband.
- The film sets up the story for the 24-episode seventh series in January 2009. It will be the first to be set outside of Los Angeles, with the action instead moving to Washington DC, where Jack has been subpoenaed to appear before a Senate committee to defend himself against accusations of crimes against humanity.
- The CTU will be no longer, but several familiar characters – including Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub), Bill Buchanan (James Morrison) and, incredibly, the long-presumed-dead Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) – will feature, alongside FBI agents played by Janeane Garofalo, Annie Werschling, Jeffrey Nordling and Rhys Coiro.
24: Exile will air in America on Sunday 23 November and is due to be shown here in the UK on Sky One in the same week. We’ll let you know as soon as we hear anything more.
This has been coming and going off YouTube for the past 24 hours, so watch it while you can. It’s the trailer for the forthcoming 24 series seven prequel - 24: Exile - and it looks like a real return to form. Look out for the US’s first female president, Robert Carlyle popping up, and the return of old favourites Powers Boothe and Peter MacNicol. Can Jack Bauer save the world yet again?
1) Lost’s head honchos Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have launched a Lost Book Club, with more info on the books that have featured in the series.
2) On the same day that Presidential candidate John McCain reveals he’s a big 24 fan, Dennis Haysbert (aka the show’s onetime President David Palmer) says he reckons he helped pave the way for Barack Obama.
3) Ali Larter may get an all-new alter ego called Tracy Strauss in the next series of Heroes.
4) Shannen Doherty is in talks to reprise the role of Brenda Walsh on the Beverly Hills, 90210 update.
5) AMC, the channel that shows Mad Men in America, is running a competition to win a walk-on role on the show. Before you get too excited, though, you should be warned that it’s open to US residents only.
1) The Muppets are going to be doing a tour of US military bases.
2) 24 co-executive producer Jon Cassar was attacked by a lion while filming the season seven prequel in Cape Town.
3) Some rather blurry videograbs from the new US version of Little Britain. You can watch the showreel from which they were taken here.
4) Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are preparing to return to TV with a new variety show.
5) Chris Noth is leaving Law & Order. Jeff Goldblum is taking his place.
6) First the writers’ strike, now Hollywood is bracing itself for an actors’ strike.
7) There’s talk that Futurama may be coming back to TV.
1) Heroes head honcho Tim Kring says there are going to be loads of bad guys in the next series.
2) Nicole Richie has landed a guest role on Chuck.
3) Deadwood’s Timothy Olyphant will join William Hurt in the second series of Damages.
4) Robert Carlyle has been saying that the next series of 24 will be only 22 hours-long. Fox, which makes the show, however, insists it will be the normal 24 episodes.
5) Battlestar’s Tricia Helfer is to star in a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde story called Inseparable.
6) Former Beverly Hills, 90210 star Luke Perry will play a baddie in Criminal Minds.
1) Jack Bauer will be turning 52 and Chloe will have a four-your-old child to deal with when the seventh series of 24 begins next January.
2) Some of the Sesame Street regulars will be appearing in the next series of Scrubs.
3) Glenn Close will be taking part in a live internet discussion on Damages next Monday.
1) 24 star Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe) had her baby shower on Saturday.
2) The second half of the latest series Battlestar Galactica will now be a bit longer.
3) Former Beverly Hills, 90210-er Jason Priestly may be directing some episodes of the new 90210 update.
4) Look out for two new faces in the next series of Brothers & Sisters.
5) John Voight will play the bad guy in the next series of 24.
6) As we mentioned a few days ago, changes are afoot on the new US version of Life on Mars – including, according to this piece, potential cast changes.
7) The American version of The Office is going to get a spin-off, set at a second branch of Dunder Mifflin.
8) The writers and producers on Grey’s Anatomy are fuming after Katherine Heigl opted out of this year’s Emmy race, claiming she was not given good enough material to work with in the last series.
1) TV Spy favourites The Wire and Mad Men top the nominations list at this year’s Television Critics’ Association Awards.
2) Lost | Harold Perrineau (Michael) has set the record straight on his departure: “I was disappointed… I wouldn’t say I was bitter”.
3) Lost (again!) | Jin and Claire will be back.
4) 24 | Jericho actress Sprague Grayden will play the daughter of the US President in the forthcoming Africa-set prequel.
5) Heroes | George Takei, aka Kaito Nakamura in Heroes and formerly Sulu in Star Trek, is marrying his longtime partner, Brad Altman. Walter Koenig, who played Chekov, will be his best man, while Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) will be matron of honour.
6) Desperate Housewives | A Hispanic version of the show, called Amas di Casa Deseperadas, is about to launch in Mexico.
They are as far as we’re concerned, but what do we know… tell us who we’ve forgotten!
