1. The Warehouse 13 guys have been discussing season two…
2. True Blood’s Arlenne, Carrie Preston, is set to guest star in The Good Wife.
3. Spoiler alert! One of our favourite former 24 characters is about to return!
4. How I Met Your Mother’s Jason Segel is to star in the new Muppets movie.
1. It seems that 24 is facing the axe and season eight will be Jack’s final bad day (apart from that rumoured movie).
2. A range of Mad Men dolls are being released – just don’t look too hard at their somewhat identical faces…
3. Four of the original cast members are set to be reunited on the new Melrose Place.
4. Felicity’s Keri Russell is returning to the box as part of Will Arnett’s new sitcom.
5. Here are the first pictures of John Barrowman in Desperate Housewives. It really is happening, we thought it was just a bad dream…
1. 24 – Some kind soul’s compiled a video of every 24 explosion. And there’ s been quite a few.
2. Lost – Maggie Grace will return as Shannon towards the end of the series.3. Lost – Some of the show’s most memorable moments have been immortalised in cartoon form…
4. The Vampire Diaries – Has been commissioned for a second series. Also coming back in the Fall are 90210, Gossip Girl and Supernatural.
5. Two and a Half Men – Ally McBeal/Melrose Place star Courtney Thorne-Smith is to guest in a run of episodes.
6. V – Former X Files bad boy Nicholas Lea and Andromeda’s Lexia Doig will show up later in the series.
1. 24 – Lost’s Michael Emerson is baffled by this week’s triple 24 stabbing on the excellent The Soup!
2. 24 – Filming’s been suspended as Kiefer Sutherland needs surgery for a ruptured cyst.
3. Desperate Housewives – Sounds like they’re regretting killing Edie as they’re searching for a new Wisteria Lane troublemaker. Also, Heidi Klum will be guest starring as herself.
4. Ugly Betty - Kathy Najimy off Veronica’s Closet (come on, it’s not that obscure) will appear in a pivotal role towards the end of the series.
5. V – Battlestar Galactica’s Michael Trucco has joined the sci-fi reboot as a rebel leader.
1. 24 – Jack will be cutting the heads off terrorists and keeping them in bowling ball bags on the big screen, though a ninth series of the spy drama has yet to be confirmed.
2. 30 Rock – All of Liz’s ex-boyfriends are back for Valentine’s Day, joined by Jon Bon Jovi…
3. Caprica – Lucy Lawless has been tapped to appear in the BSG prequel as cylon D’Anna Myers. How’s that going to work, eh?
4. Criminal Minds – Gabrielle Carteris off Beverly Hills 90210 is set to guest star.
5. House – Prison Break’s dopey doctor Sarah Wayne Challis is set to check in as a patient.
6. The Mentalist – Leslie Hope off 24 is set to return as Jane’s psychic sort-of-love-interest Kristina.
We’ve gone Glee-mad here at TV & Satellite Week - if you haven’t seen the show yet, where have you been?! Check out our reasons to be Gleeful…
Also, in this issue, new reality show The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty follows the four brothers as they mourn Michael and prepare to go on tour
Talking of brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester are back to take on the Devil again in season five of Supernatural
We’ve got the lowdown on BBC3’s new talent contest, Dancing on Wheels
And Annie Wersching talks about playing the now totally unhinged Renee Walker in the latest season of 24
All this, plus of course our weekly TV Spy round-up, a preview of the 2010 Six Nations Rugby Championship, and previews of the big film premieres, including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
• Jack’s back! Yes, 24 finally returns to our screens, and Jack obviously needed a change of scene as the show has relocated to New York. Cover star Kiefer Sutherland talks about what we can expect in day eight, and we’ve got the lowdown on new cast members including Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff and Scooby Doo star Freddie Prinze Jr.
• ER favourite Julianna Margulies makes a welcome return to our screens in the classy new US legal drama The Good Wife.
• Desperate Housewives and Mad Men are back as well, as is Billie Piper in a new run of The Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
• There’s top home-grown TV with the Only Fools and Horses comedy prequel Rock & Chips, and the stirring political drama Mrs Mandela
All this, plus our weekly TV Spy round-up of what’s going on in shows including Dollhouse, Grey’s Anatomy and Brothers & Sisters; film premiere reviews and sporting action previews; and extensive listings for Sky and Virgin viewers.
With just a couple of weeks to go ’til 24’s eighth series arrives on Sky1, here’s a behind-the-scenes peek at what’s to come - including a whole new CTU office (with lots of glass walls for people to stare surreptitiously through, that torture-lovin’ quiz master off Slumdog Millionaire, Katee Sackhoff (with a mysterious secret), things randomly blowing up, and - oh dear - Kim Bauer with a baby (let’s hope she doesn’t try to hide it in the office again, as in series three). Here we go…
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It’s got lots of great New Year telly to look forward to, including the return of Kenneth Branagh as Swedish detective Wallander and the Silent Witness team back with more grisly crimes to investigate.
There’s also brand new US comedy drama Nurse Jackie, with star of The Sopranos Edie Falco as a tough-talking nurse with a heart of gold and an interesting take on workplace ethics.
Cat Deeley talks about her new BBC talent show So You Think You Can Dance, Bill Bailey reveals his twitcher tendencies as he prepares for a Birdwatching Bonanza, and there’s previews of the return of Hustle, Above Suspicion and 24. Look out New York, Jack Bauer’s coming!
All this, plus of course loads of sport, films and extensive listings covering more channels than any other mag. What better way to see in the New Year?
Folks, thanks for spending 2009 with us here at TV Spy. We’re wrapping up now for the holidays, and we wanted to wish you all a really lovely Christmas and very happy New Year. And we wanted to share this little gem with you…
We’ll be back at TV Spy HQ on January 4th, gearing up for the return of all our favourite US TV shows, including 24, Lost and Grey’s Anatomy, and brand new shows Caprica, The Good Wife and Nurse Jackie. We can’t wait!
